Donald Trump has many faults.
A big one is that he doesn’t know when to put a sock in
it. There are too many times he gets
carried away and says some stupid crap he’s sure to regret. Most often it’s when he’s goaded by the press
to comment on what’s obviously a gotcha question. He should know when to STFU.
But the one that makes me most nuts is his inability to get
over the last election.
Hey Donald, you won.
You’re the President. It’s
over.
Why he keeps going back to his victory is baffling. Sure, there are a lot of Democrats,
establishment Republicans, and folks on the left who wish he hadn’t won. There
are the whiners who claim he didn’t really win because Hillary got more of the
popular vote.
The fact of the matter is, he got elected. He got
inaugurated. He’s the President.
We all know that. Even his fiercest critics concede it.
It’s long past time for him to still be a sore winner. Give
it up. Move on. Constantly revisiting why Hillary lost is
demeaning and petty. Hammering on and on about her 33,000 missing e-mails and
why the FBI cut her a break – which clearly they did – doesn’t accomplish
anything.
It’s all irrelevant now. The election’s over.
Everyone understands why Trump hates the Mueller probe. It's a cloud over his Presidency; but only because Trump keeps obsessing over it. By now it’s pretty clear there will be no
evidence of collusion between his campaign and the Russians.There's also no case for obstruction; he was well within his rights to fire Comey. He should simply
let it go.
On the other thrust of the probe – whether Russia tried to
meddle in the past election – does anyone with half a brain think they didn’t?
Seriously? Is there any doubt at all? Of
course they tried to influence our election; they always try to influence other
countries’ elections, as do we. That’s
nothing out of the ordinary. Anyone who thinks it’s something new is either
hopelessly naïve or downright stupid.
Did the Russians change a single vote? Nope. Even the FBI and DOJ concede that.
That’s why there’s not a lot to the Mueller probe anymore.
Yet Trump can’t resist beating the same dead horse and
conflating the collusion issue with the Russian meddling. He constantly attacks Mueller’s
investigation, and especially Mueller’s team. That keeps the probe in the
spotlight for no good reason.
As one Republican said, if you’re innocent, act like
it. Trump needs to take that advice. He needs to separate the obvious Russian meddling
from the issue of collusion.
Acknowledge the former; ignore the latter.
Everyone knows the Russians meddled so go with it. And
despite the manufactured frenzy on the left and in the media, everyone else
– including Mueller and his team, I suspect – knows the collusion thing is dead.
Let it lie.
Also, stop trying to keep the FBI treatment of Hillary, her
server and e-mails on the front burner. Tell
Republicans in the House and Senate to call off the dogs. Yes, FBI officials sandbagged the original investigation.
Yes, there was bias from investigators.
Yes, Hillary got a pass.
Everyone knows all this.
It doesn’t make any difference now.
Because she lost. You won. Get over it.
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