Even Mick Mulvaney now says Donald Trump is heading for prison
There are people in the political realm who, despite being corrupt and dishonest and having nothing to offer anyone, have a way of knowing how to stick around and survive. One big part of that is knowing precisely when to bail on what and whom. Now that Donald Trump is powerless and beginning to circle the criminal justice system drain, some of those “survivor” types within Trump’s own ranks are now throwing him under the bus accordingly.
First Trump’s former White House lawyer Ty Cobb publicly stated last month that Trump is likely going to prison. Then Trump’s former Attorney General Bill Barr said that if even half of what’s in the DOJ indictment is correct, Trump is “toast.” Now Trump’s other former White House Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney is saying that Trump’s odds of going to prison “are pretty high.”
It’s not that any of these people suddenly had a moral awakening or grew a spine or anything like that. It’s just that they can now clearly see that Donald Trump is going down, and they want to be relevant in the political sphere once he’s gone. They’re calculating that now is the right time to publicly admit that Trump is toast.
It’s the same instinct that prompted Trump’s supposedly very loyal former White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows to testify against Trump to the DOJ grand jury. Meadows ultimately had to decide whether to help send Trump to prison, or go to prison himself. And Meadows chose himself. In the end, Republicans always do whatever whatever they think benefits themselves the most. Trump is now a victim of the Republican Party’s “every cretin for himself” mentality that he used to benefit from.
