Donald Trump’s scandals are eating each other

| 4:16 pm EDT April 11, 2018
Dear Palmer Report readers, we all understand the difficult era we're heading into. Major media outlets are caving to Trump already. Even the internet itself and publishing platforms may be at risk. But Palmer Report is nonetheless going to lead the fight. We're funding our 2025 operating expenses now, so we can keep publishing no matter what happens. I'm asking you to contribute if you can, because the stakes are just so high. You can donate here.

Remember two weeks ago when somebody died in a fire at Trump Tower, and it was Donald Trump’s fault for refusing to install fire sprinklers? Just kidding, that was three days ago. Remember last month when Scott Pruitt was on the ropes? Nope, that was last week. That’s how slowly time passes in the Trump era, when one shameful and traumatic Trump scandal erupts and then quickly gets wiped off the front page by the next ugly Trump scandal. This may actually be a bigger problem than it initially appears.

The only way the Trump Tower fire death was going to be a problem for Donald Trump was if the media stayed on it long enough to convince the public to demand that something happen. Instead the story has been all but forgotten already, even though Trump may be responsible under civil law for having negligently gotten a guy killed, because Trump’s attorney’s office and residence were raided by the FBI on Monday.

Of course it has to be this way. The raid on Michael Cohen’s office, and the seizure of his communications with Donald Trump, probably turned up proof that Trump and Cohen conspired to commit serious crimes together. Just ask the judge in question, who wouldn’t have signed off on such an extraordinary warrant without believing as much. So it’s not as if the Feds could wait for the media to fully flesh out the Trump Tower fire scandal before carrying out the Cohen raid; it simply doesn’t work that way. Yet here we are, with Trump’s cascading scandals now eating into each other’s airtime. It gets worse.

Remember a week ago, when EPA boss Scott Pruitt was on the ropes with his worsening corruption scandal, and it looked like Donald Trump was going to have to fire him in order to make it go away? No one’s even talking about that anymore, because too many other Trump scandals have since erupted. The Pruitt scandal will come front and center again eventually, because his corruption is the gift that keeps on giving. But for now, a corrupt cabinet member got to keep his job because an even uglier Donald Trump criminal scandal came along. The sheer breadth and scale of Trump’s corruption may be, ironically enough, the one thing still working in his favor as he circles the drain. Click here to support Palmer Report.