Donald Makes Up Blatant Lie About Public Comey Report Like A Mentally Defective Failure

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U.S. President Donald Trump has a knack for making everything about him no matter whether it actually is or not. This observation applies to a Friday response from the president to the Thursday release of a huge report from the inspector general’s office overseeing the Department of Justice that covers the department’s handling of the Hillary Clinton email investigation.

Somehow Trump turned that report into an exoneration for himself in the ongoing Russia scandal his administration in which he is currently entangled.

He told a reporter Friday:

‘I think that the report yesterday, maybe more importantly than anything, it totally exonerates me.’

No, it doesn’t. The report, again, covered the Department of Justice’s handling of the Clinton email investigation. It does not include conclusions about the Russia scandal and investigation. There’s not really any more to it — Trump is just lying that blatantly here.

Still, he continued:

‘There was no collusion. There was no obstruction, and if you read the report you’ll see that.’

Actually, you won’t.

What is Trump going for here? He’s just throwing lies out there and seemingly hoping they’ll stick. It’s the kind of material he uses to rile up his base and keep them attached to him. With his nonsense, he’s again made the media and much of the concerned public at large go on the defensive — and there can’t really be a defense without an offense. That’s how he keeps his base together — contrived conflict.

That contrived conflict is the main modus operandi that he’s used as a defense in the Russia scandal. He’s sought to pin the blame for the scandal anywhere and everywhere it might stick, which includes interests from the “fake news” to the Democrats. Where efforts to bring down those interests instead of his team have failed, he’s gone after the Justice Department itself, claiming deeply rooted corruption to be at play via the very existence of the Russia investigation.

You’d think that he’d have perhaps used the Thursday DOJ inspector general report as more kindling for that dumpster fire, but nope, he decided to pretend that it exonerates him in the Russia scandal. Having not even read it is one thing, but seriously — does he even have any idea what’s in it at all? This is an apparent level of reaching that goes beyond something that would follow simply not reading it.

What he could have in mind is that professional misconduct and insubordination outlined in the DOJ inspector general’s report on the Clinton email investigation invalidates the Russia investigation, but that’s not how this works.

He commented about the report in question after being asked about a largely debunked recent Fox report alleging that Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein threatened House Republicans with an essentially punitive investigation. In reality, it’s Republicans who were threatening Rosenstein with an investigation.

Commenting on the story, Trump insisted Friday while speaking to reporters that he intends to not meddle in the Justice Department in order to avoid allegations of obstruction of justice and the like — although that concern hasn’t stopped him in the past when he’s carried out acts like the abrupt firing of the FBI director, who doubled as the leader of the Russia investigation.

Going forward based on the ease with which he jumps to false conclusions here, Trump can only be expected to continue with his campaign to free himself from the Russia investigation no matter the cost.

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