How the Trump Transition Team Tumbled Down the Rabbit Hole
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“The trial cannot proceed,’ said the King in a very grave voice, “until all the jurymen are back in their proper places — all.”
It seems like each time we blink an eye we seem to tumble further down the rabbit hole.
The latest topsy-turvy tableau pictures lawyers representing the Trump transition team accusing Special Counsel Robert Mueller of unlawfully obtaining thousands of emails as part of his Russian election meddling probe.
What? This accusation would be akin to knocking over the jury box and putting the lizard in head downward as described in the fantastic tale of Alice in Wonderland, however, it is, after all the Trump transition team, fantastic in and of itself as they struggle to serve their king.
“…..and she jumped up in such a hurry that she tipped over the jury-box with the edge of her skirt, upsetting all the jurymen on to the heads of the crowd below, and there they lay sprawling about…”
Mueller’s team is trying to find out who helped the Russians elect Donald Trump. In the White House, of course, that didn’t actually happen, at least in the off-kilter world which could only be found at the bottom of Lewis Carroll’s rabbit hole.
“There’s more evidence to come yet, please your Majesty,’ said the White Rabbit, jumping up in a great hurry; ‘this paper has just been picked up.’
The attorneys sent a letter to Congress alleging Mueller has run afoul of both attorney-client privilege and the Fourth Amendment’s restrictions on search and seizure. Citing the constitution in Trumpland is at the least ironic, and, at the most fantastical.
The emails in question were obtained from the General Services Administration (GSA), which the letter says “did not own or control the records” but handed them over to Mueller anyway.
Mueller’s office denied any wrongdoing, stating it has always “secured either the account owner’s consent or appropriate criminal process” in accessing emails for the investigation.
The GSA said the transition team was informed there was no expectation of privacy for these records. That fact, of course, was little more than an inconvenience in Trumpland.
‘I’m not a mile high,’ said Alice.
‘You are,’ said the King.
‘Nearly two miles high,’ added the Queen.
‘Well, I shan’t go, at any rate,’ said Alice: ‘besides, that’s not a regular rule: you invented it just now.’
‘It’s the oldest rule in the book,’ said the King.
‘Then it ought to be Number One,’ said Alice.
The King turned pale and shut his note-book hastily. ‘Consider your verdict.’ he said to the jury, in a low, trembling voice.
Many thanks to the immortal Lewis Carroll and my apologies for using his words so liberally in the pursuit of truth in Trumpland.
Related: In twisted Trump World we couldn’t convict today of being Sunday.
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The Red Queen, the March Hare and the Mad hatter. This Bill makes me richer, this one makes you poor. . .
We, the people, are the oysters:
“The time has come,” the Walrus said,
“To talk of many things:
Of shoes–and ships–and sealing-wax–
Of cabbages–and kings–
And why the sea is boiling hot–
And whether pigs have wings.”
Good analogy Mike but I think Trump world is madder than the Red Queen.
I think you might be right Caroline and that’s freaking scary.
Listening to a collection of clips from Fox this morning, I’m suddenly and seriously afraid. They are actually fomenting revolution – demanding that law enforcement in America be decapitated and reconstituted as the right arm of Trump. Not only are they smearing and slandering Mueller and the entire 37,000 FBI employees with invented and contrived and false arguments, but linking them together as “Hillary Lovers” as though these are not mostly very conservative, professional and patriotic people because of whom we still have a mostly free country.
But not for long, not for long. Right now he couldn’t be re-elected and now that his much vaunted “agenda” is proved to be nothing but raw ambition and contempt for Democracy, he needs to and will try to make sure he doesn’t need to run again. If the declaration that his opponents and their ability to check his power are criminal insurgents isn’t enough, he will be forced to declare war, either through his rigged congress or through some contrived necessity before any Democratic gains are possible.
It’s a hard rain gonna fall America and the clouds have already blotted out the sun.
Yes. It’s a hard rain and it’s not on the weather horizon, it is here. Each day brings more horror and there appears, at least not until 2018, we can do nothing about it. This should scare everyone. It scares me.