Someone is brilliantly rope-a-doping Donald Trump Jr. into incriminating himself
If you’re a public figure caught up in a scandal, the most dangerous moment for you is when pieces of the story first start being reported. You know the whole story, but you don’t know how much more of it might end up surfacing. So if you admit to what’s already surfaced but you deny anything worse, you run the risk of being discredited entirely when the other shoe drops. Over the past few days, someone appears to have been strategically doing this to Donald Trump Jr. on purpose.
And no I’m not referring to the New York Times. They’ve done an excellent, insightful job of reporting the story of Donald Trump Jr. and Russia. But I don’t believe for one minute that they made the decision to split the story out over the course of three (or perhaps more) separate days. From the media’s perspective, the whole point of a bombshell is the size of the explosion: if you have it all, you put it all out in one legendary article. So its a fair conclusion that this is being reported piecemeal by the day because the source for this story is feeding the details to the NY Times one escalating piece at a time. And I think I know why.
First came the report that Junior had met with a Kremlin operative during the campaign. So he admitted to it, but he claimed the meeting was about adoption. Then the next day came the escalating report that the meeting was about dirt on Hillary Clinton. So Junior admitted to that as well, but he tried to retain a sliver of legal deniability by claiming that he didn’t know the meeting was going to be with a Kremlin operative. And then came the devastating third report about an email which proved Junior knew in advance that the meeting would be about getting dirt on Hillary from the Kremlin.
By using this rope-a-dope strategy, the New York Times source has managed to get Donald Trump Jr. to change his story repeatedly. And as any prosecutor will tell you, significantly changing ones story is evidence of consciousness of guilt. So Junior is effectively incriminating himself in a manner that goes beyond the incriminating facts being reported about him. This is turning out to be far more devastating for him than if the story had all surfaced at once, as he could have at least had the benefit of not having lied about it multiple times along the way.
It’s still not known who the New York Times Source is for this ongoing story. Unnamed members of the White House staff have been confirming specific details of the story to the Times when asked, but they don’t appear to be the source to begin with. The truth is we may never find out for sure who’s behind this. All we know is that someone is playing Donald Trump Jr. in brilliant fashion, tricking him into assisting with his own demise. If you’re a regular reader, feel free to support Palmer Report
