Former Chief Of Staff Says Trump Is Scared To Death About Indictment

Donald Trump's former Chief of Staff John Kelly said during an interview this week that, as someone who worked closely with Trump, he knows that the former President is scared "poop-less" over the indictment, but he used a much stronger word. This is a part of the story that hasn't been talked about enough - We've seen Trump blast out fundraising emails, talk tough on social media and in speeches, but the gravity of the situation is not lost on him and he's really just a scared old man who knows that his life could be crumbling into dust. Ring of Fire's Farron Cousins explains what's happening.

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In an interview with the Washington Post this week, former Donald Trump, chief of Staff General, John Kelly, the man that was supposed to be the adult in the room during the Trump administration, until he realized that there's no adult that can actually reign these children in. So he quit. But Kelly told the Washington Post that Donald Trump is basically to paraphrase him, scared Poopless about these investigations. Now, he didn't use the word poop, obviously, he used the expletive. But here is what Kelly had to say. He's scared Poopless. This is the way he compensates for that. He gives people the appearance. He doesn't care. By doing this for the first time in his life, it looks like he's being held accountable Up until this point in his life. It's like, I'm not going to pay you. Take me to court. He's never been held accountable before. And that's true.

And I do think that Kelly makes an excellent point. I mean, Kelly was with the Trump administration for almost two full years. Folks, he knows Donald Trump. He worked with him side by side every single day. And those were the two years, by the way, that Donald Trump was being investigated in the Mueller investigation. So Kelly knows what it looks like when Donald Trump freaks out about an investigation. Kelly knows what it looks like when Donald Trump is worried he might go to jail. And that's what Kelly is telling us is happening right now. Yes, Donald Trump goes out there and he puts on a brave face. He can get in front of a crowd of 10,000 people, talk a big game, talk crap about the judges and the prosecutors and the lawyers and everybody else. He can get on truth, social and trash these people all day long.

But he's not always in front of those crowds. Believe it or not. He's not always on truth, social. And when the crowds go away, when Donald Trump puts his phone down, we are left with an elderly man that is terrified that he is going to die in prison. Because let's face it, at Donald Trump's age, he's in his late seventies. He's looking at possibly 20 years in prison. That's a life sentence for him. And he knows that. He pretends he doesn't know that because he thinks it makes him look tough. And of course, he doesn't want to undermine his own claims that the government is out to get him. And so they've weaponized the DOJ to go after him. But deep down, he is terrified. He is a frightened old man that understands he may spend the rest of his life behind bars. And that doesn't sit well with him. It wouldn't sit well with anybody, honestly. But the party also forgets. And the part he never will accept is that he did this to himself. Donald Trump made his own bed. By the way, MIT Romney is the Republican that's been out there saying that Trump did this to himself.

He has nobody to blame but himself. And this is where it's gotten him. He BSed his way through life. He lied and conned and you know, didn't pay contractors. He did all these horrible things and was never held accountable. So this is of course, the natural escalation of that. And if he had never decided to run for office, none of this would've happened. He wouldn't have had the investigations in New York. He wouldn't have had access to classified documents to steal them later on. None of this would've happened if Trump had just shut his mouth and stayed outta politics.