Bumbling.
Sums up the entire Trump Administration nicely…
When his name was announced as a trump advisor, everybody scratched their heads, except for the trump campaign and surrogates, who insisted on how brilliant and well qualified he was.
Only the best people.
Not surprising; the attempts to cover a crime typically create more of a trail
“And I would’ve gotten away with it, if it weren’t for you meddling kids!”
Staggering amounts of hubris is what you end up with when you’ve spent so many months drinking the kool Aid.
Republican’ts have a long, sordid history when it comes to this. Find a young go-getter, eager to make his mark on the world, and let him go! Sometimes you get lucky. Most times it blows up in your face, but these are nobodies, and they conveniently fit under any make and model of bus you choose to throw them under. Surely people haven’t forgotten about Bu$hCo’s Coalition Provisional Authority???
http://downwithtyranny.blogspot.com/2006/12/from-driving-ice-cream-truck-to.html
We had these 20-year-old kids in Baghdad, and now we have the octogenarians of the Iraq Study Group helping to lead us along. But you know, seriously, we sent a 24-year-old kid out there who had never worked in the financial industry in this country–out there to reopen the Stock Exchange. We sent a 21-year-old kid who hadn’t even graduated from college to join the team rebuilding Iraq’s Interior Ministry. I don’t have to tell you how important that is. The guy boasted to an interviewer that his most meaningful job before going to Baghdad was as an ice cream truck driver.
My worry, of course, is that the next generation of Republicans will, learning from the Trump Syndicate’s example, simply be more efficient criminals. But I wonder whether the half-assed way these guys handle their business is actually the tribute vice pays to virtue. That is, if they really went about their criminal conspiracies like smart criminals do, they’d have to admit to themselves what they were. Since they prefer the narrative where they’re the good guys, they have to treat the criminality as a game or afterthought.
ETA: Young Low Volunteer is my new hip-hop name, so no one steal it.
Here’s how Mueller got under Papadopoulos’ skin
Did Papadopoulos have a Trump campaign email addy?
This is just one more reminder that for a long time the Trump campaign had to take whoever they could get.
Trump didn’t get high-quality people anybody would want like Sam Clovis and Yuckabee Slanders until later.
I blame Pathetic Mitt, Little Marco, Lyin’ Cruz, Ugly Carly and the rest of the Johnny-come-latelys.
Rajiv Chandraskaran’s “Imperial Life in the Emerald City: Inside Iraq’s Green Zone” is a good read for those times. Interestingly enough loyalty to George Bush was requirement for government job then also
I have a couple of questions that I don’t believe have been answered by anything I’ve read:
- why did the Russians target HIM as their door into the Trump campaign?
- how did he become one of Trump’s “foreign policy advisors” to begin with?
This question has probably been answered numerous times in the last six months, but I’ve ODed on Trumpian so forgive the question. Does Mueller actually have the authority prosecute the president if sufficient crimes are uncovered? Does it required congress to get involved?
Ken Starr said yes.
I remember too well, and I was wondering if someone would bring him him. I meant someone not of the rapid kill Clinton mob.
Including the daughter of neo con Michael Ledeen.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A48543-2004May22.html
“When the U.S. government went looking for people to help rebuild Iraq, they had responded to the call. They supported the war effort and President Bush. Many had strong Republican credentials. They were in their twenties or early thirties and had no foreign service experience. On that first day, Oct. 1, they knew so little about how things worked that they waited hours at the airport for a ride that was never coming. They finally discovered the shuttle bus out of the airport but got off at the wrong stop.
Occupied Iraq was just as Simone Ledeen had imagined – ornate mosques, soldiers in formation, sand blowing everywhere, “just like on TV.” The 28-year-old daughter of neoconservative pundit Michael Ledeen and a recently minted MBA, she had arrived on a military transport plane with the others and was eager to get to work.“
Mueller can’t be a dummy so I’m sure he reasons this like anyone with a brain. If the Russian contacts the Trumper’s had were just what they claim there’d be no reason to lie about them. There’s nothing illegal in getting info from the Russians or setting up a diplomatic meet. But they chose to blanket deny any contacts which must mean there are some they don’t want anyone to know about. But we will. Papadopoulos is a dummy though. No wonder Mueller set on him so quickly. But what was the guy up too in the interim from his confession to the unsealing of it? Lots of “analysts” say he was probably working for Mueller. This mess is in it’s infancy.
I think Papadopoulos might be Scaramucci’s love child.