1/Drilling down on Barr's comments and where we are now in a quick thread.
To start, I think Barr's comments can be read as frustration at how "crazy" and not in control the President is right now, and how hard it has become for him to follow POTUS.
To start, I think Barr's comments can be read as frustration at how "crazy" and not in control the President is right now, and how hard it has become for him to follow POTUS.
2/The @washingtonpost has a new account of how wild the President has gotten in pushing Barr/DOJ to act upon what is at its heart a false, delusional narrative the President has created about "partisan/illegitimate/unfair" investigations into him.
@washingtonpost 3/Here is an example of the RNC pushing this completely batshit crazy narrative *yesterday*
@washingtonpost 4/Also yesterday, here is the WH spokesperson saying the President is America's "top law enforcement officer" - a sloppy attempt to claim powers for the President he clearly doesn't have.
@washingtonpost 5/In a thread yesterday I reviewed just how "insane" the President's narrative is.
It requires you to believe so many things which have been debunked, disproven, just LOL nuts all boiling down to he's innocent/a massive conspiracy has dogged him fr day 1.
It requires you to believe so many things which have been debunked, disproven, just LOL nuts all boiling down to he's innocent/a massive conspiracy has dogged him fr day 1.
@washingtonpost 6/Look at how this former CIA officer describes attempt to somehow claim the original Russia investigation was illegitimate (remember DNC hacked in 2015/Trump lied abt Trump Tower, meetings w Russians, campaign working w Wikileaks) Another use of "crazy."
@washingtonpost 7/We've never really come to terms w/just how LOL nuts Trump's first ask of Zelensky was - he essentially asked Zelensky to commit national suicide to bolster his delusional narrative. Zelensky knew at that moment Trump was not all there, "crazy." washingtonpost.com/politics/2019/…
@washingtonpost 8/Here is how the @washingtonpost is describing the President's new tweet this morning claiming that he is indeed the chief law enforcement officer of the land and can do whatever he wants to anyone: washingtonpost.com/politics/trump…
@washingtonpost 9/I think what Barr was telling the President yesterday was hey dude we buried Mueller, I backed your blockade of documents and witnesses, I helped corrupt the Senate trial, am trying to get your guys off and you want more, stuff no one can do. You are acting "crazy."
@washingtonpost 10/We also learned yesterday that Trump's longtime "babysitter" Hope Hicks is hastily returning to the White House. This could be read in many ways but one of them is he is losing it and the staff needs help. slate.com/news-and-polit…
@washingtonpost 11/My point - Trump is no longer a POTUS, he's now a true Mad King. The evidence of just how crazy he's become is all around us. Assassinating foreign leaders. Claiming dictatorial powers. Demanding Barr arrest his enemies, free his allies. Extort NY.
@washingtonpost 12/It is critical that we create new less innocent language to describe our Mad King. That we all use words like crazy, nuts, delusional, serial liar etc and that isn't creating more sustained worry about his mental state has to end.
Our President may be mad. What do we do?
Our President may be mad. What do we do?
