BTRTN December 2017 Month in Review: Could This Possibly Be the Calm Before the Real Storm?

[tgards79]

A look back at December and a look ahead as well...
http://www.borntorunthenumbers.com/2018/01/btrtn-december-2017-month-in-review.html

[bettyellen]

1. Could you quote a few paragraphs here?

[tgards79]

2. Sure...

"Time has a way of compressing in the Trump era. Consequential events that seem to have occurred ages ago actually happened quite recently, but have been eclipsed by new crises, at times manufactured by Donald Trump. This is a function of his gargantuan ego, which requires constant headlines about him and only him, and his good old-fashioned PR instincts that dictate that the best way to defuse a mess is simply to invent a new one.

Thus our “month in review” serves to remind us of those events that received more modest attention than they were due, lost in the flood. It was at the beginning of December – December 1 in fact -- that Mike Flynn pleaded guilty to one count of lying to the FBI, a seeming rap on the knuckles given the gravity of the full set of potential charges left on the table. This set off the rampant speculation that for Mueller to have agreed to such a plea, Flynn must have a great deal of dirt indeed on the few who outrank him (Kushner? Pence? Trump?) in Mueller’s presumed prosecutorial hierarchy..."