"This is Worse than a Crime, it's a Mistake."

(“C’est pire qu’un crime, c’est une faute”). Great line attributed to Taleyrand, famous French Diplomat.

Indeed, that’s exactly what Trump, or rather his incompetent henchmen into whose hands he entrusted the American legal system, have done.

It is very easy to gaslight Americans about foreign policy. They have no clue about any European or Asian intricacies. They are ignorant to such a degree that even educated readers of NYT can wrap themselves in Ukrainian flags and babble about freedom and tyrants, and new Churchill—Zelenski, and new Hitler—Putin.

Same applies to all sort of foreign affairs ventures: Middle East, Venezuela, Iran. Fine, Americans would swallow it according to their political affiliations. They will buy it, if it comes from Obama, reject if it comes from Bushes or Trumps. Or vice versa.

Even economics like tariffs, or the climate and pandemics are the subject of uncertainty, confusion, and therefore can fall victim to gaslighting.

But legality? Second amendment? Police over-reach? Constitution? Federal, state, and individual rights? Americans are by far more sophisticated on these issues than anyone else in the world.

Yet, Trump, gets these incompetent hucksters, like Miller, Bondi, Noem, and I suspect, Patel, and wants these mediocrities to outsmart millions of most legally-sophisticated people on earth? What the hell!

Yes, it is fine to suggest to Zelensky that he does not have the cards. But is over-playing your cards that smart? Ask Taleyrand: crime (like foreign invasions) American can accept and ignore. But blunders, stupidities and lying in your face? Oh, boy. I feel very bad about all the people, some talented and committed, who bet on Trump hoping that he can deliver. It won’t happen, because Trump does not hold enough legal heavy guns on his side, to navigate him through that. Whoever he had, he put them into supreme court. And now he is left with Bondi and Noem.

Such blunders are never forgiven in the US. It is like a crying candidate, or hysterical one. One can try to regroup, maybe bombing Iran will help him, but I doubt that.