Donald Trump just stabbed Lin Wood in the back
It’s a familiar tune we’ve heard over and over again. Donald Trump identifies an unsavory, unstable, or desperately ambitious person, and goads that person into doing Trump’s corrupt bidding. Then once that person gets into trouble, Trump stabs that person in the back.
Sure enough, it’s happened again. We all watched Trump use a wacky lawyer named Lin Wood to promote his most deranged lies about the 2020 election result. Then once Wood became a liability, Trump acted like he barely knew the guy. Wood, whose life is falling apart, tried to magically fix his life by running for Chair of the South Carolina Republican Party.
So naturally, Donald Trump threw his weight behind the ever-loyal Wood, right? No, of course not, because this is Donald Trump we’re talking about. Trump endorsed the other Republican in the race, who ended up winning. And so Wood’s last ditch effort at saving himself from the abyss has gone down in flames, because Trump predictably stabbed him in the back.
The thing is, though, eventually people like Trump find that this kind of manipulation catches up with them. When he’s criminally indicted in New York, he won’t be able to simply have one of his suckers take the blame. He’ll surely try, but that never works when you’re talking about the kind of straightforward financial crimes that Trump has been caught committing red handed. Lin Wood is toast, but so is Trump – and they both deserve it.
