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Anyone who is concerned about the future of America, and how what happend COULD happen, needs to invest an hour or two of the 168 hours God gives us each week, to read this story (and maybe read it again) AND Byrne's background. It's a strategy similar to reading Atlas Shrugged and then The Passion of Ayn Rand - a sort-of natural hedge against ingesting biased data or engaging in hero-worship.

My assessment (not that anyone cares) is if you take Byrne's account and remove the self-aggrandized bits and his weakness for affinity-bias, you get a VERY compelling picture of what likely happened. In short, Trump put too much faith into a clearly feeble Rudy (who wasn't cut out for the job, and frankly looked on TV to be only few years behind Biden on the Pathway to "huh?") and an incompetent set of bureaucrats. Byrne's account is VERY accurate for those of us who've seen good and bad "war room" types of operations. His observation about law firm management is spot-on.

I doubt very much the "look at how badazz I am" dimension of his Thanksgiving Day dressing down of the Mediocrity though he strikes me as the type of guy who likely gave the Mediocrity a piece of his mind. It's also very likely that Powell and Byrne share a similar mindset and that affinity-bias likely clouds any related objectivity in his accounting.

But these are details. The incompetence detailed in this account rings very true. Yes, the law breakers are the guilty parties. They had the upper hand, and clearly also had many tentacles. But three teams beat the Pats in the Super Bowl over the years...an outstanding defense with bright people hungry for truth may have made a difference. Sadly, it seems same part of the President's brain that gave us Sessions likely gave us Rudy.

It's also very likely that Powell and Byrne share a similar mindset and that affinity-bias likely clouds any related objectivity in his accounting.

I am of the opinion that the road not taken, invoking the Insurrection Act and the foreign interference E.O.'s, was the only way to break the catch-22 of courts not acting for lack of evidence, and the election boards hiding the evidence. That puts me in the camp of Powell and Gen. Flynn. What was the down side to that, that Pelosi would impeach Trump a second time? It was the only option, and it wasn't used, and it should have been to verify not only the presidential elections, but also the Congressional results in places like AZ and MI.

This-—with all your qualifications, which are accurate-—speaks to Trump’s greatest weakness as president, his personnel selection.

I’m a little surprised, but it suggests he ran the Trump org with one right-hand man and the kids. His picks at AG, SecState, FBI, CIA, Chief of Staff, NSA, and White House spokesman (til Sanders and McElenny (sp) were flat horrible. Pompeo was great, but he had to go through Tillerson first. Barrstool was as bad, if not worse than Sessions-—with the exception that they really did a great deal on child trafficking. De Vos was ok, Zincke and Ross were great, but SecDefs were bad. Omarosa was a joke. He shouldn’t have kept Ronna McDaniel the first time, let alone the second.

You wonder how he achieved so much in private business without being able to read people better.

Some of it is explainable by wanting to rally Republicans behind him; maybe some is that he thought they’d see how quickly he was succeeding and pitch in for America. Maybe he couldn’t afford to put someone like Cruz in a key position (maybe Cruz didn’t want it) and maybe some senators were afraid of costing Rs the majority. But whatever the explanation, the jury is still out on the USSC justices and the “must have” control positions in gubment were for the most part bad choices.