Under pressure, Trump falsely claims Dems have ‘switched’ scandals
03/05/19 11:20 AM --By Steve Benen
Over the weekend, Donald Trump responded to Michael Cohen’s congressional testimony by suggesting his critics are moving from one line of inquiry to another.
“Oh’ I see!” the president wrote, utilizing his idiosyncratic approach to grammar and punctuation. “Now that the 2 year Russian Collusion case has fallen apart, there was no Collusion except bye Crooked Hillary and the Democrats, they say, ‘gee, I have an idea, let’s look at Trump’s finances and every deal he has ever done.’”
Yesterday, purportedly quoting former White House Press Secretary Ari Fleischer, Trump expounded on the subject.
“ ‘Now that the Dems are going to try & switch from Collusion to some other reason, it makes them continue to look like sore losers who didn’t accept the WILL OF THE PEOPLE in the last election - they will do anything to get rid of the President.’
@AriFleischer It will never work!”
Right off the bat, there’s an obvious problem with the reference to “the last election,” which was in 2018, and which saw Republicans suffer their most lopsided popular-vote losses in congressional elections since the Watergate era.
If the “will of the people,” as measured by election results, is paramount, the White House has a problem: it was voters who gave Democrats control of the House, which triggered the oversight that has the president so concerned. (Incidentally, the same is true if we turn our attention to the will of the electorate in 2016 – when Trump came in second in the popular vote by nearly 3 million people.)
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