According to Wikipedia, the Law of Holes states that,
".... "if you find yourself in a hole, stop digging". Meaning that if in an untenable position, it is best to stop carrying on and exacerbating the situation."
Today the New York Times reports that,
"President Trump spoke on Wednesday with three New York Times reporters — Peter Baker, Michael S. Schmidt and Maggie Haberman — in an exclusive interview in the Oval Office. Also in attendance was Hope Hicks, a White House spokeswoman. At one point, the president’s daughter and adviser Ivanka Trump appeared at the door, and her daughter, Arabella, entered the room." (New York Times : July 19, 2017)
It would seem that during his interview yesterday, President Trump simply ignored the Law of Holes, and continued to dig himself even deeper into his untenable position that originates from Putin and Trump's lieutenants colluding during the 2016 US Presidential elections, and which got Trump elected to the White House.
In an MSNBC interview, Michael Schmidt recounts that Trump made some additional allegations about James Comey using 'the dossier' to intimidate Trump himself, rather than Comey simply informing Trump about the existence of this dossier, that included damaging information about Trump himself.
If this were not enough,
"President Trump warned special counsel Robert Mueller from investigating his family’s finances beyond the scope of the probe into ties between his administration and Russia in an interview with The New York Times on Wednesday.
...
He
did not say that he would order the Justice Department to fire
Mueller or under what circumstances he would fire him, but he indicated
Mueller investigating his family's finances would cross a line." (Jacqueline Thomsen (right): The Hill : 19/7/2017) (my emphasis)
Neither could Trump extricate himself from the 'scarlet thread of Maidan' during this interview.
During his interview, Trump also insisted that Putin and himself talked about 'adoptions' during their second meeting at the G20 dinner.
As
And as Congressman Adam Schiff explains in an interview with Rachel Maddow of MSNBC,
"Of all the things the President said they talked about [during his tête-à-tête with Putin at the G20 summit dinner] he should say ,"adoptions". Of course, this is what his son said their meeting was about, and we now know that the meeting was about anything but 'adoptions'.
The fact that Trump simply ignores the Law of Holes must be causing Putin some consternation.
Yesterday in Minsk,
" .... a regular meeting of the Tripartite Contact Group on the
settlement of the situation in Ukraine ended its work. Security issues
have come to the forefront of the talks.
.....
(to be continued)
".... "if you find yourself in a hole, stop digging". Meaning that if in an untenable position, it is best to stop carrying on and exacerbating the situation."Today the New York Times reports that,
"President Trump spoke on Wednesday with three New York Times reporters — Peter Baker, Michael S. Schmidt and Maggie Haberman — in an exclusive interview in the Oval Office. Also in attendance was Hope Hicks, a White House spokeswoman. At one point, the president’s daughter and adviser Ivanka Trump appeared at the door, and her daughter, Arabella, entered the room." (New York Times : July 19, 2017)
It would seem that during his interview yesterday, President Trump simply ignored the Law of Holes, and continued to dig himself even deeper into his untenable position that originates from Putin and Trump's lieutenants colluding during the 2016 US Presidential elections, and which got Trump elected to the White House.
In an MSNBC interview, Michael Schmidt recounts that Trump made some additional allegations about James Comey using 'the dossier' to intimidate Trump himself, rather than Comey simply informing Trump about the existence of this dossier, that included damaging information about Trump himself.
If this were not enough,
"President Trump warned special counsel Robert Mueller from investigating his family’s finances beyond the scope of the probe into ties between his administration and Russia in an interview with The New York Times on Wednesday.
...
He
did not say that he would order the Justice Department to fire
Mueller or under what circumstances he would fire him, but he indicated
Mueller investigating his family's finances would cross a line." (Jacqueline Thomsen (right): The Hill : 19/7/2017) (my emphasis)During his interview, Trump also insisted that Putin and himself talked about 'adoptions' during their second meeting at the G20 dinner.
As
And as Congressman Adam Schiff explains in an interview with Rachel Maddow of MSNBC,
"Of all the things the President said they talked about [during his tête-à-tête with Putin at the G20 summit dinner] he should say ,"adoptions". Of course, this is what his son said their meeting was about, and we now know that the meeting was about anything but 'adoptions'.
The fact that Trump simply ignores the Law of Holes must be causing Putin some consternation.
Yesterday in Minsk,
" .... a regular meeting of the Tripartite Contact Group on the
settlement of the situation in Ukraine ended its work. Security issues
have come to the forefront of the talks......
Martin
Sajdik voiced the OSCE's position on the statement about the creation
of a state within the borders of Ukraine called "Malorossia", such a
proposal was voiced the day before by representatives of the
unrecognized people's republic.
The OSCE Chairman-in-Office, Austrian
Foreign Minister Sebastian Kurtz expressed concern about such
provocative rhetoric and urged the parties to refrain from any
confrontational statements or actions that call into question the
implementation of Minsk agreements and the sovereignty of Ukraine." (BetelRadioCompany : 19 July 2017) (my emphasis)
It would seem, therefore, that Putin's gambit to somehow spike this meeting with a call for the federalization of Ukraine has not really worked.
Putin now finds himself between a rock and a hard place in trying to give Trump a victory that will eclipse the ever mounting Russian investigation in the US against Trump.
Putin simply cannot afford to loose face in his war with Ukraine.
No comments:
Post a Comment