What's Najib's game plan?

Is he just venting or is there some game plan here?

Far from laying low, Najib has been hitting out at the Pakatan government. Is he just venting or is there some strategy at play here?

It's unlikely that he's just venting. Although he might look up to Donald Trump, his temperament is nothing like the Donald. He's not know to vent on Twitter. If anything, he tends to keep his views close to his chest. Now, he's suddenly so expressive. What's happening here?



It must be some calculated strategy but what that strategy could be is beyond me. Antagonizing the Pakatan government doesn't seem like a good idea especially when they are in the midst of investigating you. But then again, he might have concluded that the government plans to prosecute him to the full extent that they can anyway, so he's got nothing to lose in pissing them off.

Still, what's the point? Perhaps he's trying to win over public opinion. Good luck with that though. His credibility is shot. It doesn't matter how articulate he is. People just think about the massive amount of money, handbags and jewellery taken out of the Pavilion residence and all his words will fall on deaf ears.

The amount of money involved in the 1MDB scandal makes the Pavilion haul look like chump change but most people find the 1MDB issue confusing. It's hard to comprehend such complex financial shenanigans. But people understand dollar bills, handbags, watches and jewellery.

People also know that even the Prime Minister of a country doesn't make that much money. People know that his father, Tun Razak, was not a wealthy man. People also know that nobody donates money to a party by giving cash to a person to keep in a private apartment.

Donald Trump tells outrageous lies because he knows what he says plays well to his base, which is about close to 40% of the electorate in the US. What's Najib's base? Pekan? The rest of the country is just waiting for the outcome of the investigations.