Trump's SOTU attacks on investigations look like a desperate Hail Mary to escape political doom

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BRAD REED 06 FEB 2019 AT 08:53 ET

The most memorable line from President Donald Trump’s State of the Union address was his warning to Democrats that he would not work with them on legislation unless they agreed to drop investigations into his administration.

“If there is going to be peace and legislation, there cannot be war and investigation,” the president said on Tuesday. “It just doesn’t work that way!”

So far, it looks like many Democrats and other political observers are laughing off Trump’s warning as a desperate Hail Mary pass to avoid meeting his political doom.

MSNBC’s Steve Benen, for instance, observes that the president’s decision to attack investigations in his State of the Union shows that “Donald Trump is afraid of what investigations might produce.”

Senate minority leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) literally laughed off Trump’s warning during a CNN appearance on Wednesday.

“He’s scared — he’s got something to hide!” Schumer told CNN’s John Berman. “Because if he had nothing to hide, he’d just shrug his shoulders and let these investigations go forward.”

https://www.rawstory.com/2019/02/trumps-sotu-attacks-investigations-look-like-desperate-hail-mary-escape-political-doom/

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1. he lives in the foxnews bubble, and with that, it plays to the right-wing martyr complex.

they just love the whole "i'm being treated so unfairly" concept, no matter how completely ludicrous the claim is.

yeah, poor white people get treated so unfairly because of the color of their skin, and donnie gets treated so unfairly by being allowed to be president and break treaties and grift from the treasury after having cheated and lied and broken who knows how many laws.

*and after having called for hillary to be locked up for who knows what reason.*

poor donnie, it's so unfair for him and the crooks he surrounds himself with to be investigated.

and so partisan, for him to be investigated by a prosecutor who is, err, uh, also republican....

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2. Yeah the fat turd spends all day watching Fox & Friends while inhaling Big Macs

in between rounds of golf at his own courses staffed with undocumented immigrants.