Talk about protesting too much

  I am trying for patience in 2018, but the pudgy guy with the cheap Chinese neckties could convulse tortoise. There he was last night, with the pleasant  prime minister of Norway, throwing  one of his temper tantrums live, without his Twitter-tweeter.  I checked this morning to make sure I had seen it  and wasn't fooled by  a bit of underdone beef while I slept.
  CNN counted seven uses of "no collusion," and one of "nobody's found any collusion" in a  2-minute non-answer to a question by John Roberts of Fox at the joint press conference. (The question was about whether Trump would meet with the special counsel. After he finished his tantrum we still don't know.)
  "No collusion" refers to Russia, of course. I'll put the full text under the jump break, but here I have to say that -- contrary to what the president said on national television -- no one but he and a handful of toadies who need him to be as real as Tinkerbell has concluded there was no collusion. The failure of people like Gen. Flinn and Attorney General Jefferson Beauregard Sessions III to remember talking to high level Russians during the time for collusion is suggestive. And, in fact, we know from George Papadopoulos's guilty plea and the emails Donald Jr. released that campaign officials tried to collude.
 It could be that they are no better at collusion than they are at making America great again. But that would not necessarily be from lack of trying.

Anyway, here is the tantrum in full:

"Well, again John, there has been no collusion between the Trump campaign and Russians or Trump and Russians. No collusion. When I watch you interviewing all the people leaving their committees, I mean, the Democrats are all running for office, trying to say this that -- but bottom line, they all say there's no collusion. And there is no collusion.

"And when you talk about interviews, Hillary Clinton had an interview, where she wasn't sworn in, she wasn't given the oath, they didn't take notes, they didn't record and it was done on the 4th of July weekend. That's perhaps ridiculous and a lot of people looked upon that as being a very serious breach and it really was.

"But again I'll speak to attorneys -- I can only say this, there was absolutely no collusion. Everybody knows it. Every committee -- I've been in office now for 11 months. For 11 months, they've had this phony cloud over this administration, over our government. And it has hurt our government. It does hurt our government. It's a Democrat hoax that was brought up as an excuse for losing an election that frankly the Democrats should have won because they have such a tremendous advantage in the electoral college.

"So it was brought up for that reason. But it has been determined that there is no collusion and by virtually everybody. So we'll see what happens. We'll see what happens. I mean certainly we'll see what happens -- when they have no collusion and nobody's found any collusion at any level it seems unlikely that you'd even have an interview."

  

 Does anybody but an 11-year-old who is off his Ritalin talk like that?

 Trump misspoke about there having been no notes at Hillary Clinton's 4rth of July interview. There were notes. I'll bet Prime Minister Erna Solberg left with a lot of stories to tell on cold winter nights this year.