By this time tomorrow, we may know the identities of those first Trumpians to get hooked, like game fish, in the probe by special counsel Robert Mueller.
The names most often mentioned are former Gen. Mike “Lock Her Up” Flynn, who was our national security adviser until Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates gave The Donald a big heads-up. For her vigilance, Yates was fired.
Then you have Paul Manafort, the Dean Martin look-alike with the sleepy eyes who made a fortune on a multimillion-dollar consulting contract to promote Vladimir Putin’s will in the Ukraine.
You may remember Manafort made a cameo appearance as Trump’s campaign guru during the Republican convention.
Whatever tomorrow brings, this much is certain: Trumpians will stick their fingers in their ears and scream “Fake news!” or something about Hillary’s emails.
Tomorrow’s potential indictment is likely to roll, like water off a duck’s back, from the 34 percent of Americans who’ve come to see Donald Trump as the perfect embodiment of their malignant resentment.
However Bob Mueller spells out the justification for his actions tomorrow, Trump nation is sure to rant that it’s all the work of Washington elites who don’t want the swamp drained.
But this much is undeniable: Donald Trump has been president for less than a full year and his administration has spent much of that time dodging the kind of swamp creatures that didn’t attack Tricky Dick Nixon until his second term.
Regardless of who it is, Donald Trump can draw comfort from the fact that he has successfully imposed his TV huckster’s will on a spineless Republican Party all too willing to be led, like lemmings, by a quixotic president who governs in 140 characters.
This past week we’ve watched the bulk of Republican senators abandon two of their own, Arizona Sen. Jeff Flake and Tennessee Sen. Bob Corker.
Both had the audacity to call attention to what Corker so aptly described as the “adult day care center” the White House has become. Both Flake and Corker have already decided they cannot and will not run again.
Both staunch conservatives, they have now become outliers on Donald Trump’s ship of fools. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has made it clear he is perfectly willing to absorb all of Trump’s insults if it gets him to a tax cut.
I wonder what nickname, what schoolyard taunt, Donald Trump will hang on Robert Mueller when tomorrow’s indictments are made public.
It should be rich because you know there isn’t anyone in the White House who’ll dare prevent Trump from trying to disparage a public servant and decorated Vietnam war hero.
If our president didn’t hesitate to slime John McCain, what’s to prevent him from lashing out at Robert Mueller?
