Everyone Trump Touches Dies: The List

[babylonsister]

And it's a heckuva list indeed!


Everyone Trump Touches Dies: The List
He revealed people for what they really were.
Jonathan V. Last



Bill Barr? He gone.

Barr began the Year of Our Lord 2016 as a well respected member of the conservative legal establishment. He concludes 2020 with his reputation destroyed, destined to be remembered as the most dishonorable attorney general in a century. The fact that he tried to salvage his legacy in the closing weeks of his tenure looks less like a man standing up and more like Meat Loaf.

He would do anything for Trump. But he won’t do . . . that.

A wise man once prophesied that everything Trump touches dies. And while this turns out not to be as reliable as a law of thermodynamics, it works just fine as a general rule of thumb.

Every presidential administration chews up and spits out one or two people. There are always guys who enter an administration looking like normal, upstanding citizens and exit having been revealed as hucksters, frauds, or criminals. G. Gordon Liddy. Pat Buchanan. Cap Weinberger. John Poindexter. Sometimes the people who get rendered by a president are good guys who catch a bad break, like Mike Espy.

But the sheer number of people who had their lives and/or careers destroyed over four years of swimming in Donald Trump’s slipstream is kind of staggering.

So let’s take a walking tour through the human wreckage of the Trump years.

Because, with just a few important exceptions—most notably the Republican Senate majority—pretty much everyone Trump touched, died.

They Lost Everything

(1) Paul Manafort was an anonymous conservative consultant who had parlayed his years as a political operative into untold riches. Until he took a call from Donald Trump and agreed to become his campaign manager. That was June 20, 2016. Manafort was fired on August 17, 2016.

Because of the 58 days he spent working for Trump, Manafort wound up losing everything. He lost his license to practice law. He was arrested, tried, and sentenced to 47 months in jail. In separate charges, he pled guilty to conspiracy to defraud the United States and witness tampering, and for this was fined $22 million and had an additional 30 months tacked on to his sentence. Probably not worth it. (Unless the alternative was getting whacked by some Russian mobsters, I guess).

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[TheBlackAdder]

1. That's probably like reading War & Peace.

[Hekate]

2. His list is not nearly long enough. Otherwise excellent.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

3. He may have gotten overwhelmed when researching.

It's a very dense 4 years. Bill Moyers tried to document all the garbage on trump going back to the '70s and ended up having to move to a new web server from the load.

[Hekate]

4. Over time, I have been very impressed with the sheer number of people I never heard of...

...who evidently had careers of good repute, or so it seemed when they were appointed to something by Trump. “Ooooh, Barr is such an institutionalist!” and so forth.

And then, not long into their new career with Trump, it was revealed that what they had was a long career of grifting, and worse. Absolutely no one appointed by Trump gets away clean.

Just amazing.