When Your Fixer Flips For The Feds

In my "Changes In The Line Of Succession" post on April 11 (read it here,) I said that VP Mike Pence would get a big promotion if, for any reason, the current president doesn't complete his term. Now, in an opinion piece at the Washington Post titled "It's becoming clear that Trump won't run in 2020," former Republican and "I-really-don't-like-him-any-more" ex-Trump supporter Joe Scarborough doesn't quite say that Trump probably won't be president on election day, 2020, but he comes close:

This past week, White House office pools reportedly set up in anticipation of the next staff firing are shifting their focus to predicting which Trump family member will be the first to land behind bars. Special counsel Robert S. Mueller III’s independent investigation into Russia may have inspired a defiant West Wing response, but the U.S. attorney’s raid of Michael Cohen’s home, office and hotel room has stirred more fear and loathing inside White House offices than at any time since President Richard Nixon battled Watergate prosecutors in the summer of 1973.

Now, even Trump’s most steadfast allies are quietly admitting that the Southern District of New York’s investigation poses an existential threat to his future, both politically and legally. Trump allies are telling the president his “fixer” could flip for the feds, just like Michael Flynn, Rick Gates and George Papadopoulos. In Washington and across the country, Republicans are sensing the president is a wounded political figure, leading them to withhold their future support or — in one high-profile case — to challenge the president directly.

As many people in my Twitter feed pointed out, the only time having your "fixer" flip for the feds is a problem is when you do, in fact, have criminal activity that you're trying to hide.

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