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THE VIEW FROM HERE - When bullies pull down some nerd’s pants in the junior high locker room, it’s done to humiliate him.
The entire world saw Musk pants Trump, an act which gave rise to all sorts of derision calling Musk “President elect” and cartoons of Trump on a leash held by Musk. The question is not whether Trump was pantsed, but whether Elon did it intentionally.
Here’s the back story, or more less. Maybe some day someone who knows all the insider details will write a tell all book.\
1. Speaker of the House Mike Johnson was negotiating the Continuing Resolution to keep the government funded until March 2005. Quite often, Congress fails to pass a new spending package before its deadline. That means the federal government has to shut down as it has no money after that deadline date. Not everything shuts down, but it is a big hassle and causes a lot of problems. Thus, politicos hate to be blamed for “shutting down the government.”
2. Speaker Johnson says he was keeping Trump informed of the progress of the negotiations with the GOP. It turns out, however, that he was keeping the rank and file in the dark Allegedly, only the four Dem and GOP House and Senate leaders knew the CR’s contents before it was finalized. Congress is a place which leaks more than a rowboat with a screen door for a bottom. So, you judge how little anyone really knew in advance.
3. There are reports that during negotiations, Trump had wanted Speaker Johnson to include lifting the Debt Ceiling now so that Trump would not have to do it after he was president. Without a raised debt ceiling, it is unlikely Trump can give the tax breaks to billionaires as the tax breaks would reduce revenue which would require more borrowing which would increase the debt higher than the Debt Limit. Speaker Johnson must have advised Trump that come Hell or high water, the GOP Freedom Caucus would not vote for a CR which raised the Debt Ceiling. Hence, the first CR omitted it.
4. When the CR was released, it had 1547 pages, mas o menos, and included 100 Billion for hurricane relief (largely in GOP areas) and $10 Billion for Farmers (who were often GOP supporters) and a mishmash of other items like $190 Million for childhood cancer research and a prohibition of sharing militarily useful technology with China.
5. When Elon Musk saw the prohibition on his sharing military secrets with China, he took to twitter to launch a twitter blizzard against the CR, demanding that it be withdrawn. What almost no one in the country knows is that Elon Musk, despite his owning SpaceX does not have the very highest security clearance (per MSNBC), but as all Congresspersons know, Musk does billions upon billions of dollars of business with China. Tesla’s largest plant is in China and Must is building a huge battery plant in China.
6. Musk threatened to primary any Congressperson who voted for the CR.
7. Missing in Action from this public twitter storm was Donny Trump. Hours later Trump tweeted on Truth Social that he would primary anyone who did not vote a new CR which raised the Debt Limit! Yikes, whence cometh this nonsense?
8. Trump’s Debt Ceiling CR failed 174 Yes votes to 235 No votes. More humiliating was the fact that the new CR required a 2/3rd Yes vote to pass, making anyone who thought it would pass jackass. Since none of the DEMS would vote Yes, it was a stupid, stupid, stupid demand where Trump played the fool. Worst yet, all the GOP Freedom Caucus and about 3 or 4 more GOP voted No, which meant the Debt Limit CR failed to get even a simple majority vote.
9. As the shut down deadline loomed (Saturday at 12.00.01 am), a quickie CR was passed with some GOP votes but with no prohibition on Musk’s selling state secrets to China and without Trump’s Debt Limit. Foolishly, oh so foolishly, Trump had threatened to primary every GOP who voted for the CR without the Debt Ceiling clause. What good is a threat when people ignore it! The next elections are two years away, and Trump is threatening all GOP in the House and in the Senate that they will be primaried for passing a CR before Trump is even President?
Back to the Question: Did Musk Intentionally Pants Donny Small Hands?
To answer this question requires us to know what Musk may be holding over Trump?
Did Musk buy up all the mortgages on Trump’s properties?
Does Musk have some unknown demand from China to provide the technology?
In the intervening hours between Musk’s original Twitter attacks and Trump’s belated threats on Truth Social, did Musk and Trump speak?
Did Musk encourage Trump to make the demand that the CR must raise the Debt Limit. As a histrionic, Trump tends to listen to the last person with whom he speaks, especially if they flatter him and tell him what he wants to hear.
Did Trump myopically think that he could regain position numero uno by the dramatic gesture of his Debt Ceiling demand and recapture the spot light from Musk?
More Tea Leaves
One should look at Trump’s rally where he denied that Musk was President.
Watch here It’s important to watch the clip a few times and scrutinize Trump’s demeanor, voice tone and his logic. Think about his line that Musk cannot be President as “he wasn’t born here.” The logic of that sentence places control outside of Trump while Trump always needs to be the big Kahuna issues orders. The Constitutional prohibition is not the issue whether Musk can run for President, but rather whether Musk owns Trump.
Notice who did not have to eat humble pie and swear fealty to Trump!
(Richard Lee Abrams has been an attorney, a Realtor and community relations consultant as well as a CityWatch contributor. You may email him at [email protected])
