President Fox News Grandpa spends his mornings indulging in Executive Time, the official-sounding name for the period each day where he gorges himself on cable news before heading to the Oval Office at 11 a.m. (When do you have to be at the office?) That morning TV diet used to feature a variety of networks, but his former aides successfully incepted him to only watch Fox & Friends because CNN and MSNBC made him too mad.

Apparently, our large adult president was tuned in this Monday morning:

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“John Brennan is panicking. He has disgraced himself, he has disgraced the Country, he has disgraced the entire Intelligence Community. He is the one man who is largely responsible for the destruction of American’s faith in the Intelligence Community and in some people at the.... — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) May 21, 2018

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....top of the FBI. Brennan started this entire debacle about President Trump. We now know that Brennan had detailed knowledge of the (phony) Dossier...he knows about the Dossier, he denies knowledge of the Dossier, he briefs the Gang of 8 on the Hill about the Dossier, which.... — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) May 21, 2018

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...they then used to start an investigation about Trump. It is that simple. This guy is the genesis of this whole Debacle. This was a Political hit job, this was not an Intelligence Investigation. Brennan has disgraced himself, he’s worried about staying out of Jail.” Dan Bongino — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) May 21, 2018

Here is the President of the United States offering, verbatim and presumably without verification from any of the lawyers or advisers in his employ, a litany of allegations about the former director of the CIA, from a guest on a cable news show. That guest, Dan Bongino, is an NRA TV host and frequent Fox talking head who once declared Devin Nunes' embarrassing nothingburger of a Memo to be "the most consequential—no question—political scandal in American history." He also apparently thinks you make lemonade by throwing a bunch of unpeeled lemons into a blender.

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Here's the Dan Bongino segment from Fox & Friends this morning that Trump decided to write out as a presidential tweet pic.twitter.com/DKbwVdpbwb — Robert Maguire (@RobertMaguire_) May 21, 2018

(Oh, and by the way: Democrats on the House Intelligence Committee contend the FBI investigation started weeks before the Bureau got hold of The Dossier, which Bongino here characterized—as many Trumpists often do—as the entire basis for the probe's launch. Because that line failed to take hold outside the president's base of support, they've now switched to the claim that an "informant" was "planted" in Trump's campaign. This is similar to Trump's earlier claims he was "wiretapped," in that there is no evidence whatsoever to support it. The president, and Rudy Giuliani, are just saying things and hoping they stick.)

Bongino and the man who takes queues from him—Donald J. Trump, American president—are all worked up at John Brennan after the former CIA Director tweeted Sunday imploring Republican leaders Paul Ryan and Mitch McConnell to stop aiding and abetting the president as he stomps all over the norms of our democratic republic:

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Senator McConnell & Speaker Ryan: If Mr. Trump continues along this disastrous path, you will bear major responsibility for the harm done to our democracy. You do a great disservice to our Nation & the Republican Party if you continue to enable Mr. Trump’s self-serving actions. https://t.co/uAhgL6wfIC — John O. Brennan (@JohnBrennan) May 20, 2018

Brennan, of course, is exactly right: The president is blatantly interfering in a Justice Department investigation into himself and his associates. It used to be a scandal for a sitting president to comment on any ongoing Justice Department probe.

Now, Trump tries to derail one into his crew on a daily basis, smearing anyone involved and even admitting on national television that he was considering "the Russia thing" when he fired the FBI director then leading the investigation. He "hereby demands" that federal law enforcement be at the mercy of his whims (in this case, investigating his evidence-free claims about an informant "planted" in his campaign), and frequently insists that it should be sicced on his political opponents. And he gets away with it, because his political allies who control both houses of Congress say nothing. Paul Ryan would rather have a tax cut than fight for the rule of law.

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I hereby demand, and will do so officially tomorrow, that the Department of Justice look into whether or not the FBI/DOJ infiltrated or surveilled the Trump Campaign for Political Purposes - and if any such demands or requests were made by people within the Obama Administration! — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) May 20, 2018

There are many lesser questions about today's tweetstorm. Did someone transcribe Bongino's monologue for him, or did Trump keep hitting pause and rewind until he copied it all down? When did the president decide that any word he thinks is important should be capitalized? And is there anything Trump hears on Fox & Friends that he does not immediately internalize as fact?

In a stranger bit of news, Trump was railing against the ex-CIA director and suggesting the U.S. intelligence community's credibility is in ruins shortly before he heads to CIA headquarters at Langley today to attend the swearing-in of Gina Haspel, his pick for the agency's next director. (You might remember Trump's first visit to Langley in January 2017, when he bragged about the size of his inauguration crowd while standing in front of a wall honoring CIA officers killed in action.)

Haspel endured a tough confirmation fight in the Senate because of that whole "overseeing a black site where people were tortured" thing, and also that "overseeing the destruction of torture tapes" thing. During said fight, Trump's White House touted Haspel's endorsement by ... John Brennan, as well as former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper. Even before this latest dust-up, Trump had derided both of them as "leakers and liars." After all, nothing matters.

And that's a good thing, too, because the tangerine generalissimo had still more things to tweet about Monday morning:

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The Wall Street Journal asks, “WHERE IN THE WORLD WAS BARACK OBAMA?” A very good question! — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) May 21, 2018

Sure. I guess we're just saying things now.

Jack Holmes Politics Editor Jack Holmes is the Politics Editor at Esquire, where he writes daily and edits the Politics Blog with Charles P Pierce.

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