The part of this story that came out yesterday was how little Trump knew and how much Trump still doesn't understand about what happened here. It's increasingly clear the our government is being run by a cohort of unelected men. The two principals (or principles as some might spell it) are Elon Musk and Stephen Miller.
The part of this story that came out yesterday was how little Trump knew and how much Trump still doesn't understand about what happened here. It's increasingly clear the our government is being run by a cohort of unelected men. The two principals (or principles as some might spell it) are Elon Musk and Stephen Miller.
I think they keep Trump in a playpen in the executive dining room where he can watch Fox News and play with his little Air Force 1 model planes. Every accusation is a confession with these people—he’s probably the one with dementia, not Sleepy Joe.
No kidding. Listening to Trump blame Signal as being defective or whatever was insane. ('We'll be looking into it.') In what world does that make even the slightest degree of sense? A reporter could have asked "what defect could Signal possess that it would add a number of an Atlantic reporter onto a text chain out of nowhere, especially when Mike Waltz said he'd never spoken to Goldberg. And if Signal is so defective, aren't you being terribly irresponsible by using it as a communications tool?"
Of course, the biggest elephant in the world will fly before a reporter asks Trump a reasonable follow-up question.
If you can believe him when he says that he doesn't know or understand what happened. Here we have two monumental forces of nature colliding: the fact that he puts as little time and effort into mastering details and doing work as is possible, and that almost every time his lips move, a lie emerges. What is one to believe if the answer cannot be both?
I actually believe he really doesn’t understand what happened, knows nothing about the app, and maintains plausible deniability that way. If this continues to blow up politically, he thinks that will keep the shrapnel from hitting him. Although this leads me to wonder who’s really running the government, him, or Stephen Miller and Hegseth? It kinda makes him look out of the loop.
True though I’d make a slight distinction between him knowing what happened and the details of how it happened. I’m sure by now he knows the general aspects of what happened even if he can’t comprehend how the app works. But does he care that sensitive information was communicated through potentially illegal channels? Probably not.
Agreed, but of course, in the world that the rest of us inhabit, what other boss would get away with not knowing what his/her underlings are doing, how they are doing it, and when those people are making him/her look like a buffoon if so clueless about what is happening and while not paying attention?
There is plausible deniability and then there is just stupidity and being totally out of it. You can only get away with the first if you are smart enough to keep your mouth shut. He isn't. So he should never be given the benefit of the doubt over anything—which is the mistake too many in the legacy media make over and over and over again. And voters too.
The part of this story that came out yesterday was how little Trump knew and how much Trump still doesn't understand about what happened here. It's increasingly clear the our government is being run by a cohort of unelected men. The two principals (or principles as some might spell it) are Elon Musk and Stephen Miller.
I think they keep Trump in a playpen in the executive dining room where he can watch Fox News and play with his little Air Force 1 model planes. Every accusation is a confession with these people—he’s probably the one with dementia, not Sleepy Joe.
No kidding. Listening to Trump blame Signal as being defective or whatever was insane. ('We'll be looking into it.') In what world does that make even the slightest degree of sense? A reporter could have asked "what defect could Signal possess that it would add a number of an Atlantic reporter onto a text chain out of nowhere, especially when Mike Waltz said he'd never spoken to Goldberg. And if Signal is so defective, aren't you being terribly irresponsible by using it as a communications tool?"
Of course, the biggest elephant in the world will fly before a reporter asks Trump a reasonable follow-up question.
If you can believe him when he says that he doesn't know or understand what happened. Here we have two monumental forces of nature colliding: the fact that he puts as little time and effort into mastering details and doing work as is possible, and that almost every time his lips move, a lie emerges. What is one to believe if the answer cannot be both?
I actually believe he really doesn’t understand what happened, knows nothing about the app, and maintains plausible deniability that way. If this continues to blow up politically, he thinks that will keep the shrapnel from hitting him. Although this leads me to wonder who’s really running the government, him, or Stephen Miller and Hegseth? It kinda makes him look out of the loop.
True though I’d make a slight distinction between him knowing what happened and the details of how it happened. I’m sure by now he knows the general aspects of what happened even if he can’t comprehend how the app works. But does he care that sensitive information was communicated through potentially illegal channels? Probably not.
Agreed, but of course, in the world that the rest of us inhabit, what other boss would get away with not knowing what his/her underlings are doing, how they are doing it, and when those people are making him/her look like a buffoon if so clueless about what is happening and while not paying attention?
There is plausible deniability and then there is just stupidity and being totally out of it. You can only get away with the first if you are smart enough to keep your mouth shut. He isn't. So he should never be given the benefit of the doubt over anything—which is the mistake too many in the legacy media make over and over and over again. And voters too.
That’s the beauty of being a cult leader.
Beautiful answer!
A brilliant conundrum. Intentional? Or just the banality of evil?