President Trump on Friday claimed he didn’t have a preference about the length or details of the impending Senate impeachment trial, but offered that he wouldn’t mind if it was a “long” process because he wants to see the whistleblower exposed.
“I’ll do whatever I want, look we did nothing wrong, so I’ll do long or short. I’ve heard Mitch (McConnell), I’ve heard Lindsey (Graham), I think they are pretty much in agreement on some concept,” he said.
“I’ll do whatever they want to do, it doesn’t matter. I wouldn’t mind the long process because I’d like to see the whistleblower, who is a fraud. The whistleblower wrote a false report and I really blew it up when I released the transcript of the call.”
What I found is this:
“It means that personal character, as determined by condition of birth, will eventually, inevitably be revealed.”
I guess that covers nature and nurture.
I lean towards the interpretation that he doesn’t believe this crap, he is just inoculating the base. There is no way on earth that Trump wants a long drawn out trial.
He really does want a made for TeeVee event complete with Maga hats in the gallery. In his version he will attend and be dropped in via helicopter or descend to the floor of the Senate on a specially made gold escalator. He must appear strong, manly, defiant with his tie dragging on the floor… He wants a spectacle like Spartacus or Ben Hurr.
He’s pathological all right, but I don’t think in this case he believes the call with Zelensky was “perfect.” He probably didn’t know how serious a breach it was at the time, just business as usual for him, but he knows it now.
The tell is that he’s been saying the phrase “do US a favor” in the call memo meant the United States and not him personally. He wouldn’t be doing this if he didn’t know he was guilty.