President Donald Trump’s massive Twitter tantrum on Saturday morning drew a brutal response from Naval War College professor Tom Nichols.
In a meltdown responding to reports revealing the FBI opened an investigation into him out of suspicion that he is working for Russia after he fired former FBI Director James Comey in May 2017, Trump lashed out at the New York Times, Comey, Hillary Clinton and Special Counsel Robert Mueller before insisting that he has been “tougher on Russia” than past presidents.
Nichols, an expert on Russia and a noted conservative, wasted no time in debunking Trump’s claim that he’s somehow tough on Russia.
I am going to leave any partisan feeling aside and fact-check this one statement as an expert.
Wrong.
That is all. https://t.co/5JO7JQZ6DY
— Tom Nichols (@RadioFreeTom) January 12, 2019
Nichols then ridiculed Trump’s pathetic tirade, comparing him to a dictator under siege in a banana republic.
This is the kind of speech you give in Spanish in the early 1950s into a tinny microphone with the crackle and static of a fading kerosene generator and the sound of shouting and gunfire in the background approaching the presidential palace. https://t.co/DltdXyvyz2
— Tom Nichols (@RadioFreeTom) January 12, 2019
The professor also weighed in on Trump’s attack against the Washington Post for reporting that the White House is in chaos as the government shutdown drags on into it’s 22nd day, which is a record.
Yeah, this is the kind of tweet that totally convinces people there’s no chaos at the White House.
This is the part where the smarter people at the New Year’s Eve party start heading for the exits and commandeering jeeps to the airport. https://t.co/5w6aLg2PSt
— Tom Nichols (@RadioFreeTom) January 12, 2019
Nichols has been a frequent critic of Trump, most recently slamming him for repeatedly insulting our military leaders in a column for The Atlantic in which he wrote:
“It is fundamentally anti-American to disparage the courage and ability of senior military leaders merely because they are exercising their First Amendment rights on return to civilian life…No modern president has been so reckless in his criticism of both active and retired military professionals.”
Clearly, Trump knows that the rule of law is closing in on him, so he is panicking and throwing tantrums in a desperate and pathetic effort to undermine our legal system and institutions in order to evade justice. That kind of behavior may work in a banana republic but it’s not working here.
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