While Politico reports that White House officials were impressed by Labor Secretary Alex Acosta’s performance during a press conference on Wednesday afternoon, at least one Fox News analyst has lost faith in the Cabinet member.
I think we know who the real victim is here - an aging white billionaire. When will this persecution end? What kind of country have we become if we do not permit a billionaire to share his hobby of dating underage girls with his wealthy friends?
OT – But more importantly and probably also connected as a huge MFing distraction of Constitutional proportions. The man is intent on breaking and destroying America’s blueprint for democracy.
That’ll be sure to knock the Acosta shit off the front page. Each time the scandals and the stakes get higher for tRump, his major announcements and wildly insane redirections for the media take the form of another week of clusterfucking the system.
So I guess the question is, what’s the recourse, should Trump go the EO route to insert the question in violation of the current court standing? Obviously, someone has told him this is a legitimate route, but other than currying favor with him and wanting to keep one’s job, what legitimate angle would be offered to suggest this? Is this the throw the pasta moment?
There will have to be another legal challenge it would seem. SCOTUS did not rule on an EO so this is new bullshit he’s throwing at the wall. Like you say, in a sense it is pasta and he’s daring the legal system and our constitution once again, that this time it will stick. It won’t. But it will refocus the media that will argue and debate it and it will take time away from his more recent foibles, forced errors and fuckups.
I’m not so sure about Napolitano. He may be a good lawyer that’s drunk too much of the koolaid. It may be that the effects of the koolaid are wearing off and he’s beginning to see a little more clearly.
I’m sure I’m wrong, but I’ll give someone the benefit of the doubt.
If they’re willing to let him do a news conference, with all the potential for disaster and gaffes that it has, they must really, really want this off the front pages. He hasn’t been able to read from a teleprompter lately, and I can’t imagine that he can answer non-scripted questions without disaster. (I guess I just answered my own question. All of the questioners and questions will be pre-determined.)
(And why would Napolitano think that not being persuasive is not enough to get a fellow traveler fired?)