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That’s why Trump won’t fire him. It’s gone too far and too much has been shared back and forth with different agencies. He may want to but it should be easy for his handlers to argue him out of it.
I think it’s only a matter of time. Trump won’t be able to help himself - he’ll reach a point of being so pissed off at Mueller, and so filled with a self-pitying sense of victimhood, that he’ll do it even if all of Congress and his otherwise-craven aides warn (or beg) him not to.
Memo to Bob Mueller, Jeff Sessions and Rod Rosensetin : Don’t take any rides in the president’s limo to Fifth Avenue, NYC.
I doubt it. I wouldn’t say it’s anywhere near impossible, but I’d place it less than 50/50
Double post, ignore.
Trump won’t do it because he’s a coward at heart.
Trump WILL do it because he’s a coward at heart.
Trump will do it because he’s a coward.
Trump will do it because he’s pig ignorant.
Trump has done the things because he’s a heartless prick.
Trump desperately just wants to go back home to Trump Tower.
He’s a one-man Wizard of Oz show.
I voted no, although I haven’t read all the responses in this thread. My reasoning is that Trump loves the persecution complex. “They’re out to get me…”
I voted no, for several reasons:
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Firing Mueller won’t do anything to stop what’s going on with Trump’s lawyer, as that case has been handed over to the U.S. Attorney’s office in New York. If anything, firing Mueller would just raise more suspicions and would not impede this investigation in any way.
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Raiding a President’s lawyer’s home and office and confiscating privileged communication is such a serious step that I have to believe they found something really bad. If that’s the case, then Trump knows it, and he has to know that firing Mueller won’t make that go away.
So at this point I think firing Mueller would be moot in terms of halting the investigation, and would just be seen as proof that Trump has something to hide. And if he does have something to hide, this action would be used against him in court.
That said, we should all hope that there is something incredibly damning that was found, because if this raid was done on a flimsy pretext it’s a very bad thing. Seizing privileged communication by raiding a lawyer’s office is not something you do on suspicion of a minor process crime or to gin up a sketchy campaign finance violation for paying off a porn star. If that’s what this is, expect a big backlash from the right.
But I think they’ve got something. Too many people had to sign off on this unprecedented move for it to be just a partisan fishing expedition or something like that.
But he must hate thinking “They’re *going *to get me if I let them.”
To be strictly fair, many people are out to get Trump albeit not because it is a grand liberal conspiracy but due to the fact that he is an incompetent would-be autocrat who violates laws and presidential norms with the same casual creepieness that he oggles and gropes contestants in his beauty pageant.
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I say no, for pretty much the same reasons Sam Stone said. It’s just too late. The investigation is miles deep, and firing Mueller does not change things. All it does is make Trump look even worse.
But… I would not bet on this. I am nowhere near 100% about it. Trump is too much of a wild card.
Yeah, agreed. Nothing is certain with this guy.
That’s how a guy who uses reason would think. So, N/A, sorry.
What motivates him is only what Fox & Friends *tells *him he looks like. If Steve Doocy tells him it makes him look tough to get rid of Mueller, that’s all that will matter.
He’s an asshole personified, orange too! Of course he’ll find a way to fire him. I’m sure the GOP will try to pass a bill letting him do that before November. He has no clue as to how government works, has no clue as how to use the DOJ for anything. It’s “they’re not loyal to me” all the time.
I voted yes.
Plus he’ll think it will be good for ratings. And high ratings means that everyone likes what he’s doing.
I think he’ll fire him for a few reasons, a) Trump gets terrible legal advice; b) he has removed most of the people who might have been a brake on his most destructive tendencies; c) he has so far been able to get away with absolutely egregious behavior without suffering any negative consequences; and d) Trump has shown that he has no understanding or respect for our democratic norms or the rule of law and neither does the GOP membership of congress. I think he’ll fire Mueller and they’ll be a lot of noise, but he’ll get away with it. He’ll then fire anyone in the justice department who investigates him and make it rain pardons. The only brake on his behavior is if charges can be brought against his organization at the state level where he can’t undermine the process.
I voted yes, but only on a technicality. I think President Trump will at some point become convinced that he has fired Mr. Mueller, but I doubt Mr. Mueller will be involuntarily removed from his current job. Whether something like that actually happened is exactly the sort of fact that the president likes to call into question.
Imagine the live tweeting when the FBI shows up at the White House presidential bedroom suite at 6:01 AM. “FBI search warrant invalid. SAD! Signed by Mopey Muller, who TRUMP ‘fired’ day Before! TOTAL WHICH HUNT!”