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Originally Posted by All-In Flynn
Counter-messaging: Maybe he was and maybe he wasn't. Both options leave all concerned dumb as a sack of rocks and half as useful. Why are he/Kushner/etc still inside the tent? This administration needs to clean house etc.
They CAN'T clean house though, that's the problem. I don't even think it's as much a nepotism issue as others here do either. Another factor Is bigger.
Trump's dilemma is simple to see, but really hard to address. It's the same situation as Flynn, to a lesser extent Comey, and an even lesser extent Yates and Bharara.
[JUST REALIZED]
After the latest news, it seems like we now have a much better framework for fitting in the whole Flynn story. It makes sense for Trump to ignore all the Flynn warnings leading up to his NSA appointment. It also makes sense that he never filled out correct FARA paperwork, and that excuses were made for his firing, as well as excuses for firing the other good guys above. ALL of them were fired for bogus sounding reasons, instead of the overwhelmingly likely reason Trump wanted each of them to go. Lastly, according to the same logic, the 18 day delay before a public report forced Trump to fire Mike Flynn makes much more sense. And keeping Flynn's top level security clearance in place the whole time is oh so familiar these days.
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So basically, Trump is petrified of anybody else being put through the ringer the way Flynn has been. Not as much for their sake, but because he wants to limit his own exposure. IMO, Jared is more deeply involved in dirt right now than even Flynn was because he's basically co-president of everything: Ambassador to Saudi Arabia, infrastructure grifter, Israel/Palestine healer, opiod kingpin, Captain NATO, Democracy demolition director, and so on.
Trump can't fire Kushner because of the ****storm that would follow him as a private citizen, and he can't even pull security clearance because that would neuter Trump's top cutout oligarch. Meanwhile, the pressure is ramping up from every angle. GG WH.