The failing @nytimes wrote a Fake piece today implying that because White House Councel Don McGahn was giving hours of testimony to the Special Councel, he must be a John Dean type “RAT.” But I allowed him and all others to testify – I didn’t have to. I have nothing to hide……
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) 4:01 AM – 19 Aug 2018
It’s self-evident that consciousness of guilt has Trump staying up all night fretting about the Mueller investigation.
In fact, Trump has become so Unhinged that he’s blasting reports as fake while proving they are true in the same tweet. But here’s the damning question:
If he’s so proud of allowing everyone in the White House to testify, why has he spent the past year raising one fake obstacle after another to avoid testifying himself? #Coward!
Not to mention that McGahn, as White House coun(s)el as opposed to Trump’s lawyer, had little choice but to testify. Of course, like his habit of projecting onto others the faults and shortcomings that inhere in himself, Trump has a habit of taking credit for doing things he did not do.
This is why you literally cannot believe a word this president says or tweets. And that holds doubly so for his personal attorney, Rudy Giuliani — a man who has betrayed his reputation as America’s mayor for the Faustian glory of spinning Trump’s lies and defending his obstruction.
For example, he insists he won’t allow Trump to testify because Mueller is just trying to lure him into a perjury trap. Giuliani has become so prone to Orwellian doublespeak that the incriminating irony inherent in this seems completely lost on him.
Previews of today’s edition of Meet the Press show him throwing this doublespeak into comic relief. Specifically, when host Chuck Todd presses him to explain how telling the truth could possibly subject Trump to a perjury trap, Giuliani exclaims:
[Because] truth isn’t truth.
Nothing to hide? #Testify! #ReleaseTaxReturns!
The prosecution rests.
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