This is typical of Trump, and he did it quite often as President. He thinks he is being clever when he attempts to have it both ways.
In the end, though, he looks like a fool because he immediately contradicts what he just said.
First, a pathetic attempt at a mea culpa for stealing Top Secret documents when he left the White House.
The Hill reports, "Former President
Trump on Monday said his aides have reached out to the Department of Justice (DOJ) to offer “whatever we can do to help,” saying the “temperature has to be brought down” after a spike in threats against law enforcement following the FBI’s search of his Mar-a-Lago estate.
“Whatever we can do to help — because the temperature has to be brought down in the country,” Trump
told Fox News. “If it isn’t, terrible things are going to happen.”
However, he then repeated attacks on the FBI over the search for classified documents that took place at his Florida estate last week and defended his supporters’ threats.
“People are so angry at what is taking place. They are not going to stand for another scam,” describing the FBI’s past investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election as a “witch hunt.”
The [Republican] Senate Intelligence Committee on Tuesday reaffirmed its support for the U.S. intelligence community’s conclusion that the Russian government interfered in the 2016 presidential election with the goal of putting Donald Trump in the Oval Office. https://www.politico.com/news/2020/...rms-russia-aimed-to-help-trump-in-2016-198171
Yeah, he looks like an idiot.
