Individual 1 is self destructing
This morning the Feds at the SDNY finally made official what we all already knew: the “Individual 1” who directed Michael Cohen to commit campaign finance felonies is indeed Donald Trump. This came even as the SDNY revealed that Trump sidekick Hope Hicks was deeply involved in the criminal conspiracy. No charges are being filed against anyone, but that could be simply because they want to wait until Trump is out of office and file all the conspiracy charges at once.
In the meantime, Individual 1 is self destructing in real time. Over the weekend he told four non-white Democratic Congresswomen to “go back” to where they came from. Then he told them that “YOU CAN LEAVE” in all caps, just so no one would miss it. Then he hurled even more racist hate speech at Congresswoman Ilhan Omar last night, prompting his racist supporters to begin chanting “send her back.” It was so over-the-top racist, it caused GOP leaders to worry about what this will do to their 2020 prospects, forcing Trump to pretend to disavow the chant today.
At this point it’s no longer even clear – not to us, and maybe not even to Trump himself – what he’s trying to distract us from. His week long racist tirade started off as a calculated distraction, but he’s taken it far beyond anything that could have helped him. Now it’s just another problem for him. Was he trying to distract us from the Jeffrey Epstein scandal? That’s about to explode. Was he trying to distract from what he knew the SDNY would reveal today? Was he trying to make us forget that he has kids locked in cages?
Either way, this all adds up to one thing: Donald Trump is self destructing. He knows that if he fails to win in 2020, or if he fails to make it to 2020, he’ll be arrested and put on trial. If the Feds at the SDNY don’t get him first, the State of New York will. The more the pressure gets ratcheted up on Trump, the more he seems to fumble things. He’s going to end up fumbling his way into a prison cell.
