What about Anthony Scaramucci? No, he only lasted one Scaramucci. He was a character, a Long Island/New York character. A poorly-timed dip into alcohol didn't help. You know somebody is going to make a book about drugs in the Trump administration some day. "The Mooch" seems to go to where the attention and action is. I saw him in a video about rich people predating the Trump government. He was one of two members of the Trump administration to wind up on the Big Brother show.

He does show the vicious infighting that was encouraged in the Trump administration. That's what he discussed during the phone call to a reporter that got him fired. He was Director of Communications for the White House. There is a famous photograph of him and Reince Priebus glaring at each other in the White House.
 
 

Robert Mueller? No. But it's not like things were uneventful for him. As a Marine officer he saw combat in Vietnam. He became the head of the FBI a week before the jaw-dropping 9/11 terrorist attacks. He bumped into the controversial issues of the day.

He was made the special counsel leading an investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. election. This was a combination of links with U.S. polical figures, your Flynns, Mannaforts and Trumps, plus social media shenanigans and propaganda, and computer hacking. Alarmed national security people and the Trump administration were on a collision course with each other. You might have forgotten about the issue of obstruction of justice. The Mueller investigation was a big deal at the time. Apparently the right guy at the right time. "Mueller knows all".

The end result of the Mueller investigation, at least in the eyes of the public, was a damp squib. There were various constraints, the summary of the investigation was distorted by Bill Barr, and things were not helped by the eventual presentation of Mr. Mueller himself. However, his investigations led to findings and charges source. Others can take the ball and run with it. Somebody had great intelligence on that Internet Research Agency troll farm, down to who was sitting where. That was founded and financed by Yevgeny Prigozhin, who was therefore indicted by the FBI.
 
 

Peter Strzok? He was an FBI man who started the Russia probe. Mr. Trump didn't like being investigated by authorities. The MAGA mob turned against Mr. Strzok, using a personal scandal and some private texts where he complained about political matters against him.

Do you know the show The Americans? That was about sleeper agents from Russia living in America, pretending to be a normal family. That show was based on an actual situation, where a couple from Russia moved to Canada to establish themselves, then moved to the United States. These two were eventually caught, and the lead agent was Peter Strzok.
 
 

Rod Rosenstein et al.? Two tectonic forces were grinding against each other, and he was in the middle. Mr. Rosenstein, a Republican, was made Deputy Attorney General by Donald Trump in 2017. Mr. Trump used a memo made by Mr. Rosenstein to fire James Comey. Jeff Sessions, an early supporter of Donald Trump, was made Attorney General by Donald Trump, a job which he took seriously. He was a little slippery regarding his contact with a Russian, so he recused himself from the investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 election. Jeff Sessions was under a lot of pressure from Mr. Trump, who publicly ranted and raved about his disappointment with the failure of the Attorney General to squelch the Russia investigation.

Because Jeff Sessions had relinquished control over the investigation, Rod Rosenstein was now responsible for shepherding the Mueller investigation in spite of all the pressure. I don't know if Mr. Rosenstein was a hero, a more rodenty bureaucratic survivor, or a guy just doing his job.
 
 

Chris Christie / the Kushners? Now we're cooking with gas. Mr. Christie was originally a prosecutor. Jared Kushner's father got himself in trouble for doing sleazy things, where the most colourful was witness tampering. You can read a bit about it here. It was a New Jersey affair. Prosecutor Christie sent Kushner senior to jail in 2004. In 2010 Mr. Christie became the Governor of New Jersey. In the end many people in New Jersey did not like him. There was a scandal with a bridge, and also showing up at a closed beach. Both involved an abuse of power. I find him likeable, but objectively he is what he is.

Mr. Christie ran for president in 2015/2016, gave Marco Rubio a hard time, then dropped out. Surprisingly, he endorsed Donald Trump as the Republican candidate. The superficial meme crowd got excited about a photo / gif of Christie behind Trump, apparently pondering what he had done. Maybe they were on to something. Mr. Christie was put in charge of the transition team, and he would tell you he was trying to get the right people in the administration. Then he lost that job. The administration was a battle royale of people and factions. Jared Kushner was behind Mr. Christie losing his job.

Democrats and Republicans couldn't agree on anything. But they did agree that they hated Jared Kushner. Jared Kushner purchased 666 Fifth Avenue in Manhattan for 1.8 billion, then it ran into financial trouble. During the Trump administration he sought investment from Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and even Chinese investors. Meanwhile he was the son in law of U.S. President Donald Trump, and formally joined the administration in 2017. He was not given a top secret security clearance because of his foreign entanglements, but this was overruled by President Trump. Mideast geopolitics were buffeted based on Jared Kushner's money needs.

Mr. Christie caught covid directly from the incautious President Trump during debate prep. Mr. Christie was plump and asthmatic, wound up in the ICU for a week, and had to think about death.

During the first debate between Trump and Biden, Mr. Trump harangued and harassed Joe Biden nonstop (in striking contrast with the next debate). Mr. Christie had coached Trump for the debate, encouraging him to trigger Biden's stuttering.

During this latest run to be the Republican candidate for president, Mr. Christie spoke out against Donald Trump, usefully telling the truth about what he did and what he could do. Charlie Sykes, who is bitter about Mr. Christie's history of supporting Donald Trump, described him as a magnificent beast. I don't know what his motivation, angle is, but he bravely faced hostile audiences, going against an unquestioning cult of personality that was his own party.
 
 

What about the recent noisemakers and troublemakers in Congress? The Boebert, MTG, and Gaetz fringe? I don't think they deserve the attention they crave, and they're also more recent. Regarding George Santos, with his endless lying and different identities, we could have a conversation about making a film about that.
 
 

Did you forget that Steve Scalise was shot and badly injured during a politically-motivated mass shooting? Well, it would have been dramatic to him anyway. They've got a problem with mass shootings down there.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

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