For all the peeps saying 'why doesn't POTUS do this', 'why doesn't POTUS do that', like you have all the winning cards in hand…
Andrew Jackson. That hardcore motherfucker had a good number of duels in his life. But he only killed one man in a duel. Who was that? Charles Dickinson. Charles was a legend at duelling. People riled up Charles, knowing that Andrew would challenge him to a duel, and Andrew would lose.
Except… that's not what happened. Jackson, knowing a duellist's first shot is delivered as fast as possible, and therefore less accurate, LET DICKINSON SHOOT HIM. Took it right in the chest. Then, all calm and casual, lined up his shot. Dickinson didn't die straight away. Jackson gutshot him, to make him pay for being a dick.
The moral of the story here is this: sometimes, you're going up against someone better than you. More powerful, more skilled. But if you're smarter, and you can take the hit… you can win.
Trump up against the Cabal, is Jackson duelling Dickinson.
Y'all have been brought up on movies, and think things can be wrapped up in an hour and a half. It ain't like that.
No one wins a game of chess without losing some pieces.
And sometimes, you gotta let them shoot you in the chest, and then not die.