Why Mark Penn Is Sounding Trumpy

[Voltaire2]

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Because he was against Ken Starr, Penn’s logic is that he has a unique perspective on why Robert Mueller is harming the country, too. And as a Democrat bashing the Mueller investigation and making arguments that are useful to President Donald Trump, Penn has found a prominent new perch in the Washington ecosystem. Our interview was the first time he’s explained his Trumpian turn, which has earned him fresh enmity on the left.

Penn has now become a regular face on Fox News — CNN and MSNBC won’t book him — and a contributor to The Hill’s right-leaning editorial pages. There, he has repeatedly bashed the Mueller investigation as a “partisan, open-ended inquisition that, by its precedent, is a threat to all those who ever want to participate in a national campaign or an administration again” — followed up by more TV hits on Fox.

And despite the photos that decorate his office walls, he has willingly torched the Clintons, saying the Justice Department “broke their own rules” by ending an investigation into Hillary Clinton’s use of a private email server, and noting that “Clinton Foundation operatives” urged the FBI to investigate Trump.
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https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2018/08/31/mark-penn-clinton-strategist-mueller-investigation-donald-trump-219622

Penn has gone Full Dershowitz.

[MLAA]

1. selling out 15 minutes of fame. Integrity priceless

[UCmeNdc]

2. Bet! The Russians have something on him. Bet, Trump knows what it is.

There is something going on here!

[GeorgeGist]

3. The cha ching must be good..😈

[NewJeffCT]

4. Yes - it's a partisan investigation

Let's see:

Attorney General Jeff Sessions: Republican, Trump appointee
former head of FBI James Comey: lifelong Republican, until becoming independent recently
current head of FBI Christopher Wray: lifelong Republican, Trump appointee
Acting Attorney General for the Mueller investigation: Rob Rosenstein, lifelong Republican
Special Counsel Robert Mueller: lifelong Republican

sounds pretty partisan to me.

[UTUSN]

5. So his core "reason" is that he sees *NO DIFFERENCE* between MUELLER & Ken STARR.

Oh, that we/Dems stopped shoveling millions at him and he is now raking it in from the hundreds of companies and things like owning Harris Polls often used by the White House. Hookay. Follow the money.