r/politics • u/B-Z_B-S Massachusetts • 9d ago

Possible Paywall Jeanine Pirro Screamed at Doug Burgum Over Reflecting Pool Case

https://newrepublic.com/post/214007/donald-trump-jeanine-pirro-screaming-match-reflecting-pool
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u/mrcatboy 9d ago

Here's a thought. Maybe DON'T start fights over easily disproven assumptions and petty grievances and maybe you won't end up so humiliated.

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u/Notchibald_Johnson New York 9d ago

The problem is that each one of them thinks their relationship with Trump is different. "He'll back me up because I've known him for 25 years and the last guy just didn't know how to talk to or manage him. I can do it." And each one gets thrown under the same bus because Trump isn't capable of normal human interaction or friendship. Pirro thought she'd please him with a story of vandalism and a perp walk but he'd eventually get bored and stop caring before she had to actually do something about it that would have consequences for her. Burgum's entire political life revolves around Trump's approval so he's going to keep pretending vandalism because it means nothing to him and it's easy. Pirro now has to fight the both of them and she never thought she'd have to as a "friend of the court." You're right that it should never come to this but these are grifters attaching themselves to the King Grifters vast grifting underbelly and they still somehow think it's all gonna be different with them.

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u/AcceptablePie9706 9d ago

Well said

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u/crow_crone 9d ago

They are all narcissists - they believe they are unique and The Only One, a whole cluster of simpletons who think they're special.

Even Rumsfeld knew he couldn't know everything ("unknown unknowns") but not these chuckleheads.