The Enemy of My Enemy<\/p>\n
We are in August, or more exactly, the \u201csilly season.\u201d\u00a0 We are waiting; waiting for the results of the Mueller investigation, waiting for the verdict of the Manafort trial, waiting for the November elections.\u00a0 We are impatiently looking for some \u201caction.\u201d\u00a0So we are drawn into the nonsense.<\/p>\n
Just because someone is \u201cthe enemy of my enemy\u201d does NOT make them your friend.\u00a0 Let\u2019s start with Omarosa.\u00a0 She recorded Chief of Staff Kelly firing her, she recorded President Trump consoling her, and she probably has more recordings that will embarrass the White House.\u00a0 \u201cResistors\u201d will take pleasure in the squirming, but don\u2019t forget that this is the same Omarosa who owes any fame she has to Trump, and who, with shining eyes, told us what a great President he would make.\u00a0 She has only one interest, and it’s not necessarily the \u201cgood\u201d of the country.<\/p>\n
Next is the prospective candidate for the Democratic nomination for President, lawyer Michael Avenatti.\u00a0 We have enjoyed watching him ride circles around the Trump and Cohen lawyers, and we have marveled as he revealed secret information to forward the Cohen investigation.\u00a0He has proved his openness to society, standing shoulder to shoulder with porn star Stormy Daniels, demanding that she receive due process.\u00a0 He is a \u201cshooting star;\u201d taking his legal advocacy onto the cable networks, going to the border to reunite families, and expanding his role as a leading \u201cresistor\u201d to the Trump Presidency.<\/p>\n
But don\u2019t mistake his legal adeptness and articulation as qualifications for President.\u00a0 He demands that we find a candidate that can go toe-to-toe in our new \u201creality show\u201d politics, and that he\u2019s the one.\u00a0 And while I agree that he is a true \u201creality show\u201d hero, I don\u2019t believe that makes for a qualified President of the United States.\u00a0We are living with the results of one reality President, that experience should lead us to find a different set of qualifications, not just the opposite of the same thing.<\/p>\n
Yesterday Peter Strozk was fired by the FBI.\u00a0 Strozk is the flawed hero of the 2016 Presidential investigations; the one that opened the Trump campaign probe but kept that information from the press during the election cycle.\u00a0 Strozk has been the leader of some of the most successful counter-espionage investigations of the last two decades, and he was a leader in the Clinton email search as well.\u00a0 It is easy to make him another \u201cmartyr\u201d to the Trump corruption, along with Comey, McCabe, and the rest.<\/p>\n
But keep in mind, Strozk also was the highly trained agent who decided to have an affair using government owned phones.\u00a0 He put thousands of texts, critical of all sorts of candidates for President but particularly Donald Trump, on devices owned and controlled by the US government.\u00a0It was a stupid mistake, one made out of hubris, a disbelief that anyone would ever investigate the investigator.<\/p>\n