Badger’s Crystal Ball

This post will be a bit different than most here.  Rather than the whole post being from a specific date, it will be a series of posts from different dates.  If I see something that makes me think I see a pattern developing, an eventual outcome or even just an incident that is likely to happen.  You will find it here.  Not a long explanation, just the meat.  If you compare the date to the news, you will probably find my inspiration.

2/14/2018 – The most recent scandal is about Rob Porter, a very highly placed assistant to John Kelly, who is the White House Chief of Staff.  He abused both of his ex-wives, and there is even a picture of one of them with a black eye.  That is NOT the scandal.  The scandal is that the WH staff knew about it and did nothing.  Porter has been working this whole time on a temporary security clearance.  The FBI according to Wray, the director, in writing notified the WH about it in July of 2017, again in November, and updated it in January of this year.   This came out in testimony to a Senate Panel.  Different stories came out of the WH, but in the end, it boiled down to they didn’t find out until last week.  Specifically, it was John Kelly who was notified.  Then he fired him immediately.  The WH is sticking by their timeline, even though the FBI has presented written proof to the contrary.  Who does this sound like?  Never admit you are wrong.  Double down and tell a lie if necessary then deny any real evidence.  My prediction is that Trump and his staff will claim that the FBI manufactured this evidence.  It is just more proof that they are biased against him.  They might even use this as an excuse to fire Christopher Wray.

1/17/2018 – What actually defines “Executive Privilege” is going to play a “Yuuuuuuge” part in the legal outcome of all of this.  The President and a number of top Republicans are using it like a blanket to protect themselves from having to answer questions which might implicate the President.  In 1974, the Supreme Court rejected a broad claim of privilege by the Nixon administration, ruling, “Neither the doctrine of separation of powers nor the generalized need for confidentiality of high-level communications, without more, can sustain an absolute, unqualified Presidential privilege of immunity from judicial process under all circumstances.”

1/14/2018 – Today is the first time that the White House staff blatantly altered fact, and a recording to match Trump’s narrative.  I predict that this is just the first of many alterations.

1/12/2018 – As happened in the election of Roy Moore, a grassroots mobilization of people of color will result in Democrats winning almost every midterm election in 2018.