For the Record: Ego

 

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Fascinating how this story https://t.co/A9L2yn9ZV7 manages to skip across the third motive mentioned in the subpoena--obstruction, maybe the most familiar crime in Trump's repertoire, the concealment of evidence of his own wrongdoing. https://t.co/Bo7oUB5wSE

— Yas We Can (@Yastreblyansky) November 15, 2022

"Oh no," say Devlin Barrett and Josh Dawsey, "this is just about his famous ego, not some spooky crime he may have committed." Oh," says Haberman, "I've been saying this for years," as she indeed has, reporting all his misbehaviors as comical but somehow endearing flaws.

— Yas We Can (@Yastreblyansky) November 15, 2022

One is the new details from the House Oversight Committee https://t.co/oIZPj6WFxs on how much money President Trump was taking in at his hotels and clubs from foreign governments at moments when he just happened to be weighing foreign policy issues that affected them...

— Yas We Can (@Yastreblyansky) November 15, 2022

... from Malaysia, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, the United Arab Emirates, Turkey, and China. It doesn't seem to be that huge an amount of money by Trump standards ($3.75 million for the Pennsylvania Ave. hotel), but in the context of other reporting from CREW finding that...

— Yas We Can (@Yastreblyansky) November 15, 2022

It's not hard to start suspecting that the part played by foreign emoluments in the mix could have been greater than the $3.75 million found by Oversight. (My own longstanding interest, in his defrauding of Trump donors by using their money to defray personal expenses, remains.)

— Yas We Can (@Yastreblyansky) November 15, 2022

Kelly (claims to have) stopped him from this hugely illegal project, but did subsequent chiefs of staff Mulvaney and Meadows? Are financial documents from Comey and McCabe among the documents stolen from NARA? https://t.co/lyuX51zy2q

— Yas We Can (@Yastreblyansky) November 15, 2022

Trump has, and has always had, issues other than his ego https://t.co/T9nB2niMMM; he's a career criminal, and I'm betting that obstruction is the worst thing in the document theft.

/fin

— Yas We Can (@Yastreblyansky) November 15, 2022