@TrevorGoodchild @judgedread all of those elements sound feasible, but without some actual hard evidence ( sans the war college report, which to me had the 'dont blame us if things go bad' feeling ) it loses a lot of power.

Regarding the "no-one is going anywhere" - we don't know that because Trump was unable to fill the positions with people he could trust and the system made sure to punish people that stuck their necks out enough (e.g Bannon ) so the assumption that he would be able to do this time time is not a forgone conclusion.