what was the point of all the last minute cabinet and position changes in the trump admin if he was just going to quietly fade away?

I think he had intentions to do something but Jan 6 scared him off.

But then I am just speculating like everyone else.

Then why does the simplest answer elude you?

Simplest answer:

Trump put those people into those positions for the sole purpose of boosting their resume. They are entitled to a lot of benefits now and will receive well paid future employment based solely on this fact alone. If not here then in foreign countries, for their "inside knowledge" of Washington.

Agreed. It is almost like a deal was worked out for them to go away in peace. Notice we hear nothing about impeachment starting up in Senate? Also Roberts saying they shouldn't do it. That right there is weird for Roberts to come to the rescue.

Not only all this but what about the kracken, german servers, italy affidavits and HE DID NOT PARDON HIMSELF.
WTH
AND not only did he not pardon Julian Assange he pardoned a bunch of riff raff who HATE HIS GUTS

This sounds like the correct answer.
Doesn’t matter if they had the position for just a few days, they will market themselves as such for the rest of their lives.

Your answers suck that's why we are discussing it. Pompeo was high up in the CIA already and had good resume.

MAGA God Bless the people’s President Donald Trump :)

I agree...made nonsense. More weird Trump shit.

Yeah let's not even get into those lawyers. That's a whole other situation. Just these main guys within the administration is enough. Even if they plan on going to lobby somewhere, okay thats understandable. But wouldn't you still just chill on making DRASTIC changes in your last week or two?

yeah, that is also speculative. he wasn't padding any resume's for the ppl that were placed into a lame duck role for a week or a day. i am not sure how the long term benefits work for someone who was in a cabinet position for a day, so that could be plausible?

however, it also doesn't touch on the last minute flurry of exec orders and released/declass docs.

I didn't watch. But i assume there wasn't a live crowd. And media pounded the troop numbers, maybe it was fake just like the pandemic.

Trump and his team found out quickly that he had zero support from his own Justice Department, from the courts, and from Congressional leaders. The fix was in and it ran deeper than he could’ve imagined. While he had the law on his side, he had no means of indictment, arrest, conviction or any other leverage, The ‘system,’ regardless of party is inherently corrupt and every career politician and bureaucrat is complicit.

I am beginning to think the simplest answer is blackmail or threat.

Leave peacefully with you, your family and your legacy intact or suffer the consequences and the DS still wins. The best option in a lose-lose situation.

With ya OP.

The moves in the last month made no sense, from where we are now.

Maybe the show isn't over yet

If that were the case, he could have anonymously disclosed everything with a massive information dump and let the information play out in the court of public opinion.

I am also not beyond saying Trump or his team could have also been disinfo.

The only thing I completely understand is that all of the information surrounding this does not add up.

It was to declassify secrets of the democrat partisan commies who tried to set Trump up.

Could be something like that. Or promises to not come after him as hard if he left. Maybe even some money or type of deal was offered in the end. I dont think threats could have done it. He was threatened the entire time for certain.

Don’t forget, while the House impeached, it’s the Senate who has the power of trial, conviction, and punishment. It’s queued up and could be immediate. They held all the chips to shut Trump down completely. They also have the power to destroy his family and bury his company. Blackmail complete and total.

bullshit. blackmail and threats were always going to part of the job. what retard would would have "drain the swamp" and "lock her up" slogans and think they would not be threatened or blackmailed?

Well, if you are going to use that position in your resume for lobbying or for a place in a think tank or for selling conferences, a day or a week is good enough.

Oh yes it's 100 percent over now. Once Biden was inaugurated he can stop any and all investigations, the military could have stepped in but they are apparently a disgrace if they chose not to do anything.

Why all the troops and 2000 deputized marshals the last few days, just wtf were some of these moves? Why even deputize 1 Marshal, you sure as fuck aren't using them.

well they seemed to work on the Governor of Georgia. the Daughter’s boyfriend appeared to be killed. That would scare anyone with children

LOL Maybe if it were you or I who added it to our resume, but for the people we're talking about, it added (or removed) nothing.

Blackmail could be a logical answer, but please remember, Trump has lived a VERY public life and has been in front of the media for decades. If he was worried about Blackmail, he would never have had a public battle with Rosie O'Donnell years ago, or pushed the Obama Birth Certificate issue as long as he did. He also wouldn't have pushed the drain the swamp or lock her up movements.

Lmao very good point. I forgot about those aggressive slogans that in the end went nowhere.

Does anyone watching this “pandemic” play out on the world stage have any doubts about the power these people have?

They have less power than they have before I believe. Owning the media is the big one. Without that they crumble. Oh and guess what Trump's EO from 2018 just so happened to cover that and they really could get DOJ to seize assets for them fucking with the election. The power was there. Why was that EO put in place if it wasn't going to be used?

Expect a new DOJ lineup now. Anything that was being prepared would be tossed. So there is 0 chance anything is going to happen down the road imo.

That's just it. I would expect a bunch of new appointments to overturn any ability to take action on any of the EO's especially the last minute EO's.

Then there is also this. He made a lot of claims for draining the swamp, locking her up, etc that never really went anywhere. It has me doing circles because for all of his talk, he had 4 years to drain the swamp and given how the election went, it still feels fairly "swampy".

Moves and counter moves. He lost his chess match. We just don’t know the details.