mitchell because the attorney general. so john mitchell is the first attorney general to go to jail. so note to jeff sessions if the very worst happens at the end of all this, at least you won t be the first. because every day of the trump presidency is a variation of some form of trump madness that we have not seen before, it can be difficult to hold in reserve for days like today enough astonishment for the next dramatic development. the president s campaign manager is in jail. i don t know how to make that as stunning as it needs to be because it comes at the end of a week of non-stop stunners. the president s campaign manager is in jail is today s most dramatic development and
especially the lies about it s the democrats fault those kids are at the southern border. that was the point of it. throw out chum on the water and distract from the rest of the days news. we don t have days that are scheduled to be big news. the manafort news was scheduled to be big news. we knew it was coming and to the is the president s campaign manager first night in jail. it is an amazing thing. a lot of unprecedented things happen in the trump administration, we should note them all, but this one, the consequence of this, the seniority, it s not just that he s donald trump s campaign chairman, it s not that he played a bigger role than donald trump wants to admit the days, why he brought in manafort to rangle delegates. it s that he s been dealing with manafort for 30 years. manafort and stone roger stone the touch stone of his
white house will his former campaign manager is trying to fall asleep across town in jail. because richard nixon s campaign manager didn t go to jail until after he helped richard nixon get re-elected. he did he didn t go to jail until after richard nixon had been forced to resign the presidency on the brink of impeachment, there s something new here. the difference between donald trump and richard nixon tonight is that donald trump s campaign manager managed to get himself charged with federal crimes and in jail much faster than richard nixon s did. what s happening to paul manafort and donald trump is happening much faster than it happened to john mitchell and richard nixon. and as donald trump gazes at the tv tonight trying to fall asleep in the white house, he has to be wondering what we re all wondering, what does paul manafort know about donald trump that could be an indictable
afternoon that paul manafort would actually be in jail, the president of the united states this morning walked out to the white house driveway to try to create some drama and entertainment of his own to drown out the paul manafort news of the day, which was probably going to be very, very bad for the president. and did turn out to be bad for the president. the president s favorite morning show fox and friends was broadcasting from the white house lawn and the president pretended to make an impromptu decision to walk out of the west wing and walk down to the set and then do what was supposedly an impromptu interview. we all saw the telephone version of that interview two months ago on fox and friends. and that time steve did ask some good questions but today steve due si couldn t think of a single good question.
all trump enterprises it was a revolving door people were getting fired for among ore things incompetence and replaced by more incompetence. in the case of paul manafort, a criminal or an accused criminal who a federal judge believes is so probably likely to have committed the crime of witness tampering and is so probably likely to commit that crime again if he was allowed to go home tonight with his ankle bracelets and his cell phone that the federal judge sent paul manafort to jail tonight. so when donald trump is trying to fall asleep tonight in the white house with the tv on, he will actually be the first president in history to be trying to fall asleep in the white house will his former campaign manager is trying to fall asleep across town in jail. because richard nixon s campaign manager didn t go to jail until after he helped richard nixon get re-elected. he did he didn t go to jail until after richard nixon had been forced to resign the