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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsJosh Marshall, TPM " I think the key players just arent that smart and have a lot of hubris. "
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/the-big-trumpers-still-dont-get-the-trouble-theyre-inThe Big Trumpers Still Dont Get The Trouble Theyre In
By JOSH MARSHALL Published JULY 12, 2017 12:49 PM
One issue Ive touched on here and there in my posts on the Russia probe is my abiding sense that especially the younger generation of Trumpers: Kushner, Don Jr., et al. just dont seem to grasp the magnitude of the trouble theyre in, or at least the magnitude of their legal exposure. I cant point to any one piece of evidence. Its more like every piece of evidence. The signs Im going on are a mix of public evidence, things we see unfolding in the newspapers, and my own reporting. They just dont act like people who get what theyre dealing with and are acting accordingly.
The abiding sense I get is not simply that they dont know the magnitude of the legal threat but that they dont understanding the nature of the threat either. Again and again they seem to think the legal vulnerability can be trumped by good news cycles or getting the press to focus on some other individual. They dont seem to get that a big, sprawling federal investigation like this, untethered from the political chain of command and led by one of the top law enforcement professionals of his generation, trundles onward with a perfect indifference to whether you win the morning or kill it in 10 or a 100 different news cycles. Those things just dont matter. And yet my sense at least is that Jared Kushner thinks he is helping himself by knifing his brother-in-law as though if Don Jr is at the center of a media firestorm for a few days, Mueller will just forget about him.
Here is an example of what Im talking about. This is from Mike Allens morning Axios email.
The view in Kushners orbit is that the brutal new revelations are more P.R. problems than legal problems. And if he makes progress with his Middle East peace efforts, perceptions would be very different.
Again, this strikes me as a profound and dangerous naïveté. These are certainly not PR problems. Prosecutors, meanwhile, really dont care how well youre doing on the policy front. But even if you grant the nonsensical premise that grave legal problems can be managed with good PR or even substantive policy successes this is an inane statement.
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Josh Marshall, TPM " I think the key players just arent that smart and have a lot of hubris. " (Original Post)
NRaleighLiberal
Jul 2017
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DBoon
(22,338 posts)1. The entitlement mentality of inherited wealth will do them in
They have always used money and influence to get around the rules
enough
(13,254 posts)2. Probably because they know they will all be pardoned. NT
is an exception to the presidential pardon rule
d_r
(6,907 posts)4. I think
these two bit junior mobsters believe that they have the ultimate ace in the hole - the presidential pardon.