Donald Trump finds himself vulnerable without his four hundred pound hacker
In one of the dumbest moments in the history of U.S. politics, Donald Trump used a Presidential debate to explain away Russian election interference on his behalf by suggesting that the hacking could have instead been the work of “somebody sitting on their bed that weighs four hundred pounds” (and yet 62 million people still went on to vote for the treasonous idiot). But Trump now finds himself particularly vulnerable because, to put it in his terms, the four hundred pound hacker has left the building.
In the court of public opinion, Trump’s defense in the Russia scandal all along has been that maybe there’s a chance it was someone other than the Russians. His base has gobbled it up because they want any excuse to pretend their idol is innocent. And to some degree, the people in the middle – the ones who decide his approval rating and thus whether he sinks or swims – have also settled for that excuse, even though they don’t really believe it and they don’t like him, but they don’t want to have to go through another Watergate. But now that’s all gone and changed.
Donald Trump saw an opportunity to attack President Obama over the weekend by blaming him for the fact that the Russians hacked the eletion. The trouble: in order to pull off the psycho-gymnastics, Trump had to officially admit that it was in fact that Russians who hacked the election in his favor. And so now Trump has erased his own deniability, and everyone knows it.
Sure, his base can continue to pretend. But they’re a small percentage of the country, and they alone can’t protect him. What matter is that the people in the middle have now lost their lazy excuse to not have to care about the Russia scandal. Trump has gone and taken out his own imaginary four hundred pound hacker, leaving without an ounce of deniability. That makes him more vulnerable than ever, at a time when he’s already sinking. If you’re a regular reader, feel free to support Palmer Report
