He doesn't need to be clever. He just needs to be able to order investigations into those on Trump's enemies list, and anyone who gets in his way will be fired.
Precisely. First order, fire Jack Smith. Quash any and all investigations in to Trump.
I can absolutely guarantee that he would not even be considered for a security clearance based on that long list of connections, but here we are, and he's going to be the 47th President of the United States of America having already served as the 45th whilst all of that was known. His last term culminated with boxes of highly classified documents being removed from his private residence, a situation that would have seen anyone else locked up in solitary confinement awaiting trial on charges under the Espionage Act.This makes depressing fucking reading:
Trump as traitor update
It remains useful to keep a list of the connections between Trump and Russia updated, so that deniers can be brushed back. Inevitably, the list is starting to expand. The list makes the connection indisputable. This is an update of a prior diary. I...www.dailykos.com
By my reckoning it lasted almost a week. Not quite.
About as long as Irish summer then?
Jack Smith has said he'll wrap up his investigation and resign.