Donald Trump’s Saturday Night Ass-acre
When Richard Nixon realized he was going down if he didn’t do something desperate, he began firing just about everyone who was in position to expose his crimes. To this day it’s known as the Saturday Night Massacre. Donald Trump seems at times to be vaguely aware that he’s in trouble, as he drifts in and out of his delusions. But instead of firing everybody, Trump has been trying and failing to fire a number of key people, making an ass of himself in the process. It just got even worse.
Sure, Trump fired a number of people early on who were a threat to expose his crime spree: Acting Attorney General Sally Yates, U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara, and FBI Director James Comey, just to name the headliners. After Comey’s firing directly led to the appointment of a more powerful Special Counsel to take over the investigation into Trump’s crimes, Trump decided to fire the Special Counsel as well – until his own White House Counsel refused to go along with it, and ultimately talked him out of it. Now we know that was just the beginning of Trump’s failed firings.
Just today we learned that Trump has been trying to convince his staff to fire Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, in what would be a desperate last ditch low-percentage bid at sabotaging the Trump-Russia investigation. Trump’s own people have managed to talk him down from this as well (link). Trump is now the guy who walks into a bank with his accomplices at his side, begins trying to rob the bank, and then gives up and leaves after his accomplices inform him that the robbery isn’t likely to go well after all.
What Donald Trump doesn’t seem to get is that he’s committing additional counts of felony obstruction of justice just by trying to fire more who are investigating his crimes, even if he does back down after his own people tell him they aren’t willing to go along with his instructions. This also serves to establish a pattern of malicious intent on Trump’s part. If he tried to fire one person who was investigating him, he might be able to argue that there was some other excuse for it. Since he’s fired or tried to fire nearly everyone investigating him, he no longer has any reasonable doubt on his side.
