Michael Cohen, Trump's primary lawyer and cruel enforcer for about 14 years before he was sent to prison for illegal hush payments to Stormy Daniels on Trump's behalf, has written that he witnessed Trump saying many, many times "Make them suffer until they break", which is the real Trump "art of the deal". It's not deals, it's extortion, it's mafioso attacks, it's totalitarian police state right here in our country.
The kindest explanation I can give for this extended 28-day government shutdown is that Trump is doing his extortion racket - make "them" suffer - who cares? not him, but he figures Democrats will care because he sees caring, empathy, compassion as weaknesses and he sees Democrats as weak. And he expects to break them. But we all know that the government is shut down because the Tyrant in Chief tells his Republican Party in Name Only party to shut the government down. So, there will be no negotiation, or if they do the Republican negotiators will be snuffed out of the party, maybe literally?
But I think the real reason Trump will not let the government open is because if they do they will have to swear in a newly elected Democrat from Arizona, Adalita Grijalva, and she will be the last needed vote to release the EPSTEIN FILES.
And it is clear that Trump, who is deeply guilty of so much that will be revealed if the EPSTEIN FILES are ever fully released, will do anything to keep them from being seen. We think he is guilty of pedophilia, which drives Qanon and MAGA mad with rage, but I think it also includes lifetime criminal sentences for years of multiple financial crimes as well. We don't know all that he is guilty of, but he does, and his behavior reveals that there is much there for him to hide.
