are the first words in a hard-hitting Rolling Stone piece by never-Trumper Republican consultant Rick Wilson, whose book Everything Trump Touches Dies is published tomorrow.
The title of the piece is August 6, 2018 12:49PM ET Rick Wilson: Trump’s Tweets May Actually Be His Undoing with the subtitle of “The impulsive president has backed himself into a corner, and Robert Mueller knows it”
Allow me to offer a few selections.
The opening paragraph:
President Trump’s manic Twitter dysentery over the weekend contained more than a few nuggets that would have shamed, embarrassed or mortified normal presidents in a normal era.
A commentary on the President’s private attorneys:
Any rational attorney working for this president would have quit or committed seppuku by now, but then again, Trump’s legal team features a much-diminished Rudy Giuliani and Jay Sekulow.
One paragraph on the possibility of Trump being interviewed by Mueller’s team”
Think about the glorious hubris it takes to trust that the famed Trump bullshit volcano will conquer that interview. It’s delusional to believe that the same techniques Trump deployed in an endless chain of bankruptcies, failed projects, skipped debts, screwed vendors, shady third-world real estate branding schemes, multi-level marketing flops and endless self-fellating ego aggrandizement will work in the face of serious men and women who have rolled up terrorists, mobsters and spies.
(and trust me, the very next paragraph is just as good)
A comment on what would indicate how bad a poker player Trump might be:
Trump’s tells are comedy gold. Like a manic con man who sees his scams, schemes and sleaze all coming to light, Trump’s ranty petulance over Attorney General Jeff Sessions and conspiratorial caterwauling about “12 Angry Democrats” is weak sauce in the eyes of the law.
And one more, Wilson’s final paragraph:
As these past several days prove, Trump’s impenetrable belief that he’s a genius surrounded by morons will be his undoing. He’s tweeting himself — to say nothing of his family and co-conspirators — into a legal dead end. A meeting with Mueller is the big leagues, where the stakes are existential, the opposing team is merciless and the downside risks are the size of the White House. This impulsive, stubborn man can’t resist trying to pull off this stunt. What could possibly go wrong?
Go read the entire piece. You will be glad you did.