It doesn't take much to get Don Trump mad at you. All you have to do is say something he doesn't like. And, honestly, these days there is a lot of that going around. Just ask the former, acting director of national intelligence, Joseph Maguire.
Last week one of Maguire's staff, Shelby Pierson told the House Intelligence Committee that combined American Intel reports had determined Vlad Putin and his boys, "had developed a preference," for El Don in this year's election. For many such news is hardly shocking. In fact in certain locales it has been assumed Putin's trolls were already as busy as beavers on meth helping out Trump's re-election campaign.
The news, however, did not go down well at the White House. Hey, what do you expect from a guy who, despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary, still claims it wasn't Russia who interfered in the 2016 presidential race, but rather Ukraine--and it did so on behalf of Hillary Clinton.
That's the problem with conspiracy theories. Once you've created one you can't just let it die on the vine. You have to keep feeding it, nurturing it, and denying anything which might threaten it. Besides a man with Donald Trump's ego is loathe to admit he needs help of any kind in an election. At least that is what he would have us all believe, even if he has openly asked for it on numerous occasions beginning four years ago.
Of course Donald Trump blows by profound contradictions that, in the past, would have ended presidencies. His never ending tsunami of lies and hypocrisy comes at such a rate the media can never focus on one. In the end, analyzing his bullshit is rather like trying to focus on a single snow flake in the middle of a blizzard.
Now, thanks to the GOP toadies in the United States Senate, Trump feels unleashed, completely free to do whatever he wants, whenever he wants. The lies continue unabated, but what we are now seeing is the great Trump purge and redemption tour. Gone is all pretense he is doing things in the national interest. During each improvised presser, much to the delight of his trailer park fascist fans, he tells us his interests are the national interests. Indeed, loyalty to Donald J. Trump is now the prime directive. Loyalty to the nation is not only out of fashion in Trump's vision of America, it is many times treasonous.
Which is why Mr. Maguire is currently unemployed. He and his staff weren't deemed wrong in their assessment per se, but disloyal to Trump because they made the report to congress. Joe Maguire isn't the only one, just the latest. The ever expanding list of seditionists includes, Madeleine Westerhout, LTC Alexander Vindman and his brother, Yevgeny, Gordon Sondland, Marie Yovanovitch, and even John, by God, Bolton.
Trump received word of Maguire's alleged treachery via republican congressman, Devin Nunes. The California lawmaker apparently ran straight from the briefing to the White House to let The Big Orange Guy in on what had been said. In elementary schools every where this is known as tattling. Nunes, among other things, is currently suing any number of people and organizations. One of the legal actions names Twitter as a defendant because it allows an account named, "Devin Nunes' Cow," to be active on the site.
Meanwhile Trump's is increasingly involving himself in the day to day operations of the Department of Justice--at least when his pals are up against it. He has railed against Roger Stone's judge, Amy Berman Jackson, and even the jury foreperson in the case. They are anti Trump he says and his boy Roger deserves a new trial and judge. In other words there is no impartiality in his world, therefore there is none in any other.
Yes, pardons are starting to fly, which might explain Stone's sly smile after he was hit with a 40 month sentence. Mike Flynn's trial is now, "under review," by outside prosecutors assigned by AG, Bill Barr. To imagine Barr doing anything without Trump's intervention ranks right up there with believing ancient aliens built every pyramid from Belize to Giza.
Someday history will note that in the year, 2020 the United States of America came close to becoming a banana republic style autocracy. Unless, the president wins re-election in November. If he does, then history won't record a single thing Donald John Trump and his ancestors don't want it to.
That's the way it works in a dictatorship you see. Just like George Orwell told us it would.
2-21-20
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