Donald Trump clearly doesn’t understand the difference between diplomacy and collusion with an adversarial power. Demonstrating a total tin ear on the Russia imbroglio that’s quickly enveloping his administration, Trump tweeted out a Friday reminder that he’s totally unfit for an office that requires a certain amount of sobriety.
Like that decade-old picture of Chuck Schumer has any equivalency to helping Russia hijack an American election.
This is an even more pronounced example of the same political savvy Team Trump exhibited Thursday when both the pr*sident and White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer went on record expressing “total” confidence in Attorney General Jeff Sessions, who hours later recused himself from overseeing Russia investigations.
Sessions still has plenty more to account for, but at the very least he could read Capitol Hill and know that there was no way for him to escape political catastrophe if he didn’t at least remove himself from investigations concerning the Trump campaign.
The fact that the White House occupants couldn’t see what was happening before their very eyes and appropriately temper their statements tells us just how capable a partner they’ll be in passing legislation, among other things.
Please proceed, Trump.