quid pro quos

[oldtime dfl_er]

I just want to know one thing. We all know that TFG never does anything unless it benefits him personally. EVERYTHING is transactional with him. So when he released the 5000, when he and Pompeo were negotiating with the Taliban, when he gave them everything they wanted...what did he get in return? I've read theories such as "he wanted the glory" etc but I call BS on those. There's gotta be $$ involved, right?

[brush]

1. He did want the glory, but he expected to be in office now and able to follow up...

further once the evacuation was over and he'd gotten the credit for doing what no other president could possibly had done. Wtih the Taliban in place as the national government, he'd try to work the usual...you know... kickbacks, hotels, golf courses, the grifts he's familiar with. He expected to dispatch the two idiot sons to do the actual building and business end while Kushner and the princess would grease the skids on the government and diplomacy end of the operation to facilitate permits and all.

Oh, yeah. He was expecting to get a payoff. And who knows if some of the federal money going to the Afghani government that was then doled out to the corrupt operatives in place all through the government, weren't kicking back?

[stillcool]

2. maybe the Saudi's were involved

or any other major player in the region. It's always about the money. That's the only glory he and his kind understand.

[RockRaven]

3. I dunno, he obsessed about seeing headlines and chyrons giving him credit for stuff.

He often babbled about his headlines etc in public and to the press, happy when he got the ones he wanted, and angry/petulant when he did not.

He's sick enough to get 5000 Taliban fighters freed if that was the price of his "TFG ends Afghanistan war" headline. It's not like he was paying that particular bill anyway, others were, so he wouldn't care about the consequences.

I think insisting he must have been paid with money is setting the bar too high, that gives him credit for being a certain class of criminal, so to speak. But his standards are so much lower than that.

[pwb]

4. It all boils down to he thought he was going to win.

And not have to answer to all this. Same as the Capitol attackers, they thought he would save them. IMO.