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Democrats’ desperation is showing, commentator Charles Krauthammer said Friday, noting that Democrats are straying farther and farther from common sense with each new round of allegations against President Donald Trump.
Democrats are now claiming that Trump committed witness intimidation by raising the subject of “tapes” in a tweet aimed at former FBI Director James Comey.
“The idea that this is intimidation of a witness is pure rubbish. If you say to somebody, ‘You’ve got a great family, hate to see anything happen to your kids, watch what you say,’ that’s intimidation of a witness,” Krauthammer said.
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What Trump did, Krauthammer said, was very different.
“If you say, ‘There may be a way to actually — to figure out exactly what was said, there could be a mechanism, thus you ought to watch what you say.’ That’s not intimidation at all,” he said.
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“We’re now at sort of the tertiary level of accusation,” Krauthammer said as he recounted the Democrats’ lack of success in getting any of their claims against Trump to be born out by the facts.
“You can’t get anywhere on collusion. We have yet in almost a year to have any evidence of collusion. So they’re on to obstruction. Obstruction is really kind of shaky. There isn’t really that much there. So now you want to go to intimidation of a witness,” he said.
Krauthammer said the need for something to use against Trump is making the Democrats leave good sense behind.
“They’re getting a bit desperate. This is going to happen. This will go on for months and years perhaps, but it’s getting more and more absurd,” he said.
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However, if Democrats want to send the time between now and the mid-term elections making claims that never stick, it is their problem, Krauthammer said.
“It’s tail chasing, and if the Democrats want to spend the next year, year-and-a-half in a rabbit hole, be our guest,” he said.
Writing on Young Conservatives, Mary Kate Knorr seconded Krauthammer’s comments.
“Democrats’ obsession with incriminating and impeaching Trump is a diversion that distracts from the fact they have no momentum, no agenda, and no realistic or scalable goals for the foreseeable future,” she wrote.
“Their clinging to the ‘resistance’ — even if only in their actions and not necessarily in their messaging — is a showcase of their total lack of direction or vision for a future Democratic party of the United States of America,” she added.
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