- 02 Mar 2017 18:09
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Trump is, to put it mildly, thin skinned. He is POTUS and, as such, subjected to intense scrutiny. Goes with the territory. Part of the job description. Obama was attacked endlessly for eight years. If I didn't know any better, I would think he was the first president ever to never ever get anything right. Trump's response to intense media scrutiny was to declare war on the "enemy of the people", the media. Trump has obviously made some mistakes and, when these are pointed out by the media, two one size fits all defenses are trotted out: fake news and sour grapes from Hillary supporters over their loss. JFK possessed a brilliant wit and, I suspect, would have dismissed media scrutiny with a couple of one liners. Not Trump, he, obviously, can't take it.
Now, as the Trump soap opera grinds on, we have unfolding what I will name, in extremely bad taste, Russiagate.
Trump has alienated the guys and gals with the goods.
The intelligence community.
They will have their knives out for a man who they dislike; a man who has committed a traitorous act with an avowed enemy. Information will keep coming out. This is at the beginning. It's why Trump and his people are so adamant in their ineffective denials.
As the story unfolds, Trump's henchmen will jump ship to save themselves. They'll cut deals and give up their captain.
And, as the scandal grows, the public will choke on it; the Democrats will take the House of Representatives and then the investigation will break the dam.
Twenty six months for Nixon to fall.
The clock has already started on Trump.
Now, as the Trump soap opera grinds on, we have unfolding what I will name, in extremely bad taste, Russiagate.
Trump has alienated the guys and gals with the goods.
The intelligence community.
They will have their knives out for a man who they dislike; a man who has committed a traitorous act with an avowed enemy. Information will keep coming out. This is at the beginning. It's why Trump and his people are so adamant in their ineffective denials.
As the story unfolds, Trump's henchmen will jump ship to save themselves. They'll cut deals and give up their captain.
And, as the scandal grows, the public will choke on it; the Democrats will take the House of Representatives and then the investigation will break the dam.
Twenty six months for Nixon to fall.
The clock has already started on Trump.
"Society in those days was a perfectly competent, perfectly complacent, ruthless machine." Virginia Woolf 1897