If there are actual tapes?
Donald Trump and his minions will surely try to play the whole thing off….
So far?
He has given a whole new meaning to a teflon President….
But at some point?
The dam is sure to break….
The Trump presidency is oddly dependent on tapes. Trump’s entire existence is so strange and outside the norms of decent behavior that many of his foibles simply cannot be believed, absent hard evidence. Who would believe that Donald Trump would call reporters pretending to be a publicist in order to brag about himself? If you didn’t have the tapes, no one would. Who would believe that Trump would admit—almost to a total stranger, while wearing a microphone—to grabbing women by their genitals and forcing them to do whatever he wanted? Without the tapes, no one would. People have speculated for almost two years about a Russian pee tape that almost certainly doesn’t exist. And everyone will continue to view it as a fantasy. Unless it surfaces. At which point we will all shake our heads and say, “Actually, we should have known …”
The other factor in why you need documentary materials is that the president, his advisers, and his supporters in the media use gaslighting as their primary means of defense. They make frictionless transitions from “no one ever met with Russians,” to “the meeting with Russians was about adoption,” to “of course they met with Russians about getting oppo on the Clintons and why do you have have a problem with that?”
Without tapes, or emails, or hard evidence, Trump World simply denies everything as a matter of course.
The N-word tapes occupy a middle ground in the public consciousness between the Access Hollywood and the Russian pee tape. There is circumstantial evidence to suggest they might exist—and people within Trump World have privately acted as though they believe the tapes might exist…..
More wishcasting.
The simple fact remains ,until Republicans turn on Trump in large numbers , he is going nowhere.
Latest Q Poll shows only 13% of Republicans “disapprove” of Trump.That number would need to approach 50% before any significant number of Republican Congresspeople are going to be willing to take concrete moves against him.
Simply repeating a mantra like,”the dam is sure to break” might make one feel better but has nothing to do with the fact that Republican support for Trump is roughly where it was on Inauguration Day .Essentially, despite all the investigations, tweets, lies, hyperbole, gross behavior etc etc?Republican support for Donald Trump has been steadfast and unwavering and all the speculative articles from sometimes obscure “sources,” all the posts about so called “defections”(often people who are political insiders unknown to the general public), and the fervent desire to believe the contrary ,Donald Trump remains in a commanding position within the Republican Party.
Instead of wishcasting his imminent downfall at his own hand, the much more realistic path is to defeat him at the ballot box.
We get it Jack also….
I do mention the Teflon aspect…
I do NOT fully but into it..
We’ll see
As usual?
I have my view
You have yours
Fine…..