Trump’s chats with his low-rent Roy Cohn
by digby
The fact that we are even having any conversation at all about how to interpret Whitaker’s conversations w/POTUS regarding an investigation of the president means to me that the president clearly wanted to influence the AG. @CNN @OutFrontCNN ⬇️ pic.twitter.com/PlkvDYmJKA— Juliette Kayyem (@juliettekayyem) March 14, 2019
I’m so old I remember when this was a huge scandal:
Attorney General Loretta Lynch described her Monday meeting with Bill Clinton aboard a private plane as “primarily social,” but some Democrats are struggling to stomach the optics of the attorney general’s meeting with the former president while his wife is under federal investigation …
Once news of their meeting on the tarmac at Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport broke, Democrats made clear that while the meeting was likely as innocent as Lynch described, it did not give the Justice Department the appearance of independence.
“I do agree with you that it doesn’t send the right signal,” Sen. Chris Coons (D-Del.) said Thursday in response to a question about the meeting from CNN “New Day” host Alisyn Camerota. “She has generally shown excellent judgment and strong leadership of the department, and I’m convinced that she’s an independent attorney general. But I do think that this meeting sends the wrong signal and I don’t think it sends the right signal. I think she should have steered clear, even of a brief, casual social meeting with the former president.”
Presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump was not convinced by the attorney general’s assurances, attacking the judgment of both Lynch and Bill Clinton.
“It is an amazing thing,” Trump said on the Mike Gallagher Show. “And it was really a sneak. It was really something they didn’t want publicized as far as I understand.”
“I think it’s so terrible. I think it’s so horrible. I think it’s the biggest story, one of the big stories of this week, of this month, of this year.”
“Even in terms of judgment, how bad a judgment is it for him or for her to do this? I mean, who would do this?” Trump said.
That’s funny.
Trump probably actually thinks that what Clinton and Lynch did was terrible but the president strong-arming his Attorneys General to obstruct justice and be his “Roy Cohn” is completely fine. He doesn’t really have the capacity to understand how the two situations are related or that his behavior is a hundred times worse.
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