Hypocrite of the Day: Trey Gowdy

So, the House of Representatives is grilling Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, in hopes that they can cite him for contempt of Congress. They seek information about the Special Counsel investigation which, knowing them, they would pass on to the White House.

So, Trey Gowdy says to Rod Rosenstein, "Whatever you got, finish it the hell up, because this country is being torn apart."

That is correct. Trey Gowdy, leader of endless (and fruitless) investigations of Hillary Clinton, wants the Department of Justice to hurry up.

Some other rather puzzling demands: "If you have evidence of wrongdoing by any member of the Trump campaign, present it to the damn grand jury." Well, um, Trey, judging from the multiple indictments so far, I think the Department of Justice is way ahead of you on that.

And: "If you have evidence that this president acted inappropriately, present it to the American people."

"This president" acts so inappropriately so often and so publicly, the American people hardly need that pointed out to them.

The President* needs to be put into a padded cell.

Today, Donald Trump made a speech to the National Federation of Independent Businesses. Over at Daily Kos, writer Mark Sumner rightly called the speech the "undisguised rant of a dictator."

The speech, added to the Trump Regime's policy of separating families of immigrants at the border, also reveal the president* to be criminally insane.

Some excerpts:

These countries that we give tremendous foreign aid to in many cases, they send these people up & they're not sending their finest. Does that sound familiar? Remember I made that speech and I was badly criticized? Turns out I was 100% right and that's why I got elected.

Every new group of immigrants constitutes a Mariel boatlift in his diseased mind.

Crooked Hilary Clinton is questioning that statistic [Germany's crime rate]. She says 'it's not true, it's not true.’ Didn't she already have her chance? 

So, she lost the election, and she's not allowed to speak? Is that how he thinks things work?

You say ‘Welcome to America, welcome to our country ...’ You never get them out! Because they take their name. They bring their name down, they file it. Then they let the person go. They say, ‘Show back up to court in one year from now.’ One year! But here’s the thing. That in itself is ridiculous. Like three percent come back.

That, along with all the other statistics he cites, comes exclusively from his imagination. It is not true anyplace else in the real world.

We need Democrats' support. They don’t want to give it, because Democrats love open borders — let the whole world come in. The whole world! MS-13! Gang members from all over the place. Come on in, we have open borders.

Trump thinks, quite literally, that he needs to act based on the fantasies in his mind, and also that, because he won the election, his "facts" are correct, and those of his critics (Crooked Hillary's, being the primary example) have to be wrong because their side lost.

We truly need to send an ambulance to the White House, so that men in straitjackets can take him away.