Rick Wilson: Sensing Defeat, Trump Cries 'Witch Hunt'..Playtime is over, and Donald doesn't like it

[Miles Archer]

Sensing Defeat, Trump Cries ‘Witch Hunt’

A princeling who’s literally lived in a golden tower for most of his adult life is not good with stress. And there’s a lot of stress on him now, and much more coming.

Rick Wilson

11.28.18 5:11 AM ET

https://www.thedailybeast.com/sensing-defeat-trump-cries-witch-hunt

Donald Trump is having a very bad week to go on top of his bad month, bad year, and bad presidency, and it’s showing with every manic tweet and every unhinged statement. As easy as it is to view Trump’s tweetstorms as the rantings of a lavishly paranoid man who’s just discovered the myriad joys of cocaine, his doubling down on absurd “witch hunt” whining is, as always, a tell. As he ratchets up the volume well past 11, you know he feels the heat rising.

For two years, Donald Trump had fun amidst the mess. He reveled in stage-managing a reality-television version of an executive branch staffed by weak-willed and morally vacant appointees selected more for their ass-kissing skills than for any remote talent in governing or even any talent at all. He consumed every ounce of scenery, and his every desire, whim, and impulse were carried out by White House minions unable to say no. Republican Members of Congress may as well have sported “Property of Donald Trump” forehead tattoos.

During those halcyon days, the power of the Republican House was used to obstruct justice, block the Mueller probe into Russia’s pro-Trump efforts, and to attack the intelligence community in order to protect Team Putin. They were a blocking force against investigations into his taxes, finances, and his administration's misdeeds. Trump has never displayed even the most cursory interest in governing or leadership, but he loves the roar of the crowd, the high-fructose smell of the MAGA set jammed into arenas, his long-running pissing match with the media, and trolling the known universe on Twitter. A supine House was his shield.

Donald Trump, a princeling who was raised in luxury, never held accountable for any of his countless personal and business betrayals and failures, and who literally lived in a golden tower for most of his life, is not good with stress. His rage-tweeting shows us that he knows he can’t juggle all the crises steaming toward him, that he knows his astounding power to distort reality for his followers won’t shield him from the political, legal, and personal perils closing in on him.

Playtime is over, and Donald doesn't like it.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

1. https://www.thedailybeast.com/sensing-defeat-trump-cries-witch-hunt

[Miles Archer]

2. Thank you...

...didn't realize I'd forgotten that.

[vlyons]

3. Fool on the Hill

[Wintryjade]

4. I will believe it when I see it. From day one, I have watched him get away with shit no one

can even come close to getting away with.

[orangecrush]

5. Interesting post.

[NewJeffCT]

6. I tend to agree

I mean, his comments on Mexicans sending rapists and criminals would have tanked anybody - Republican or Democrat - prior to 2015.

Same thing with his comments on John McCain and his attacking the Goldstar Khan family.

[FakeNoose]

10. The right-wing outrage machine is always directed at Democrats

... and never at their own people. We've had to listen to them for so long during Obama's 8 years that a lot of us forgot that. There's no outrage for all the shit the GOP does, no matter how bad it is. If there's ever any push-back on Trump, we'll never hear about it. They keep it quiet.

[Wintryjade]

11. Exactly and start going from there. A million things. So, I will wait and figure the 2020 Blue Wave

Will take care of it. What I am now seeing in the investigation happenings, is not so much getting Trump out now, but a slow bleed to death, by 2020.

With the house, we can keep everyone plenty busy presenting a lot of facts that have been obstructed, take down the Republican party by 2020. I believe.

We are in such a powerful position right now. We have excellent candidates that will be out there visually fighting for the American people. I feel hopeful and confident.

We have a House, that will throw every thing off kilter.

And two years are not that long. We made it thru the first. We are half way there. We got this.

[DinahMoeHum]

7. "Go long on popcorn stocks"

Tee hee!

[Magoo48]

8. Mueller et al need to sogotp while there is still something repairable...

[Gregory Peccary]

9. No doubt Trump's Golden Tower..........

....... includes a Golden Shower

[Hermit-The-Prog]

12. the author has had this pent up for a while

I think this author has been wanting to write this article for quite a while. Every paragraph is a grenade going off.

Satisfying read.