You can tell Trump has been badly rattled by Michael
Cohen’s flipping on him. The crucial evidence is that Trump has not come up
with a single nickname for his former lawyer and fixer.
No “Stoolie Cohen.”
No “Stoolie Cohen.”
No “Mikey the Rat.”
No “Rent-a-Thug.”
Nothing.
Clearly Cohen has thrown Trump off his game.
I picture our pathetic president these days as knocking
around with his surviving henchmen in his inner sanctum saying things like, “Cohen
said he’d take a bullet for me. I’d like to give him a bullet or two. Just let
me catch him in the middle of Fifth Avenue!”
“Now Manafort, there’s a mug that knows how to
take a bullet. Classy guy, great clothes. Damned if I won’t pardon him as soon
as Congress tells me the coast is clear.”“And Congress – they better watch themselves. If I catch any of them being disloyal, I’ll drop them like a used-up wife.”
“I’m not just sweating for myself. It’s my family,
too. Nobody better lay a hand, or an indictment, on any of them. Okay, maybe they
can mess with Jared, but they better leave the others alone – Ivanka, Don
Junior and what’s his name.”
And so on.
Clearly the days of Trump as an effective president, or capo di tutti capi, or whatever, are over. I don’t believe he will be impeached, based on the information that has been released so far. In fact, it’s mainly Republicans who are talking about the possiblity of impeachment, probably as a way to motivate their base to vote. But, as more and more ugliness oozes out of the Oval Office, the prospect of impeachment may ultimately become real. But short of impeachment, Trump’s ability to get anything done has been drastically diminished by the ever-growing heap of incriminating evidence against him.
Clearly the days of Trump as an effective president, or capo di tutti capi, or whatever, are over. I don’t believe he will be impeached, based on the information that has been released so far. In fact, it’s mainly Republicans who are talking about the possiblity of impeachment, probably as a way to motivate their base to vote. But, as more and more ugliness oozes out of the Oval Office, the prospect of impeachment may ultimately become real. But short of impeachment, Trump’s ability to get anything done has been drastically diminished by the ever-growing heap of incriminating evidence against him.
Let me conclude here with a list of the seven people
and things that, as of now, I believe Trump hates and fears most:
1. Michael
Cohen
2. Robert
Mueller
3. James
Comey
4. Jeff
Sessions
5. Attention
directed at anyone but himself
6. Admiration
expressed for anyone but himself
7. Justice
Justice (From "The Best Schools")
