Like Hemingway’s bankrupt, the Squatter-in-Chief is losing even Fox News:
John Roberts: "This hour we've got to do your favorite emoji, ¯\_(?)_/¯, because we're not exactly sure what the president is talking about." pic.twitter.com/4355NZoeGs
— Lis Power (@LisPower1) April 4, 2019
Not saying Trump would never ignore the terms of a deal, but it seems like relevant context
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) April 4, 2019
Which makes the still-to-be-rleased Mueller Report that much more dangerous…
"it is with some sadness that I say, Barr did absolutely the wrong thing, in the wrong way, and one can certainly infer bad reasons in his handling so far of the special counsel's report." https://t.co/7yycTnX0cK
— Daniel W. Drezner (@dandrezner) April 4, 2019
Oh, you say that the Trump campaign didn't collude with Russia because that implies they knew what they were doing and weren't witless hacks? That sounds… familiar. https://t.co/6EhTlIxi9K https://t.co/qgG2srIc0D
— Daniel W. Drezner (@dandrezner) April 4, 2019
If I understand the reporting, Barr’s excuse for not releasing the Mueller team’s own summaries—written expressly for public release—is that these somehow remained so riddled with classified or grand jury information that this was impossible. That is not credible.
— Julian Sanchez (@normative) April 4, 2019
It also makes the need for review & redaction, which I’d accepted as legitimate in theory, sound like a stall tactic. How long would it have taken to review the summaries? If we still can’t see those, why should we think we ever get to see anything substantial?
— Julian Sanchez (@normative) April 4, 2019
Et tu, Check?
I support release of the Mueller report
— ChuckGrassley (@ChuckGrassley) April 4, 2019
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: @pourmecoffee’s responses to Trump tweets are ?? pic.twitter.com/0M9ryEr68N
— Daniel W. Drezner (@dandrezner) April 4, 2019
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