Donald Trump has tweeted that the investigations of his administration are “the single greatest WITCH HUNT in American political history, led by some very bad and conflicted people.”
First off, we can now add “Conflicted” to the long list of words that this profoundly ignorant man does not comprehend and cannot use correctly. That list is so long that by now we can likely cover the same ground more quickly by listing the words he does know how to use. That’s to start.
Secondly, this is yet another manifestation of the historically-ignorant Trump believing that things are more like they are now (whatever aspect of “now” he happens to be talking about) than they ever have been before. With Trump, it’s not enough that there’s crime; the crime rates must be worse than they have ever been. It is not that he thinks he’s an expert on something; he must be the single greatest expert there ever was. It is not that he thinks something is praiseworthy; it must be the best ever, just as all bad things must be the worst ever. It’s not enough that he thinks he’s healthy enough for the Presidency; he must also be more healthy than anybody who’s ever held the office, in all of history. His perspective is the focal point toward which all asymptotic lines converge, curving toward infinity even as they become vague flatness in the distance he is too myopic to perceive. Part of this is that he honestly doesn’t know what the fuck he’s talking about, and doesn’t care; and part of this is that he’s a carnival barker who cannot modulate his superlatives, who knows that everything must be the most (blank) ever.
Thirdly: even so, the “single greatest” witch hunt in American political history? Are you fucking high? Recall the hundreds of lives ruined because of past associations during the McCarthy era. Recall the FBI covertly urging black activists toward suicide. Recall cops infiltrating labor groups and hippie enclaves purely to urge them toward criminality, for the specific purpose of then prosecuting them so that they could say criminality was the only thing these movements were ever about. Recall Japanese sent to internment camps. Recall decades, decades, of determined harassment of the Clintons, by organized groups willing to spend millions to do it, efforts that included suborned perjury. Recall you, yourself, whipping crowds of morons to gibbering cheers by pretending to have proof of a sitting President’s supposed foreign birth. What’s happening to you right now, you failed use of tan shoe polish as George Hamilton blackface, is the slow-motion collapse of your house of cards, and it’s not a witch-hunt. It’s a manifestation of how transparently corrupt, how deeply obvious a perpetrator of the Presidency as scam, you truly are.