Monday, March 19, 2018

So I think we know why Donald Trump suddenly decided to attack the Mueller investigation publicly.

Courtesy of the New York Times:  

The president’s tweets, posted on a Saturday in which he remained inside the White House with no public schedule, came as Mr. Mueller is said to have sent questions to Mr. Trump’s legal team as part of negotiations over an interview with the president. Mr. Mueller is seeking the interview, according to two people close to the White House, in order to ask follow-up questions, but put forward the list as a start. 

Mr. Dowd’s remarks about Mr. Mueller’s investigation represented an extraordinary shift in public strategy for the Trump legal team. Since taking over the case last summer, Mr. Trump’s lawyers have urged a strategy of restraint, in which the president avoids discussing Mr. Mueller or criticizing him, and the lawyers had done nothing publicly until now that could agitate the special counsel’s team. 

The comments by both Mr. Trump and Mr. Dowd lent credence to Mr. McCabe’s assertion that the president sees his firing as directly tied into Mr. Mueller’s case. Mr. McCabe, who is a potential witness in the investigation, declared that his dismissal was an attempt to undermine it.
According to Axios these are the questions that Mueller sent to Trump's attorneys:

Axios has learned that special counsel Robert Mueller has focused on events since the election — not during the campaign — in his conversations with President Trump's lawyers. The top two topics that Mueller has expressed interest in so far: the firings of FBI director James Comey and national security adviser Michael Flynn. 

That suggests a focus on obstruction of justice while in office, rather than collusion with Russia during the campaign. But both sagas are interwoven with Russia: Trump himself has linked Comey's firing to Russia, and Flynn pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI about conversations with the Russian ambassador during the transition.

In other words Mueller may have Trump locked down both coming and going.

It has been clear for awhile that Trump's attorneys have barely managed to rein him in when it comes to tweeting out his frustrations with Mueller's investigations, but now having seen the questions that Mueller intends to ask him, and realizing that answering them under oath will be very bad for his presidency, I think that Trump is losing his shit entirely and only sees the firing of Robert Mueller as his only possible way out.

Of course if he actually does finagle a way to get rid of Mueller that will essentially e an admission of guilt, and then this whole things ramps way up.

20 comments:

  1. Anonymous1:42 PM

    https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2018/3/19/17138948/trump-mueller-firing-russia

    Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein

    ReplyDelete
  2. Anonymous1:53 PM

    https://www.rawstory.com/2018/03/trumps-lawyers-gave-mueller-list-key-moments-investigation-effort-limit-scope-russia-probe/

    " two sources close to the matter said the president’s lawyers provided “written descriptions that chronicle key moments under investigation” to the special counsel’s office."
    "The Post‘s sources say the documentation the president’s lawyers gave to the special counsel “do not include Trump’s personal version of events but provide a narrative of the White House view.”

    “Trump’s lawyers hope the evidence eliminates the need to ask the president about some episodes,”"

    ReplyDelete
    Replies
    1. Anonymous3:35 PM

      No we need to have the moron in the WH answer for himself, not some "cleaned up" version from his attorneys.

      Little donnie is a big chicken little, he isn't man enough to go in there and answer the questions.

      Delete
  3. Anonymous2:03 PM

    If the republican controlled House of Representatives do not start impeachment proceedings nothing will happen.
    Only solution elect enough Democratic Representatives in November to get Impeachment going.

    ReplyDelete
    Replies
    1. Anonymous3:00 PM

      With all that has transpired, it's difficult not to think that Rumpf will not walk from this, too.

      He's scared of something coming out, that's for darned sure if the incessant tweeting early yesterday morning is any indication. It certainly wasn't from constipation.

      Delete
    2. That is now a real possibility. The Republicans aren’t as upset about losing in November as Trump is. He’s not just looking at losing a re-election in 2020 or being impeached. He knows what he’s done. I think he knows that he could be looking at prison time. That’s in addition to being exposed as a fraud when it comes to how much money he doesn’t have but that he’s a traitor laundering money for the Russians and who knows what else because they put him in a position to help them.

      Delete
  4. Anonymous2:12 PM

    @SarahPalinUSA Nothing but a bully.
    https://twitter.com/Leadfoot_LA/status/975733571628363776

    Speaking of horrible bullies, when is Track's court date?

    ReplyDelete
    Replies
    1. Anonymous2:46 PM

      'Too far? Jim Carrey paints mocking portrait of WH Press Secretary Sarah Sanders, calls her
      ‘fake Christian’

      Delete
    2. Anonymous2:51 PM

      Rosemary @Texassenorita
      8 hours ago

      Elaborate how she brings in her family. I have seen on everyone of her post, people making personal comments about her family. It makes no sense because she is linking articles that SHE did not write.
      -------
      Derpitude.

      Delete
    3. Anonymous7:05 PM

      That's not bullying, $arah DUMBASS.
      It's called free thought through art, and it's been done for centuries.

      The money MUST be drying up to hire such idiots to speak on your behalf. Do they even get minimum wage? I'll bet not.

      Delete
  5. Anonymous3:18 PM

    uhhhh.....aren't most, if not all, of them on his team Republicans including Mueller himself? Keep spreading your #fakeNews, @realDonaldTrump.

    ReplyDelete
  6. Anonymous3:38 PM

    This new attorney trump hired, Di Genova or Di Genovani sounds right up trumps alley. He frequently goes on FOX, need I say more. I saw a comment he made about the Mueller investigation and he speaks nonsense, in incomplete sentences like trump, maybe he is trump in a disguise, like John Barron.

    ReplyDelete
    Replies
    1. Anonymous3:14 AM

      Anymore, Fox News is the training ground for entry into the trump administration.
      Beaglemom

      Delete
  7. Anonymous3:51 PM

    Break out the popcorn, everyone. Things are escalating quickly.

    ReplyDelete
  8. Anonymous4:32 PM

    So waht's a hardened democrat? But if that's the way he wants to play, then every judge he appoints is illegitimate, because they are all "hardened Republicans" and no non-Republican will ever get a fair trial under them.

    ReplyDelete
  9. Anonymous5:10 PM

    Speaking of tweets, and, pardon me, I did not see discussion of it here:

    John Brennan ex-CIA director: "When the full extent of your venality, moral turpitude, and political corruption becomes known, you will take your rightful place as a disgraced demagogue in the dustbin of history. You may scapegoat Andy McCabe, but you will not destroy America...America will triumph over you."

    To which James Woods, Hollywood actor, replies: "And this right here, fellow citizens, is why we have the Second Amendment."

    That's right. Haven't we all seen this very thing time and again every mass shooting? To the trolls here that call names in defense of the indefensible, this IS you. There's no discussion, no seeking middle ground, no nothing, you just cling to your guns and Bible that you swear God and Jesus give you permission to be like that. Just blow 'em away. Utter BULLSHIT.


    ReplyDelete
    Replies
    1. Anonymous6:55 PM

      No empty chair for you Oscars, James?
      The world bleeds for you.

      Delete
    2. Anonymous7:59 PM

      6:55 PM
      Literally.

      Delete
  10. I would like to join the Hardened Democrat Club please.

    ReplyDelete
    Replies
    1. Anonymous3:12 AM

      It's clear that to be a Democrat means being a "criminal" in trumpspeak. Well, I'm not a criminal like many in the current administration but I am what trump would call a "hardened" Democrat, made that way by the sedition, vindictiveness, and now the treasonous behavior of too many Republicans.
      Beaglemom

      Delete

Don't feed the trolls!
It just goes directly to their thighs.