The only way he could have been played, is if he just rubber-stamped it and never read what he had signed. Which means he did not do his job whatsoever. To me that makes him as culpable as the rest involved. He knows that to be the case, and is now running quite scared to say the least.
Perhaps. But I think the affidavit is filled with FBI/DOJ generated lies, that he believed those lies (like so many lefties who just want/have to believe that Trump is the devil) and now that Trump team has fired back, he realizes he was misled into some deep doo-doo, and now he has no intention of being drawn into an illegal cover-up or being thrown under a bus.
Maybe he'd been pulling on that bottle of Early Times??
“The only way he could have been played, is if he just rubber-stamped it and never read what he had signed. Which means he did not do his job whatsoever. To me that makes him as culpable as the rest involved. He knows that to be the case, and is now running quite scared to say the least.”
Maybe, he was the pushover judge, who okayed everything the DOJ/FBI wanted or the on call Judge, who didn’t want to be bothered with legalities and proper precedence!