The problem is, there’s no way this would stay quiet if he was actually dead. There were 7 people directly involved and about 60 ultimately charged for Watergate, and that leaked like a sieve. Granted they were caught, but if he was an actual corpse there’s no way someone wouldn’t leak something. Now incapacitated, sure.
But if the dead man was on ice for a while here you can bet people are absolutely going to look into exactly how long he has been dead for. This has been way too high profile for them to try to just hand wave it through.
I really think he is just mentally useless. You saw the guy freezing and falling for months. I think whatever happened, he’s not dead, they’re just pretending “oh yeah he will be right back, just a minute.” Until the timeline passes, then it’ll be “oops actually ya know what he’s just gonna go ahead and resign” because he isn’t publicly functional anymore. He hasn’t been for years, but this last illness/injury just pushed him over the line. They were probably just trying to get him to the next election cycle, and this injury pushed up the timeline so they had to bluff to the “finish line”.
Still absolute horseshit either way. I don’t think he’s been “valid” for years.
You’re probably correct, but (a) there was a leak, in that someone leaked the dude had to get ambulanced out of his house about two weeks after it happened, and (b) people definitely learned from Watergate. I saw an article in politico the other day of some anonymous senior staffer for the GOP complaining that the new generation was selected entirely on ideological loyalty, and most of them are either incompetent or simply dumb.
The problem is, there’s no way this would stay quiet if he was actually dead. There were 7 people directly involved and about 60 ultimately charged for Watergate, and that leaked like a sieve. Granted they were caught, but if he was an actual corpse there’s no way someone wouldn’t leak something. Now incapacitated, sure.
But if the dead man was on ice for a while here you can bet people are absolutely going to look into exactly how long he has been dead for. This has been way too high profile for them to try to just hand wave it through.
I really think he is just mentally useless. You saw the guy freezing and falling for months. I think whatever happened, he’s not dead, they’re just pretending “oh yeah he will be right back, just a minute.” Until the timeline passes, then it’ll be “oops actually ya know what he’s just gonna go ahead and resign” because he isn’t publicly functional anymore. He hasn’t been for years, but this last illness/injury just pushed him over the line. They were probably just trying to get him to the next election cycle, and this injury pushed up the timeline so they had to bluff to the “finish line”.
Still absolute horseshit either way. I don’t think he’s been “valid” for years.
You’re probably correct, but (a) there was a leak, in that someone leaked the dude had to get ambulanced out of his house about two weeks after it happened, and (b) people definitely learned from Watergate. I saw an article in politico the other day of some anonymous senior staffer for the GOP complaining that the new generation was selected entirely on ideological loyalty, and most of them are either incompetent or simply dumb.