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In reply to the discussion: Yesterday, Jim Comey told Nicole Wallace he believes it was Rod Rosenstein who [View all]Hekate
(90,633 posts)You know how Trump loves to have a big group around the conference table and pressure them to pressure each other. Few can resist. Rather than being the architect of the plan (that would be Stephen Miller, I think) RR simply went along. Only one person kept her hand down. Until I heard this nugget, I thought RR had a soul.
However, if that was part of what Comey just said to Nicolle, I take it back about RR not being the architect of this abomination. I know Miller thought it up, though.
Remember the famous phrase Everything Trump Touches Dies. Comey got one thing outstandingly right when he wrote:
Accomplished people lacking inner strength cant resist the compromises necessary to survive Mr Trump and that adds up to something they will never recover from. It takes character like Mattis to avoid the damage, because Mr Trump eats your soul in small bites.
(This appeared in an Op-Ed about Barrs resignation that he wrote for the NY Times. It was then quoted in a letter to the editor of the LA Times on 12-16-2020.)