🧩 BND Motif Index · M380
Kicked upstairs
An official too troublesome or incompetent to keep is promoted out of the way: better he do his damage somewhere else than here.
📜 Plots🗂️ Horserace🗂️ Modes of Resignation
- 3claims filed under it
- 1left show it came up on
- 1claim retold online
⚠️ A story people tell, not a claim that it's true.
A motif is the shape of a story as its tellers tell it, named the way a folklorist names a tale type, so the same story told about other people, by the other side or in another year lands in the same place. Some of the claims below are true, many are false. Arguing against a story is often a story of its own, its answer (Voter fraud is answered by Voter suppression, Lawfare by No one is above the law), and we file it there; where no answer has a motif yet, the arguments against a story sit with its tellings.
🪜 Its family
what it rests on, what rests on it, and the motifs that answer it
🔗 goes with: 🧩 Never interrupt your enemy
🎙️ Who it came up with
the shows we follow where its claims came up, by the show's lean
🫏 left 1
⚖️ center 0
🦗 none of our center shows, so far
🐘 right 0
🦗 none of our right shows, so far
"Came up on" means one of its claims was heard on the show: told, reported or argued against. We don't yet mark which. Show leans are our own grouping of the shows we transcribe.
📰 In the news
the stories its claims were told about, the most told first (matched by our tools, so a link can be wrong)
- 📰 Trump donor files defamation lawsuit against Guilfoyle 2026-10-11 to 2026-10-17
🧶 Its claims
what's been told in this shape, newest first, in our words, with where each was heard
- 2026-10-15 “Kimberly Guilfoyle was appointed as the U.S. ambassador to Greece to push her out of the inner circle after a breakup with Donald Trump Jr.”
🎙️ The MeidasTouch Podcast - 2026-10-13 “Kimberly Guilfoyle knows things: the Greece ambassadorship was a consolation prize to keep her quiet about Trump family crimes after Don Jr. dumped her, and she may have enough on the Trumps to protect herself.” 🧶 people online
- 2026-09-12 “Some Republicans who dislike Ken Paxton are said to want him in the Senate just to get him out of Texas.” 🗳️ voters in The Focus Group
M380 · first seen 2026-10-05 · last 2026-10-13 · what this is · how the index works