The Puppet Show President

Trump is discovering it’s the show that gets his base stirred up, even if he fails at everything he does.

by Bob Cesca

There’s a scene in Adam McKay’s Dick Cheney biopic, “Vice,” that made me think of Attorney General Bill Barr.

About a third of the way through the movie, Cheney is working for then-President Gerald Ford and the narrator comments that Cheney could sell the craziest ideas to anyone because he uses such an even-keeled and reassuring tone of voi…