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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If I saw him, I would throw this in his face: https://youtu.be/OWASwBWyUXI
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cruel!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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I think Rush has focused well on the likes of Bill Kristol. For years, like a carnival side show barker, Kristol and Fred Barnes and the Weekly Standard crowd lured conservative initiates on to cruises to learn more from the insiders about how Washington works. I can imagine what was taught.
When the Do-Something candidate came along to fulfill their stated dreams - they switched to Hillary Clinton and Joe Biden. How else to explain this conundrum except that they were carnival side show barkers leading unsuspecting initiates - like the Pied Piper led the town youths - astray?
Once exposed they just became empty suits.
Worried about a Coup? This is really rich coming from the man who Tweeted:
Several of you have asked, What IS path forward? Well, we’re working on it. Disposing of Trump & overcoming Trumpism can’t be done in a day. May 16, 2017.
Link has his Tweets, which are linkable.
Bill, just imagine your neck is like Maxwell House — good to the last drop.
Didn't Patrick Byrne say Cipollone was giving Trump bad advice?
Does Kristol know something about Cipollones' role in the Oval Office?
Very good read.
Trump is in their heads 24/7
They live in fear, looking over their shoulders continuously.
Trump moves through them like a deadly ghost, and drops them dead with a mere gesture.Their deep state feeding troughs are dried up and empty, and they face starvation. The Swamp creatures are very worried.And well they should be, America is awakening.
Whether PDJT keeps his rightful place or not in many ways is now moot. The Swamp will die the death of 75 million cuts even without our fearless leader, but we love him and want him in his rightful place.
Let them feel the wrath of Khan.
Kristol used to get pies thrown at him on stage by democrat students at colleges.
I never liked this warmongering neocon.
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