Chapter 48: The president folds.
President Finch had a problem: Secretary Ceaser Rommel. The man had become a thorn in his flesh, always throwing his weight around. Lately, Rommel was going about making decisions like he was the president which was shaking Finch’s power.
A few times, he had considered firing the man but he had majority support from the members of the Republican party and worse he had something that could undermine Finch’s presidency and ruin his image.
Ceaser Rommel had caught him with his pants down having sex with press secretary Marina Hinn in the Oval office. Somehow, Ceaser had managed to plant a camera in the office, and he had a recording of everything.
He had walked in, smiled smugly and waved the little bug he had planted in their faces. Ceaser wanted them to know that he had them in the palm of his hands. With such blackmail material, Ceaser was untouchable for now.
President Finch was hoping to run for his third and final term in the next elections. Pictures of him with his private parts in his hands and Marina’s bare ass on the top of every newspaper would kill that dream.
And there was the voice recording...it contained a lot of things that he did not want anyone alive hearing him saying.
There was no man alive that the president hated more than Ceaser Rommel and looking at his face made him sick. What he was demanding for was even worse. He wanted Carson Warnock to be handed to him and tested as a lab rat because he thought he was an alien!
But that was not the most urgent problem President Finch had currently. The tsunami was. Like everyone, he had watched the footage and he was still being updated on what was taking place on the island.
He had yet to come out in person and give a statement. This was because he wanted to have all the facts straight before he addressed the nation.