Back in 2009, the GOP kicked the Democrats’ ass on messaging the new ACA, Obama’s signature achievement. The day after the bill was signed, Obama hit the road, Biden hit the road, Pelosi hit the road, and Reid hit the road in a desperate attempt to do an image rehab on the unpopular bill and turn it around.
As we speak, Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill is further underwater in polling than the ACA ever was. And where is Traitor Tot? What is he doing, where is he going to try to turn the bill’s image around before it becomes baked in permanently? He’s busy handing out verbal penny dreadful’s to the great unwashed. His Lowness could care less about the stupid bill/law, his ass and reputation are on the line here.
MSNBC is reporting that the Deputy Attorney General is spending a second day interviewing Ghislaine Maxwell in federal prison. Which leads me to only two possible conclusions, either he’s so desperate to stay out of his mom’s basement that he’ll even do this job, or he’s just as brain dead soulless as the rest of Trump’s administration.
But here’s the McGuffin. It’s a stupid circle-jerk in which there are no possible actual winners, but a scenario in which everybody can easily lose. Follow me here.
For starters, this poor clod in the AG’s office may just as well be spending a four day weekend at his desk making sh*t up. The only way that Maxwell does any good is if the name Trump never passes a single pair of lips. The interview must be completely sanitized of even a hint of Traitor Tot complicity.
And even then it isn’t worth the paper it’s scribbled on. All you need to know about El Pendejo Presidente’s Q-Anon base is this. Their entire world is a conspiracy theory. They’ve convinced themselves that their new neighbors actually ran over their dog four years ago, just so the damn thing wouldn’t bark in the yard all night when they moved in a week ago.
They don’t want to read some stupid transcript of a jailhouse interview. And they don’t want to hear from Baywatch Barbie, or some flunky aide pedaling bullsh*t. What they want is to see and hear Ghislaine Maxwell on prime time network news in a congressional hearing. And if she doesn’t nail Traitor Tot to the wall, then it’s Total Recall brought to life. RFK Jr. erased her memory and reprogrammed her brain.
Personally, I’m confused by Maxwell’s whole role in this, as well as doubting the mental competence of her lawyer. She is truly in a no-win situation. Obviously she’s uber pissed about being the only one in the clink, without access to a hairdresser with just one name, and no access to satin lingerie. But she’s the odd man out.
If she goes before a committee and truthfully spills her guts, and Baron von Schitzenpantz survives, then the prison gates will open when she’s 80 years old. But if she perjures herself to clear Trump, she is obviously dealing for the one thing that Il Douche can’t give her.
The only thing that does Ghislaine Maxwell any good is a pardon, and a one way ticket back to London. Because if he does, then he guarantees that two things will happen, both of them disastrous to him. First, his MAGA base will immediately bay for his blood, for personally engineering a cover up to keep Maxwell silent with her freedom. And second, every member of his MAGA caucus will be trapped in their offices by hordes of not only MAGA supporters with pitchforks and torches, but also regular constituents outraged that a vicious pedophile groomer has been sprung from the can.
In that case, we’ve come full circle, but times ten. Right now it’s pretty much only the MAGA base that’s screaming for the release of the unredacted FBI Epstein Files. If FrankenTrump f*cks this up, everybody will be screaming for the release of the Epstein Files, including his own MAGA caucus. And then you’re back to what John Oliver refers to as Stupid Watergate. Turn over the Epstein File, or be impeached and convicted on a near unanimous vote. Oh, what a tangled web we weave, when first we practice to deceive.
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Best all round scenario: T pardons her. She flies off to wherever. She, thumbing her nose at him, writes her book and tells all….. Only issue is that it has to be published PDQ while T is still around to have it read to him.