Trump Uses Twitter To Deflect Attention Away From His Problems

The Trump Administration has responded to a bad news cycle about his attorney general and a possible connection between his campaign and Russian cyber warfare during the campaign.  Trump is using Twitter to claim that President Obama used wiretaps on Trump Tower during the campaign.  Twitter is a great tool to use because his tweets do not have to provide supporting evidence.  Of course, when he is asked for evidence he can employ another well used tactic.  For example the alt-right fake news site Breitbart News, which was operated by Steven Bannon, who is one of Trump's senior advisers, reported the  Obama wire tap without any evidence.  Trump has done this in the past by using Fox News as a source for his claim that a terrorist attack took place in Sweden.  This is a marvelous tool.  Trump can use fake news as evidence to support his false tweets and he defends himself against journalists who question his false tweets by calling real journalism fake news.  Trump only gets away with this because his base wants to believe him.  On the other hand, he continues to lose support from independent voters and most well educated citizens.  That is a losing proposition over the long term.  He can't run the country by relying upon his relatively small base of true believers.  That will hit home hard when it becomes more apparent that he is unable to deliver on most of his campaign promises.  The President of the United States must show that he can turn ideas into legislation.  That can't be done with his favorite Twitter tool.