I am finding the focus on stories like the Rob Porter story to be extremely frustrating. I feel like talking about how dangerous it is for the sensitive intelligence to which a close advisor to the president is privy to pass through the hands of a spousal abuser who can’t pass a background check and get a security clearance, presupposes that President Trump has any business viewing, handling, managing, acting upon, and releasing classified material.
Does anyone believe for one second that Donald Trump could pass an FBI background check or get any sort of security clearance?
Not to minimize the allegations against Porter, and he truly has no business accessing classified material, but given my druthers, I’d prefer Rob Porter having classified access to Donald Trump. It’s completely unacceptable that this liar, crook, and traitor has been allowed to act as president for as long as he has. And Republicans in Congress really need to be held responsible en masse for allowing this disaster to continue. Devin Nunes, along with every other Reublican on the House Oversight Committee, Chuck Grassley, and Lindsey Graham have all used their powers of oversight to collaborate and collude with the White House to impede and obstruct the investigation and they all need to be impeached along with Donald Trump and Mike Pence.
Can you imagine Democrats behaving this way if the shoe were on the other foot? If some ridiculous and marginal figure like Jill Stein or, more fairly comparable to Trump, Lyndon LaRouche, somehow managed to capture the Democratic nomination and win the Presidency and it came to light that she had been involved in all of the fraudulent and illegal business and charitable activities that Donald Trump has and refused to give any accounting for and disclosure of the information and she and her campaign also had all of these ongoing secretive contacts with Russia, and Russia just happened to intervene aggressively in our election on her behalf, and she steadfastly refused to acknowledge the interference, and after winning the White House she and her staff kept having secret meetings with the Russians before and after inauguration, and before she was even inaugurated one of her closest campaign allies and her nominee for National Security Adviser immediately made a clandestine call to reassure Russia that they would not be sanctioned for interfering in our election after the sitting president announced sanctions, and she fired the head of the FBI because he wouldn’t stop the Russia investigation, and consistently acted to impede and obstruct the investigation?
Can you imagine Democrats going to bat for such a person? After witnessing republican histrionics over Benghazi and Fast and Furious and Clinton email, can you imagine the atomic detonation of Republicans in Congress and the right wing media if it were a Democrat guilty of everything Trump has done? I truly do not believe that Dr. Stein or Mr. LaRouche would have made it to swearing in under those circumstances. In fact, I’m willing to bet they would have been jailed before Election Day. And yet the Republicans are trying to slow walk this investigation into what I think can fairly be characterized as the greatest political crisis our country has faced since the civil war.
I think we need to stop chasing hares like Rob Porter or any other issues that in any way presume that Donald Trump has any right to the privileges and responsibilities of the President of the United States, and focus all of our energy and attention on exposing and taking appropriate action on the fact that our president is a criminal and a traitor and unfit for office.