“What do I have to lose?”
The toxic battle between Donald Trump’s attorneys is getting worse. These lawyers won’t stop squabbling with each other. But they are not the only ones. There is a curse as it relates to anyone who signs on to the infeasible task of advising Donald Trump.
In Trump’s last days in the White House, Pat Cipollone and Jeffrey Clark also got into it. The reason for that is because of what is being defined as a “murder-suicide pact.” Clark reportedly came up with a stunningly idiotic plan to “send official letter letters to multiple state legislatures falsely alerting them that the election may have been stolen and urging them to reconsider certified election results.”
According to multiple reports, Pat was aghast at this idea, quickly declaring it murder-suicide, and told Trump not to have anything to do with the letter. Others, too, tried to talk sense into Trump. But his answer remained the same.And they even decided to quit en masse if Trump sent the letter. Here was Trump’s response. “What do I have to lose?”
Think about those reckless words. Whenever someone utters – “What have I got to lose?” things could go either way. In Trump’s case, they went awry, as they always do whenever Donald Trump is involved.
“That letter is a murder-suicide pact,” Cipollone reportedly told Trump. It’s good that at least ONE person close to Trump showed a little levelheadedness. Richard Donoghue, formerly of the DOJ, said he, too, tried to stop that letter from being sent, and what he got back was the infamous phrase: “What do I have to lose?”
Trump perhaps uttered those exact words when he tried to bribe Ukraine. And when he made that call to Georgia: “looking for” votes. He likely retorted them — or at least thought them — when he took documents that didn’t belong to them.
He may have mused on those words when he failed to stop the insurrection. “What do I have to lose?” The answer to that question, Mr. Trump, is — your freedom. I hope it was worth it to you.
