Roger Stone and The Gates of Hell
Well, Trump is still strongly considering pardoning Roger Stone before he has to report to jail on the 14th – that’s next Tuesday. Rumor has it that he’ll wait until Sunday night to do it and hope nobody notices.
Apparently his friends, yes, both of them, are advising him not to do it.
“Barr has told Trump not to do it, and if he does there will be a mutiny at DOJ,” said a source briefed on the internal debates. People close to Trump fear he won’t listen. “You can’t underestimate how hard it is to get information through to him,” a Republican close to the White House said. “When you talk to him, he just talks at you. He doesn’t like to read memos, so there’s not really a way to get through to him. Everyone agrees.”
So here we have a president who is totally disassociated from the world and makes decisions based on the voices in his head. Or the silence. You never know about these things.
My bet is that he’s going to do it and claim that Stone is a victim. Stone will then begin yapping and make things even worse than they are now.
Hey, there’s one other tidbit in this article that amused me. People are wondering if Jared is going to leave his White House Post (he’s the Undersecretary of Accomplishing Diddle Squat) and lead the campaign.
“If I go to the campaign, Trump might not let me back into the White House,” Kushner told people, according to a person briefed on the conversation. “As of now, he intends to remain in his current role,” an administration official said.
Remember when I said Trump has two friends? Make that one, and if Stone goes to prison, zero.
Barr should be feeling the hair on the back of his neck standing up. Carrying the chine of the mongol president around his neck. Standing at the same place Bolton was not that long ago.
1I wouldn’t bet too much on either Justice’s rebellion or (if it came) its effectiveness.
2“If I go to the campaign, Trump might not let me back into the White House,” Kushner told people…”
JJ, you described Kushner so eloquently & accurately as “the Undersecretary of Accomplishing Diddle Squat”, and as such if Jared runs the campaign like everything else, I agree, I don’t think he’ll get back into the White House, and neither will his boss.
Win-win.
3Pardoning Stone COULD cause a mutiny at the DOJ? Is Barr saying one isn’t happening now? What the heck are they waiting for?
4Sending Jared to run the campaign would get him out of the WH without His Heinous having to fire him. Then, when the Blue Tsunami hits, he can blame it all on Jared.
Pass the popcorn!
5I remain unconvinced that if Trump really did shoot somebody on 5th Avenue any of his toadies would blink.
6I have to disagree about Jughead accomplishing nothing. He has made mad money by selling masks seized from hospitals to private groups, who then sell them to the hospitals … for an unhealthy markup. He has made deals with Saudi Arabia that seem to entail passing on national security info that his president-ordered security clearance gave him access to. He has sucked down coronavirus money for his tottering real estate empire.
Oh, wait. You meant accomplishing things for the U.S. [Insert here Rosana Anna Dana’s best “never mind”].
7