Trump’s Rescue Strategy: STEP IT UP!
Trump is stepping up his attack on the press and media to essentially full time. He is the key person who knows how much he is culpable. He is acting like the investigation is closing in on him.
His first desperation strategy is to do everything possible to kill the investigation.
Then, instruct your loyal lawyer to seem to independently come up with all sorts Presidential powers which give you a get home free card. Like, collusion is not a crime. Like, the President can pardon himself. Like, you can enlist foreign influence, even in public, calling on our most potent enemy to hack your opponent and reveal her emails, both crimes by themselves. Like, the President isn’t bound by the emoluments clause. Like, the Constitution is more like the Pirate’s Code, just a guide.
Spend all of your campaign speech of supposed support, to your very embarrassed and desperate Republican colleague, on attacking the media and press. Step up your lies from 6 a day to 16 a day. At least doubling or tripling down as usual. After all, who is counting or fact checking? Stir up your audiences until there are real attacks to strike fear into the press and media. The media will replay these media attacking sequences over and over again to generate the crops that the media feeds on: RATINGS.
By Trump’s own actions we expect the investigation results to be very critical and demeaning, even if not impeachment material. He is pre-planning to counter this by convincing everybody, or at least his loyal followers, that the news is FAKE NEWS, no matter what they say.
And so it goes.
