There’s a saying, “The wheels of justice grind very slowly, but exceedingly fine.” And Donald J. Trump is just about to find out just how fine that really is. When former FBI director Robert Mueller (perhaps the most trusted man in the nation’s capitol) was named special counsel for the Russia investigation, it portended the end of the nightmare progressives have been living through since election might last year.
It might take a year or two before the curtain finally comes down on the Trump presidency, but make no mistake about it — this demagogue’s bumpy ride in Washington is going to end badly. Very badly.
But the question currently being bandied about by Democrats in Washington is, “Should Trump be forced to walk the plank ASAP, or should he be allowed to hang around and twist in the wind until closer to the 2020 elections?” The fear is, if the clownish Trump is forced out of office too soon, the country will be left with Vice President Pence, whom many progressives believes is much more skillful, and therefore much more dangerous than Trump.
During the campaign Trump once said that he could shoot someone in the middle of Fifth Avenue and he wouldn’t lose any support, and he was probably right. This is the mindset he’s still operating under, but his thinking is wrong. No doubt Billy Bob down in Bellefontaine, and denizens of the double-wide trailers that dot the landscape in Podunk, Kentucky will remain foursquare behind their false savior, but it won’t do any good. They won’t be adjudicating the facts. It’s now in the hands of professionals, which means that amateur hour is over.
The cult of personality is almost finished. The outcome of this melodrama is not going to be based on early morning tweets, name calling and how well Trump can rally the faithful. His well-documented bully tactics can’t work with the FBI because, as everyone in Washington — except the president’s inner circle — knows, these are the real tough guys, and they know things on people.
Take Trump’s tax returns. They are not being protected by space aliens on some galaxy far, far away. They actually are in the possession of a governmental agency — the IRS. And if you don’t believe that the minions — the worker bees — at these two branches of government don’t share secrets with each other you’re a complete Pollyanna. The FBI already knows what’s in the returns, and I’m willing to bet a dollar to a donut that Trump has financially been in bed with the Russians for years, and that eventually it’s all going to come out. There quite literally is no way for him to prevent it.
Trump is already beginning to lawyer up, but Mueller and his team will have the best Washington lawyers wearing their asses for hats before this is over. The feds have all of the cards, and they know how to play them. And then, once he gets desperate enough, the president will make the stupid mistake that got Nixon unceremoniously booted out of Washington: He’s going to attempt to derail the investigation by getting rid of the chief investigator. Not a good idea.
Watergate involved a third-rate burglary; this case involves potential treason. In the not-too-distant future FBI agents are going to have to take some of the key players in this tragic episode into a back room somewhere in Washington and beat them upside the head just to make they shut up. They’re going to be rushing tell all they know because the first rule of snitching is this: Whoever talks first gets the best deal. It’s going to be like a game of musical chairs, but in this case the dude that doesn’t have a seat when the music stops is going to be ass-out.
From Cool Cleveland correspondent Mansfield B. Frazier mansfieldfATgmail.com. Frazier’s From Behind The Wall: Commentary on Crime, Punishment, Race and the Underclass by a Prison Inmate is available in hardback. Snag your copy and have it signed by the author at http://NeighborhoodSolutionsInc.com.
One Response to “MANSFIELD: Stick a Fork in Him”
Hank Wait
I think, and hope, you are correct. My question is when are those who pushed him into this presidency going to realize they’ve been taken by him. His budget proposal is for people like him not the, as you described them, Billy Bob’s down in Bellefontaine. He’s a con. Always has and always will be.