He and his team scanned the Mueller report looking for sentences that they could quote in the letter that summarized the special counsel’s findings or reflected the bottom line. “Barr decided to write a second letter to Congress, which would detail the special counsel’s principal conclusions. That is my fear.” -”Ī Very Stable Genius: Donald J. He is opening up vulnerabilities for this to happen. And another president that comes after him can move it a little farther. “I like to believe is too self-engrossed, too incompetent and disorganized to get us to 1930,” this aide added. Did people in the 1930s in Germany know when the government started to turn on them? Most Americans are more worried about who is going to win on America’s Got Talent and what the traffic is going to be like on I-95. “If he wanted to, how far could he push this?” this aide asked. I can remove you from this work and your career. According to the aide, it was the president declaring, “It’s not okay to disagree with me. This aide saw Trump’s move against Brennan as one of the first steps of undercutting America’s democratic system of government and the belief system upon which it was founded.

I didn’t swear an oath to this jackass.” As this aide saw it, there has been a silent understanding within the national security community that diplomatic, military, and intelligence officers were doing the right thing, quietly risking their lives to protect the American way of life. I have to remind myself I said an oath to a document in the National Archives. The hair goes up on the back of your neck. The disregard he has for right and wrong. “The disdain he shows for our country’s foundation and its principles. “He’s ruined that magic,” this aide said of Trump.

A Very Stable Genius by Philip Rucker