Donald Trump is apparently refusing to release the Democratic rebuttal to the Nunes memo. The Nunes memo was supposed to totally discredit the Mueller investigation into Russian interference in our 2016 election, but failed pathetically. The notion of that memo was that the investigation was based upon former MI5 intelligence officer Steel's dosier, which was paid for by the Hillary campaign, was actually initiated by anti-Trump conservatives during the primary season. But, the memo itself recounted that the investigation had started earlier when Trump foreign policy advisor George Papadopoulos drunkenly told an Australian diplomat that the Russians had dirt on Hillary. That diplomat was so distressed at the interference into the U.S. election process that they informed U.S. intelligence. And the investigation began into Russian interference.
So - Nunes memo - dud.
The outraged Democrats claimed that the Nunes memo was cherry picked and distorted and just a political hit job to protect Trump. So, they called for a vote to release a Democratic memo rebuttal. Trump won't release it. Why? Forget the silly, transparent excuses. It is obvious why. Trump wants only one story out there, his story that the Mueller probe is a political hit job against him.
An innocent president would have immediately been outraged when all 14 intelligence agencies concluded that a hostile foreign power, Russia, had interfered with the American election. An innocent president would have done everything in his or her power to investigate the Russian interference and prosecute the guilty regardless of who would fall. An innocent president would have put in place a very formidable governmental effort to stop them from doing it again, and from doing it now - which they are doing now.
A guilty president would have denied that there was any interference from the Russians. A guilty president would have done everything he could to stop the investigation into Russian interference. A guilty president would have obstructed justice by firing the head of the FBI in charge of that investigation. A guilty president would have the same party committee chairman issue a false memo to invalidate the investigation. A guilty president would fire the man at the FBI that is in charge of the Mueller investigation. A guilty president would fire Mueller.
A guilty president would force his own impeachment.
