And ditto the idea of expanding his current staff of clown-esque appointees -- even if only to help gently lower the curtain on the Trump Show's closing performances aboard the Titanic. Reports are that no donald trump crony of any merit is willing to help right the ship. At this point they are well aware that the greatest threat to the ship's chances of staying afloat for four years is its commander: donald trump himself. They apparently realize that with the largest, most self-absorbed, and least experienced of the ship's officers navigating the journey from behind them on the poop-deck, there's practically zero chance of avoiding a disaster.
But shipwreck analogies aside, the bitter fact is that trump -- he, of the prestigious Wharton Business School -- is running his cover-up/obstruction of justice operation like he ran his casinos; into the ground. Instead of fulfilling a strategy that holds at least some hope for somehow making an irksome problem go away, trump's overall cover up and obstruction of justice effort has turned the smoke of mere suspicion about collusion with the Russians into what's now an out-of-control inferno.
Within the trump "administration," that which passes for thoughtful insight seems analogous to the abstract renderings of Italian painter Mino Argento. In other words, it's a minimalist form of art. But it's an art-form rendered further barren by the tactless hubris of a group of big-headed political neophytes who don't know what they don't know, and simply don't care to find out. Indeed, conservative George Will recently editorialized that he views trump himself as someone who "doesn't even know what it is to know ." That's a worthy assessment. And to be sure, all the president's men, Pence, Bannon, Jared Kushner, Stephen Miller, Jeff Sessions, et al, aren't very far behind.
So, after a brief period that some Americans had devoted to "giving his presidency a chance," it appears that Americans overall have become more noticing of the furtive aura lacing trump's "strategy" for avoiding removal from office. By late May, a Quinnipiac poll showed that more than half of America is not just unhappy about how trump canned Comey, but also consider trump to be abusing his office. The same poll showed that two-thirds support the appointment of a special prosecutor to investigate both the Comey firing and all other matters pertaining to the trump/Russia investigations.
It bears noting that trump has now lawyered up, thus effectively taking heed of a suggestion he made to Hillary Clinton throughout their campaign. Chief among those he selected was his bankruptcy and divorce attorney, Marc Kasowitz. Much respect to attorney Kasowitz -- who, we are told, is extraordinarily talented at what he does. But choosing a divorce lawyer to handle a major political corruption case in which the client stands a fair chance of being slapped with a criminal indictment would seem a bit odd. But who knows? Maybe "not knowing what knowing is" will be central to Kasowitz's overall defense strategy.
And why not? After all, trump's coverup effort has been marked by one utterly foolish, self-incriminating breach of common sense after another. Therefore, coming from someone who seems not to know his ass from his elbow, the copping of a "stupidity plea" is something that should easily withstand a test of plausibility.
The Art of the Impeachment
Whether he resigns, is found guilty of high crimes and misdemeanors and impeached, or perhaps even convicted and jailed for treason or criminal obstruction of justice, the prospects of trump completing his "term of office" seems to be diminishing by the hour.
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