On Tuesday, rumors emanating from the Trump White House suggested that President Trump had told aides to authorize the release of the House Intelligence Committee memo regarding alleged intelligence community malfeasance during the 2016 election — as soon after his State of the Union address as possible. According to CNN:
 

President Trump has told aides he wants a memo alleging the FBI abused its surveillance tools released as quickly as possible, but not before the State of the Union address, sources say https://t.co/WAus5clgQQ pic.twitter.com/pEPApNeQOD

— CNN International (@cnni) January 30, 2018

The White House is doing itself no favors with its obvious eagerness to release the memo. The State of the Union, for all of its ridiculous and monarchist pretensions, is certainly a showpiece for the Trump administration — a chance for Trump to change the conversation and discuss his accomplishments during his first year. It would be a major mistake to step on that positive headline with the release of the memo. In fact, it will look like Trump is so eager to release the memo because he wants to detract from the Robert Mueller special counsel investigation, and couldn’t even wait for the State of the Union to end to do it. Trump would be far better off strategically to simply wait the statutory five days and let the memo be released passively, without putting his fingerprints on it — or at least announcing that the memo would be released and that he had taken into account objections from the Department of Justice.

With that said, Trump wants the memo out there — and depending on how damning the material in the memo is, he might be right. It’s difficult to believe, however, that after this much hype, the memo will be the groundbreaking story it’s been cracked up to be by Republicans.

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