.....biggest test of his presidency emboldened, ready to claim exoneration, and take his case of grievance, persecution and resentment to the campaign trail.” Peter Baker @nytimes The Greatest Witch Hunt In American History!— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) February 15, 2020
Leave it to Trump to Tweet this, being flattered by the comparison of himself to a king, but not actually seeing the problems with "his case of grievance, persecution and resentment".
We don't have "kings" and the state is not him. The energies he has invested in fighting his "persecution" have all taken the form of various kinds of obstruction of justice, fighting against granting witnesses and giving over documents, interfering with and removing parties who were trying to get at, not him individually as a person, but at the truth. The reason he has viewed this as being about people out to get him, individually, could be seen as a function of his narcissism--everything is about him! But on the more obvious level, the degree of opposition he has taken to fight people, is because the law had him cold. The law would have won--people fail. It's something dictators figure out, and that is why they act the way they do.
The word he is not flattered by in the piece is "stained". Trump wants to view his reputation as trashed by other people, as he drags himself and the country through his muck. And there are still miles of filthy road ahead so long as he persists.
UPDATE: By way of example,
NEW: DOJ decision to drop McCabe probe came on deadline to release docs in related #FOIA case. They show the judge said he feared Trump comments about McCabe prosecution were turning US into a 'banana republic.' More: https://t.co/CIYsmOpwG5
— Josh Gerstein (@joshgerstein) February 14, 2020
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