OrangeVerse XLIV: Opposites Detract

The president gave an amazing amount of access to enemy of the people George Stephanopoulos of ABC News recently.  The first portion of that interview has been released, and it's the part about the Mueller investigation and collusion and foreign interference in US elections.

And, of course, it's all poetry, isn't it?

Fighting Words

Yeah, uh, my life

has always been a fight. 

And I enjoy that I guess.

I don't know if I enjoy it or not, I guess--

sometimes I have false fights

like that Russian witch hunt.

That's a false fight.
that's a made-up hoax.

Rebuffed Again

I don't know anything

about that. What difference

does polling information make?

It doesn't matter... Who knows? 
But they said specifically 
that there was nothing to do

and we, in fact, rebuffed them.

Who You Gonna Call?

...you're a Congressman, somebody 
comes up and says "Hey I have

information on your opponent."

Do you call the FBI?

You don't. I'll tell you what-

I've seen a lot of things

over my life. I don't think

in my whole life I've

ever called the FBI. 

In my whole life.

I don't -- you don't--

call the FBI...

"Oh, let me call the FBI."

Give me a break

life doesn't work that way.

Research, They Call It Research

Maybe today you think differently.

But two or three years ago if 

somebody comes into your office with

oppo research -

they call it oppo research -

with information that

might be good or bad or something

but good for you

bad for your opponent

you don't call the FBI.

Does He or Doesn't He?

Now, that's called the-- 

no, no. No, no. 

It's being investigated 

I assume now.

I don't know.

I stay uninvolved.
I stay totally uninvolved

and don't talk to...

We have a great attorney general 
now. I don't talk to 

my attorney general about that.

"Hullo? Is That You, Thor?"

I think maybe

you do both. I think

you might want to listen,

there's nothing wrong 
with listening.

If somebody called

from a country, Norway,

"we have information

on your opponent."

Oh, I think I'd want to hear it.

Pass: Interference

It's not interference,

they have information.

I think I'd take it. 

If I thought there was 
something wrong, I'd
go maybe to the FBI. 
If I thought there was 
something wrong.

But when somebody comes 
up with oppo research

right, they come 
up with oppo research.

"Oh, let's call the FBI."

But you go and talk honestly to

congressmen, they all do it

they always have.

And that's the way it is.