Karma:
1 often capitalized: the
force generated by a person's actions held in Hinduism and Buddhism to
perpetuate transmigration and in its ethical consequences to determine the
nature of the person's next existence
Five
days ago, “Newly Made Great America” awoke to news that former Trump, ally,
aide-de-camp, and National Security Adviser, Retired General Michael Flynn, had
reached a plea agreement with Special Counsel Robert Mueller. Flynn entered a
guilty plea for lying to the FBI about his contacts with the Russian ambassador
during the transition. As a condition for the single count plea, the former
Trump administration staffer will cooperate fully with the Special Counsel’s
investigation into Russian interference in last year’s Presidential Election.
According to Flynn’s account, a senior member of the Trump Transition Team
instructed him to engage with Moscow.
In
the wake of the aforementioned plea, Trump fumed because of Flynn having (pleaded guilty
Friday to lying to the FBI about his contacts with Russian officials
— and is cooperating
with special counsel Robert Mueller’s probe), and he
subsequently did the things for which he is best known. He tweeted. Frequently.
About Hillary Rodham Clinton.
On
Saturday evening, a day removed from the Flynn plea, Trump endeavored to pivot
from Flynn to Mrs. Clinton. So he tweeted:
Donald J. Trump
@realDonaldTrump
So
General Flynn lies to the FBI and his life is destroyed, while Crooked Hillary
Clinton, on that now famous FBI holiday “interrogation” with no swearing in and
no recording, lies many times...and nothing happens to her? Rigged system, or
just a double standard?
As is his
wont, the tweets continued…
Donald J. Trump
@realDonaldTrump
Many people in our
Country are asking what the “Justice” Department is going to do about the fact
that totally Crooked Hillary, AFTER receiving a subpoena from the United States
Congress, deleted and “acid washed” 33,000 Emails? No justice!
Of course, there was more. President Trump leveraged an
announcement that ABC News had suspended investigative reporter Brian Ross for
having made an erroneous on-air report asserting
that Flynn was prepared to testify that Candidate Trump directed him to contact
Russians. Ross later revised that report to say Trump issued that directive as
President-elect. He tweeted:
Donald J. Trump
@realDonaldTrump
Congratulations to @ABC News for suspending Brian Ross for
his horrendously inaccurate and dishonest report on the Russia, Russia, Russia
Witch Hunt. More Networks and “papers” should do the same with their Fake News!
The tweets continued Sunday morning. President Trump claimed he
never asked FBI Director Comey to stop investigating National Security Adviser
Flynn. He tweeted:
I never asked Comey
to stop investigating Flynn. Just more Fake News covering another Comey lie!
Of course the associated relevance of this assertion stems from
that fact that Comey testified in June, before the Senate Intelligence
Committee, that Trump told him, “I hope you can see your way clear to letting
this go, to let Flynn go.” Trump later fired Comey. This led to the appointment
of Mueller to oversee the Russia investigation. The consensus is that Mueller’s
probe is looking into both contacts between the Trump Campaign and Russia, and
whether Trump attempted to obstruct justice by terminating (FBI Director)
Comey.
In an interview with NBC’s Lester Holt,
Trump told Holt that he fired Comey because of the Russia investigation. At
that time he said:
“In fact, when I
decided to do it, I said to myself, I said, you know, this Russia thing with
Trump and Russia is a made-up story. It’s an excuse by the Democrats for having
lost an election that they should’ve won.”
Did I say the tweets kept coming? Did I need to say that? They
did, of course. Still on Sunday, he tweeted:
Donald J. Trump
@realDonaldTrump
After years of Comey,
with the phony and dishonest Clinton investigation (and more), running the FBI,
its reputation is in Tatters - worst in History! But fear not, we will bring it
back to greatness.
The President also noted that a top FBI official assigned to the
Russia probe was taken off the case and reassigned by Mueller. His bosses
discovered that Peter Strzok, FBI deputy head of counterintelligence, sent “politically charged texts disparaging Trump and
supporting Hillary Clinton.” The Washington Post indicated that Strzok was also
“a key player in the investigation into Hillary Clinton’s use of a private
email server.” His associated tweet read:
Donald J. Trump
@realDonaldTrump
Tainted (no, very dishonest?) FBI
“agent’s role in Clinton probe under review.” Led Clinton Email probe. @foxandfriends Clinton money going to
wife of another FBI agent in charge.
Over the course of the tweet screed, it could almost be lost
that the narrative about Trump’s firing Comey developed a “subtle” new twist.
That subtle, in quotes, if you know what I mean. Wink-wink. He tweeted this:
Donald J. Trump
@realDonaldTrump
I had to fire General
Flynn because he lied to the Vice President and the FBI. He has pled guilty to
those lies. It is a shame because his actions during the transition were
lawful. There was nothing to hide!
In the event you happen to be a Trump supporter, please forgive
the remaining 60% of the population that gleaned from that tweet that Trump
knew Flynn was lying to the FBI. Thematically, the “hint” was so strong, even
one of Trumps lawyers thought it was worth inserting the counter-narrative that
he, not Trump, wrote that tweet. Whatever!
Let’s get back to Karma. When President Obama met with
President-Elect Trump at the White House November 10th, two days after
the election, Mr. Obama tried to do Mr. Trump a huge favor. He delivered a face-to-face warning that
he not hire General Flynn. Of course Flynn had worked for Obama, and he fired
him. Undoubtedly, that act endeared Flynn to Trump, Birther-in-Chief, that he
“is.” I’d like to write, “was,” but according to Trump confidantes, #45 has
privately begun to reacquaint himself with that hateful role.
The formal definition for Karma appears at the top of the page.
A simpler way to frame it, and Evangelicals (the heart of Trump’s base) should
appreciate this, is “You reap what you sow.” As a CNN headline put it
yesterday, “Obama tried to save Trump from a colossal mistake.” In the
vernacular, he tried to do him a solid. Unfortunately, in the spirit of “Let
Trump be Trump, which his supporters chant almost ritualistically, his hubris
prevented him from humbling himself, and believing that anything President Obama
suggested could possibly be in his best interest, and in this case, more
importantly, the best interest of our “Great and Exceptional” nation. For his
part, President Obama was trying for a two-fer; do Trump a favor, and save the
country. But Nooo!
So now, in the most Karmic of developments, the guy who went out
of his way to abase himself in order to curry favor with Trump, by yelling the
refrain, “Lock her up,” at every possible opportunity, now finds himself…with a
pending personal appointment to “Lock him up!” That, ladies and gentlemen, is
Karma. How did we get here? Easy; “TrumpIgnored Obama’s Advice: Flynn Proved Him (Obama) Right!”
I’m done; holla back!
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