A modern politician by this point would have someone heading up a crisis management team, and a team leader setting out a unified strategy who is laser-focused on executing. I get that Wolff is saying that no one wants to be “responsible” but it’s baffling to me that Trump (or someone who needs his political stock to remain high) hasn’t at least brought in someone outside the admin to handle this. Trump used to be surrounded by fixers–is he so hobbled that no one is willing to take this on?
The orange-painted baboon doesn’t need to handle anything. The Republican party is now perfectly okay with child-raping pedophiles, if they weren’t already. That’s what they are. That’s how cults work.
Yep, the headline is silly, he’s just going to carry on with his usual schtick and also torpedo MTG as much as possible. I don’t think his strategy runs deeper than that.
My guess is that he finally realized that his base won’t give up on him no matter what he does and republican legislators have completely lashed themselves to the ship of Trump so they have no choice but to go along with it or see their entire political career go up in flames during the next primary.
Why do you need fixers when you are invincible and you have a legion of rubes who will stop at nothing to excuse your bad behavior? We are at “Trump is a pedophile, but that’s okay” levels of cognitive dissociation amidst republican voters. I’m not sure the bar could go any lower that this without Trump directly committing an act of homicide. Even then, it probably wouldn’t budge an inch.
For Trump, bad press is good press, and good press is very very good press.
A modern politician by this point would have someone heading up a crisis management team, and a team leader setting out a unified strategy who is laser-focused on executing. I get that Wolff is saying that no one wants to be “responsible” but it’s baffling to me that Trump (or someone who needs his political stock to remain high) hasn’t at least brought in someone outside the admin to handle this. Trump used to be surrounded by fixers–is he so hobbled that no one is willing to take this on?
The orange-painted baboon doesn’t need to handle anything. The Republican party is now perfectly okay with child-raping pedophiles, if they weren’t already. That’s what they are. That’s how cults work.
They were always ok with it - it’s always been part of their value system.
Yep, the headline is silly, he’s just going to carry on with his usual schtick and also torpedo MTG as much as possible. I don’t think his strategy runs deeper than that.
All his fixers went to jail, no one wants to be the next fixer to get thrown under a bus
Rudy Gulianni has his own problems this time…
Time to book another press conference at that landscaping company.
Why do you think he doesn’t currently have a slew of sycophantic fixers inside the admin at this point?
My guess is that he finally realized that his base won’t give up on him no matter what he does and republican legislators have completely lashed themselves to the ship of Trump so they have no choice but to go along with it or see their entire political career go up in flames during the next primary.
Why do you need fixers when you are invincible and you have a legion of rubes who will stop at nothing to excuse your bad behavior? We are at “Trump is a pedophile, but that’s okay” levels of cognitive dissociation amidst republican voters. I’m not sure the bar could go any lower that this without Trump directly committing an act of homicide. Even then, it probably wouldn’t budge an inch.
For Trump, bad press is good press, and good press is very very good press.