Another thing that you couldn’t make up if you were a novelist and have anybody believe is what happened to Ed Martin after Thom Tillis shut him down and how that impacts the life of George Santos. We haven’t heard from Georgy Porgy in a few days and that isn’t because he hasn’t been around, it’s because he’s been busy trying to figure out exactly which avenue to travel along to get to his destination, which is a pardon from Donald Trump. Today Fate threw George a bone.
Director of the Weaponization Working Group. It behooves everybody in Congress to jot down that title, because that is who is going to be making peoples’ lives hell from here on out. But for the moment, what is one Rep or senator’s nemesis is George Santos’ possible salvation.
So where does this new appointment of Ed Martin as “Pardon Attorney” put Santos? The commentary that has followed Santos’ conviction and his desire for a Trump pardon has been that Santos burned the wrong people, i.e., Republicans and more specifically Republican donors. Santos blew a safe red congressional seat. And he wasted money that was donated to elect him and gave the party yet another black eye. This is what’s going against Santos.
So what would make Trump change his mind? If you have a clue, please send your thoughts to George Santos. He thinks of nothing else every waking minute and when he’s asleep he’s got non stop nightmares on the subject.
Probably the only thing that would sway Trump to pardon Santos would be to own the libs but the libs aren’t at all who hung Santos or who wants to see Santos hung. Santos hung himself. That may be why Trump lets him swing on the end of a rope (seven years sentence) after all. Santos is a loser in Trump parlance. He got caught. Winners don’t get caught only suckers and losers. And Trump won’t save a sucker or a loser.
Would Trump save Santos to give Ed Martin a certain cache of power? That’s a 50/50 coin toss. Martin would have to argue why Santos was the victim of lawfare, weaponization of government, all that, but again the same argument applies: Santos’ crimes were so clumsy, stupid, blatant and obvious that there’s no need to argue lawfare. It’s open and shut stupidity.
So that devolves down to the next level of the argument, will Trump (and Martin) save Santos from his own stupidity? Again, put it at a coin toss. Trump saved Michele Fiore from her own stupidity. Fiore was a Las Vegas City Councilwoman at one point and ran for State Treasurer and mercifully (for Nevadans) lost. It’s a mercy Fiore isn’t in charge of the coffers of the state since she raised money, ostensibly to honor dead police officers, and then pocketed it and partied on it. So Fiore did herself in and was sentenced to a few years in prison, but Trump rode up like the white knight and rescued her.
In all truth, it would not surprise me if Martin or Trump did in fact flip a coin to decide George Santos’ fate. That is the level of competence and seriousness that everything in this administration is approached with, which is to say zero.
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If they can’t save Santos from ‘open and shut stupidity’ the rest don’t stand a chance either.
A small silver lining perhaps?