The former Kash seemed free to be boldly transparent and that set his image.
POTUS was not seen checking his opinions, nor Ours, among MAGA who appreciated his opinions and statements, because he was on the same long time page as we.
Was POTUS unaware, or raincoating those opinions?
The contrast has been striking to see Kash made quiet, and only since Pam stumbled, is he peeping a bit more.
POTUS, otoh, was seen vigorously defending Pam, who has never “read a room” with any charisma in her entire professional life. Imo.
You put it well with the history of “raincoating”.
The term lends to my opinion, for closing down DC FBI & possibly the Big DC Justice Complex.
It’s as watching Bondi and Patel being somewhat “raincoated” by POTUS seemingly detached from both.
Supposedly, POTUS will not be firing Anyone in his administration, who would then be free to go out and cause him more problems, in the Party, etc., and would profit for doing so.
Why not just do a raincoat shuffle? Just as he did with the goofy replacement of Stefanik, making the stupid guy in his cabinet the US Ambassador.
Looks like rewarding the incompetent or careless, but it’s a really a measure of least resistance— self-preservation for keeping the peace, internally, on the hill, etc.
Conjecture here, of course.
I agree the contrast with Kash can seem disconcerting.
My take on it is that if you are doing a true investigation with legal requirements in place for actual prosecution, then you have to be very careful with what is and isn’t said to prevent a potential for pretrial publicity that can taint the jury pool.
Excessive pretrial publicity has been found to violate the 6th amendment in the past. Irvin v Dowd (1961), Rideau v Louisiana (1963), and Sheppard v Maxwell (1966) all resulted in the SC overturning convictions.
That Trump, if only he had 4 years of advisors screwing his program,. then he would see it. Oh wait he did, and the not mentally challenged Trump is going for an all-spectrum ass whoopin on your cohorts in real time Senor-rita. But you and the 'fire(whomever)' crowd will continue. You'll need to check your curated links you get from your master and post some so you won't look so 'concerned (as in Troll) and appear to be MAGA instead of your real loyalty MADSA.