Posted on 12/22/2020 2:10:22 PM PST by RandFan
@BillKristol
1. This thread is based on recent conversations with people whose information and judgment I trust, who in turn have spoken candidly with Trump appointees still on the inside.
Here's a question: Why did Trump and Barr, when they negotiated Barr's departure, settle on Dec. 23?
2. It could, obviously, be kind of random--a date picked last week to allow Barr to get things in order, an accommodation of Barr's family schedule, etc. But it could also be that Barr very much wanted to get out before Dec. 24, and/or that Trump wanted him out by then.
3. One obvious possibility discussed in the White House: Trump has spoken about a bunch of pardons on Christmas Eve. Some of the names may have been too much for Barr--so they agreed on his departure on Dec. 23.
4. (Or the pardons will be a few days later, but the principle holds--Barr wanted out, or Trump wanted him out, first.) But it could be more than pardons. Yesterday Barr suggested there were several things he wouldn't do that Trump wanted him to do as AG...
5. ...ranging from appointing special counsels for Hunter Biden or election fraud, to giving a legal ok for seizing voting machines or for various types of Insurrection Act-type moves by the president. Can one be confident Barr's successor as AG, Jeffrey Rosen, will also say no?
6. I'm told not. I'm told the very ambitious Rosen has pushed on earlier occasions for carrying out Trump's will only to be stopped by Barr. And people who've worked with Rosen say they wouldn't be surprised to see him, as AG, hasten to try to do Trump's will.
7. In the past, Rosen has been allied with some in the White House counsel's office and others elsewhere in the White House who've been for going whole hog for Trump, as a friend put it. They've run up against resistance from Barr but also from WH Counsel Pat Cipollone.
8. The departure of Cipollone would be a signal, as one person put it, that "all bets are off."
9. I'm also reliably told senior military officials in the Pentagon are more, not less, alarmed than they were a few weeks ago when Mark Esper was fired. The new crew of Trump loyalists in the most senior civilian positions don't seem there only to burnish their resumes, as...
10. ...one person put it. They're trying to figure out, in coordination with people in the White House, "how to make things happen." The senior military obviously retain considerable clout, to say the least. But the discussions they're having among themselves are unprecedented--
11. ...more sober and weighty than those of 1974 in the weeks before Nixon's resignation. And the difference is that Jim Schlesinger was then Secretary of Defense, committed to checking an unstable and desperate president, not to helping one.
12. All of these alarms, one hopes and trusts, will come to nothing, or at least to not too much. And the coup, in the end, will fail. But that something more than we've seen so far won't be tried--of that people aren't so confident.
13. The first thing to look for is what, if anything, happens on Dec. 24.
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Sure. Bill Krystal is.full of shtt.
Attention-seeking.
If the senior military don’t obey the president’s orders, then they should be broken in rank and shown the door.
Bill Kristol is like CNN, the mouthpiece of the CIA.
Yep.
Creepy joe will never be a POTUS.
“And the coup, in the end, will fail...”
Probably a case of toxic shock due to being “unsanitary”.
And I thought it would be a quiet Covid Christmas.
The “upside” to any of this happening would mean it ruins Christmas Eve and Christmas Day for the media. And who doesn’t love that?
Indeed.
Christmas falling on a Friday, Christmas Eve would be a great day doing something to avoid people paying attention over the holidays. The ultimate Friday afternoon news dump, only on a Thursday. Expect something to happen of interest.
Bill Krystal is funny to suggest Trump is part of some “coup” attempt when it is clear as anything that we saw an attempted coup against him.
Why would Kristol be terrified of a special prosecutor on Biden?
Bill Kristol is the enemy. He is Hillary Clinton without the Pantsuits. If he is worried about Trump and tossing out accusations of a coup, you can bet things are going well for the good guys and bad for the bad guys.
Some people are chronically worried about being worried.
They are cynical and jaded, expecting the worst in everyone around them.
Whatever President Trump does to correct the Democrat/RINO/Chyna/Iran/Serbia/DOJ coup, I will be there to support it in any and all ways I can.
10. ...one person put it. They're trying to figure out, in coordination with people in the White House, "how to make things happen." The senior military obviously retain considerable clout, to say the least. But the discussions they're having among themselves are unprecedented--
11. ...more sober and weighty than those of 1974 in the weeks before Nixon's resignation. And the difference is that Jim Schlesinger was then Secretary of Defense, committed to checking an unstable and desperate president, not to helping one.
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Bill and his buddies are portraying President Trump's consideration of the Insurrection and as proof he is an "unstable and desperate president" and claim the military is helping Trump when they should be controlling his irational behavior.
Trump asserts that the election was stolen. The majority of voters believes tthere was vote fraud. Bill and Co. are acting like President Trump's efforts to expose the fraud are an irrational response to "losing" the stolen election.
Bill is fanning fear. Barr is stepping down and his resplacement has former association with General Flynn - this puts the DOJ in synch with Flynn and the military in terms of how they may be called upon to manage the insurrection act (or martial law).
FWIW: I don't think Barr is leaving because he fears President Trump's rational state or decisions. Here's my take on Barr:
https://freerepublic.com/focus/chat/3917114/posts?page=30#30
Kristol and co are going to make sure to fan panic.
Sounds to me that he's having a bad LSD trip. Maybe seeing Santa Claus or something.
SPJNK.
“Bill Kristol is like CNN, the mouthpiece of the CIA.”
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More like the anus of the CIA - discharging an unbelievably foul effluvia.
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