Friday 19 April 2019

The dirt is in the Mueller report detail

Such a wealth of detail has emerged from the Robert Mueller report. One of the extraordinary things is how much Mueller has confirmed the reports of a crazy White House outlined in numerous books since Donald Trump became president. Especially the blockbusters produced by Michael Wolff in Fire and Fury and Bob Woodward in Fear: Trump in the White House. They both inteviewed huge numbers of insiders, all of whom said the White House was chaotic. Mueller has kindly added to this impression by detailing how often key officials have just disobeyed the president in order to avoid having to implement his decisions. Trump comes up with a wild idea like: "Sack Robert Mueller". But the official delegated to carry it out just ignored the president, knowing that it was a really bad idea! What I can't understand is, how come Trump didn't go ballistic when his orders were plainly ignored. Well he probably did go ballistic but someone must have calmed him down. Perhaps General John Kelly when he was chief of staff played this vital role. But my God there must have been some spectacular scenes in the Oval Office where all of this was going on. Wolff and Woodward revealed quite a lot but I think there is another blockbuster to be written which spells it all out even more clearly. By the way, I notice, thanks to Mueller, that Trump is quite keen on four-letter words. Mind you, even the cool dude Obama resorted to four-letter words on occasions. More books please.

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