There is a severe case of Trump Derangement Syndrome on MSNBC. Even though the Mueller Report found insufficient evidence of a conspiracy and could not conclude that the President obstructed justice; even though Mueller said in his press conference that Barr acted in good faith and said that the White House was fully cooperative during the investigation, MSNBC journalists still believe that Trump is a criminal.
On a Tuesday segment of Deadline: White House, the crazy was put on full display with host Nicolle Wallace suggesting that the Mueller Report finding no evidence of collusion and not enough to conclude obstruction is “worse than Watergate”:
But I want to ask you where you see the intersection of John Dean and the Watergate era. I mean, I just hear this in my interactions outside of work. That, you know, is this -- is this Watergate? And I always say it's so much worse than Watergate, he's an unindicted co-conspirator in an illegal hush money scheme, the other guy is already in jail. Robert Mueller stood up last week and said, "If I could say he hadn't committed crimes I would." There were ten incidents of obstructive conduct that were investigated; all the evidence is in the Mueller Report.
Not to be outdone, guest Frank Figliuzzi, the former Assistant Director for Counterintelligence at the FBI, one-upped Wallace’s TDS by suggesting that we are moving toward an “imperial presidency”:
And what upsets me the most is that that is an administration and acquiescence that this White House has totally obstructed the oversight that Congress needs to have. So we're saying, okay, we're stymied, we've got another strategy, great. I'm worried about the long-term consequences of that. Are we, in fact, watching the reshaping of our form of government from a time where we had three equal branches of government to a time where we're moving toward an imperial presidency. Five, ten years from now, Nicolle, are we going to look back to the summer of 2019 and say that's when it started, that's when oversight by Congress started to erode, that's when we gained an imperial presidency. And I think that's what's happening.
Unable to come to grips with the fact that the Mueller Report did not give them the huge bombshell they were convinced was real for two years, liberal journalists are slowly losing their minds. It is truly astounding.
The full transcript is below. Click “expand” to read more.
Deadline: White House
06/04/19
4:07 P.M. EasternNICOLLE WALLACE: Donny makes some good points but marshaling evidence with the goal of moving public opinion is a different endeavor than marshaling evidence with the goal of a criminal prosecution. But I want to ask you where you see the intersection of John Dean and the Watergate era. I mean, I just hear this in my interactions outside of work. That, you know, is this -- is this Watergate? And I always say it's so much worse than Watergate, he's an unindicted co-conspirator in an illegal hush money scheme, the other guy is already in jail. Robert Mueller stood up last week and said, "If I could say he hadn't committed crimes I would." There were ten incidents of obstructive conduct that were investigated; all the evidence is in the Mueller Report. Witnesses like Chris Christie and Corey Lewandowski don't have a leg to stand on if they are called before Congress. How do you see this? What does this look like if Congress heads down this path, Frank?
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FRANK FIGLIUZZI: A strategy that says, look, we're being stymied from impeachment because we simply can't call fact witnesses so we have a plan B makes sense to me if it plays out in the public eye on television screens, people get to see and hear the contents of the report and all that's been done wrong by this president. But here's also what's wrong simultaneously with that. And what upsets me the most is that that is an administration and acquiescence that this White House has totally obstructed the oversight that Congress needs to have. So we're saying, okay, we're stymied, we've got another strategy, great. I'm worried about the long-term consequences of that. Are we, in fact, watching the reshaping of our form of government from a time where we had three equal branches of government to a time where we're moving toward an imperial presidency. Five, ten years from now, Nicolle, are we going to look back to the summer of 2019 and say that's when it started, that's when oversight by Congress started to erode, that's when we gained an imperial presidency. And I think that's what's happening.
