Our Idiot King, Part III
By 
Commentarian timb
It’s physics as it applies to a Trump statement. We cannot know the precise location of the truth, other than knowing it cannot be where he said it was. By definition.
In an interview with NBC’s Lester Holt, Trump said that “regardless of recommendation,” he was going to fire Comey in the midst of Comey’s investigation into the Trump team’s ties to Russia. The comment undermines the entirety of the Trump team’s effort to justify the firing over the previous 24 hours.
Most notably, it undermines the lies told by his own vice president, Mike Pence, seven times alone during a press conference on Wednesday:
TRUMP: He’s a showboat, he’s a grandstander, the FBI has been in turmoil, you know that, I know that, everybody knows that. You take a look at the FBI a year ago, it was in virtual turmoil. Less than a year ago, it hasn’t recovered from that.
Brief pause to wish there were a way to convert projection to energy.
HOLT: Monday you met with the Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein—
TRUMP: Right.
HOLT: Did you ask for a recommendation?
TRUMP: What I did, is I was going to fire Comey. My decision. It was not –
HOLT: You had made the decision before they came into the room?
TRUMP: I was going to fire Comey. There’s no good time to do it, by the way. They—
HOLT: Because in your letter you said, “I accepted their recommendation.” So you had already made the decision?
TRUMP: Oh, I was going to fire regardless of recommendation.
HOLT: So there really wasn’t a –
TRUMP: He made a recommendation. He’s highly respected, very good guy, very smart guy, the Democrats like him, the Republicans like him. He made a recommendation, but regardless of recommendation, I was going to fire Comey.
The White House Trump first insisted that the firing was based on a recommendation from Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein.
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The collapse of this story, resulting in egg on Pence’s face, is the latest chapter in the serial humiliation that Trump has piled on Pence. From wanting to back out on his selection to getting him to lie to the public about the vetting of Mike Flynn and the cover-up of his FBI purge, Trump has taken Pence along for the ride with him into the muck.
Lying, preening and humiliating and harassing the help. The #StupidestPresidentEver must be on Cloud 9.
