Despite reality  Trump boasts about being 'totally' vindicated
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Close video For all the hype  Nunes memo delivers sad trombone for  Trump  Rachel Maddow points out that despite two weeks of Fox News hype  the Nunes memo is not only underwhelming as a political stunt  it actually undermines the argument it was meant to make for  Donald Trump . share tweet email save Embed
It’s genuinely difficult to find an angle to the House Republicans’ “Nunes memo” that helps its intended beneficiary:  Donald Trump . Every key argument the president and  his  allies hoped to advance has fallen apart   and after weeks of over-the-top hype  Republicans are actually worse off than they were before the previously classified materials were released to the public.
5.  Trump ’s grammar  use of quotation marks  and capitalization of random words is bizarre for an American adult in a position of authority.
In early March   Trump  told the public that  he ’d “just found out” that former President Obama illegally tapped his phones at Trump Tower before the presidential election. “This is Nixon/Watergate ” the Republican said. “Bad (or sick) guy!”
As regular readers may recall  two weeks later  as it became clear that the confused president had relied on a nonsensical report from a right-wing website   Trump  nevertheless told reporters he felt “somewhat” vindicated about his conspiracy theory  thanks to support from House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes (R-Calif.).
 Trump   of course  hadn’t been vindicated. On the contrary  his entire conspiracy theory had been thoroughly discredited  and he accused his predecessor of a felony for no reason. But in the president’s mind  it was clear he’d been right from the start.
And nearly a year later  here we are again  watching  Trump  once again claim vindication  reality be damned.
Close video For all the hype  Nunes memo delivers sad trombone for  Trump  Rachel Maddow points out that despite two weeks of Fox News hype  the Nunes memo is not only underwhelming as a political stunt  it actually undermines the argument it was meant to make for  Donald Trump . share tweet email save Embed
It’s genuinely difficult to find an angle to the House Republicans’ “Nunes memo” that helps its intended beneficiary:  Donald Trump . Every key argument the president and  his  allies hoped to advance has fallen apart   and after weeks of over-the-top hype  Republicans are actually worse off than they were before the previously classified materials were released to the public.
5.  Trump ’s grammar  use of quotation marks  and capitalization of random words is bizarre for an American adult in a position of authority.
In early March   Trump  told the public that  [TGT] ’d “just found out” that former President Obama illegally tapped [TGT] phones at Trump Tower before the presidential election. “This is Nixon/Watergate ” the Republican said. “Bad (or sick) guy!”
As regular readers may recall  two weeks later  as it became clear that the confused president had relied on a nonsensical report from a right-wing website   Trump  nevertheless told reporters he felt “somewhat” vindicated about his conspiracy theory  thanks to support from House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes (R-Calif.).
 Trump   of course  hadn’t been vindicated. On the contrary  his entire conspiracy theory had been thoroughly discredited  and he accused his predecessor of a felony for no reason. But in the president’s mind  it was clear he’d been right from the start.
And nearly a year later  here we are again  watching  Trump  once again claim vindication  reality be damned.