Donald Trump’s rats are eating him alive

| 10:01 pm EDT August 19, 2018
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This morning Donald Trump revealed quite a bit about his worldview when he referred to Richard Nixon’s White House Counsel John Dean as a “RAT” for testifying against Nixon. History remembers Dean as a courageous hero who did the right thing; Trump is condemning Dean for having been personally disloyal to his criminal boss. But it’s funny that Trump is talking about people ratting each other out, because his own proverbial rats are now eating each other – and him – alive.

Just in the past few weeks we’ve seen so many of Trump’s people stab each other in the back, it’s been difficult to keep track. Omarosa has begun releasing humiliating secret recordings of Donald Trump and his advisers and his family in order to promote her new book. Michael Cohen released an incriminating recording just to spite Trump. Rick Gates testified against Paul Manafort. Oh, and everyone is testifying before the grand jury against Roger Stone.

To give you an idea of how nervous Donald Trump and his people are about all of this, consider that Stone just posted an image to Instagram depicting his fellow former Trump adviser (and former friend) Sam Numberg as a rat. This comes after Cohen posted a tweet claiming that Omarosa was lying, and Trump called Omarosa a “dog.” Now that Cohen has just been informed he’ll likely be charged and arrested within two weeks, we’ll see if and when he cuts his inevitable plea deal against Trump.

This may help explain why Donald Trump had the concept of a “rat” in mind when he was ranting this morning. He’s publicly insisting that his own White House Counsel Don McGahn hasn’t actually ratted him out, but Trump surely knows different. McGahn has been ratting him out for ten months, right under his nose. We’ll see how history ends up remembering McGahn, if he’s remembered at all. But it’s really starting to look like Trump will be remembered as having been taken down by his own handpicked, underhanded people.