The harsh reality that Donald Trump’s campaign to get his critics charged and jailed has failed is sinking in at the White House after US Attorney Jeanine Pirro has stepped away from a possible prosecution of six Congressional Democrats.
Following a segment with the New York Times’ Michael Schmidt on Pirro’s latest failure to obtain an indictment, “Morning Joe” co-host Joe Scarborough said that court losses are starting to mount up now after an approximately six-month period of easy administration wins.
“I have talked for some time about how the Trump administration's first six months was a lot like my first 100 days in Congress, where the Contract with America, everything went great for 100 days. We had it all; Newt [Gingrich] had it all planned out,” he recalled. “Then on the 101st day, all four wheels seemed to come off the car at the same time –– seems to be happening here.”
“I mean, you look at how everything seemed to run according to plan the first six months,” he elaborated. “But you know, this fall, Donald Trump, everything just sort of seemed to explode where he said, we've got to start arresting these people right away, time's running out. They've been embarrassed on [James] Comey. They've been embarrassed on Letitia James, they've been embarrassed on Lindsey Halligan, they've been embarrassed on Alina Habba.”
“The second thing here is just how ineffective and how inefficient these prosecutions have been, and how they are just being spit out by the criminal justice system, whether it's judges or grand juries,” he observed.
Conservative journalist David Drucker chimed in with, “The president starts out and it's all, you know, wine and roses with executive orders that everybody sort of agrees with or think might be okay. And then the consequences start to come down the pike and people start to experience those consequences. And voters are like, you know, this isn't exactly what I voted for.”
“I think the number one reason the president is, has, so many problems is because he has misread this idea of a mandate, which politicians often do, and he believed and the people around him continue to believe, at least the way they talk that, well, you won the election,” he added. “But they find themselves in a place where they're overreaching and they're not meeting basic expectations on the things that matter most. And that's why presidents always get themselves into trouble.”
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