THE LATEST NON-STORY STORY ABOUT TRUMP AND COMEY

Hold onto your hats, folks.  The New York Times’ Michael S. Schmidt and Maggie Haberman have another breathless, front-page, above-the-fold….er, non-story about Donald Trump.

Here are its opening paragraphs, which tell you what the big, earth-shaking news is all about:

The special counsel, Robert S. Mueller III, has obtained a letter drafted by President Trump and a top political aide that offered an unvarnished view of Mr. Trump’s thinking in the days before the president fired the F.B.I. director, James B. Comey.

The circumstances and reasons for the firing are believed to be a significant element of Mr. Mueller’s investigation, which includes whether Mr. Trump obstructed justice by firing Mr. Comey.

The letter, drafted in May, was met with opposition from Donald F. McGahn II, the White House counsel, who believed that its angry, meandering tone was problematic, according to interviews with a dozen administration officials and others briefed on the matter. Among Mr. McGahn’s concerns were references to private conversations the president had with Mr. Comey, including times when the F.B.I. director told Mr. Trump he was not under investigation in the F.B.I.’s continuing Russia inquiry.

Mr. McGahn successfully blocked the president from sending the letter — which Mr. Trump had composed with Stephen Miller, one of the president’s top political advisers — to Mr. Comey. But a copy was given to the deputy attorney general, Rod J. Rosenstein, who then drafted his own letter. Mr. Rosenstein’s letter was ultimately used as the Trump administration’s public rationale for Mr. Comey’s firing, which was that Mr. Comey had mishandled the investigation into Hillary Clinton’s private email server.

Mr. Rosenstein is overseeing Mr. Mueller’s investigation into Russian efforts to disrupt last year’s presidential election, as well as whether Mr. Trump obstructed justice.

There you go!   President Trump drafted a letter with Stephen Miller.  He was advised that it had an angry tone and he should not send it.  So he didn’t.

Wow.

Uh…did you find anything incriminating there?  No?  Neither did I.  And if you click here to read the entire article you won’t find anything incriminating there either.

And that is where we are, folks.  Eight months into the Trump administration…

…and about a half year into an investigation that was created by a disgruntled, soon-to-be-fired FBI Director, fresh off of giving Hillary Clinton a free pass on her emails, leaking information to a friend for the purpose of “getting” the guy who was firing him.

Try to imagine how media would have handled this if it were a Democrat President and an FBI Director who just got his Republican opponent off the hook.

Still wondering why my respect for media, already near bottom, moves further down on a regular basis?