THE AMERICAN PUBLIC IS SIDING WITH AMERICA’S “RULE-OF-LAW”

…The way some are seeing the President

New Post-ABC poll shows the truth about President Trump

As expected, President Trump angrily lashed out at former FBI director, James Comey on Twitter last week calling him a “LEAKER & LIAR” (in all caps) and an “Untruthful slime ball”, who botched his handling of “the Crooked Hillary Clinton case”.  He then added: “It was my great honor to fire James Comey!”

But these Trump tweets were less revealing about Comey than they were about the president’s own contempt for the “Rule of Law”.

Trump doesn’t seem to think that those of us that follow Washington politics really do know the difference between real news and fake news.

The original, totally bogus pretext that Trump used to fire Comey was shown in a memo from Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, which recounted that Comey had mishandled the Clinton email probe in a way that was unfair to Hillary.

But by today’s version of the events by Donald Trump’s highlights, he says that Clinton is “crooked”.  This obviously means that Trump says Comey mishandled the Clinton case by not prosecuting her on a criminal bases. This is of course in keeping with Trump’s continuing calls for Clinton’s prosecution since the election.

Trump seems to forget that we all know that Trump fired Comey out of his rage over the Russia probe, and he admitted that fact in his TV interview with Lester Holt.

And today, Trump still casually suggests that he is pleased and proud that he fired Comey because Comey failed to “LOCK HER UP!”, again referring to Hillary Clinton.

Come on Mr. President.  Why can’t you get your stories straight?  For someone that is a record holder for the politician that tells the most lies, you would think that he would at least keep them all in line.

To stress the point of Trump’s questionable statements, The Wall Street Journal published a report last week that the president had made over 2400 un-true statements since he took office.   My gracious, they are actually keeping a close count of Trump’s lies!!

And the above are just a few of them, but they are starting to take a toll on the office of the president.

Comey’s new book recounts Trump’s efforts to derail the Russian probe by his demanding Comey’s loyalty and leaning on him to go easy on former national security adviser Michael Flynn.  But Trump had to ultimately, fire Flynn.

But NBC News is reporting that Mueller may now be closing in on the findings of Trump’s obstruction of justice, and so Trump’s nonstop lies are currently focused on delegitimizing the Mueller probe and the Trump lies are intensifying.

But the new Washington Post/ABC poll represents a major public vote of confidence in the Mueller investigation, and a major negative attitude toward Trump’s de-legitimization of it as a mere “witch hunt.”  The public is seriously recoiling at Trump’s contempt for the rule of law

The poll found that 69% of Americans support Mueller’s efforts to investigate possible Russia-Trump campaign collusion, and 64% support Mueller’s investigation of Trump’s business activities.  You may of course recall that Trump declared his business as “a red line that Mueller mustn’t cross”.  But the poll also finds that 58% support Mueller’s investigation of hush money paid to women who alleged affairs with Donald Trump.

So, what about public’s attitude toward Comey?

Well, the poll finds that Americans see Comey as much more believable than Trump by 48% to 32% and they disapprove of Trump’s firing of Comey by 47% to 33%. Those numbers are shockingly low for President Trump

Some people at first saw this poll only as a reflection of the deep unpopularity of Donald Trump.

But after more in-depth analysis, it seems that the numbers are suggesting that the unpopularity of Trump is just the surface of the issue.  Looking deeper, it appears that it’s an attitude of the public's increasing realization of Trump’s total contempt for our institutions and the American “Rule of law“.  More and more Americans are becoming aware of Trump’s contempt and those Americans are recoiling at it.

The reason for the growth of this public realization is because Trump’s contempt is so obvious, and it's everywhere.

You see it in Trump’s double standard toward due process in which he rages at the raiding of his lawyer’s office.  But he does this while he cheers law enforcements abuses directed at Muslims, immigrants and African Americans.

You see it in his comments about considering firing the Deputy AG, Rosenstein for the express reason that the Deputy AG is conducting him business by-the-book of the FBI. 

Trump views law enforcement and the Justice department as an instrument for carrying out his personal political will, not by America's “Rule of Law”. And he has told us all this in his own words over, and over, and  over, again and again.

Trump’s outrageous tweets about Comey confirm all of this.

And this public repudiation of Trump comes after he and his allies have waged an extraordinary public campaign in the right-wing media [i.e.: Fox News] and even in the US Congress.  Both of which have been weaponized to create a fictional narrative designed to shield Trump from accountability.  This done by casting the Russia investigation and the institutional processes as hopelessly corrupted to their core.

But the good news is that this latest poll shows that the American people are siding with the “Rule of Law” and our institutions, and against Trump.

And now that Sean Hannity’s name has been added to the roster of involved Trump supporters, who knows where this mess is headed….?

As the Trump-Comey feud continues to blossom, the larger narrative of the public’s understanding of Trump’s contempt will hopefully be that which unravels the mess in the capital that today we call the “Trump White House”.

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