
On Friday, special counsel Robert Mueller is scheduled to file new information in the court cases against President Donald Trump's former campaign manager Paul Manafort and attorney Michael Cohen.
And Trump is not taking it well.
Ahead of the new court filings, Trump posted an epic, meandering rant on Twitter that essentially named off every scapegoat vilified on Fox News over the last two years:
Robert Mueller and Leakin’ Lyin’ James Comey are Best Friends, just one of many Mueller Conflicts of Interest. And bye the way, wasn’t the woman in charge of prosecuting Jerome Corsi (who I do not know) in charge of “legal” at the corrupt Clinton Foundation? A total Witch Hunt...
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) December 7, 2018
....Will Robert Mueller’s big time conflicts of interest be listed at the top of his Republicans only Report. Will Andrew Weissman’s horrible and vicious prosecutorial past be listed in the Report. He wrongly destroyed people’s lives, took down great companies, only to be........
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) December 7, 2018
.....overturned, 9-0, in the United States Supreme Court. Doing same thing to people now. Will all of the substantial & many contributions made by the 17 Angry Democrats to the Campaign of Crooked Hillary be listed in top of Report. Will the people that worked for the Clinton....
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) December 7, 2018
....Foundation be listed at the top of the Report? Will the scathing document written about Lyin’ James Comey, by the man in charge of the case, Rod Rosenstein (who also signed the FISA Warrant), be a big part of the Report? Isn’t Rod therefore totally conflicted? Will all of....
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) December 7, 2018
...the lying and leaking by the people doing the Report, & also Bruce Ohr (and his lovely wife Molly), Comey, Brennan, Clapper, & all of the many fired people of the FBI, be listed in the Report? Will the corruption within the DNC & Clinton Campaign be exposed?..And so much more!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) December 7, 2018
There is quite a bit to unpack here, from the fact that Trump is praising Enron — which famously manipulated energy prices and defrauded shareholders — as a "great company," to the fact that it is not a conflict of interest for Mueller to have worked with James Comey or for his prosecutors to have made political contributions, to the fact that Trump does, in fact, know Jerome Corsi (and has a joint legal defense agreement with him), to the fact that Bruce Ohr's wife is named Nellie, not Molly, to the fact that the entire rant is basically just an endless stream of whataboutist distractions.
But Trump clearly has reason to be worried. The special counsel investigation has in recent weeks appeared to be gathering steam, with evidence mounting that Trump strategist Roger Stone had indirect ties to the Russian hack of Democratic emails, Cohen testifying that Trump pursued a real estate deal with Russian President Vladimir Putin during the presidential campaign, and the revelation that former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn has been of "substantial assistance" to Mueller.
No matter how many times Trump complains he is the victim of a "witch hunt," the truth will eventually come out.
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