Sometimes you wonder whether Trump takes enjoyment in slamming other people for things Trump knows he and his people do on an hourly basis. There is no other real explanation.

The man who simply doesn’t care about facts or consistency in positions dug deep into his bag of hypocrisy to grab the gold plated hypocritical tweets. If hypocrisy was a painting, Trump tweeted out the Mona Lisa, and Starry Night today, without an ounce of shame.

The net noticed, in case you wondered. Here we go:

“They say Roger Stone lied to Congress.” @CNN OH, I see, but so did Comey (and he also leaked classified information, for which almost everyone, other than Crooked Hillary Clinton, goes to jail for a long time), and so did Andy McCabe, who also lied to the FBI! FAIRNESS?

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) February 20, 2020

Let’s pretend for a moment that his three examples are true (pretend, because they’re not). It is second grade logic that “because others did it, and were not punished, it means that Stone should not be punished.” Yes, try that argument sometime in front of a judge.

But more than anything, how the hell does Trump even address “lying” ever? How can he even bring up the topic of “lying.” This is a man whose attorneys wouldn’t let Mueller interview him because they knew Trump would lie. If you polled 10,000 people and ask them whether they associate Trump with lying, 99% of the 10,000 would agree. Even MAGAs know Trump lies. They simply don’t care, because all politicians lie, they would say.

So Trump went after “lying” as a topic aggrieving him and Roger Stone for godsake, the dirtiest of tricksters.

(By the way, James Comey is almost sure to be arrested at some point, the first purely political arrest that I can remember. Comey will be arrested because Trump hates him, because Comey started the Russia investigation. It will set off a war among “good people of all stripes” and true Trump loyalists.)

If anything, the next one is worse:

John Kerry and Senator Chris Murphy grossly violated the Logan Act with respect to Iran. If a Republican did what they did, there would be very serious ramifications!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) February 20, 2020

The Logan Act, of course, prevents private citizens from contradicting official United States policy, or attempting to establish official U.S. policy on the international scene.

It is shocking that Trump would bring up this Logan Act, as applied to “Republicans,” because he himself did far worse with respect to the Logan Act prior to being sworn in as president. Mike Flynn and Jared Kushner – at a minimum – were both communicating with Russia (it’s always Russia, have you ever noticed?) about the sanctions president Obama imposed on Russia for interfering in our elections, and coordinating the Russian response. They told Russia to not worry about it, that the Trump administration would “fix them” and not worry about it.

Putin did not respond with sanctions while Obama was president, just as Trump “predicted” and requested. Putin did however sanction the U.S. months later, while Trump was president. Putin kicked out a significant portion of the U.S. diplomatic corps in Russia (which would include some spies, and some specialists in Russian policy), in response to the U.S. sanctions. What did Trump do? He thanked Putin for cutting costs in the State Department! Trump did not do what all U.S. presidents always do, respond in kind.

As an aside, Trump’s reaction – thanking Putin – and not punishing Russia, removed all doubt in my mind (just an opinion) that Trump was 100% conflicted with Russia and couldn’t cross Putin. We lost generations of experience in Russian policy in one sweep.

These are the same people that might have most noticed coordination in Russian-American policy, or (at least the spies hidden in that “diplomatic corps” would have most likely been the ones to pick up intelligence on it). These were the people that would most threaten any covert cooperation with Putin. I am simply speculating as to the rationale, but the ultimate result would ring true.

So in the span of just an hour, Trump dumped two of the most hypocritical tweets of all time, and the responses are using up whatever room the internet had left, most calling out the hypocrisy that Trump could not care less about.

And here we sit, as if this is normal, and there’s nothing that can be done. A president commenting on a criminal case, and calling out other Americans as “the enemy” when dealing with Iran. As usual, he’s just full of shit, and nothing can be done.

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Peace, y’all

Jason

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