ABC commentator and faux-Republican, Matthew Dowd has made a name for himself with the bizarre and false things he has said over the years. But during his appearance on ABC’s This Week on Sunday, he may have set a new standard for himself when he emphatically argued that President Trump had not been under investigation for two years.

Towards the end of the program, Dowd boasted about how there were “a whole bunch of trees out there that are – maybe saplings – that are growing from this investigation” that might “bear fruit”. Bear fruit is code for: get Trump locked up or kicked out of office.

But Sara Fagen had some bad news for Dowd, all those Democratic-led investigations might blow up in their faces and sour some of the electorate:

I think many Americans, and many of those who sit in the middle who maybe like his policies but don't care for him personally look at this and say, “they're investigating his business, they investigating his kids, they're investigating the inaugural, they’re investigating everything he's touched in his life.” (…) That every aspect of this person’s life, when he’s never been committed of a crime, now need to be investigated because Democrats don’t like the fact that he was elected.

“He wasn't investigated for the first two years at all! So, I think, there's a little catch up to do in this,” Dowd blurted out. “And I think that most -- the majority of Americans, they may support him or not. But they don't believe he has integrity. That needs to be found out.”

At the start of the “powerhouse roundtable” discussion, and after butchering a famous Winston Churchill quote, Dowd opined about how the Special Counsel investigation was “never was going to be what so many people thought it would be.” Dowd lectured:

That's what fascinating about this, is that the President thought, Bob Mueller's after him, he’s after him, he's going to get him, he's going to get his kids. He's called it a witch hunt. Even Jim Jordan bashed Bob Mueller, bashed the investigation and all that. And then people on the left, many Democrats were like, he's going to get him, he's going to get him, it’s going to be a civil war, he’s going to get him.

“That was never Bob Mueller's charge. Bob Mueller’s charge was to find the evidence, follow it where it goes, and then prosecute people that would need to be prosecuted if the evidence was there,” he added.

A short time later, host and Clinton lackey George Stephanopoulos tried to score a moral victory for Democrats and liberal media. “There are a lot of different reasons a prosecutor might choose not to prosecute something. You may not want to use classified evidence, you might have compelling evidence but it might not be good enough to prosecute. Not prosecuting is not the same as exoneration,” he said to former New Jersey governor Chris Christie.

Christie had to let him down easy: “Well, let me tell you something, George. If you're any of the people who were being rumored to be indicted, you're going to take it as exoneration. Because you're presumed innocent in the country and absent of any charges being brought and proven, you are innocent.”

The transcript is below, click "expand" to read: