Piquing Donald Trump has become somewhat of a badge of honor in Washington and recently Rep. Adam Schiff has been ticking Trump off more than most, earning himself the recycled sobriquet “Little” along with Marco Rubio and Bob Corker.
Thank you Congressman. Trump is probably miffed because he boasted on Saturday that the Nunes memo “completely vindicated” him and Rep. Schiff told him the uncomfortable truth that it did “quite the opposite.” Then there was this article Saturday in Esquire Magazine authored by Schiff.
What we have witnessed during the first year of the Trump Administration is a determined effort to demolish the separation between politics and the fair administration of justice—an attempt to turn the DOJ’s investigative powers into the personal political tool of the president. Some have attempted to dismiss the president’s conduct as the actions of a new president, a free-wheeling businessman unaccustomed and unacquainted with the finer points of the office and government in general.
However, a year later, it has become clear that the president views the idea that the DOJ should be anything other than an extension of his political operation as an unacceptable constraint on his authority. He told a reporter in December that he has “the absolute right” to do whatever he wants with “his” Department of Justice. The president has sought to put that statement into action from the very day he was inaugurated. [...]
Both the president’s public statements and his private actions make it clear that he is seeking nothing less than to destroy the institutions and norms that shield the Department of Justice from his direction. This is all the more pernicious considering the fact that his own campaign is under investigation for possible collusion with the Russians in their interference in the presidential election. He would take the reins of the FBI to protect himself and to deploy their immense investigative powers against his political opponents at will.
Trump’s an autocrat and wanna be despot. Schiff correctly branded the Nunes memo as a “political hit job” and if there’s one thing Trump can’t stand it’s unvarnished truth, which stings him like holy water burns the Devil. Democrats are pushing to have their own memo on the FBI’s Trump-Russia investigation released by Congress, and it won’t be with Trump’s blessing, like the GOP memo was. Trump-Russia is heating up.