Trump’s got the loomies
Interesting. Republicans are said to be chatting about dropping Donnie Two-scoops. Impressive that it only took them three years.
Donald Trump is facing “looming problem” as Republicans contemplate abandoning the president as more evidence of wrongdoing comes to light, Los Angeles Times White House reporter Eli Stokols explained on MSNBC’s “Deadline: White House” on Monday.
Host Nicolle Wallace played a clip of Trump supporter and former U.S. Attorney Chris Christie wondering what additional evidence special counsel Robert Mueller and federal prosecutors in Manhattan have obtained.
Oh don’t worry about it, just let this criminal sack of shit go on destroying the country and the world for another couple of years. What could go wrong?
“Republican lawmakers who are — have a huge role to play in this if it goes forward — are starting to tell me privately, some of them, that, you know, if there’s obvious evidence, the bottom is going to fall out,” he explained.
“They’re not going to be able to stand by this White House and that’s a looming problem for the president,” he concluded.
Trump may even face a greater threat from the Southern District of New York investigations.
“It’s much harder to stop what’s happening in that office as opposed to with the special counsel’s investigation,” Stokols noted. “This train has left the station, there’s really nothing that this White House can do about it.”
“I think that’s a source of frustration to the president. Also, it’s difficult to politicize, it’s difficult to go out and demonize that office because, as you pointed out already, that’s a Trump appointee running that office,” he added.
Oops.
I don’t know when it will happen, or even if, or what it will take. But I think that when Republicans do desert him, it’ll happen pretty quickly. Once the internal polling data shows that Trump is toxic, they’ll get pretty “brave.”
Yes, and just watch them immediately start lying about the timeline in order to preserve their pretense at morality and integrity. They will deny that they continually supported and defended his hourly lies and atrocious behaviour, that they opposed passing resolutions to protect the investigation from presidential meddling, that they defended or at least ignored his daily attempts to undermine its credibility. They will perform a totally seamless about-face on all of their support for him, and pretend that they were the moral beacons all along trying to curtail his awfulness, ‘we’ve always been at war with Eastasia’ style.
And then the very microsecond that Trump is removed before end of term (if it ever happens), they will just as seamlessly transition to defending Pence’s pardoning of Trump and squashing of all further investigation. There will be wide-eyed, earnest, even plaintive “Let’s not litigate the past for partisan revenge! The nation needs to heal! Stop calling us the party of corruption – Mueller was a Republican after all, we cleaned house!”
And senior Democrats, known far and wide for caving in to the Republicans at every opportunity, will push to end any effort to root out all corruption, because they don’t want to be seen as partisans that stand for anything whatsoever.
As if there’s been any shortage of evidence of wrongdoing where Trump is concerned!
….oh – you mean admissible evidence of illegal wrongdoing. Because the unending sewer fountain of mind-bogglingly blatant awfulness that has been a constant part of Trump’s political participation from the very start, has been absolutely fine right up until the point where he could actually get prosecuted for it.
Good to know.
I can find only perhaps one glimmer of a chance of a possibility of a little hope in this situation. Trump is such a narcissist and egotist, he might just be reluctant to (intentionally) set off a nuclear Armageddon. Of course, he could always do it by accident: perhaps mistaking The Button for a passing pussy and grabbing it. (Hello? What have I gone and done now?)
The future is unknowable, chaotic and maybe a bit dangerous. But the best approach to a hostage-taker like Trump might be to humour him.
I think the North Koreans worked that out a while back.
#4
If by ‘humor him’ you mean something like ‘don’t try to investigate him / bring him down’ or similar, I have to disagree.
Omar @ #4
My (somewhat self-indulgent) hope is different-if the Republican party about faces on him, they will have to contend with the fact that Trump will do everything he can to tear them all down on his way out. They deserve him. While it will be fun to watch, I suppose the dangerous corollary is that he succeeds in fending off any migration away from him, because I’m sure he has dirt on many of them.
An aside: people are finally learning to say ‘thanks but no thanks’ to offers of employment, such as Ayers declining the offer to be Chief of Staff. Clearly some Republicans see the writing on the wall and what it means for their political futures (I certainly doubt it’s a moral stand-Ayers cited familial obligations, but supposedly he’s being plugged for office in Georgia).
Damn, Holms, you are one pessimistic person…
Holms @#5:
No. It is not advisable to give an authoritarian and megalomaniac like Trump anything substantial.That IMHO is where the appeasers of the 1930s lost the plot re Hitler. It is the art of managing a tantrum-thrower, and Trump is an overgrown tantrum-throwing kid (with a consequently high rate of staff turnover.)
So it’s more like: ‘Yeah, yeah, you’re the greatest. Now how about if you want anything for dinner you stop all that noise and tidy up your room?”
;-)
Hopefully, the Simpsons of America who voted him in will see through him before the next election and vote him out again.
PS: My own view is that hope is a wasteland, and to live in it is not to be recommended.
Don’t think that’s a useful direction for hope. I think we’d be better (though a still unlikely scenario) to hope that the Democrats get off their high horse about perfection and having to agree with every single thing any candidate says (which would have left me unable to vote for any candidate ever, including my younger self, and possibly my older self 20 years from now). And that the Dems don’t try to follow Trump off the cliff, which some of them seem to be suggesting we should do…
Winning an election isn’t worth it if the only way to win is to become what you’re fighting against.