Joyce Vance: Blame the FBI. Blame the Justice Dept. As always, Donald Trump is willing to save himself at the expense of the public’s confidence in essential institutions.
Trump is following a familiar pattern here: When in trouble, try to win over public opinion with an excuse for, or distraction from, whatever it is you’ve done this time. It’s not important that the excuse be true; It can be something as patently false as saying you won an election you lost decisively. Trump’s penchant for the false, the divisive and the anti-democratic is his hallmark.
Trump did plenty of damage to our institutions during his four years in office, casting aspersions on any entity involved in legitimate oversight of his conduct. Now, he’s doing it again. How else to make sense of the conflicting and ludicrous stories he’s spun over the past few weeks.not only conflicts with his earlier claim material was planted, it also makes clear just how cavalier he is about the country and the people he pledged to serve. Blame the FBI. Blame the Justice Department.
The arguments Trump’s lawyers have made on his behalf in court follow the same path. They have acted as though presidential documents, which belong to the people and should remain in the custody of the National Archives, are his and due to be returned to him. What followed was predictable — the archivists, government employees who diligently keep the public record of our country
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