Shameless.

If any investigation any time anywhere, goes against what Donald Trump insists it must find, it is ipso facto proof that there exists a conspiracy against Donald J. Trump, snowflake and biggest whiner in history.

Today it was Mike Pence’s Chief of Staff  Marc Short’s turn to offer up a crazed conspiracy in which the entire federal government is conspiring to bring Trump down (what they call the “Deep State,” that part of the federal government that works to serve whomever is president and doesn’t pledge loyalty to Trump alone). Short went on State of the Union where Dana Bash was more than his match.

Bash began by reminding Short that each investigation into either Trump or Trump’s “enemies” has been done by people appointed by the Trump administration itself. Gulp. Sizzle.

Short then complained about the vicious unfairness shown to Roger Stone, by prosecutors who insisted upon using the same sentencing guidelines applied to everyone else – thus proving they’re out to get Stone because he didn’t get a sweetheart deal!

Bash was having none of it:

“Barr ordered the Justice Department to re-examine the case of the former national security advisor Michael Flynn who pleaded guilty to lying to investigators and President Trump said that Flynn’s situation is unfair, and he wished him best wishes and good luck. Why is the attorney general inserting himself in cases involving the president’s associates?”

Short had his ready answer; “Because Barr is correcting the miscarriages of justice applied to Trump’s friends, and Barr didn’t need to be told to do it, said the man who apparently wants us to believe that Barr looked into the Flynn case out of pure concern for justice, despite Flynn having already sworn to his guilt.

Bash kept returning to those pesky facts:

“I hear you say that there is a bias and I understand why you are saying that, but there is not proof of that given the fact that you had Robert Mueller appointed by somebody who was a Trump nominee, and you had very long and very intense investigations by people who, I know that you guys said it is a witch hunt and it was corrupt and all of those things, but at the end of the day, you had genuine investigations going on by people who are career nonpartisan prosecutors,”

You can almost see Short pull the hair he doesn’t have out of his head, wanting to scream: “That’s the problem, career people are doing this when it should be done by people totally loyal to Trump!” Of course, he did not say it, but was likely thinking it.

“The reality is there are people who are inside of the Department of Justice who were stating their intent to stop Donald Trump from becoming the president of the United States,

Hang on right there for a second. At most, there were two, in private texts, both were removed from investigations, and there was never proof that either Peter Strzok or Lisa Page acted against Trump in any way. From there, the Trumpers indict the entire department.

We move on:

and that is a serious problem and that is what the president has spoken out about, and with the proof, they knew in the aftermath of the Mueller report, there was no collusion, and if they were looking at who to ensnare and who to …

Bash had enough, and shut the man down right there, cutting him off and denying Short the opportunity to spout further lies:

“I don’t know if that is true that they knew there was no corruption. that is not fair, because there is a lot of things that we can and will fact check,”

Beautiful.

Journalists? This is how you do it.

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Peace, y’all

Jason

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