Trump should move forward and forget witchhunt obsession

Donald Trump is understandably enjoying his triumph arising from the Robert Mueller report into no collusion with the Ruskies. But he is threatening revenge against the people who put him, the president of the United States, into a position where his integrity and honesty and patriotism were all called into question. This sort of thing should never be allowed to happen to the president, he said. Any president, not just him. Well that's a debating point but he now seems determined to launch into his own witchhunt to track down those who dared to speak out against him. And journalists are on his revenge list because he claims America's major newspapers and broadcasters, particularly The New York Times, Washington Post, CNN and MSNBC were guilty of appalling opinionated baseless journalism. Well, with hindsight of course many of the stories that have been published over the last two years have proven to lack proper evidence. But that's hardly the fault of the journalists. They were doing their professional job tryng to make sense of all the allegations flying around, many of which emanated from aides close to Trump who gave their versions of events to the Mueller team. Some of the most dramatic stuff came from Michael Cohen, Trump's former personal lawyer, who made very damaging claims in public. What were newspapers supposed to do? Ignore the Cohen allegations? Trump hates most newspapers and abhors CNN but they were doing the best they could to unravel the Russian collusion affair. The most salacious stuff of all came from the dossier drawn up by Christopher Steele, the former British MI6 spy once based in Moscow, including the Golden Shower allegation in which Trump, before he became president, was said to have been compromised by the Russians by being caught with prostitutes in a Moscow hotel room. Ok, if that stuff was all baloney, a bit of back propaganda fed to Steele by his Russian contacts, I sympathise with Trump. It was an outrageous accusation and if total rubbish it should never have seen the light of day. There will always be doubts in people's mind but Mueller took the Steele dossier into account and, judging by the summary of his report, he clearly did not believe that the Russians had blackmail material against Trump. Despite his urge for revenge, Trump should take the gift handed to him by Mueller and move on. He has already received a mass of positive headlines since Mueller's investigation cleared him of collusion with the Russians. None of his supporters believed it from day one. So, grab your moment by all means, Mr President, but it's time to show the world that you want to achieve some good during your presidency. Otherwise all those Democratic rivals will be head-to-head with you in 2020. I'm not taking sides here. I'm just saying it's time for witchhunts to be cast aside.