Something-gate: Trump claims Obama bugged Trump Tower.

[The_Doctor]

Notably the Russian story has overwhelmed the address to Congress. And Trump just fanned the flames.

Intriguing. Less agenda to pass then, I guess. Very Page Six of him to focus on all the scandals and drama rather than running the country.

[The_Doctor]

Trumpy's just old and angry and lashing out. These tweets are him trying to “counterpunch.” They're ridiculous tweets but he got them from Breitbart/Levin, which is why he tweeted at 5 AM, rather than an actual White House briefing. Someone told him in a phone call or a cable show carried it and here we are.

I'd like to imagine him scrolling the news at 5 am on his phone in a bathrobe and then firing off tweets but he's probably too old to learn that stuff.

[The_Doctor]

Pete, you seem to be mixing up politics and evidence. Just who is popular with Trump fans and/or enablers, and who is not, does not seem to have any nexus, as to who is more creditable as to the current lay of the land as to the gravitas of Trump's so far undocumented allegations. And Trump has a track record of never letting accuracy get in the way of generating buzz, so that he dominates the news cycle, particularly if there is another cycle in play (like the Sessions fiasco), that he wants to get off the front page.

Also any investigation of Trump would need a sign off from FBI Director James Comey, who voted Romney in 2012 and is a registered Republican. If there was in fact an investigation of Trump it came with Comey authorising the wiretap request before a federal judge. Given Comey; a role in 2016 he wouldn't have ever made that judgment unless he could justify it before Congress.

In short: either there's a smoking gun and Comey knows it in which case Trump is in trouble or there's nothing as Tom Cotton acknowledges.

[The_Doctor]

1. Why is Nunes behaving so weirdly? It's almost like he's trying to get kicked off the Committee. Or he's compromised so badly he can only behave bizarrely. He certainly understands that his behavior will be part of the historical record ... And he knows his behavior is getting widespread condemnation. Does he genuinely expect to run out the clock?

2. The Sally Yates not testifying seems weird too.  She's gonna spill the beans. But combined with the Boris Epshteyn thing I begin to wonder, especially with the foreign influences from Europe in the White House that may have links to Russia.