From Shaun Mullen at The Moderate Voice:
If the facts are against you, argue the law.
If the law is against you, argue the facts.
If the law and the facts are against you,
pound the table and yell like hell. ~ CARL SANDBURG
Even with compelling evidence of collusion between the Trump campaign and the Kremlin hiding in plain sight, it was inevitable that the congressional investigations into the Russia scandal would descend into mudslinging as conservative Republican calls for Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s firing reach a fever pitch, giving the president an opening to again play his favorite responsibility ducking go-free card — what appears to be true is false and what is false is true — for perhaps the highest stakes of all. That would be preserving his feeble and endangered presidency.
What is so frightening is that this Orwellian subterfuge might work.