While the Mueller didn’t exactly make Donald Trump look like a choirboy (and face it: he’s not), it also failed to deliver the “collusion” bombshell that the Resistance was hoping for. Still, though, bitter clingers like MSNBC’s Chris Hayes believe that Donald Trump has done enough to make past presidents’ flaming corruption look tame by comparison:
Started laughing maniacally for a moment recalling the momentous scandal that was Bill Clinton hopping onto Loretta Lynch's plane for a chat.
— Chris Hayes (@chrislhayes) April 18, 2019
Chris may think he’s being cute or clever here, and it may get him those sweet likes and retweets, but as the Washington Examiner’s Becket Adams — who’s hardly a Trump cheerleader — points out, this sort of B.S. isn’t doing the Resistance any favors in the long run:
this attitude is part of the reason so much legitimate trump criticism falls on deaf ears: because many of the people pushing it the loudest also maintain that their own rotten team is mostly pure or at least victim of an overreactive, unfair public. https://t.co/OHKP14RvWL
— T. Becket Adams (@BecketAdams) April 19, 2019
an off-the-books meeting between the U.S.'s top cop and a former president/spouse of the target of an ongoing federal investigation, from which the top cop refused to recuse herself, is on its face shady and ethically dubious.
— T. Becket Adams (@BecketAdams) April 19, 2019
learning later from congressional testimony that the same AG's DOJ also instructed the FBI not to charge the investigation target with "gross negligence," even though AG explicitly testified that she deferred the matter to the FBI, certainly seems scandalous.
— T. Becket Adams (@BecketAdams) April 19, 2019
and for that matter, the secretary of state maintaining a homebrew server in her personal bathroom so as to avoid normal record keeping procedure and laws is a scandal.
— T. Becket Adams (@BecketAdams) April 19, 2019
the extrajudicial killing of an American citizen via drone strike is a scandal.
— T. Becket Adams (@BecketAdams) April 19, 2019
but if you're all "he wore a tan suit" and "but her emails," you're mostly signaling you're interested in trump corruption insofar as it can be used to whitewash your own team's malfeasance.
— T. Becket Adams (@BecketAdams) April 19, 2019
a mindset that says "can you believe people thought this legitimate scandal was a scandal?" tells people you're either delusional or a liar, neither of which will get people who don't already agree with you to take your trump criticism seriously.
— T. Becket Adams (@BecketAdams) April 19, 2019
downplaying past abuse by playing up current abuse suggests you don't care that bad people are in power. it suggests you care only that *your* bad people are not in power.
— T. Becket Adams (@BecketAdams) April 19, 2019
Can we get an “amen”?
Nailed it.
— Dennis Gavin (@dcgavin) April 19, 2019
Spot on!
— Juggers (@Juggers4) April 19, 2019
You’ve said a mouthful of truth!
— Nicholas Braun (@NicholasBraun10) April 19, 2019
This is very true.
It is the double standard and hypocrisy that have resulted in my not being able to support anything from the left.
The man is no saint, we all know this, but yelling at clouds from the high horse is not an appealing position.— Roger C (@floplag) April 19, 2019
Excellent thread! Yes, the Left seems oblivious regarding how their behavior will lead to the very thing they hate and fear most: a 2nd Trump term.
— Ben Keller (@BenKell76495009) April 19, 2019
Yep. And the Resistance will have no one to blame but themselves.
thank you for coming to my TED talk.
— T. Becket Adams (@BecketAdams) April 19, 2019
Thank you for giving it. The Resistance ignores it at their own peril.
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