The trouble with pathologically dishonest behavior and actors is that they have a way of making rational people feel like the rational people are crazy or the problem. As a lawyer and analyst I have always found that a focus on organizing facts and objective evidence is the best decipher of crazy, but it can take a lot of work and many people lack the focus or discipline to do it. Donald Trump famously said in his campaign that “he loves the uneducated” voters. This would make sense if one’s life long modus operandi is to delude and confuse.
Putting his highly honed fact-organizing skills to work, last February retired trial lawyer Stephen Harper began building a timeline of verifiable events in the Trump/Russia/conflicts saga. In the months since, it has now grown to more than 400 data points. You can view it here and develop your own conclusions.
Harper explained his process in the clip below.
Attorney Steven Harper has prepared a timeline with more than 400 data points of all the events surrounding the Trump team and Russia. He prepared it as if it had to be presented to a jury. Lawrence O’Donnell also discusses the findings with Bill Moyers. Here is a direct video link.
Also, the man who spent 18 months shadowing Donald Trump in the 1980’s as prep for ghost-writing Trump’s 1987 promotional memoir The Art of the Deal, here on CNN last night, said he believes Trump will resign before year end as a way of avoiding the fallout from political failure and the ongoing FBI investigation into his business conflicts:
“The reason he’s going to do that, as opposed to go through what could be an impeachment process or a continuing humiliation, is that he wants to figure out a way, as he has done all his career, to turn a loss into a victory. So he will declare victory when he leaves.”
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