A barn rather than Comey?
On Thursday morning, James Comey, former director of the FBI, testified under oath at a Senate hearing about the president of the Untied States, and your headline the following day involved Consol Energy and a barn? Am I missing something here?
What happened Thursday was unprecedented in American history, and we’re treated to a lead story about a barn?
In the testimony, we were told that the director of the FBI considered that he should take detailed notes of his interactions with President Trump, because in his evaluation, the president might very well lie about things.
Then we are told by Paul Ryan, the speaker of the House, that poor President Trump was just naive about Washington ways of doing things, because of his lack of experience in government. But it was that very lack of experience in government that was touted as his best selling point, because he had business experience, which was much better.
So tell me something: If you’re going to take a long international flight, who would you want in the cockpit? Someone with a few hours on a Piper Cub, or Sully Sullenberger?
Is Ryan seriously offering naivete as a defense for Trump, who, all along, has bragged about knowing so much more than anyone else, and being so much more competent than anyone else? Now, all of a sudden, he’s naive? What does it say for Ryan’s cynicism that he would offer this as a defense, and what would it say if he actually believed it? And how much worse if he knew better?
Meanwhile, Trump proclaims that the testimony “completely exonerates me.” Hardly. At that time, he was not under investigation. He is now the subject of an investigation that is going to make a complete colonoscopy look like a fully-clothed once-over.
“I didn’t know the gun was loaded” isn’t going to work as a defense, either.
Carole McIntyre
Waynesburg