When the national media repeat the same thing over and over again and you wonder why you’re not getting the point they’re making, do not adjust your TV sets. This is how it works all the time.
Journalists are now saying it’s suspicious that President Trump showed interest last year when then-FBI Director James Comey told him there was an unsubstantiated rumor that he had watched prostitutes urinate on a Russian hotel bed in 2013 and that there were recordings.
Comey said this week during his book tour (otherwise known to Comey as “the Second Coming”) that when he told then-President-elect Trump last year about the dossier and its most shocking claim regarding the prostitutes, Trump repeatedly denied it.
He said that Trump called him days later, after BuzzFeed published the dossier, to again deny the charge about the prostitutes. “He launched into an explanation as to how I should know that wasn’t true and that he remembered now, from talking to friends who had been with him, that he’d never stayed overnight at the hotel, he’d just changed clothes there and went to the Miss Universe pageant,” Comey said in his interview on ABC last Sunday.
He said that the two met toward the end of January for dinner at the White House, where Trump brought up the prostitutes a third time. “He brings it up and says he may want me to investigate it to prove that it didn’t happen.”
When a person is guilty of something they don’t want to admit, they don’t typically invite more scrutiny, as Trump would have done in suggesting Comey investigate the prostitute claim further.
But the media have treated Comey’s comments on the matter like they discovered a guilty conscience.
Daily Beast politics editor Sam Stein tweeted Friday that, “Sometimes it’s worth stepping back and just noting how remarkable it is that weeks into becoming president — with immense world challenges now suddenly at his feet — Donald Trump seemed obsessed about the idea he’d been caught with hookers.”
Yes, Trump was “obsessed” because he was preoccupied with thoughts about prostitutes in his conversations with Comey, a man who on their first encounter — immediately brought up prostitutes!
Friday on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” Jon Heilemann yelled on set that Trump had an “obsession with the dossier” and “the question of hookers, the question of particular behavior by hookers.”
Liberal New York Times writer Michelle Goldberg wrote Monday on Trump’s “obsession with the rumored tape, which he brought up with Comey again and again …”
If there’s an obsession here, it isn’t Trump’s, who had every right to ask about the very thing Comey had told him about at the top of their first one-on-one meeting.
And again, why would Trump invite Comey to investigate it if he were nervous about it being true?
This would be like Al Sharpton urging the IRS to go through his books one more time.
There is still no evidence that the rumored prostitute incident ever happened, and the media logic behind Trump showing concern over it is stupid.
Receiving far less attention in Comey’s interview with ABC and others is that he described Trump as having “above average intelligence.”
That’s an interesting comment coming from one of Trump’s biggest critics, particularly after the first quarter of the year in which Michael Wolff and his enablers in the press falsely alerted everyone that the president is in steep mental decline (as documented in my book Fraud and Fiction).
The conversation instead centers on why Trump, having just been elected, could have possibly been bothered by his FBI director letting him know about allegations he had watched prostitutes defile a hotel bed.
That’s not a guilty conscience. It’s just how the media operate.
