In a city of flacks, Ian Sams is prototypical. Quotable, punchy, and fast on social media, he stays ahead of the news cycle. Those traits are greatly valued by clients in this city where losing control of a narrative can allow a controversy to metastasize into a full fledge scandal. What is different is the client. Sams, a well–known Democratic operative, is not working for a Democratic campaign, but a Democratic president and speaks for the White House Counsel.
That position continues to raise eyebrows, as it did this week when Sams issued insulting and taunting postings after the House Oversight Committee asked the President to answer ten questions from its impeachment inquiry. Sams posted images of signs mocking the inquiry next to his title reading “White House spokesman for oversight and investigations. Deputy Assistant to the President & Senior Advisor to WH Counsel’s Office.”
The White House Counsel’s office has historically avoided engaging in political spin and attacks. It prides itself on representing the office of the Presidency, not the president as a person. President Biden has personal counsel to look after his interests as an individual. What is striking is that his personal counsel has shown far more circumspection and restraint in responding to such inquiries.
Sams has been previously questioned by the White House press corp over the accuracy of his statements and that fact that he is routinely cited as speaking for White House Counsel’s office on a variety of legal questions, but lacks any law degree. He was also the subject of a complaint from the head of White House press corps over his giving them “marching orders” on how to control the allegations against the President.
Sams’s statements often are long on sarcasm and short on substance. Even normally favorable outlets like CNN have noted Sams’s refusal to address specific questions while lashing out at the Special Counsel or others.
Sams has a long resume as a political staffer. He graduated from the University of Alabama with a degree in political science, where he was president of the College Democrats. He went on to work with the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee (DSCC) in Washington, D. C. as well as Democratic candidates, including but not limited to Sen. Tim Kaine (Va.), Tom Carper (Del.), and Hillary Clinton. He also worked for the Democratic National Committee in Washington, D. C.
That is an impressive resume for any flack and I do not fault Sams for his aggressive style or his clientele. Indeed, I do not even blame him for his work at the White House. I blame White House Counsel Ed Siskel, who has used Sams to materially change the role and function of his office in this corruption scandal. Siskel previously worked in the Obama Administration and was one of his students at the University of Chicago. His use of Sams has returned the office to an earlier, more partisan operation.
The White House Counsel’s office has been headed by some of Washington’s most revered legal figures from Lloyd Cutler to Boyden Gray. These were lawyers with strong Republican or Democratic alliances who were both aggressive and protective in support of their presidents. However, they maintained strict lines in offering objective (and sometimes unwelcomed) advice to presidents in the interest of their offices. They were adamant in maintaining space between the political and legal operations of the White House.
There have been White House counsels who lost that objectivity and separation to the great peril to themselves and their office. Nixon had John Ehrlichman, Chuck Colson, and John Dean — all of whom were convicted or pleaded guilty to criminal offenses.
The office under Siskel has returned to earlier models of partisan White House Counsel. The first such office holder, then called Special Counsel, was New York Judge Samuel Rosenman who made no pretense of any independent or apolitical role in working for Franklin Delano Roosevelt. He trained and was followed by Clark Clifford who was aggressively political.
Presidents have also routinely selected close friends or loyalists for the role. The office could be used as a counterfoil to the Attorney General, who often pursued conflicting institutional interests.
Yet, as the White House Counsel’s office grew, it took on greater ethical and reporting responsibilities. The culture changed to protecting the presidency as much as the president, including giving unwelcomed advice. That was the case in the final days of the Trump Administration when Pat Cipollone confronted the President on election fraud claims and actively pushed back on private counsel like Rudy Giuliani. During the impeachments, Cipollone was circumspect and restrained. He was rarely in the public eye and his office issued comparably few responses to media stories.
In past years, it was often difficult to get a statement on the record from the White House Counsel’s office, which routinely referred anything even remotely political to the Chief of Staff or the Press Secretary.
That has changed with Sams, who has issued statements from the White House Counsel’s office with the speed and the sarcasm of a DNC flack. This is often in response to requests for the legal position of the office to a major filing or legal claim.
He is unrelenting and, by all appearances, entirely unrestrained. Every day, there are Sams-I-am missives that border on the Seussian: “You do not like them. So you say. Try them! Try them! And you may. Try them and you may, I say.”
I have previously raised concerns over the role of Sams in the impeachment inquiry. In my testimony in the first Biden impeachment hearing, I noted that the Biden White House was approaching a dangerous line in pushing false claims on the corruption scandal, including repeating President Biden’s past denials that he never spoke to his son or had knowledge of his son’s foreign dealings. It can lead to the same blurred lines that led to not just the impeachment articles but the criminal charges in the Nixon Administration.
Those concerns became magnified this month when the House sent the ten questions to the President to address glaring contradictions in his past public statements. Sams immediately responded on behalf of the White House Counsel:
“LOL. Comer knows 20+ witnesses have testified that POTUS did nothing wrong. He knows that the hundreds of thousands of pages of records he’s received have refuted his false allegations. This is a sad stunt at the end of a dead impeachment. Call it a day, pal.”
Again, it is the type of posting that one would expect from the DNC, not the WHC. Yet, Siskel clearly approves of this type of taunting, sarcastic response from an office that has fought to maintain its image of professionalism and prudence.
Sams, not Siskel, is now the face of the White House Counsel’s office. That is certainly welcomed by the Biden campaign, but it is often difficult to distinguish postings between the two operations. With an impeachment inquiry in the field, that aggressive media role can produce more than favorable media articles. It can become the basis for actual impeachment articles.
This is the kind of “norms” the Democrats promised to return to the WH?
They failed.
The parallels to 1930s Germany grow with each passing day.
Upstate, our nation is in the 1930s but the world is in 1914 and that doesn’t make a great combination. Biden is a Wilson wannabe, the left are fascists shutting doen free speech and arresting political opponents all as nations are aligning on both sides as the threat from China metastasizes.
It is amazing that accountability must take so long, and seem to never come to fruition, with those who feel they are above the law. Especially since various bank records have provided specific proof of illegal activity. We have reached a point where the integrity of our entire government is compromised, and lying has become an accepted form of behavior. In any other situation those who had done this would be considered traitors to their country, and be hanging with a rope around their neck. Sometimes the old ways were the best and the swiftest.
Jonathan: It’s deja vu all over again. First, it was “Sams I am” (3/30)–now it’s the same column with a new title “I am Sams”. Now you are bordering on the Seussian!
You and Jim Comer are like the emergency room doctors–desperately trying to revive a patient with a defibrillator. The patient is dead, Jon. Comer’s impeachment circus deserves a decent burial!
Dude, please explain all the shell entities and the money that went to family members . . . .
Anonymous: Hunter, his uncle and their business partners made money from their overseas business dealings. But Comer has been unable to prove Joe Biden saw any of that money or that he took any official action that benefited his family. That’s why the Comer dog-and pony show is at an end!
Now if you want to discuss the hundreds of millions Ivanka and Jared made while in the WH–or the $2 billion Jared got from the Saudi’s just after leaving the WH–that’s something I am prepared to discuss. But it’s funny you don’t want to discuss the “vast corruption” in the DJT WH. Why is that?
Why is that?
Because Jared has a legitimate business that Saudi’s invested the $2b into.
Jared did not set up fake shell companies, nor did he attempt to hide shady wire transfers.
Jared did not evade paying taxes.
In other words, Jared did not run a racketeering RICO organized criminal money laundering operation.
Do you actually believe that if the Feds could pin ANYTHING AT ALL on Jared Kushner, they would have? They’ve got nothing bc everything Jared did is legal, legitimate business and above board.
What business is the Biden Family in, again?
What are they selling and providing for the tens of millions they take from adversarial overseas governments?
Why did Hunter evade paying taxes on millions he hid, if his ‘business’ is above board and legit?
Aren’t fraudulent shell companies and illegal wire transfers suspicious business activity to you?
It is to the U.S. Treasury Dept., which has logged nearly 200 suspicious activity reports for Biden banking transactions. Five SARs would be a lot for the average guy. To flag nearly 200 for the Biden family signals OBVIOUS fraud and criminal activity to authorities.
Isn’t it odd that the Biden ‘overseas business dealings’ including deposits of large sums of money into bank accounts being held by Joe Biden’s granddaughters and daughters in law?
For Dennis? Apparently not enough “evidence.” Nope. Hunter’s business is totally legit. Nothing to see here. Move along.
What an astounding idiot you are.
btw, Comer and colleagues do not need to PROVE Joe saw any of that money. His entire family did, including grand kids!
Plus, there is a Hunter Biden laptop email message in which Hunter tells his daughter that he has been giving his dad (ie, Joe, the Big Guy) half of his “salary” for 30 years. That right there is whatcha call “evidence.”
The Biden Family has been running a money laundering criminal racketeering operation as its “business” for years. Their obvious criminality is being “protected” from prosecution by authorities. Why? Let’s find out, shall we?
Also, ask yourself why Hunter Biden has not been slapped with FARA violations?
He does business with agents of overseas governments, right?
He is not registered as a Foreign Agent under the Foreign Agent Registrations Act.
Why has he NOT been prosecuted for this? It is a crime.
“Violations of FARA are subject to criminal and civil penalties. Generally, a person who “willfully” violates the act may face up to five years in prison and up to a $10,000 fine.”
Why has Hunter Biden NOT been charged yet?
Remember, Paul Manafort was sent to prison for this very violation. And the so-called “authorities” wasted no time at all in charging him, arresting him, trying him, and throwing him in prison.
What is the hold up for slapping the same charges on Hunter Biden?
Do tell. Because as you say: No one is above the law! No matter how rich or powerful your family is.
Yes I did notice the veiled threats coming from Obama
Dear Prof Turley,
A flock of flacks in Biden’s OLC without law degrees sounds about right to me. The line between ‘the law’ and partisan politics is all but (redacted). Literally. It wouldn’t surprise me if the OLC issued new memorandum on ‘Trump Judges’ in the near future.
It doesn’t take a law degree to know the answer to the Ten Questions, or the Ten Commandments. Then what?
Impeachment is futile. Joe Biden could fart in the West Wing and cause a genocide in Gaza .. . and the Democrats would give him a Distinguished Service Medal and blame it on Trump.
The Democrats, at least, are United. There is only Trump . .. and further away from him.
*meanwhile, Biden is playing 5D chess …
Dgsnowden, the only genocide in Israel is the attempted genocide by Hamas against Israel. That caused a war, and now that terrorists are being rooted out, fools believe that Israel started the war. Hamas started the war even though Hamas controlled Gaza since 2005
Anti-Semites trust terrorists for their data (that is the primary source of the data you provide). The civilian death rate is very low compared to other similar wars and kept low at the cost of Israeli lives. Israelis try to protect women and children used as shields by full-grown terrorists. Another cause of Gazan civilian deaths is the missiles sent by Hamas to Israel that blow up prematurely in Ganzan areas like the Shifra Hospital. You were one of the fools who believed the terrorist news claim of 500 dead when the story was untrue. 500 were not killed as it was a terrorist missile fired to kill innocent Israeli civilians but exploded prematurely in the Shfra parking lot.
Biden is responsible for the deaths on both sides because he supplied the money to Iran, which was used to start this war. Yes, Biden is the accelerator, using taxpayer money to fund terrorist aggression.
Below is an earlier video showing Iranian involvement. Where did Iran get that money? From Biden.
https://www.youtube.com/@RaptorNews
We’ve been over this before, S. Meyer.
You’re not even half right. And it’s the wrong half, at that.
I’ve done some research. Bibi & co. have killed more innocent people, in less time, than Adolf Hitler and the Waffen SS. A 4 month crash course for the phony tough and the crazy brave. That’s fu(ked up, S. Meyer.
Everybody knows it’s fu(ked up. The UN SC (& ICJ) and the entire world have demanded a ceasefire.
Again, a few conspicuous acts of kindness would work miracles right now.
* O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, thou that killest the prophets, and stonest them which are sent unto thee, how often would I have gathered thy children together, even as a hen gathereth her brood under her wings, and ye would not!
“I’ve done some research.”
Dgsnowden, we know the type of research and lack of intellect you bring to the table. You accept data from terrorists without questioning its veracity. You believe Israel bombed a hospital and killed 500 when videos showed that wasn’t true and that the missile was likely a Hamas rocket that went astray and killed no one. Many of these Hamas rockets have landed in Gaza, and because of Gaza’s dense population, Hamas has killed substantial numbers of their own people. To add to the civilian deaths, Hamas attacks Israeli children while using their own women and children as shields. They die while the men hide below.
You don’t know your history or the History of Hamas. You lack understanding of the difference between a peaceful Muslim and one who kills innocent women and children. You make claims about the deaths, but you don’t provide the data or source. You talk about the UN but don’t even know that some UNWRA relief workers took part in the slaying of Israeli women and children on October 7.
Your comments lack reality and fact, making you appear cartoonish in the dress of the Nazi SS you used in argument. Your comments are below the stupid level.
To you, the entire world agrees with you. No, people in power are afraid of losing control; leftists and all sorts of hateful people wish to blame the Jews.
Anti-Semitism has been here for a long time. The Jews and their homeland have faced your kind over and over again, whether it be the Babylonians, Greeks, or Romans, but we note their civilizations are gone while Israel survives and will survive.
Indirectly, the Jews are fighting for much of the world as the radical leftists and Islamists wish to impose their will on everyone else. Let us not forget that both the Christian and Muslim religions are founded on the Jewish Torah, which is an integral part of their religions, and many of them support peace with the Jews while promoting love, the opposite of your hate. We can also include over a billion Hindus who fight Islamists, along with a billion peaceful Muslims who do not live by the sword, whether you recognize it or not.
You can continue your deep friendship with the group that will slaughter Jewish women and children while hiding behind their own. You are already at the lowest region of h-ll.
This would have been good for yesterday’s topic on Scotland. But you’ve got a young man who couldn’t make it in boys sports, so he transfers to girls sports where he has a better chance. He has a beard, he goes into women’s locker rooms to ogle bare-breasted women and say, “oooh, titties” – leading to complaints. He injures women on the court. And the stupid media still refers to him as “she” . . . what a joke.
https://nypost.com/2024/04/03/us-news/trans-basketball-player-who-hurt-rival-was-once-suspended-for-ogling-teammate-report/
oldmanfromkansas said: “He injures women on the court. And the stupid media still refers to him as “she” . . . what a joke.
https://nypost.com/2024/04/03/us-news/trans-basketball-player-who-hurt-rival-was-once-suspended-for-ogling-teammate-report/”
My question is why the author of the NY Post article compliantly refers to the athlete as “she” and “her”. That is one of the most blatantly hypocritical things I have seen recently (and there has been no dearth)
My question is why the author of the NY Post article compliantly refers to the athlete as “she” . . .
My guess: the author is a coward and avoiding blowback from the woke gestapo. The blowback from normal people who see how ridiculous this is, is never as severe.
OldManFromKS,
I read stuff like that, and think I must of woken up in a Twilight Zone.
I keep expecting Rod Serling to walk around the corner and say something like,
“A small group of people think by sheer will, they can bend reality to fit their own interpretation of what reality should be. But when that group becomes the majority, they drag everyone across, into the Twilight Zone.”
What Sams understands and probably even Comer does at this point – the impeachment inquiry was bogus from the start, they have already asked about someone sending an email saying “10% for the big guy” several hundred times and did not get anywhere. So this is the last gasp of a dying committee process.
Turley does not understand that yet, but he will. We live in an age where Trump does business with all sorts of foreign governments and he and his son-in-law have traded on numerous conflicts of interest, and Comer’s committee has never given a rats a-ss about that.
they have already asked about someone sending an email saying “10% for the big guy” several hundred times and did not get anywhere.
They have several different eye witnesses, testifying under oath the Biden was the Big Guy.
Isn’t one of those witnesses now charged with lying about Biden?
Its your narrative. Get to it
But for Now, Let Me Say,
Please don’t make Us issue a Congressional Subpoena.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GJx-X1gWoAAnU24?format=jpg&name=900×900
Because You’ll Realize, the Delaware Way is a failure and You Failed the People of the United States of America.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GJySE3ZWcAEkWhZ?format=jpg&name=small
Re: twitter.com/IanSams46/status/1773452971935781084
When will the Democratic Party come clean and say that the reason President Joe Biden has lost any chance of winning the 2024 Election is because of Hunter Biden’s use of; illicit substances, sexual promiscuity and philandering, skirting the laws, nefarious business dealings, and questionable character (The President and his Son can’t be trusted).
(Joe Biden has lost the 2024 election because of Hunter Biden – Just say it Sams)
Anonymous said: “oe Biden has lost the 2024 election because of Hunter Biden”
I’d like to think that the incompetent jerk would have lost absent the Hunter Biden scandal. Sadly, I must admit that may be giving US voters too much credit for perception and intelligence.
F.Y.I.:
𝐒𝐮𝐩𝐫𝐞𝐦𝐞 𝐂𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐭 𝐀𝐟𝐟𝐢𝐫𝐦𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐏𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐂𝐚𝐧 𝐁𝐞 𝐒𝐮𝐛𝐩𝐨𝐞𝐧𝐚𝐞𝐝, 𝐛𝐮𝐭 𝐖𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐢𝐭 𝐀𝐟𝐟𝐞𝐜𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐄𝐥𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧?
In two decisions on Thursday, July 9, the Court ensured that, in most respects, a president remains subject to the “public duties” that bind his or her fellow citizens.
By: Jim Wheaton ~ July 10, 2020
https://www.bu.edu/law/record/articles/2020/supreme-court-affirms-the-president-can-be-subpoenaed-but-will-it-affect-the-election/
𝐀𝐫𝐭 𝐈𝐈.𝐒𝟑.𝟒.𝟔 𝐏𝐫𝐨𝐬𝐞𝐜𝐮𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐢𝐚𝐥 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐆𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐉𝐮𝐫𝐲 𝐀𝐜𝐜𝐞𝐬𝐬 𝐭𝐨 𝐏𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐚𝐥 𝐈𝐧𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧
https://constitution.congress.gov/browse/essay/artII-S3-4-6/ALDE_00013382/
What goes around … comes around.
Now it’s Joe Biden’s turn.
I would tend to agree with Professor Turley on this one. No matter what your station in life, and especially if you wield great power, then you need a contrarion in your office or a sane counsel who is telling you the law and what some of the less desired outcomes may occur about your decisions and actions. A stable of yes men and women is dangerous as they are apt to further their own agendas at the cost to the nation yet sell it to their boss as his idea and the need to not listen to caution. Sometime caution is not the proper way to go but you at least need to hear that option. I always thought that any responsible leader would know these sorts of rules of the road. I think you can tell when someone has been too close to the seat of power for too long when they begin to cast aside the restraints of their office and start to look with disdain at the citizens they are leading. Biden seems to think he rules rather than leads and seems to feel no need to accept caution or restraint. A dangerous position to be in and can lead to great error that causes injury, or worse, to the nation and all it’s citizens, supporters or opponents alike.
Biden is not the only president that has acted this way.
FDR’s hubris in 1938, when he tried to purge the Democratic Party of it’s conservatives, massively backfired and he suffered such losses in his supporters that, although the party still retained control of both houses, the triumphant conservative democrats and republicans brought the New Deal to an end. The onset of WW2 saved his bacon, so to speak.
I am Sams the garbage man.
https://youtu.be/zyxv6r34WG8?si=BgTXxjMZzEwSVdL6
Considering this administration, who is truly surprised. At this point, the only solution is to disinfect the white house and replace these agenda-driven hacks asap.
Many Biden’s crimes are already well documented https bidenreport com/#p=55 with witnesses like Tony Bobulinski who have come forward…and NOTHING HAPPENS…because Democrats are FASCISTS who CONTROL Government and Large Businesses!
Trump was fined a $500 Million because BANKS allowed him to take a loan which he PAID BACK! Wall Street in 2007 destroyed trillions in LOANS…and NOT ONE person went to jail?
Trump was investigated and many people were jailed over a Russian Hoax Conspiracy when the DOJ, FBI, IRS, CIA, NSA, DNC, Congress, etc worked with a Hillary Hillary’s team which contained a foreign spy and a Russian.
The Conspiracy against President Trump is now know…a TRUE insurrection and Treason against America….but NO ONE went to jail from the Democrat SIDE. The Rule of Law in America is DEAD!
Slight correction, “Democrats are FASCISTS who CONTROL Government and Large Businesses!”
Should be, “Democrats are FASCISTS who CONTROL Government and EXTORT Large Businesses!
Look what they did to Microsoft and Bill Gates.
Gates wanted to run his successful business and stay out of politics. Then came Bill Clinton and Janet Reno wanting to charge Microsoft as a monopoly. Then came the transformation. Once they tied him to Jeffrey Epstein, they now own him. Just look at his websites for proof.
I agree, but here is the problem; while we may be aware of the nature of the prog/left and the dangers inherent to their activities and agendas – it will prove impossible to coax the parasites dependent on the prog/left free stuff and the jobs to administer that free stuff into abandoning that free stuff. Short of a revolt, nothing is going to budge this 70% of our citizenry that receives either largesse or government jobs administering this largesse to give that up for the mere idea of Freedom.
Nothing happens because Bobulinski did not have evidence. He lied.
I’m not familiar with the term “flack” in this context.
English is not your native language. Got it. Here’s a hint. I always have a tab on my browser open to an online dictionary. Just type in the word and you will get several definitios.
2.to serve as a press agent or publicist:
to flack for a new rock group.
3.verb (used with object)
to promote; publicize:
to flack a new record.
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/flack
Until Republicans DEFUND the Fascists Democrats across OUR government it is going to get WORSE…A LOT WORSE
We are importing millions of ILLEGALS to SWAY elections…and NO ONE IS GOING TO JAIL….think about that!
1000’s of Democrats from across government should be jailed for LIFE…congress, judges, DOJ, FBI, IRS, CDC, etc 1000’s
A Nuremberg like trial would be appropriate….,Nazis were Fascists…Democrats ARE Fascists!
He writes and speaks like a cult apologist or a minister of propaganda, employing the classic propaganda methods of subversion and evasion of direct answers. If it doesn’t work out for him in D. C. There might be a bright career for him in selling extended warranties.
Such blatantly arrogant individuals eventually get their comeuppance.
I’m sure he makes his mother proud – not!!
The only difference between these WH flaks and Goebbels is the German accent.
Thank you Professor for being “the adult in the room.” Obviously, the Biden Administration has no idea how to be “adults in charge,” preferring instead to gaslight and lie to the American public in pursuit of power and control and their own self-interest.
A stable and efficient government cannot be susceptible to, or bogged down by, the mutability and mischief of individuals and factions! That’s why our governing system was designed to remove those elements to protect the integrity of the system and allow those malfeasant elements to be removed and face accountability outside the governing system in the normal course of law. This is also why the limits of the impeachment power is removal from office, which is in two parts, removal upon impeachment for Treason, Bribery, and other High Crimes and misdemeanors, which creates an absence in that office to immediately prevent any further malfeasance until the question of their permanent removal can be considered, and conviction of Treason, Bribery, and other High Crimes and Misdemeanors, which creates a vacancy in that office, were both conditions are addressed, especially for President in Article 2 of the Constitution of the United States.
These topics of the cancers which can infect and debilitate any governing system, which is why they must be precluded by design, are canvassed by Madison et al. in Federalist #’s 62-66, “The Senate”, c.1788, which I would strongly suggest should be studied exhaustively until they become as part of the fiber of our nation. The Senate was designed for secrecy and dispatch, continuity and stability of government, and to provide legislative checks and balances, without this most important and necessary institution of government, our governing system is exposed and susceptible to the malfeasance and mischief of individuals and factions, and is the principal reason we have divided, partisan, and dysfunctional government today!
I understand and concur with Prof. Turley’s preference for the WHC office of the past that was apolitical.
But that is not what we have. Nor has Turley presented a compelling argument that is what we MUST have – as opposed to that is what he would prefer.
I think the country is better served by an apolitical WHC offive. I also think Joe Biden is better served by an apolitical WHC office.
But that is NOT what Joe Biden has chosen.
As to the conduct of the WHC office. Being blatantly political comes with the consequence of being seen as blatantly political.
By making the WHC political, it is trivial to discount what they say as no more than political spin.
Those on the left do not seem to grasp that the more blatantly political they are the less credible they are and the less seriously they are taken.
This is good advice for the left as a whole, for the WHC, for the DOJ/FBI and for prosecutors and judges throughout the country who are destroying public trust in our institutions by confusing their political wishes for the requirements of the law and constitution.
He thinks he’s the White House Whip
As a result he has the stature of the white house whip.