President Trump&his surrogates are weaponizing false claims against DOJ&law enforcement. Their purpose is to discredit the Special Counsel's investigation of the President himself.
This calculated, coordinated strategy is the last resort of many criminal defendants: when an investigation has you cornered, attack the investigators.
Throughout his presidency, Donald Trump has sought to manipulate DOJ to pursue his own personal vendettas. Once again, the President is attempting to use the power and influence of his office to put himself above the law.
President Trump put DAG Rosenstein in an impossible situation, forcing him to choose between a face-saving compromise and a destructive confrontation threatening continued progress by the Special Counsel.
The review of highly classified documents in the midst of a highly charged partisan conflict raises the clear&present danger of illegal disclosure potentially catastrophic to confidential sources and operations.
There is no good reason for raising these serious national security risks—sending a message to covert agents&informants that they will be sacrificed to appease raw political pressure. I hope that disclosure will be minimized in scope and magnitude to mitigate these dangers.
