memo, a tenured faculty member at berkeley just chilling. goes on cable news. teaches. hey. and there is a direct line between that lack of accountability, and the world that we find ourselves in, now. i mean, yes, donald trump was impeached twice. and yet, he sits at mar-a-lago giving interviews where he sounds like a person, entirely and completely, fixated on upending american democracy. having tried and failed, once already. like, he s focused. he knows what he wants to do, again. they they tested out all the weak parts in the fence. they re going to come for the fence, again. yes, he is still being investigated by the manhattan district attorney. but the dude tried to foment a coup six months ago. i don t know what to tell you. that s what is waiting in the wings. that s what is being hatched. it s being plotted obviously in front of all our faces. listen to what the man says. and as dan o brien and norm eisen right in the new york times, those at the top, who encouraged incit
the sole purpose of giving matt whitaker an affiliation to put under his name when goes on cable news shows and right-wing radio, to be a full-time anti-hillary clinton, anti-robert mueller pundit. over the course of this afternoon and into this evening, what has started to emerge is his extensive record of public criticism, public attacks on the mueller investigation the president has now put him in charge of. the special counsel s investigation led by robert mueller into russian interference in the 2016 presidential election and the question of whether the trump campaign colluded in that attack. mr. whittaker has just been installed directly by president trump to oversee that investigation. mr. whitaker quite clearly is a person who has already made up his mind about the key questions at the heart of that investigation. i think we would know if there was a smoking gun, or any gun, or any smoke. i think we would know. i think we would know if there was evidence suggesting that there