Karl Rove Warns Trump in Murdoch's WSJ of Political 'Hell to Pay' Over Epstein

[Eugene]

Karl Rove Warns Trump in Murdoch Paper of Political ‘Hell to Pay’ Over Epstein (The Daily Beast)

Karl Rove warned President Donald Trump that his failure to deliver answers in the Jeffrey Epstein saga means there could be “hell to pay” politically.

The GOP operative cautioned in a Wall Street Journal column Wednesday that the president’s supporters may end up tuning out of politics because of unresolved questions about Trump’s ties to the late sex offender, in effect delivering Democratic wins in next year’s midterms.

“If that happens, Mr. Trump’s life will get a whole lot more complicated,” wrote Rove, a senior adviser to George W. Bush in his administration and a 2020 Trump campaign adviser.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/karl-rove-warns-trump-murdoch-223707862.html

[ananda]

1. Karl Rove can go straight to hell, and not pass go.

He is among those who led us to this mess... especially
being the power behind the Bush family.

[malaise]

2. Agree but sit back and let them devour

themselves
Cockroach nuh business with fowl fight.

[SheltieLover]

4. ..

[UpInArms]

3. Most of this crap is a direct result of KKKarl

The comments about Rove made to me during my research in 2007 seem prescient today. Behind the remarks is the idea that by emphasizing politics over policy as he did, Rove shifted Bush—and therefore the party—from centrist to hard right. “Instead of having a permanent majority,” Tom Pauken, the chairman of the Republican Party of Texas during the 1990s, told me,

Rove has potentially put in place a situation that will lead to the destruction of the Republican party as we’ve known it in the Barry Goldwater-Ronald Reagan tradition. Rove has taken what people have worked thirty years to achieve . . . and squandered it all away. He’s participated in the potential destruction of the conservative movement in the long term.

Matt Towery, a protégé of Gingrich, said, “Every Republican I know looks at the Bush administration as a total failure. I felt like the political operation was running things, so they never created policy goals. Political consultants are paranoid by nature. That’s the thing about the Bush White House—no one knew who was in charge and yet everyone knew: Karl Rove.”

https://www.thebulwark.com/p/architect-of-todays-republican-party-karl-rove

[BannonsLiver]

5. Sure, but that doesn't mean he's wrong on this particular point.

[mzmolly]

6. Which is why they're devising a plan to exonerate Trump

in exchange for a Maxwell pardon.