Want to Make a Buck? Work for Trump.

This was back in 1982 and I was wandering around behind the U.S. Capitol when I bumped into a fellow grad school classmate whom I hadn’t seen since I finished my seminars in 1969. Turned out this guy decided he didn’t want an academic career, so after finishing his degree he got a job on the staff of one of the Senate committees as a full-time researcher which meant spending lots of time across the street from the Capitol in the Library of Congress, which wasn’t such a bad gig.

Why was he walking away from the Capitol that morning? Because, as he explained to me, his party had just lost the 1982 election and was no longer in the majority, which meant that until they returned to the majority in the Senate, he needed to find another job.

“It’s nothing to worry about,” he told me, “I’ll just roost in one of the federal agencies until I go back up to the Hill.”

In other words, this former graduate school classmate, was a bone fide member of the Deep State. Now hold that thought.

One of the things which emerges from reading the Select Committee’s January 6th Report is how Trump relied on information and advice from a group of advisers who Grandpa would dismiss as ‘shlemiels’ (read: fools.) I’m talking about guys like Giuliani, Eastman, Bannon, and others who not only promoted the ‘big lie,’ but put together the operation which ultimately did nothing for Trump except get him criminally referred to the DOJ.