President Trump started his day off with a particularly unhinged tweetstorm, unleashing three messages rapid-fire that read very much like the desperate thrashings of a guilty man who sees the walls closing in around him.
The tweets were a soupy mess of conspiracy theories about Special Counsel Robert Mueller, “fake news,” and Hillary Clinton’s emails. You could throw darts at a board covered in past Trump tweets and string together a more coherent thought than the embarrassing hodgepodge on display this morning.
Perhaps most laughably, Trump pretended to care about the cost of Mueller’s investigation, pegging it at $30,000,000. In reality, the enormous value of the assets seized from former Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort means that Mueller might actually turn a profit for the government.
It’s also, of course, worth mentioning that this is the same president who continues to waste millions of American tax dollars golfing, the same president who wasted $210,000,000 deploying the U.S. military to the Mexican border in a tawdry midterms election stunt. Fiscally minded, he is not.
The Phony Witch Hunt continues, but Mueller and his gang of Angry Dems are only looking at one side, not the other. Wait until it comes out how horribly & viciously they are treating people, ruining lives for them refusing to lie. Mueller is a conflicted prosecutor gone rogue….
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 27, 2018
….The Fake News Media builds Bob Mueller up as a Saint, when in actuality he is the exact opposite. He is doing TREMENDOUS damage to our Criminal Justice System, where he is only looking at one side and not the other. Heroes will come of this, and it won’t be Mueller and his…
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 27, 2018
….terrible Gang of Angry Democrats. Look at their past, and look where they come from. The now $30,000,000 Witch Hunt continues and they’ve got nothing but ruined lives. Where is the Server? Let these terrible people go back to the Clinton Foundation and “Justice” Department!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 27, 2018
Now, Trump’s pathetic tweets have received the response they deserve. John Brennan, former CIA Director and consistent critic of the current administration, took to Twitter to succinctly and accurately describe Trump’s latest tweets as clear proof of his “feelings of inferiority, insecurity, vulnerability, and culpability.”
Brennan added that Trump reminds him of behavior displayed by “many corrupt authoritarian leaders abroad” before they were removed from power. He ended the brutal response tweet by saying that Robert Mueller will go down in history as a revered figure and Trump will be scorned.
Brennan should be commended for defending Mueller against the false aspersions Trump is flinging at him. The president cannot be allowed to spread his misinformation freely, and it’s up to all of us to follow Brennan’s lead and contest him at every turn.
Your feelings of inferiority, insecurity, vulnerability, and culpability are loud & clear. You remind me of how many corrupt authoritarian leaders abroad behaved before they were deposed. Bob Mueller’s name will be revered in the annals of U.S. history; your name will be scorned. https://t.co/aYnYetwJV1
— John O. Brennan (@JohnBrennan) November 27, 2018