I guess it had to happen sooner or later. I’ve been pretty much immersed in the Trump cesspool since Forrest Trump descended his golden escalator and honored the rest of us with his august presence in all things. No matter how outrageous or obnoxious some of his comments may have been, no matter how far out there some of his positions and policy plans were, you could follow and understand what his motivation was for doing what he was doing.
But now I’m truly confused. And it was the news that generated by my DIARY yesterday about Jared Kushner being confirmed as a person of interest under scrutiny by the FBI that led to my discombobulation. What had appeared to make complete sense since the start now appears to make much less sense.
Here’s what makes no sense to me. For months now, DJ Trumpenfluff has shown a level of loyalty to Michael Flynn that is second only to his loyalty to Vladimir Putin. He hired Flynn to be the NSA even when Flynn had enough red flags attached to him to supervise the running of the bulls. He kept Flynn around for another 18 days after he was warned that Flynn may have already been compromised by the Russians. Then he tried to get anybody involved who would answer the phone to thrown mud on the FBI investigation and the press reports. According to James Comey he asked Comey to dump the Flynn investigation. He has done everything in his power other than Jedi mind tricks to try to take the heat off of Flynn.
Here’s what confuses me. WTF about Jared, his son in law? Trump can’t claim ignorance, Trump watches able news pretty much 24/7 and reads papers. The media, at least honest non Fox media have reported on Kushner’s Russian entanglements just as much as Flynn when the information was available. And Jared is even closer to the gilt throne than Flynn was. So why hasn’t Daddy in law spent one ounce of effort to protect Jared, only Flynn?
I can only think of a few reasons that make any kind of sense. One is that Flynn is more dangerous to Trump than Kushner is. I have trouble believing this as Kushner was closer to Trump almost from day one than Flynn was, so was Ivanka. Another option is that for whatever reasons, personally Trump really doesn’t like Jared that much, forget the fact that he’s the father of his grandchildren. It doesn’t sound plausible in these circumstances, but maybe he brought Kushner on to keep Ivanka sweet. Another is that Trump thought that nobody would ever dare to get that close to him, to even think about putting the arm on the President’s son in law. More like it to my mind. The last one is that the FBI managed to gather everything they had in such a back channel and quiet way that even when everybody else had suspicions, Trump never had a clue that Kushner could be at risk in the investigation, everybody was busy with Flynn and Manafort. This tops my list.
This is the source of my conundrum, why go to the mattresses for Flynn but risk throwing your own son in law under the bus by omission? It’s like finally seeing the green flash after watching 1,000 sunsets over the ocean. You believe it, but you just can’t explain it. Now on to the poll.