Eric Trump Says Russia Probe Unfair: ‘You See The Crimes That Other People Get Away With’
In the latest installment of let’s talk about anything that’s not the Russia probe, Fox & Friends trotted out Eric Trump to offer his take about the comings and goings of Washington.
Eric was on hand to debrief the usual crew on his experience traveling with President Trump to a rally in Youngstown, Ohio yesterday.
Show co-anchor Steve Doocy, however, struck a serious tone by asking the first son about his father’s growing war with Attorney General Beleaguered Jeff Sessions.
“The President, your dad, has made it very clear in the last 36 hours, he is very disappointed with Jeff Sessions, that he recused himself,” said Doocy. “Also very disappointed that he has not been going after the leakers.”
He then trumpeted a Fox News alert saying that Sessions was planning to announce new leak investigations — with the clear implications that Trump’s constant broadsides were having an effect.
The younger Trump artfully dodged the feud between his father and Sessions and instead moved into the virile whataboutism that Fox & Friends has become known for.
In response to the the Russia scandal which has now largely enveloped his dad’s administration and entire legislative agenda, Eric Trump offered — Loretta Lynch.
But of course! That is who Americans should be talking about.
The younger Trump said it was outrageous the Obama-era Attorney General had not been subpoenaed to testify herself — and also did a fair bit of whining about other people’s crimes.
“It’s disheartening for me to watch the pile on to him with nonsense Russia investigations. There’s nothing there… it is the greatest witch hunt of all time and then you see the crimes that other people get away with,” Trump whined. “You look at Loretta Lynch. She hasn’t even been subpoenaed. How has Loretta Lynch not been subpoenaed. Where is she. Where are all these enraged Senators.”
The “crime” Trump was referring to was a chance meeting between Lynch and Bill Clinton at an airport during the 2016 campaign, while Hillary Clinton was under investigation by the FBI. She was ultimately cleared of criminal wrongdoing in that probe by James Comey — a man whose very public quest for justice likely helped throw the election to the elder Trump last year.
Of course, if people are not investigating the crimes of Obama and Clinon-era officials, the blame for that would seem to lay with the current Department of Justice — led by Jeff Sessions — and the President of the United States, Donald Trump.
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