McConnell, in Private, Doubts if Trump Can Save Presidency
The Former Quasi's are far more careful about their headlines than any other media outlet I am familiar with. However, in this instance that arresting lede goes beyond what the writers of the story write. The first paragraph:
The article makes the following points, the most important of which, it seems to me, is this:
"was even more animated about what he intimated was the Senate leader’s refusal to protect him from investigations of Russian interference in the 2016 election, according to Republicans briefed on the conversation."
I'm tellin' ya, Trump is going down over Russia and the Times' account confirms that Trump knows that his future calendars will be filled with daily anal love-making appointments with the booty bandit in prison unless others "protect him"--by keeping the truth of his treason from being discovered. Robert Mueller will add this phone call to the limitless list of leads to follow up upon.
Does Trump know that Mueller is listening in on every phone call he makes?
The article ends with this:
So impeachment, as well as criminal conviction, is also very much on Republicucks minds. I find that statement by Piper persuasive that Senate Republicucks are doing what they can to deep-six the Senate look-see into Russia.
The rest of the article treats of the dangers to Trump of getting into profane shouting matches with and berating his party's Senate leader. I am convinced the other way on that.
Trump still has the support of 75% of Republican voters (caveat: getting beneath 80% is considered canary-in-the-coal mine dangerous) and...Whaddya think? Bitter Larry Laughlin is gonna take the impotent tortoise's side in a fight with his "uncle"? My two brothers? Ann Marie...whatever the fuck her last name was, I'll check it when I'm done, is gonna abandon the Leader who FINALLY diagnosed her with Lyme's Disease? There ain't no way in hell, man. Trump has got a svengali-like hold on them and, even if he shot someone in broad daylight on Fifth Avenue, "THEY DON'T CARE."
Trump is in Hairy Boner as I right. He has excorciated Senator Jeff Flake previously, has welcomed the entry of a Trump Nazi as a primary opponent to Flake and has excorciated John McCain. Yeah, and your point is? Hairy Boner ain't gonna elect a Demo senator. Nevada could! Had Harry Reid in there until last year. But the Times' says the GOP "is unlikely to lose control of the Senate in 2018"(translating Times-speak into Publocc-speak Google renders that "TAIN'T GONNA HAPPEN"), and I read elsewhere today that THE issue in GOP primaries this year is the degree of loyalty to Trump. So, yeah.
Finally, Charlottesville, according to the Times, has been an important road sign to the direction of Trump-Party relations. I tell you, when Trump gave his news conference last Tuesday (?) I had not checked the news for hours, I was busy, and when I went back to it my phone felt like it was melting in my hands from the heat.
And over the ensuing couple of days the headlines were all "Republicans Rebuke Trump," and I did think those headlines acfurately characterized the words of e.g. Marco Rubio. Until I read another article that cautioned a closer read. In virtually no case was Trump mentioned by name. It was true that his words were rebuked but not Trump himself. They are mindful of that svengali-like hold. In a battle in Kentucky between Mitch McConnell and Trump, in a battle in Florida between Rubio and Trump, in Arizona, anywhere where THE issue in GOP primaries is degree of loyalty to Trump, Trump's gonna win when he has 75% support. "The people got what they voted for, they wlected him," as Marco Rubio accurately noted.
