The more troubling question is, are enough people going to believe it? I guaran-damn-tee that if Mueller brings out a serious smoking gun, Fox News is going to start pushing “well, who really knows if it’s true, what with all the Photoshops and computer things.”
The Fox line will simply be that the FBI is lying; they’ve been setting that excuse up for some time now. ** You can take that to the bank**. If Mueller and his team were to reveal slam-bang evidence of Trump committing heinous crimes, Fox talking heads will claim the FBI is lying and will suggest Trump disband the FBI, DOJ, or both.
I will be the worst threat to American democracy since independence.
I pictured that said with a booming voice and a flapping cape.
For so many of our current difficulties and the difference between now and how things have gone in the past, the unknowable factor is alt-right “news” as it is pushed around on social media and Fox (Trump) “News” memes.
There’s a reason they’re working so hard to control local news outlets through Sinclair Media, to demonize traditional medial sources, to do away with net neutrality, to control the public message in every way they can. I’m sure Vlad has already told Trump how important this is when setting up a plutocracy.
I honestly don’t know how to fight it, except to keep talking about what’s factually true. But this alternative universe of lies where Trump supporters live must be fought in every way possible.
How do we rid ourselves of this cancer?
If it was trump(D), the House and then Senate would have started impeachment proceedings nearly a year ago. The hypocrisy is stunning.
As long as he just keeps lying, the Repubs, will say, “Oh, well I guess there is nothing to see here”.
I’m not sure at this point that there is anything that will turn the Senate to get 67 votes to impeach. Nothing will turn his base. He cold admit to collusion (and near treason w/Russia) and his base would cheer him on.
… Except, the 2018 election. Hopefully a majority of states and smaller elections elect Dems in droves. As congress only seems to care about reelection, that may turn them.
In case you thought that Trump not firing Mueller is showing uncharacteristic restraint, it turns out that Trump ordered Mueller fired months ago, and White House counsel refused to carry out the order and threatened to quit.
Yeah. I thought that it just happened again.
Not sure what you mean. This just broke.
That latest story shows, to me, how terrified Trump is. Not just by Mueller’s investigation, but by the possibility of those around him abandoning him.
Was mistaken.
Seriously, why wasn’t orange ugly rug put in jail years ago? His only acquaintence with the law is in violation of same.
Slow. Motion. Fun.
Gotta love Hannity dealing with this live on air.
My sources can’t confirm this. The New York Times is fake news. OK, my sources now do confirm this, but who cares. Hey look, car chase!
The money laundering is more important because its his money.
A nod and a wink would be all it would take. Not even explicit, nothing written, just an understanding that hordes of federal accountants could climb over, around and through his books. 'Course, a totally scrupulous business man has nothing to fear from such diligent inspection! And if there are problems, discrepancies, a few piddling millions here or there…well, that can all be resolved by the appropriate restitutions, fines, liens.
Thus all shadows flee, whatever money remains is guaranteed pure-D clean money, and all his!
Let it be fairly noted that should he resign to spend more time with his family, or undertake a life of penance and meditation…well, then, the attention would fizzle, his fiscal Javert’s might very well wander off aimlessly…
Trump doesn’t have money, money has him. He would have done nearly anything to be President, he will do anything not to be poor. On that very day, I shall hasten herewith to praise his patriotism, character and virtue. For I am generous and forgiving, as are so many of us here.
Just to ask, does the president have this power, with or without Congress?
The president can fire the political appointees at DOJ and the FBI, but the agencies themselves, and the non-political officers in them, exist per Congressional statute.
You mean not even an Executive Presidential Order?
The Don will not go quietly into the night, and there are probably people in congress (and in the party’s money apparatus) who know they’re in Mueller’s (and the FBI’s) cross hairs. They’re running out of time and they suspect that the ballot box is not going to be their friend this time around – not unless they corrupt that process somehow. The GOP’s already doubling down on the two competing truths strategy to corrupt our view of criminal justice, and it might actually work. What happens when, with the help of Vladimir Putin, they apply the two truths strategy to the elections process?
Trump, obviously, has declared the news to be fake. This might be one of those times where having just a soupcon of credibility would help. I mean, when even your lickspittle Hannity is confirming the news, you’re probably not going get very far with the “fake news” argument.
The Republican talking point emerging appears to be, “See, because McGahn refused the order, the administration is working as it is supposed to,” which is pretty obviously not how this works.