Reacting to Donald Trump’s Wednesday press conference, where he made it clear he expects Attorney General Pam Bondi and FBI Director Kash Patel to focus their energies on pursuing his political foes, Politico’s Jonathan Martin couldn’t contain his incredulity and fury.
Appearing on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” Martin followed a rant on the same topic that a yelling co-host Joe Scarborough opened the show with.
“The scandal is in the open now. You don't have to go to a, you know, garage in Rosslyn [Virginia] to meet Deep Throat to get the scoop on what Trump is doing,” he exclaimed as he referenced Richard Nixon’s Watergate machinations that led to his downfall. “He's literally doing every day, calling some kind of a press conference or signing an EO [executive order] in the Oval Office — going off script.”
“And yesterday,” he continued. “For example, demanding investigations into people whose names he can't even recall. He says, ‘Lisa’ without her last name, ‘Weissmann,’ but not his first name, but the folks standing behind him sure as heck know who that is.”
“And they're now made to act,” he predicted. “It's all in plain view. And I think that does reduce the shock value some because it is out in the open every damn day!”