Of course, the real culprit in this scandal is the person charged with investigating the crime!
The GOP school of logic defying deflections has a new summa cum laude. Move over Rudy, Liz is on the case.
Following this new legal precedent, we could see any number of innovative legal defenses:
May it please the court. My client is accused of robbing the City bank. I asked, is it not VERY suspicious that the bank my client allegedly robbed just happened to be filled with money at the very moment my client was at that location quietly going about his usual robbing business? This is starting to look like a set-up! So Madame judge, I demand an investigation of who put that money in the bank and when they knew it was deposited!
May it please the court. My client is accused smuggling 5,000 kilos of cocaine into the country. The customs officers state they become suspicious when my client dropped his gargantuan suitcase and massive amounts of “cocaine” spilled out. But how did they know immediately that my client was a drug smuggler and not a talcum powder salesman or a Celiac suffer traveling with a private stock of gluten free flour. This is starting to look like a set-up,. So, madame judge, what did the customs officers know and when did they know it?
In all seriousness, Cheney’s tweet needs to be seen as a part of the GOP spin machine’s effort to “shift the narrative” and create a muddled understanding of what “feckless leader” may or may not have done. Cheney’s dispersion is likely to be one of many assaults on the integrity of the Democrats— basically it is a shoot the messenger strategy, hoping that enough seemingly irrelevant shots will have the BIG LIE effect of getting enough people to think that Trump is being unfairly targeted by unscrupulous Dems. Fox will carry the message and we know the MSM, particularly the NYT, in the name of “balance,” are often only too happy to report on the spin as a credible counter narrative. Vigilance and quick, effective debunking are key here so that irrelevant, erroneous or illogical seeds of doubt are not allowed to grow in the 24/7 media hot house.