The Pee Tape is only of value as long as its existence is in question. “please don’t think about this anymore” does not end those questions. “there is no pee tape” does. I don’t think there is one but leaving the suggestion that there is keeps Trump on the strings. If it’s there and it’s exposed the strings are cut. If it’s not there and that’s proven the strings are cut.
Precisely. That was the first thing I posted today after seeing some of this shit. It’s the single most disturbing thing that occurred at the presser and we should be extremely concerned that Trump is going to issue orders that it happen.
Obviously the server has the secret to defeat terrorism and global warming on it, which is why people are so interested in it and not that Russia electronically attacked our elections and nation nonsense.
Interesting take from a former ambassador to the Soviet Union, Stephen Sestanovich, on MSNBC. His take, while heavily criticizing Trump (“it makes the president look like an idiot,” “totally brainless”) is that maybe this debacle wasn’t a big win for Putin precisely because it was so outrageous. It isolates Trump and diminishes his power to the point that he can’t effectively do anything to help Putin’s agenda.
“And what he did is an incredible offer. He offered to have the people working on the case come and work with their investigators, with respect to the 12 people. I think that’s an incredible offer. “
Yes, “incredible.” In the most literal sense: not credible.
The BBC just compared this to Putin’s offer to help with the Novichok investigation, “Like letting a suspect in a murder case mess around on the murder site” and applauded PM May for rejecting it…