Donald Trump throws his entire campaign under the bus
Sooner or later, a sociopathic career criminal like Donald Trump ends up sacrificing everyone around him, in the hope of surviving his own criminal scandals just a bit longer. Each time the Feds have picked off one of Trump’s top loyalists (Flynn, Manafort, Gates, Papadopoulos, Cohen, etc), Trump has responded by distancing himself and trying to minimize the role they played for him. Now Trump has reached the desperation point where he’s throwing everyone from his campaign under the bus.
Trump posted a tweet today which, on the surface, read like a simple attack on President Obama, Hillary Clinton, and the FBI, three of Trump’s favorite targets. But parse it more closely, and you realize his real target here: “Why didn’t President Obama do something about the so-called Russian Meddling when he was told about it by the FBI before the Election? Because he thought Crooked Hillary was going to win, and he didn’t want to upset the apple cart! He was in charge, not me, and did nothing.”
Trump is now tacitly taking the position that, sure, his campaign was illegally conspiring with Russia during the election – but it wasn’t his fault. Why didn’t Obama and the FBI do something to stop the criminals in charge of Trump’s campaign from committing all these crimes? Trump is now trying to set up his final line of defense. Shortly after Trump was named the winner of the election, Palmer Report predicted that in the end, Trump would try to convince us that he was too naive to know that his entire campaign was committing serious crimes under his nose. Sure enough, that’s what he’s doing here. But there’s more to it.
Even as Donald Trump was throwing all of his campaign advisers under the bus today, he was publicly speaking up on behalf of his White House advisers. He posted this weird tweet, which reads like very bad poetry: “Who’s going to give back the young and beautiful lives (and others) that have been devastated and destroyed by the phony Russia Collusion Witch Hunt? They journeyed down to Washington, D.C., with stars in their eyes and wanting to help our nation…They went back home in tatters!”
Why is Donald Trump taking this approach? Most of his top campaign people have already sold him out, so he’s throwing them under the bus. But he’s still hoping to convince his White House advisers not to testify against him, so he’s publicly defending them. Of course, when the time comes, Trump will throw his White House advisers under the bus as well. Everyone loyal to a criminal like Trump takes the fall for him eventually.
