And that is also why they set beautiful traps for the President like Kav and ACB, and got him to fall into those. They knew how to persuade him and 'guide' him from the start.
I don't really think it's as high level as that. It was basically "Here are your choices. If you try to pick anything else, not only will we not confirm it, we will vote with the Dems to impeach you (when they inevitably do, further down the line)"
It wasn't so much that he fell into a trap as he didn't have a choice. There wasn't really any persuasion to be done if he wanted to keep being president.
I don't really think it's as high level as that. It was basically "Here are your choices. If you try to pick anything else, not only will we not confirm it, we will vote with the Dems to impeach you (when they inevitably do, further down the line)"
It wasn't so much that he fell into a trap as he didn't have a choice. There wasn't really any persuasion to be done if he wanted to keep being president.
If that was the case, he should have told us.
This is exactly what he should have done, it would have flipped the leverage instantly