Breitbart’s Pam Key provided an example yesterday of how anti-Trump media personalities constantly strive to put the POTUS in the worst possible light.
According to Key, “Fox News Sunday,” host Chris Wallace had a heated exchange with Jay Sekulow, a member of the president’s legal team.
Wallace asked Sekulow if the president thinks that Rod Rosenstein has done anything wrong.
In his reply, after saying that the POTUS never said anything about Rosenstein doing anything wrong, Sekulow went on to explain the legal situation involved, as follows:
“So here’s the constitutional threshold question, Chris. The president takes action based on numerous events, including recommendations from his attorney general and the deputy attorney general’s office. He takes the action that they also, by the way, recommended. And now he’s being investigated by the Department of Justice because the special counsel under the special counsel relations reports still to the Department of Justice. Not an independent counsel.
"So he’s being investigated for taking the action that the attorney general and deputy attorney general recommended him to take by the agency who recommended the termination. So that’s the constitutional threshold question here. That’s why, as I said, no investigation —
Wallace immediately seized on the word “investigation” stuttering: “Well, I — what — what — what’s the question (INAUDIBLE). I mean you — you stated — you stated some facts. First of all, you’ve now said that he is getting investigated after saying that you didn’t.
Sekulow: “No.
Wallace: “You — you just, sir, that he’s being —
Sekulow: “No, he’s not being investigated!
Wallace: “You just said that he’s being investigated.
Sekulow: “No, Chris, I said that the — any — let me be crystal clear so you — you completely understand. We have not received nor are we aware of any investigation of the president of the United States, period.
Wallace: “Sir, you just said two times that he’s being investigated.
Sekulow: “No. The context of the tweet, I just gave you the legal theory, Chris, of how the Constitution works. If, in fact, it was correct that the president was being investigated, he would be investigat[ed] for taking action that an agency told him to take. So that is protected under the Constitution as his article one power. That’s all I said. So I appreciate you trying to rephrase it, but I’m just being really direct with you, Chris. This is — let me be —
Wallace: “No, I — I — sir, I didn’t rephrase it. The tape will speak — Jay, the tape will speak for itself. You said he is being investigated. And it’s not that big —
Sekulow: “Chris, he is — just — no, Chris — that’s (INAUDIBLE) unfair, Chris.
Wallace: “Wait a minute — wait a minute. Jay, and it’s not — Jay, it’s not just being investigated for firing Comey. There’s also the question of what he said to Comey when Comey was still the FBI director. So there’s more than just the fact that he fired Comey.”
Thus, here we have a show host, Wallace, who persistently attempted to shape the situation as one in which Trump himself was being “investigated” as an individual for wrongdoing[s]. And then, still refused to accept the facts as presented by Trump’s lawyer.
However, what Sekulow kept trying to explain is that, Trump himself is not being investigated, a presidential action is. What’s more, that action was taken after recommendations from his attorney general and the deputy attorney general’s office, regarding the firing of a government employee, Comey.
Yet, Wallace kept insisting that an investigation existed involving Trump himself, a premise that is absolutely and patently false at the present time.
5165 reader comments followed the article, a random sampling showing the vast majority similar to this one from NYRick who wrote: “Wallace, per usual, doing his best to attack a conservative. No news here, move along.”
What’s most interesting is that while leftists like Wallace make fools of themselves in the media, the real world illustrates what real people really think. And in that regard, it appears that there’s significant support for the POTUS as represented by investors putting up something far more important than politicized rhetoric. Those investors aren’t using words of support, they’re using what’s in their their wallets.
All three stock indexes opened higher Monday with the Dow Jones industrial average reaching another record high.
Fred Imbert reports @cnbc.com that the Dow rose 115 points and hit a record high while the S&P 500 gained 0.7 percent, also a record. “The Nasdaq composite outperformed, rising 1.1 percent.”
“Large-cap technology stocks like Facebook, Amazon, Apple, Netflix and Google-parent Alphabet all traded higher. Last week, valuation concerns sent the overall sector lower by around 0.8 percent. Tech is by far the best-performing sector of the year, rising 17.2 percent in the period.”
Furthermore: “Before the bell, New York Fed President Bill Dudley said the central bank inflation should pick up as wages rise along with continuing improvement in the labor market.”
And that’s right in line with the Trump agenda, where increasing wages and job development are priority items.
And then, another item almost virtually insures that Trump will prevail in the Russian investigation, whereas it seems that Special Counsel Robert Mueller is giving the POTUS a win/win opportunity.
Today, White House Counselor Kellyanne Conway suggested on “Fox & Friends,” that the head of the Russia investigation should fully disclose the names of the attorneys he’s hired after it was revealed several Democratic donors are part of the team scrutinizing the Trump administration at the highest levels.”
“I think it’s relevant information that the public should have,” she said.
A Mueller spokesman said today they’ve hired 13 attorneys, with more in the pipeline.
“So far, this includes Andrew Weissmann, chief of the DOJ criminal division’s fraud section who also donated $2,300 to Barack Obama in 2008; James Quarles, a Watergate assistant special prosecutor who has donated thousands to Obama, Hillary Clinton and New York Sen. Chuck Schumer; and Jeannie Rhee, deputy assistant AG in the Office of Legal Counsel who has likewise donated thousands to Obama and Clinton.”
The “donor background has fueled complaints from Trump allies like former House Speaker Newt Gingrich that the probe is not independent. Trump himself has started calling the investigation an all-caps “WITCH HUNT.”
However, it’s suggested here that they take a step back to consider that if Trump loses in any way at all, the obvious consideration is that the deck was stacked against him all along. And therefore, the outcome was purely political having nothing to with actual legality whatsoever. Something that the many Trump supporters will make significant hay on.
And if he should prevail, it’s case-closed, period.
Which sounds like a win'/win to me no matter what witch-hunter Mueller's investigation concludes in the future.
That’s it for today folks.
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