President Trump Very Kindly Defends 'Crazy Bernie Sanders'

From Esquire

Today in presidential concern-trolling: President Trump feigns outrage over what happened in the Democratic primary in order to discuss something other than Russia, or healthcare, or Russian healthcare. In a tweet at precisely 8 a.m. (is he sleeping in?), the president expressed grave concern about collusion. But it wasn't collusion with a foreign power, which his associates have been under investigation for by the Justice Department since last July. It was collusion between far more nefarious enemies: Hillary Clinton and the Democratic National Committee.

Is a presidential candidate allowed to collude with her own political party? Let's whip out the legal textbooks. And while we're at it, let's keep an eye on collusion elsewhere in America. After all, many people are saying Aaron Judge is colluding with the Yankees to win baseball games.

Trump is touching on something real here-the party's Berniecrat wing have accused the DNC of putting a thumb on the scales during the primary, and there's some evidence to support that-but his obvious attempt, by using the term "collude," to equate Clinton's maneuvering with that of, say, Michael Flynn, is absurd. He cares about as much about the DNC's fairness toward "Crazy Bernie Sanders" as he does about how fairly James Comey conducted his investigation of Hillary Clinton's emails-which is to say, not at all. And in both cases, Trump has tried to use concern trolling as an actual justification for serious legal issues, because the Internet is now gushing into our three-dimensional lives and drowning us all in the ironic and the absurd.

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