Lazy, inept Trump — cannot even get Bill Barr to do the Attorney General's core job

24 October 2020

Theme

Realities of genuine leadership include being determined to squash adversaries' illegal and unethical challenges to one's authority.

Lazy stays lazy?

President Trump is so narcissistic, self-entitled and incapable of extended focus that he appears incapable of successfully going after the Deep State vermin, who have illegitimately been trying to do him in for four years.

Situational perspective is something . . .

. . . that an alert American president should be tuned to.

Trump has not been properly focused. Even when he is in self-defense mode.

Consider the Democratic Party and Deep State's Russiagate nonsense

Trump took umbrage, but never used the considerable power of his office to root out the plot's Obama Era perpetrators.

As a result of Trump's lassitude, the Clapper-Brennan-Hayden Gang have been squatting (so to speak) over him for almost four years.

What Trump did — instead of holding conspirators to account — was to mewl in ineffectual fashion and generally only when sporadically reminded to do so by one of Fox News' anchors:

President Donald Trump on Friday piled more criticism on the status of the Justice Department’s investigation into the origins of the Russia probe, after reports that Attorney General William Barr has said not to expect conclusions before Election Day.

Trump and Barr are increasingly at odds over the investigation, as the president grows insistent that criminal charges be brought, and Barr becomes more frustrated by Trump’s public pronouncements about the case.

Trump and his allies had high hopes for the investigation led by Connecticut U.S. Attorney John Durham, betting it would expose what they see as wrongdoing when the FBI opened a case into whether the Trump campaign was coordinating with Russia to sway the 2016 election. Trump has also pushed to tie prominent Obama administration officials to that effort as part of his campaign against Joe Biden, who was serving as vice president at the time.

But a year and a half into the investigation, and with less than one month until Election Day, there has been only one criminal case: a former FBI lawyer who pleaded guilty to altering a government email about a former Trump campaign adviser who was a target of secret FBI surveillance.

Again, a few days later:

President Donald Trump is putting the pressure on Attorney General William Barr to investigate former Vice President Joe Biden's alleged involvement with international deals regarding his son, Hunter, and to do it before November 3.

"We've got to get the attorney general to act and he's got to act fast," Trump told Fox News' Fox & Friends on Tuesday.

"He's got to appoint somebody. This is major corruption and this it has to be known about before the election."

At the center of Trump's renewed claims for Biden to be investigated and potentially prosecuted is a New York Post report that the former vice president financially benefited while in office from his son's business dealings.

This Biden sludge, of course . . .

. . . has been public knowledge for years. The New York Post story merely added a mysteriously originated laptop tidbit to it.

Where was Trump's long-term and determined focus, when the Bidens' alleged doings were originally revealed?

Was he playing golf and comparing himself to a sloth-luxuriating god?

Trump's ego is so extreme, that he cannot conceive that his Administration can be terminally undermined by the clever (predominantly intelligence agency and FBI-spawned) adversaries, who have been nibbling away at his foundation since 2016.

Trump's ability to target someone runs out, just as soon as the visible immediacy of the threat vanishes under the rug.

Ludicrously incompetent Il Duce-ism

Consider Trump's last Attorney General appointment. Trump nominated Bill Barr in December 2018. The Senate confirmed on 14 February 2019. Barr has been in office for 20 months.

Barr came to his position:

(legally mistakenly) believing in complete Executive Branch primacy under the Constitution

and also

knowing that that there was very good reason to believe that remnants of the Obama Administration had done their best to screw with Trump's election and presidency prospects.

Barr had to know that Hillary Clinton and Crew had probably connived with the anti-Trump intelligence agency and FBI portions of the Deep State.

Any competent attorney, at any level of practice, would have known that these published Deep State and Democratic Party shenanigans almost certainly constituted illegal tampering with Trump's presidency.

And Barr — believing as he does in the Presidency's primacy — should have been self-motivated to do these Constitution-flouting vermin in. Their criminal behavior could reasonably be inferred under a probable cause standard.

Nevertheless, nothing has happened since. Even though virtually every one of the primary Russiagate culprits has been cavorting out in the open for almost four years.

In short, during his 20 months, complacent Bill Barr — now fully revealed to have been a duplicitously self-protecting Creature of the Establishment all along — rather than a true defender of the Constitution or, for that matter, Trump — has been pompously and unproductively sitting upon his ample behind.

Barr (we can surmise) pacified Toddling Donny by claiming that prosecutor John Durham has been diligently investigating these matters.

Trump evidently accepted Barr's lie at face value, without bothering to hold a fiery poker between Barr's nada-producing posterior cheeks.

Keep in mind that any experienced police detective could tell you that it does not take 20 months to find, snatch and charge Bad Guys, who have left trails like the anti-Trump crew has.

Consider what a real Numero Uno would have done in Trump's position

Do you think that Lyndon Baines Johnson (for example) would have stood still for this Deep State-sponsored nonsense?

For even a moment?

In comparison, Trump's whiny protests are those of a person who lacks even traces of competent bureaucratic substance. The guy has hired one prominent Establishment figure after another, and then been surprised when they openly opposed him.

It is no wonder that the plotting portion of Deep State intelligence agencies, as well as the Democratic Party, do not take Trump's ire seriously.

A capable national leader cannot afford to have his or her adversaries so easily disrespect his and her reach.

People with the necessary steel to command (in effective fashion) instinctively know this. Trump's lack of performance indicates that he does not. If he cannot bluster his way to victory, he has no idea what to do. And, worse, his narcissistically involved attention does not extend beyond immediate, emotionally spawned moments.

"Toddling Donny" is an apt characterization of our President's infantile, short-sighted core.

The moral? — The seeds of Trump's eventual destruction lie entirely within his lazy, self-entitled character

The Deep State — including Establishment fat cat Barr — played Trump's absence of steely-minded leadership qualities rather well.

It is a poor chief executive, who is not determined to hold the self-seeking rats around him at bay.

Cultivating respect and fear in subordinates are necessary accoutrements of being in charge. If one cannot make adversaries pay for their visibly obvious transgressions, one's tenure of productivity is effectively over.

If President Trump wins the November 2020 election, we will see whether he has learned anything about successfully constraining the Deep State's constitution-defying vermin.

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Lazy, inept Trump — cannot even get Bill Barr to do the Attorney General's core job