This one has finally come full circle

Lorraine Evanoff | 7:00 pm EDT April 5, 2024

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This week former George W. Bush Deputy Chief of Staff, Karl Rove, was praised for publicly condemning Trump’s campaign strategy of embracing the January 6th Insurrectionists. Rove, a Republican campaign strategist, is the latest high-level Republican turning against Trump. Rove even offered campaign advice to President Biden and Democrats.

In an interview with MSNBC’s Ari Melber, Rove urged Democrats to use Trump’s promises of pardoning all the convicted Jan. 6 insurrectionists against him. “If the Democrats were smart, they take January 6 and go hard at it,” Rove said. He further advised Democrats to say, “’[Trump] wants to pardon these people who attacked our Capitol.’’

Rove added, “I worked hard in that building as a young man. To me, the Congress of the United States is one of the great examples of strength of our democracy and a jewel of the Constitution.” Excuse me if I don’t get all gooey over Rove. In fact, I’m outraged at his audacity. One of the things he “worked hard” at became part of Trump’s playbook.

Back in September 2022, MSNBC host, Joy Reid and Glenn Kirschner connected the Mar-A-Lago classified documents case to a rash of deaths of American spies under Trump. Flash back to “Plamegate” in July 2003. Journalist Robert Novak of The Washington Post used information obtained from George W. Bush administration senior officials Karl Rove, Scooter Libby, and Richard Armitage to reveal CIA operative Valery Plame’s identity. In March 2007, Libby was convicted of obstruction of justice, making false statements and perjury. Otherwise, they got off Scott-free for the reckless abuse of classified information.

So, Karl Rove is going to have to do more to gain our respect. He should publicly endorse Biden for President and perhaps even some of the Democrats running against 20 of the 170 sitting Congress members who are still election deniers currently on the ballot.

Lorraine Evanoff

Chicago native Lorraine Evanoff earned her degree in French from DePaul University then became a Certified Financial Manager. She worked as a finance exec in film production for seven years in Paris, then in Silicon Valley during the dot-com era, and later for various Hollywood production companies, notably as CFO of National Lampoon. She is currently living in Los Angeles with her husband.