Donald Trump’s ticking timebomb
Approval rating polls suggest that the majority of Americans think Donald Trump is a ticking timebomb. He’s a mentally unstable lunatic with personal and financial allegiances to America’s foreign enemies, who can’t get through a full day without humiliating the nation he’s illegitimately pretending to lead. But as bad off as America is right now, Trump has it even worse off. He’s sitting on a ticking timebomb which is set to go off much sooner than he’d like.
Over the past few weeks, cable news has taken everything that’s transpired and spun it into a story about how Trump is going to fire someone at any minute, which is going to magically get him off the hook in the Russia scandal, and we should all therefore panic, and the only way to stop Trump from getting away with it all is to stay tuned in. What’s being left out is why Trump is suddenly making so many desperate, jarring, and weird moves right now with respect to the Russia scandal: he knows he’s down to the end of it.
Special Counsel Robert Mueller has signaled that he’s ready to interview Trump about the Russia scandal. This means that the investigation, or at least the obstruction of justice phase of it, is all but finished. The kingpin is only interviewed at the very end, after prosecutors have already worked their way up the ranks and figured out whether the kingpin is guilty.
Donald Trump’s lawyers certainly understand how these things work, and they’ve surely explained it to their client. He knows that Mueller has him nailed for obstruction of justice, that it’s a done deal, and that it’s all imminently going to hit the fan for him. It’s why he’s firing off everything he has left. From the looks of it, he has far less in his arsenal than one might have expected. We’ll see what nonsense he tries next, but he’s playing with a bad hand and he’s nearly out of chips.
