We thought Trump was the biggest con man. We were all wrong.

[transporter]

Interesting article that pulls together and spotlights the paranoia of Trump...

We thought Trump was the biggest con man. We were all wrong.

Many of President Trump’s critics (myself included) have portrayed him as a fantastically successful con artist, a man who has swindled customers, vendors and voters alike.
We were all wrong. Trump isn’t history’s biggest scam artist; he’s history’s biggest dupe.

At least, that’s the narrative Trump and his defenders are spinning as they portray the president as the victim of an elaborate, long-running political sting, perpetrated by his own devious underlings.

Trump claimed once upon a time that he was recruiting the “best people” to the White House and senior ranks of the executive branch. He now claims he got conned into hiring a cabal of covert Never Trumpers.

Four of the five sitting Federal Reserve governors, for instance, were Republicans handpicked for their current positions by Trump, and yet Trump now says they represent the “biggest threat” to his presidency and are an “enemy” to America. He has similarly accused his own Cabinet members, White House counsel, FBI director and other senior officials of allegedly plotting against him

Consider Trump’s own top diplomat to Ukraine, William B. Taylor Jr., who testified to House lawmakers that Trump was extorting a desperate Ukrainian government into smearing Trump’s domestic political opponent. Taylor must secretly be a Never Trumper, the president claimed multiple times, without evidence. The decorated career diplomat had somehow hornswoggled Trump and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo into giving him this senior diplomatic position — which Taylor knew would come in handy on the off-chance he’d someday be subpoenaed to testify against the president.

The longest con of all, though, involves Trump’s European Union ambassador, Gordon Sondland.

Sondland is a loyal Republican donor and was a bundler for Trump in 2016. He also gave more than $1 million to Trump’s inaugural committee through four different LLCs. Now you might think this donation history, coupled with Trump’s decision to award him an ambassadorship, would inoculate him against accusations of anti-Trump bias.

Nope.
After Sondland amended his testimony last week to confirm that there were indeed conditions placed on Ukraine before Trump would release military aid, Trump surrogates began impugning Sondland’s loyalties, too. This longtime GOP donor, it turns out, must secretly be a “deep-stater” in cahoots with Democrats!

The "deep stater" comment is really interesting as it was in the title of a post from comrade GURPS the other day.

But this whole article really hits the nail on the head. Every one of the so called experts and top notch individuals Trump has hired to work in his administration ultimately becomes nothing more than a "deep state", "Never Trumper" whose entire existence is defined by their disloyalty to or ratting out of our incompetent, inept and unfit President.

As they say, you aren't paranoid if everyone really is out to get you!!

 

[This_person]

As they say, you aren't paranoid if everyone really is out to get you!!

I don't think he, or anyone else, believes that "EVERYONE" is out to get him, but it's fair to note that more than enough people are to reasonably foster a paranoid thought process.

 

[Grumpy]

Always thought Billy Jeff was the biggest con man until Obama came along and said hold my beer.

 

[Monello]

Paranoia would be seeing a russian asset behind every elected official you don't agree with.

I wonder who the next Russian Agent hillary will out. Roseanne Barr?

 

[Yooper]

The spin of the WaPo articles just makes my head, well, spin.

Second, what's the beef? That Trump isn't a saint? Well, duh. The bottom line is that we elect leaders - faults in all - so that they help make our lives better. Or, at least, not worse. Is Trump doing that (both better and not worse)? You bet.

The WaPo article is facile in its sour grapes. Fit's the OP's and the anti-Trumpers' narrative, though.

--- End of line (MCP)

 

[black dog]

The biggest conman out is the Democratic party.....