Donald Trump's Dilemma

[no_hypocrisy]

Your kid screwed up. Screwed up like it's gonna screw you up as well.

You want to "hit back ten times as hard". You can't handle incompetence, stupidity. The fruit of your loins screwed you.

You can't fire him because that would leave Tweedle-Dum alone, running the company.

But you can't humiliate him in public because his loyalty will decidedly be tested.


Karma's kinda fun, isn't it?

[Shaddox]

1. I don't think the Orange Psycho has ever encountered a dilemma

Because this requires the intellectual and moral development necessary to identify a dilemma. His first instinct is always his own needs. I think his handlers have historically had to deal with "dilemmas" for him, or had to explain why a situation might represent a "dilemma" for a normal functioning person, but I don't think DT has the capacity to suffer any form of internal or external conflict.

[Wellstone ruled]

2. Sure does appear to be his personal pattern through his life at this point.

Malignant Narcissist's tend to travel this route.

We all know it is all about him and him alone.

[customerserviceguy]

3. Here's how he's going to deal with it

Don Junior and Kushner are not politicians or lawyers, they are only experienced at doing business deals. And when you deal at the level they were at, you look for any advantage you can get in dealing with an opponent. Some community group is threatening the permit for your megabuilding, and somebody offers you information on the top dog in the group, which can make the opposition go away? You take it, pure and simple.

That's how Trump is going to view this, and he's going to pin the blame on Manafort. Paul Manafort is an experience political operative who should have known enough to stop that meeting, and frankly, his approval of it by being there is what probably lulled the two Trump family members into the situation.

Now, ignorance of the law is not innocence, but the above rationale will be used by Donald Trump to pardon his son and his son-in-law, once the investigations have run their course. Manafort will be the scapegoat, and the guy he pushed aside, Corey Lewandowski will grease the skids here.

I still don't know where Flynn figures in all of this pardon business, it all depends on what comes out from the investigation. But it would not surprise me if he got a pardon, he's been a Trump loyalist from the get-go. Manafort was just a hired hand who didn't do his job by putting the kibosh on this meeting.

Too outrageous for Donald Trump? I wouldn't put anything past him. And his followers will shout their approval.