Michael Cohen - Fog Can't Hide This
If you stand outside the West Wing today, you can practically feel the walls trembling from the sheer force of President Trump screaming at Pete Hegseth.
And not the normal “everyone is an idiot but me” shriek. I mean the special octave he reserves for when he’s caught — again — doing something illegal, immoral, catastrophic, or all three before lunch.
Because the Caribbean Double Tap fiasco isn’t just “bad press.” It’s not even “oh look, the president ordered something reckless again.” No. This one is a five-alarm, DEFCON-1, all-hands-on-deck political grease fire. And Hegseth, bless his Fox–Green-Beret–cosplayer heart, is now standing before the American people, the press, and every member of Congress watching this unfold in real time trying to sell the world on his newest lie: the fog of war.
Fog of war?
Buddy, this wasn’t Normandy. It wasn’t Fallujah. It wasn’t even the freaking Battle of San Jacinto. It was a speedboat in the Caribbean, and the only “fog” involved was whatever alcohol-induced brain fog led Pete Hegseth to give a verbal order that, according to multiple witnesses, boiled down to: “Kill everybody.”
https://www.meidasplus.com/p/fog-cant-hide-this
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So, regardless of who ordered what, there seems to be a dilemma.
• The myth of total control (“Nobody makes a move without me.”) and
• The myth of total innocence (“I didn’t do anything, never heard of it, wasn’t there, ask someone else.”)
You can’t be the Strongman Commander-in-Chief and the Clueless Bystander-in-Chief at the same time. Pick a lane. But Trump wants both: power without responsibility, the ability to give lethal orders and then deny them the second they cause political blowback.
This time, the blowback is historic: more than 80 people have been killed in over 20 strikes, a growing number of which are suspected to have been unlawful, and at least one strike was caught on video showing survivors in plain sight.
Seasoned DU'ers understand how he wiggles out of contradictory positions, such as:
Staging a war on drug trafficking while pardoning a monster drug trafficker.
rump: We don't want to be the policemen of the world BY BRETT SAMUELS - 04/30/18 6:30 AM
https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=20842304
And there are so many others.
It's clear that he ordered a deadly operation. He has done so before, as with Qasem Soleimani.
Did he order the murder of shipwreck survivors?
That breaks all international laws and conventions.
He may be evil, but he is CHICKEN
He's the "I was just kidding" guy.
Did Hogsbreath?
Apparently Hogsbreath did, escalating an "escapade" to an international incident.
And you can't just sweep something of that "reach" under the rug.
If there's malice in the palace ... I'm getting ready.
very few Trump folk redeem themselves but Mr. Cohen has made great strides 