BTRTN: Operation Warped Mind - Sounds and Silence
Born To Run The Numbers provides its month in review for December, 2020, a month in which Donald Trump essentially stopped performing his duties as President in order to focus his attention on subverting democracy so that he could, uh, continue as President.
http://www.borntorunthenumbers.com/2021/01/btrtn-operation-warped-mind-sounds-and.html
Excerpts: "Whatever pretense remained that Donald Trump was performing the role of President in the first 47 months of his presidency was stripped bare in this, his 48th. In a presidency in which every month is a candidate for "worst ever,” the only drama now is whether or not Trump can possibly pack even more dysfunction and damage than ever into his final 20 days in January...
"Trump emerged only twice from his self-imposed silence to perform executive duties, and both were miserable exercises of presidential prerogatives. The first was the initial wave of presidential pardons...The other was the COVID relief bill, itself a lengthy exercise in Congressional futility. Trump was completely uninvolved in the process, presumably delegating it to Mnuchin. But when it was brought to his desk for signature, he promptly disavowed it, calling the $600 direct checks to Americans a “disgrace,” proposing instead a $2,000 check provision. This delay caused various benefits to expire and threatened to shut down the government...Trump eventually backed down, signing the bill, gaining nothing in return for his pointless intervention – losing yet again...
"Where does Trump go from here in his last 20 days? The next step in his quest to stay in office is to upend the January 6 Congressional certification of the Electoral College results. He has found about 140 GOP members of the House to challenge this certification, and one Senator, the ambitious Josh Hawley of Missouri. This tactic too will fail, but the damage this spectacle has and will cause is incalculable. "At this juncture, Trump has shown virtually no restraint in his wrecking ball quest for self-preservation. Fasten your seat belts. Month 49 could indeed be the rockiest yet."
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