Democrats get desperate as accusations of Trump
President Trump  speaks on Friday at the White House in Washington. (Evan Vucci/Associated Press)
With all the noise coming from  the president  last week (and the week before that  and so far this weekâ¦)  a bit of good news for this embattled White House may be emerging. And if the American body politic doesnât experience a complete meltdown this week  perhaps others will notice.
The good news is that after having tried everything else   the Trump team  now appears to be cooperating in a normal way with special counsel Robert S. Mueller IIIâs investigation. According to a recent New York Times report  â The presidentâs legal team  is working swiftly to respond to requests from Mr. Mueller for emails  documents and memos  and will make White House officials available for interviews.â Itâs about time. After months of leaks  innuendo  willful ignorance and wild speculation  nothing has pointed to anything approaching substantive collusion with Russia on the part of the president or  the Trump campaign . But the investigation is ongoing  and the White House has decided to stop acting as though it is guilty â or at least hiding something â and begin acting as if it is innocent. Imagine.
Since the investigation began  Paul Manafort  Michael Flynn and others have tacitly admitted to Foreign Agents Registration Act violations  answered questions about this or that meeting or been subject to aggressive moves by Muellerâs investigative team looking into the financial dealings of some of President Trumpâs associates. And yet  nothing has confirmed â or even suggested â nefarious collusion between Russia and  the Trump campaign . These collateral reports are all sideshows used by the media to create the impression that something significant could still arise connecting  the Trump campaign  to Russia. But they are just a lot of fog.
But in Washington  being innocent is only an advantage â it is not determinative. Democrats in Congress and liberals everywhere will refuse to accept Muellerâs inevitable finding of no collusion. And even as the collusion story fades  the mainstream mediaâs latest fixation is that  somehow  Russian manipulation of social media ads during the 2016 campaign was significant. But if the media really thinks this issue is a big deal  it should be asking where the Obama administration was when all this egregious hijacking of American democracy took place. Will anyone suggest that the Obama administration was to blame and that the former presidentâs incompetence led to this problem  or will they somehow make the story about Trump?
Fractured and without a legitimate agenda  Democrats have nothing going for them besides Trumpâs tweets and making false accusations about the president and those around him. Theyâve propped up the Trump-Russia collusion story for too long  and now that the White House is cooperating with Muellerâs investigation  liberals are beginning to look desperate. The Democrats may be forced to move on.
President Trump  speaks on Friday at the White House in Washington. (Evan Vucci/Associated Press)
With all the noise coming from  the president  last week (and the week before that  and so far this weekâ¦)  a bit of good news for this embattled White House may be emerging. And if the American body politic doesnât experience a complete meltdown this week  perhaps others will notice.
The good news is that after having tried everything else   the Trump team  now appears to be cooperating in a normal way with special counsel Robert S. Mueller IIIâs investigation. According to a recent New York Times report  â The presidentâs legal team  is working swiftly to respond to requests from Mr. Mueller for emails  documents and memos  and will make White House officials available for interviews.â Itâs about time. After months of leaks  innuendo  willful ignorance and wild speculation  nothing has pointed to anything approaching substantive collusion with Russia on the part of the president or   [TGT]  . But the investigation is ongoing  and the White House has decided to stop acting as though it is guilty â or at least hiding something â and begin acting as if it is innocent. Imagine.
Since the investigation began  Paul Manafort  Michael Flynn and others have tacitly admitted to Foreign Agents Registration Act violations  answered questions about this or that meeting or been subject to aggressive moves by Muellerâs investigative team looking into the financial dealings of some of President Trumpâs associates. And yet  nothing has confirmed â or even suggested â nefarious collusion between Russia and   [TGT]  . These collateral reports are all sideshows used by the media to create the impression that something significant could still arise connecting  the  [TGT]  campaign  to Russia. But they are just a lot of fog.
But in Washington  being innocent is only an advantage â it is not determinative. Democrats in Congress and liberals everywhere will refuse to accept Muellerâs inevitable finding of no collusion. And even as the collusion story fades  the mainstream mediaâs latest fixation is that  somehow  Russian manipulation of social media ads during the 2016 campaign was significant. But if the media really thinks this issue is a big deal  it should be asking where the Obama administration was when all this egregious hijacking of American democracy took place. Will anyone suggest that the Obama administration was to blame and that the former presidentâs incompetence led to this problem  or will they somehow make the story about  [TGT] ?
Fractured and without a legitimate agenda  Democrats have nothing going for them besides Trumpâs tweets and making false accusations about the president and those around him. Theyâve propped up the Trump-Russia collusion story for too long  and now that the White House is cooperating with Muellerâs investigation  liberals are beginning to look desperate. The Democrats may be forced to move on.