TPM notes a clash between an expert and a … barstool blowhard:
White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows lashed out at FBI Director Christopher Wray’s testimony to Congress in which the FBI leader rejected President Donald Trump’s bogus conspiracy theory that mail-in voting can and will lead to election fraud that would rig the election against him.
“With all due respect to Director Wray, he has a hard time finding emails in his own FBI, let alone figuring out whether there’s any kind of voter fraud,” Meadows told CBS “This Morning” anchor Anthony Mason. “This is a very different case. The rules are being changed.”
Christopher Wray: lawyer (Yale Law School), extensive government experience as a prosecutor and in national security roles. Resources: The entire fucking FBI.
Mark Meadows: Current Trump Chief of Staff; former member of the House of Representatives, representing North Carolina (7 years), no relevant experience in national security; small business owner (he ran a small restaurant, real estate development company). Resources: His fellow barstool blowhard, President Trump.
Who are you gonna believe, the guy with no experience, but blown about by political imperatives and his own ego, or the reality-grounded lawyer with scads of resources?
It’d be funny, if it wasn’t so important to get this right.
