Donald Trump’s weird endgame
Does the increasingly delusional Donald Trump still have enough of a toehold in the real world to acknowledge to himself that the odds are against him? Does the increasingly mentally incompetent Trump have enough marbles left to understand what’s happening to him? Is he even giving his attorneys any guidance anymore, or are they just making it up as they go? No one knows for sure – but his attorneys are now revealing how they plan to handle that endgame.
Trump’s attorney Ty Cobb told CBS News last night that he now expects Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s Trump-Russia investigation to last another four to six weeks (link). It’s not possible that Cobb truly believes this unless he’s stopped paying attention to the news altogether, because CNN reported earlier in the day that Mueller had just filed court paperwork extending the George Papadopoulos case by another three months (link). Mueller isn’t even close to being finished with the first guy he flipped, let alone Michael Flynn any whoever else he’s flipped without anyone knowing about.
Yet Cobb is nonetheless insisting that the Mueller probe will end somewhere in the second half of February. This was after he spent November and December selling Trump on the idea that it would finished by year’s end. Trump keeps publicly insisting that he’s not even personally under investigation, which is astounding when one considers that every move Mueller has made has obviously been aimed at building a case against Trump. Oh, and Cobb now says that Trump will definitely agree to be interviewed by Mueller, after Trump told the media that he probably would, and probably would not, speak to Mueller within the span of two days.
So this is Donald Trump’s endgame, as plotted by him or his attorneys. He keeps giving Robert Mueller more time, even though it’s not really up to him to begin with. He keeps convincing himself that he’s not even under investigation. And his attorneys are confident that they’ll be able to talk him into speaking with Mueller, even though that’ll be the end of him. This endgame gets weirder by the day.
