Michael Cohen - Fog Can't Hide This

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3. Trying to figure out the players and positions ...

So, regardless of who ordered what, there seems to be a dilemma.

The Double Tap scandal blows up two narratives he relies on like oxygen:

• The myth of total control (“Nobody makes a move without me.”) and
• The myth of total innocence (“I didn’t do anything, never heard of it, wasn’t there, ask someone else.”)

You can’t be the Strongman Commander-in-Chief and the Clueless Bystander-in-Chief at the same time. Pick a lane. But Trump wants both: power without responsibility, the ability to give lethal orders and then deny them the second they cause political blowback.

This time, the blowback is historic: more than 80 people have been killed in over 20 strikes, a growing number of which are suspected to have been unlawful, and at least one strike was caught on video showing survivors in plain sight.

Seasoned DU'ers understand how he wiggles out of contradictory positions, such as:

Staging a war on drug trafficking while pardoning a monster drug trafficker.
rump: We don't want to be the policemen of the world BY BRETT SAMUELS - 04/30/18 6:30 AM
https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=20842304


And there are so many others.

It's clear that he ordered a deadly operation. He has done so before, as with Qasem Soleimani.

Did he order the murder of shipwreck survivors?
That breaks all international laws and conventions.
He may be evil, but he is CHICKEN
He's the "I was just kidding" guy.

Did Hogsbreath?

Apparently Hogsbreath did, escalating an "escapade" to an international incident.
And you can't just sweep something of that "reach" under the rug.


If there's malice in the palace ... I'm getting ready.