Is there a difference between tweeting about a subject and getting someone alone to talk to them about it? Oklahoma Republican Sen. James Lankford isn’t so sure. But he just managed to tee up former FBI Director James Comey to explain why there is a big damn difference between the two things:
LANKFORD: Is there any question that the president is not real fond of this investigation? I can think of multiple 140-character expressions that he’s done publicly to express he’s not fond of the investigation. So I heard you share before in this conversation that you’re trying to keep the agents that are working on it away from any comment the president might have made, when frankly the president has informed around six billion people that he’s not real fond of this investigation. Do you think there’s a difference in that?
COMEY: Yes. There’s a big difference in kicking superior officers out of the Oval Office, looking the FBI director in the eye, and saying ‘hope you’ll let this go.’ I think if agents, as good as they are, heard the president of the United States did that, there’s a real risk of a chilling effect on their work. That’s why we kept it so tight.
Surely no one can be stupid enough to believe that there’s no difference between a tweet about a thing and getting someone alone to tell them what you want them to do. Is Lankford actually as dumb as a sack of hammers or is he just hoping the Republican base is?
This is real desperation to absolve Trump.