That is very perplexing. Who would do a thing like that? It is almost like it was some kind of setup. Or a desperate cry for help: “Here’s access to my e-mail account. Read through this shit I have to deal with and report on it.”
If that was the intention, there would have to be the same note “dropped” all over DC. A thing like that is not something you’d want to leave to chance to be found by some conscientious passer by.
In support of this viewpoint: the fact that though Comey saw fit to tell the world 'there might be something on Anthony Weiner’s computer though we’re not sure yet, but there’s always a chance it could be bad stuff about Clinton’-----just days before the election, so that there wouldn’t be time for a vindication of Clinton that could affect the voting-----yet breathed not one word of the fact that the FBI had begun investigating Trump back in July.
July 2016 beginning for FBI investigation of Trump: Memo: Papadopoulos info triggered FBI’s Russia investigation
At the time, I was convinced that Comey was doing a pre-emptive CYA move. If it came out afterward that he had suspected it and not said anything…well, what would have happened? Oh yeah, he might get fired. Oops.
Chump’s tweets this morning, dumping on Mueller by name, may signal he’s gearing up to fire him finally. This may be the beginning of the end of this Bozo’s presidency.
I feel odd saying that, but I will support any member of the legislature who is willing to do their job at this point.
I also think this story may deserve its own thread. We’ll see how it develops over the week. I suspect Trump may have just pushed too hard, in combination with the mounting evidence of the crumbling strength in the mid-terms.
Or, as [Del]Rex Tillerson[/Del] John Goodman said last night on SNL "One moment you are running a $50 Billion multinational and the next, you are being fired by a guy who sells mail-order steaks…
There are just two job descriptions left in this Administration - Lackey or Henchman.
I’m at the point that I think WE ALREADY HAVE a constitutional crisis. But not because the law can’t resolve this. It’s because of the congress not doing their job to get rid of a completely inept president. He could be impeached with what is already known.
The problem is that the idiots that still support him will possibly riot, and of course republicans will find it harder to line their pockets.
Lindsay Graham is a pussy. If you think he’s going to stand up to Trump firing Mueller, pffffff…
Mark my words (after all, I’ve called it correctly so far): the Republicans aren’t going to challenge Trump unless Trump actually begins fucking things up for Trump voters. I don’t mean bad optics, I mean like actually raising the prices of the shit they buy, making their homes less affordable, tanking their 401Ks, and just generally giving everyone the impression that America is becoming a limp dick country. These are all the things they predicated about Obama but never came true because Obama knew what he was doing. Trump does not. And that will reveal itself in time, but he’s going to fuck things up first. Firing Mueller won’t matter. Fucking up someone’s 401K or costing some Nebraska shit kicker his farm? That matters.
There’s a difference between talking shit and bathing in it. They may never admit it publicly but Republitards will eventually have no choice but to accept that Trump ain’t their guy, even if it means just staying home and not voting.
I don’t know why people keep saying that. Why would firing Mueller be a roadblock for Donnie when nothing else has been? As far as I know, there’s no specific law that forbids the President from firing a special prosecutor. It’s just a tradition, like all the other norms Donnie has broken, not actually a law, or something that has never been challenged in law before. That would require Republicans in Congress to do something and that will probably never happen. If Donnie fires Mueller, all the Republicans in Congress will just say “so unseemly!” and then look the other way, like they always do. Impeachment process could be another way to go, but they will never do that, either.
It’s easy for Graham to blow smoke now, but that’s all it is. If and when the firing actually happens, one or two Republicans will be tasked with going on TV and talking about what a poor choice Donnie made, then it will be back to business as usual.
If someone in Nebraska loses his farm due to Donnie’s policy, it will be blamed on Obama and/or Hillary, even though they aren’t in office anymore, and also on Democrats in Congress, even though they are in the minority and can’t do anything. Somehow it will be the powerless Democrats’ fault. It just will be and that’s it, for the hardcore Trumpsters.
I’m sure Devin Nunes would be willing to throw an emergency hearing together on the subject of how the Obama Administration abused the FISA warrant system to kick off a fraudulent investigation.
Anyway, yeah, I agree with you. The best option from Trump’s perspective would have been to stop the special counsel investigation at once, and failing that to do it as soon as possible. It may be too late to meaningfully fire Mueller now, though - not for political reasons but because the investigation’s progressed enough that the actual leaks of the investigative material itself would damaging, or even enough for state level charges against people.