The Phone Call
Written by Nick Carraway
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“Keith Olbermann made a keen observation on Twitter that I had not previously considered when thinking about Donald Trump’s phone call to the Georgia Secretary of State. It seems that the audio on his end of the call was much clearer than on the other end. While that fact alone is not proof, it seems more likely than not that the phone call was recorded on the White House end. If that is in fact true then it creates two distinct possibilities that must be considered as this story develops.
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First, the call was recorded as all calls are and someone close to the president released the audio to act as a kind of whistleblower. I would think this would be the most likely scenario. It would be somewhat similar to the Ukraine call. This would also be the least intriguing of the two possibilities. It simply means that there is less deniability on the White House end and that the MAGA population also have no leg to stand on in terms of denying the existence or veracity of the call.
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The second possibility is that the president could have leaked the call himself. From there, it is really anyone’s best guess as to why he would do such a thing. My personal belief is that he subscribes to a P.T. Barnum philosophy that no publicity is bad publicity. It could also be hubris in that maybe he really believes that his phone calls are perfect. He has never really been punished for anything, so I guess there is some basis to back up his belief here. At any rate, it does achieve the goal of keeping him in the news.
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In either scenario, it is impossible not to deal with this situation either after January 6th or January 20th. The only question is how. When going through our classroom discipline training we were always told that redirection was always best when the negative reinforcement was something the kid didn’t want. So, if a kid craves attention then you isolate them and take away their attention. Some kids are ten and some kids are 74. I don’t know you go through a prosecution without attention, but the least amount you can give him is what he deserves while still putting him away for a long time. I’m not a legal expert, so maybe someone else will have a better idea of how to do that.”
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