Just a few thoughts prompted by Trump demonstrating why his lawyers made sure he never testified under oath before Mueller.
This morning the wrote “I had nothing to do with Russia helping me get elected,” in a tweet...
later this morning did an about face and said Russia had nothing to do with his getting elected:
This is how the New York Times put it:
WASHINGTON — President Trump on Thursday acknowledged for the first time that Russia helped “me to get elected,” and then quickly retracted the idea.
“No, Russia did not help me get elected,” Mr. Trump told reporters as he departed the White House for Colorado Springs. “I got me elected.” He spoke less than an hour after his Twitter post.
The original comment, a clause in one of several Twitter posts this morning, is an extraordinary admission from Mr. Trump, who has avoided saying publicly that Russia helped him win the presidency in 2016 through its election interference. American intelligence agencies and federal prosecutors have long concluded that Russia tried to influence voters.
His media man Brad Pascale responded to the NY Times article with this:
If you aren’t familiar with Mr. Bean , the British comedy movies and TV shows staring by Rowan Atkinson this may not make sense to you. Suffice to say 1) he hardly ever speaks, and 2) if he was the prosecutor in a trial of Trump if there was a courtroom blunder he could make he’d make it.
He’d still get a conviction because his best witness would be Donald Trump himself.
If Trump ever stands trial for anything can you imagine what serious prosecutors would do to him?