Trump pulls the lever

Psych! Trump reverses pulling the lever.

Why oh why did Trump reverse his directive to turn over all DOJ, FBI documents un-redacted? That was so good, so juicy, a solid win. And now it's gone. With responsibility handed back to the agencies who blew it in the first place. We cannot expect FBI to handle their own investigation into themselves, and to release the untampered documents to our satisfaction. They'll do what they've done all along. They'll protect themselves. To Trump supporters it seems like a terrible setback.

Actually, it's a very good chance to observe and to learn how the mind of genius-level deal maker works.

What Trump said was okay, you do the swamp clearing yourselves. Have your Inspector General have a go. But do all this quickly and do it well, because I still hold the right to issue the directive.

In Trump World, having that leverage is greater than wielding it.

So then, in real time we see the departments going out of their minds. To protect themselves they turn against each other. And all Trump has to do is threaten sunlight. They know he's crazy enough to do it. They saw him do it. They saw him use the excuse of foreign countries, Australia and Britain who had their own busy-bodies interfering with our election and our election results. How embarrassing for both. Now Trump has leverage over them as well. Play nicely, you pigs, or I pop with the directive exposing your actions against me. Trump savors the leverage. More so than the immediate incremental effect of declassifying the damaging documents. Declassifying the documents is Trump acting against the corrupted departments and foreign governments directly. Holding the leverage against all affected parties has them scrambling and shooting at themselves instead of shooting at Trump.

I'm not smart enough myself to know this, to internalize such attitudes so that it comes naturally, but apparently to people like Trump leverage has much more usefulness than I had imagined.

No. It's not wishy-washy to halt the directive to declassify documents on the advice of swamp creatures claiming that would be too damaging.  Rather, it's part of his outrageous way. The way he uses his sword, pull it out half way, show his willingness to draw blood, and have everyone involved know his seriousness, then put it back in, and see and gauge the effect of his chaos. He told them speed is essential. That means before the election. Trump created chaos among the affected and now they don't know how far nor how fast they must act. He set off a stick of dynamite in their houses. With the promise of more of the same where that came from.

God, I love watching this man. The most fascinating individual of my lifetime.

I'm starting to see it now. It's like a cartoon. Leverage really is more valuable than immediate satisfaction. It's Trumps way of having the ugly but delicious cake and eating it too, of eating it entirely while freezing it for the future even as he is pooping it out, and having cake-poop fertilizing his garden. And having an empty colon ready to receive fresh portions of thawed saved cake. And having that frozen cake stay whole while pieces are removed for consumption, eating and pooping out portions. This analogy seems to have gone off the rails. Just like the chaos Trump creates to revel in, that nobody else can handle.

I see a picture but I'm too lazy to draw it. Trump pulling levers, people going insane, then shoving the levers back into safety position. But people not calming down from the threat. Then Trump pulling the lever again. People going more insane than before. Trump playing with people causing them to behave irrationally, making them reveal more than they would, becoming the irrational destructive clowns they claim Trump to be.