All the Godfather’s Capos

Trump’s Capos, ready to do the orders of their ‘Don’.

It’s a classic scene in almost every mob movie of the past century: someone inside the mob was ratting out the Outfit, being a cheese eater against the Godfather. So, the Don calls his boy in, his capo, and tells him to ‘take care of it’. The capo nods, kisses the ring, and is off…

… To subpoena Apple for phone and email records. Of course we’re talking about Donald Trump. Yes. there have been a lot of half-jokes about Trump being a 'mob boss' and the head of a crime family, but as the revelations show, it's not a joke. Trump used the Department of Justice, under both AG Sessions and Barr to go after political enemies and their families, including minor child.

A child.

Barr and Sessions have tried to blame others, (of course they did) but they were the people in charge of an agency that decided to heavily politicize their operations, and the denials they’re issuing now of Trump's non-involvement in going after Democrats and reporters is laughable nonsense. Trump was constantly calling for investigations of those who dared to criticize him (“Enemies of the People” after all), and the DOJ responded and bowed to his will. Trump lives for that crap. The demands for records went out when Devin Nunes was head of the investigative committee, and some people investigated were his colleagues on the committee (Rep. Adam Schiff, lead Democrat). As Nunes was constantly issued threats and lawsuits against anyone who crossed him (including a couple parody Twitter accounts, like ‘DevinNunesCow’), I doubt this was a coincidence. Trump’s supporter’s are as thin-skinned and paranoid as their leader.

Trump’s DOJ 'investigated' journalists and Democrats. It was all political. And Trump was the smiling cobra at the center of it all, grinning and directing behind the scenes. He's the Ernesto Blofeld of the GOP, stroking his cat (he hates cats) and directing his minions to hurt and kill but keeping his own hands clean. Of course, he can never really keep them clean, his pudgy fingerprints are all over this political payback.

The closest thing in recent history to compare it to would be Watergate, but this isn’t all that close. This is beyond 'Watergate'. John Dean, former Nixon lawyer who famously turned on the president, testifying for hours before congress, called Trump's actions, "...beyond Nixon, yes. It's Nixon on stilts and steroids." 

Nixon on stilts and steroids.

What else will turn up, now that Trump sycophants no longer control access to the files, now that gag orders imposed run out, now that former aids and insiders write their books or donate their papers?

My guess we’ll be seeing a lot more revelations coming out, and probably even worse than what we’re currently seeing. And we really haven’t even started on things like an involved investigation into the leaders behind the January 6th insurrection. Lord knows what will be found there, but it won’t be pleasant.

So many rocks to turn over, so many things trying to scuttle off to the protection of the night. It’s take years to turn them all over.

Trump may be out of office, but he is not out of influence. He may have led the party when they lost the White House, the House and the Senate, but he is still the head of the GOP, the most popular member to the membership. He may be a loser, but he still calls the shots. And the GOP is desperately trying to please him

And that's the problem, isn't it?

Trump doesn't care if he burns down the country, as long as he doesn't have to admit he lost the election to Joe Biden. He just doesn't care. Trump is all, and Trump only cares about Trump. He will do anything to prove himself right. If he destroys the country doing so, that's fine with him. And the GOP is more than ready to help him.

As long as he wins, it doesn't matter.

Let the country burn.

The flames won't reach Trump Tower.