Donald Trump set himself on fire today: resignations, firings, sheer pandemonium
Donald Trump began the day by publicly vowing to beat up former Vice President Joe Biden and make him cry. It ended up being a harbinger for the kind of startlingly chaotic day that Trump was about to have, some of which was his own doing, and some of which was a result of everything caving in on him. By the end of the day there had been firings, resignations, and sheer pandemonium as his world continues to collapse.
Early in the day, Trump’s lead lawyer in the Russia scandal, John Dowd, resigned. This came after Trump had spent days attacking Special Counsel Robert Mueller on Twitter, the worst move he could possibly have made from a legal standpoint. It’s never a good sign when a client’s behavior spins so self destructively out of control that his attorney runs away screaming, yet here we are. But that was all just a precursor for Trump’s big move of the day.
In the middle of the afternoon, Trump announced on Twitter that he had fired his National Security Adviser H.R. McMaster and replaced him with neoconservative crackpot John Bolton. This means Trump is on his third National Security Adviser in just over a year, after Michael Flynn resigned and cut a plea deal against Trump, and Bob Harward and David Petraeus both turned the job down. The hiring of John Bolton might be Trump’s most unhinged move yet, as Bolton believes nations like North Korea and Iran should be invaded and bulldozed just for fun.
This all comes after Donald Trump recently hired new Trump-Russia attorney Joseph diGenova, a conspiracy theorist who likes to go on Fox News and claim that Trump was somehow framed by the “deep state.” In other words, as Trump continues to further self destruct and descend into sheer madness, he’s surrounding himself with people who are just as whacked out as he is. Trump has virtually no political muscle left as he circles the drain, but he seems to be having fun setting himself on fire on his way down.
