So, anytime you get a tweet from the president that starts with the words,
"I hereby demand," you get nervous.
And when the "hereby demand" involves the Justice Department, you get really nervous.
In Trump world's scenario, the FBI, full of a bunch of political partisans
who were motivated against Donald Trump,
infiltrated the Trump campaign in a way that was designed to hurt candidate Trump.
But they weren't actually competent enough to infiltrate the Trump
campaign in a way that prevented Trump from becoming president.
So they're both conspirators and bunglers.
There are always two possible explanations for Trump behavior, and particularly for Trump tweets.
One theory of the case is this is all a very calculated effort
to distract us from something else that's going on.
And the other theory is this is just the president who is so frustrated and it
boils up in him and his way of relieving that frustration and lashing out is
go to the Twitter machine and get it all out there.
Right before this tweet storm, here's what happened.
The New York Times posted a story that described
yet another meeting by Donald Trump Jr. with yet another representative of a foreign government,
who expressed a desire, according to this report, to see Donald Trump elected.
I do think it is certainly not a coincidence that this story happened just before we saw this tweet storm.
If Trump gives an order to Rosenstein that says open up a criminal investigation,
even though there's no basis for a criminal investigation, he should refuse that order.
And, if necessary, he should resign.
But the goal isn't to have a fight with the president.
The goal is to keep yourself in the position, if you're Rod Rosenstein,
to kind of serve as a shield to allow Bob Mueller to do his job.
And if you need to ask the inspector general take a look at something to placate the president,
that seems to me to be the better path to go.
So I think he did a pretty smart thing here.
Whether that's going to be enough, we'll find out.
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