Trump backers got hustled by a ham-handed huckster
The bitter pill Trumpians across the land will soon be forced to swallow is that they were played. Suckered. Hustled. Conned. Fleeced.
It wasn’t an “outsider” they sent to the White House 117 days ago to “drain the swamp,” but a pol … and one very dim, craven pol at that.
“I hope you can let this go.”
That is what Donald Trump is alleged to have asked FBI Director James Comey during an Oval Office meeting in February.
It is also the language of a pol. And not just a pol, but a hack pol, a cynical pol, a desperate pol.
Trump apparently made that simpering request in a ham-handed effort to get Comey to lay off the so called “Russian thing” and spare Mike Flynn — the national security adviser Trump had just fired — from getting indicted or, worse, becoming a cooperating witness.
Trump wanted Comey to “let go” of the bizarre story about Flynn’s ties to Russia, as well as the big bucks Vladimir Putin’s cronies had laid on him.
Beyond telling Comey that Flynn was a “good guy,” Trump also allegedly wanted Comey to pledge his loyalty.
What hack pol hasn’t demanded loyalty?
James Comey did not give The Donald the answers he wanted. He’s alleged to have told Trump he would neither “let go” of the Flynn investigation, nor pledge his devotion to the Emperor of Mar-aLago. So, Trump fired him. Meanwhile Comey was proceeding as all FBI agents are trained to do — he wrote a report.
During the Whitey Bulger saga, we came to hear a lot about “302s,” or the reports G-men write about their meetings with informants and other miscreants. It is a fundamental practice of the job.
The memo James Comey wrote about his fateful dinner with Donald Trump wasn’t technically a “302,” but it was a bombshell. Now, it is the most sought-after document in all of Washington.
If someone on the White House staff had bothered to enlighten Trump about the basic policies and procedures of the FBI, perhaps he would have known that Comey was very likely to chronicle a private dinner with the president.
Now, Comey’s memo regarding the dinner where Trump allegedly pleaded with the FBI chief to let his idiotic pal Flynn off the hook may well become what those tapes were to Richard Nixon.
Just like the schnooks who paid real money to enroll in Trump U, voters who sent an orangehaired huckster to Washington have been played for fools.
But at least the Trump U suckers got to share in a $25 million fraud settlement. The suckers who voted for Trump will end up with bupkis.