"You Can't Go Any Lower": Inside The West Wing, Trump is Apoplectic as Allies Fear Impeachment

[workinclasszero]

"You Can't Go Any Lower": Inside The West Wing, Trump is Apoplectic as Allies Fear Impeachment
After Monday’s indictments, the president blamed Jared Kushner in a call to Steve Bannon, while others are urging him to take off the gloves with Robert Mueller.
BY GABRIEL SHERMAN NOVEMBER 1, 2017 1:08 PM

Until now, Robert Mueller has haunted Donald Trump’s White House as a hovering, mostly unseen menace. But by securing indictments of Paul Manafort and Rick Gates, and a surprise guilty plea from foreign policy adviser George Papadopoulos, Mueller announced loudly that the Russia investigation poses an existential threat to the president. “Here’s what Manafort’s indictment tells me: Mueller is going to go over every financial dealing of Jared Kushner and the Trump Organization,” said former Trump campaign aide Sam Nunberg. “Trump is at 33 percent in Gallup. You can’t go any lower. He’s fucked.”

The first charges in the Mueller probe have kindled talk of what the endgame for Trump looks like, according to conversations with a half-dozen advisers and friends of the president. For the first time since the investigation began, the prospect of impeachment is being considered as a realistic outcome and not just a liberal fever dream. According to a source, advisers in the West Wing are on edge and doing whatever they can not to be ensnared. One person close to Dina Powell and Gary Cohn said they’re making sure to leave rooms if the subject of Russia comes up.



https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2017/11/the-west-wing-trump-is-apoplectic-as-allies-fear-impeachment

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

1. Never assume Trump can't go any lower.

There is no bottom to this pit.

[workinclasszero]

4. Oh yeah

Our National Shame in-charge has no morals and is a sociopath.

There is no depth that slimeball won't descend to.

Hang on America, its gonna be a rough ride until the Trump cancer is cut out of our body politic, bet your ass on that one!

[lindysalsagal]

15. No- You're missing his meaning: "He's out of office if he goes lower."

Not, he can't go lower: He can't go lower and remain in power: The congress will pitch him out.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

16. Maybe so, but Nixon hung in there until he hit 24%.

[DK504]

2. Trump is at 33 percent in Gallup. You cant go any lower. Hes fucked.

LOL ... Yeah, he's fucked. Now if the House will do their damn jobs and protect the country that would be great, won't hold my breath, but.

[gratuitous]

3. An actual attributed quote?! Good job, Gabriel Sherman

As for Trump's approval ratings, he can and will go lower, but since he's impervious to embarrassment, it won't make a damn bit of difference. Trump will continue on his self-destructive path because in his mind he is the greatest human being to walk the planet since Abraham Lincoln, or maybe Jesus, or that other guy.

[nocalflea]

5. Oh my.

" One person close to Dina Powell and Gary Cohn said they’re making sure to leave rooms if the subject of Russia comes up."

What, they couldn't see this coming when they took the jobs ? With everything that's transpired since Flynn's resignation ? The firing of Comey didn't ring alarm bells ? How obtuse are these people ?

[workinclasszero]

6. They get all the "news" from Breitbart and Fox and Friends

So...yeah.

[Break time]

7. Never ever

Make any assumptions about drump other than he will somehow or other fuck things up worse than they already are...

[workinclasszero]

8. You will never go wrong

with that philosophy in Dump's case, that's for damned sure.

[Tatiana]

9. Oh yes, you can go lower. You can hit the 20s... AKA Impeachment Time.

I find it hilarious that staffers have to leave the room when Russia is mentioned.

Couldn't happen to more deserving people. Anyone who willingly joined this administration deserves to receive Trump's Kiss of Death.

[workinclasszero]

10. I could never figure why anyone with half a brain would want to

attach themselves and their futures to a lyin con man POS like Trump.

The creep is 70 years old, he's been doing the same shit his whole damn life! WTF is wrong with these people??

They must actually believe the horse shit that Fox and hate radio put out everyday making them the biggest SUCKERS of all!

[Tatiana]

12. Power, ambition, and money.

Usually it's those 3 with Republicans.

They've seen that Trump has never been held accountable for anything. Even now, Manafort is counting on Trump to pardon him.

[workinclasszero]

14. Undoubtedly those three things..but...

What good does that do you when you end up a convicted and disgraced felon for the rest of your life?

I guess you could sell survival food to rubes in buckets like Jim Bakker or put out right wing conspiracy/hysterical ghost written screeds every other year.

The deplorables love that shit.

[mfcorey1]

11. Where's Kellyanne and where is Omarosa?

[workinclasszero]

13. Runnin for cover?

Checkin their homes for bugs?

Patting down friends and associates of Trump before speaking to them?

[Corvo Bianco]

17. making sure to leave rooms if the subject of Russia comes up.

Huh... seems late for that? It is astonishing how slow so many people are. Trump attracts the best!