The dumpster fire rages.

Salon had this today on our President being interviewed by a talk show yesterday.  He was asked about his claim that Obama had wiretapped him:

Things got heated on Sunday when John Dickerson of CBS’s “Face the Nation” broached the subject.
After asking whether Trump stood by his claim, the president replied “I don’t stand by anything. I just — you can take it the way you want. I think our side’s been proven very strongly. And everybody’s talking about it. And frankly it should be discussed. I think that is a very big surveillance of our citizens. I think it’s a very big topic. And it’s a topic that should be number one. And we should find out what the hell is going on.”

As Dickerson pressed him on the subject, Trump became increasingly irate.  At one point Dickerson observed that Trump shouldn’t want his claim to be dismissed as “fake news,” prompting the president to reply, “You don’t have to ask me. You don’t have to ask me.”
When Dickerson asked why, the president shot back, “Because I have my own opinions. You can have your own opinions.”
After Dickerson pointed out that Trump’s opinions carry more weight because he is the President of the United States, Trump simply replied, “Okay, it’s enough. Thank you. Thank you very much.”
In the original tweets, Trump accused Obama of “McCarthyism” by wiretapping Trump Tower. He also referred to him as a “bad (or sick) guy!”

Without any evidence whatsoever, he thinks his side has been "proven very strongly."

“When you get zero from the other side —"

“When you get zero from the other side — they let us down because they’re hurting the people,” Mr. Trump said.  Where has this man been the last eight years?  oh, the irony...........

Donald Trump and the power of imagination

This is our president's explanation from yesterday as to how he found out he was wiretapped by that Kenyan Muslim guy, Barak Obama:

Trump: Well, I’ve been reading about things. I read in, I think it was Jan. 20^th, a New York Times article where they were talking about wiretapping. There was an article. I think they used that exact term. I read other things. I watched your friend Bret Baier the day previous where he was talking about certain very complex sets of things happening, and wiretapping. I said, wait a minute, there’s a lot of wiretapping being talked about. I’ve been seeing a lot of things. Now, for the most part, I’m not going to discuss it, because we have it before the committee and we will be submitting things before the committee very soon that hasn’t been submitted as of yet. But it’s potentially a very serious situation.

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Carlson: Why not wait to tweet about it until you can prove it? Don’t you devalue your words when you can’t provide evidence?

Trump: Well, because the New York Times wrote about it. Not that I respect the New York Times. I call it the failing New York Times. But they did write on Jan. 20th using the word wiretap. Other people have come out with…

Carlson: Right, but you’re the president. You have the ability to gather all the evidence you want.

Trump: I do. I do. But I think that frankly we have a lot right now. And I think if you watch—if you watched the Bret Baier and what he was saying and what he was talking about and how he mentioned the word “wiretap,” you would feel very confident that you could mention the name. He mentioned it. And other people have mentioned it. But if you take a look at some of the things written about wiretapping and eavesdropping… and don’t forget I say wiretapping, those words were in quotes. That really covers—because wiretapping is pretty old-fashioned stuff—but that really covers surveillance and many other things. And nobody ever talks about the fact that it was in quotes, but that’s a very important thing. But wire tape covers a lot of different things. I think you’re going to find some very interesting items coming to the forefront over the next two weeks.

Syndicated columnist Mark Shields on the Newshour last Friday told a story about the value of presidential credibility.  He said that during the Cuban missile crisis President Kennedy sent his secretary of state to France to drum up international support for a blockade.  Dean Rusk ? tells Charles Degaulle about the U2 photos of the missile sites and says that he's authorized to show him the secret pictures.  Charles Degaulle says he doesn't need  to look at them because he believes Kennedy.
Can you imagine if it were Trump instead?  No matter what you think of his performance on the job, it is without question that Donald Trump has zero credibility.  None.

that's why she had to be corrected

“She was warned. She was given an explanation. Nevertheless, she persisted”