this regime is transactional, they don't think of the consequences of their actions. He just wanted to see the hockey game. I read where he told his people not to call him when he goes to hockey games.

He's doing it because he's getting away with it, and could give a rat's ass about what anyone thinks.

Look at what he said when the beer-chugging locker room pics came out: "To the very concerned media..."

He's a punk, a thug, who knows there are only two ways ANYTHING is going to happen to him.

1). Trump makes it happen, or

2). Democrats have enough of a majority in Congress to do something about him.

And November is 9 months away, so he's gonna party like it's 1999 until then.

Because he DOES...NOT...CARE, and he WON'T, unless Trump ORDERS him to.

There are two levels of Trump's awareness.

1). His actual level of awareness

2). The awareness he will actually admit

And I think he knows the INCREDIBLY LOW REGARD people OUTSIDE of the cult have for Vance, Rubio, Patel, Hegseth, Miller, Pirro, Leavitt, Noem...and that's a BONUS to him, because he LIKES people being PISSED OFF and POWERLESS to do anything about it.

He KNOWS these people are neither liked not respected, and I believe the proper psychological term for someone who gets off on that is "shits and giggles."

See this:

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100221048594

Susceptible to corruption, influence peddling, and graft. It has failed to deliver on its charter and blindfolded scale holding emblem.

Perhaps the reason for this drawn out denial of telling the truth was to protect the DoJ itself. Its purpose had become self-preservation.

The Truth requires no maintenance.

No lawyer worth their salt would defend any of them. The ones in power are lawyers (supposedly), but they were all trained at Harvard and Yale so they all have the same (lack of) ethics.
The only thing any of them can do is plead the 5th, and hope the evidence isn't as damning as it actually is, or that their friends destroyed all the worst evidence (Which is what I believe is happening).
Independent witnesses who haven't suffered uncharacteristic accidents are going to be essential.

He's been egregiously (been using that word a lot lately) abusing the perks of his office since Day 1.

anywhere unless they get on the wrong side of TSF.

incredibly wonderful if you are right, but that silver lining might just take the cake.

Generally though !

Trump doesn't want him talking.

Trump from firing him? It seems to be one or the other.

...country is where it is.

I mean, who would have predicted an orange failed businessmen with pedophilic tendencies, and criminal convictions could destroy a major world power?

When my wife asks me to make predictions about the future, I remind her of all the times she mocked me for predicting a "Kerry Landslide" in the 2004 election.

But I always believed that there were secrets so horrible that every president was compromised by knowing those secrets. I mean we grew up on Kennedy killings and Dr. King and Malcolm X. I was young but that told me something was very wrong in this country. Then 9/11, more cover ups the Bush wars, more cover ups. I'm not sure what percent the FBI and CIA are corrupt, but it's not good.

Administration.

That's why the Women's Hockey Team was a deliberately-slighted after-thought.

That's why the Team Figure-Skaters were not invited at all.

And that's why Bug-Eyed Earl Patel had to celebrate in the boys' locker room.

I'm surprised Hegseth didn't join him. No Fatties there!

But it's what they all are, just looking for click and likes. Their self worth lies not in their talents and accomplishment (because the are talentless wannbes) but in the affirmation of others. Validation seeking histrionic personality disorder, they need to be seen being liked by other rightfully well liked people, or doing "fabulous" things which for them just means spending great deals of (other peoples) money.