Most voters think it is important to continue investigating whether the Trump campaign coordinated with Russia -- but more believe President Trump will fire Special Counsel Robert Mueller before he’s done.
About two-thirds, 67 percent in the latest Fox News poll, say it is at least somewhat important the investigation continues, and 56 percent think it’s likely that Mueller’s probe will find Donald Trump committed criminal or impeachable offenses.
And those are FOX NEWS viewers.
The numbers are much higher for the truly informed.
Some members of the Senate are also concerned that Trump will fire Mueller.
Courtesy of the NYT:
The Senate Judiciary Committee fired a political warning shot at the White House on Thursday, advancing on a bipartisan vote long-stalled legislation to allow special counsels such as Robert S. Mueller III to appeal their firing to a panel of judges and possibly be reinstated.
Senator Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, the majority leader, has stated unequivocally that he will not bring the bill to the Senate floor for a vote. But with four Republicans, including the committee’s chairman, Senator Charles E. Grassley of Iowa, joining Democrats to vote in favor of it, the measure sent a clear message to President Trump that there would be serious consequences to firing the special counsel.
Even senators who voted against the legislation warned Mr. Trump against trying to dismiss Mr. Mueller. Senator Orrin G. Hatch of Utah, the longest-serving Senate Republican, said that “firing Mueller would cause a firestorm and bring the administration’s agenda to a halt. It could even result in impeachment.”
I think that if Trump tries to fire Mueller that even Republicans like Mitch McConnell will turn on him, and then his days will truly be numbered.
Are you insane? McConnell has blatantly refused to allow a vote to protect Mueller to come to the floor. If Trump fires Mueller or Rosenstein McConnell and many Republicans will claim they're concerned and then go on about their goal of destroying our country and the rule of law.
ReplyDeleteAs far as the Fox viewers who believe Trump may have committed impeachable offenses or crimes, they know that he has done so but they just don't care. It's ok for them when a Republican does these things. These are the same people who don't mind if Russia interfered in our election as long as it benefits their side.
I anxiously await the day when McConnell is six feet under.
DeleteOT: Trump International Hotel and Tower located in Baku, Azerbaijani is currently in FLAMES.
ReplyDeletehttps://www.rawstory.com/2018/04/watch-trump-international-hotel-tower-azerbaijani-fire/
This is the one that Ivana was in charge of spearheading:
https://www.mercurynews.com/2017/03/10/ivanka-trump-played-key-role-in-her-fathers-failed-and-potentially-corrupt-azerbaijan-hotel-deal-report-says/
https://www.salon.com/2017/11/20/is-ivanka-trump-a-target-of-investigation-now-it-seems-likely/
The investors will collect the insurance money not the dotard's lousy ugly name.
DeletePing ding ping ding Alfa Bank Azerbaijani!
DeleteHmm. Maybe the Trump Organization isn't keeping up with their loans so the bank had it torched for the insurance money?
Delete"Weeks after a blaze at Trump Tower in Manhattan killed a man, flames broke out Saturday afternoon on the middle floors of a 33-story skyscraper in Azerbaijan that was slated to become a Trump International Hotel, according to reports.
DeleteThe blaze took three hours to douse, and there were no injuries, officials said. Authorities are working to find out what sparked the fire in the building, known locally as “Trump Tower,” which has been in the works for a decade but is still not open.
The Trump Organization announced in 2012 that its hotel would take up the first 13 floors of the building, with apartments above. The president’s company pulled out of the project in December 2016, after he was elected, due to controversy over affiliation with the project’s owners, Baku XXI Century, and a local family accused of corruption."
NYP^{13 floors!RIGHT;-o}
Sounds like a Sarah tactic to me. She's a damn fire fly. :/
DeleteEven fox no news people want trump gone. And so ))))poof(((( he was gone.
ReplyDeleteHilary Clinton screwed up calling Trump fanatics, Deplorables. She should have called them what they are, Trumpnecks.
ReplyDeleteAmerican's call for Donald John Trump to RESIGN today.
ReplyDeleteRepublicans do the right thing? I wouldn't count on it.
ReplyDeleteWell I should clarify that the Republicans will only turn on him if there is sufficient outrage over the firing of Mueller that it makes them fear for their reelection prospects.
DeleteWonder if that's why so many are jumping ship early - no taint means they can go lucrative private sector.
DeleteYou are so right, Gryph. Also, totally off topic, are you going to do a post on Baby Alfie? I would love to hear your thoughts.
DeleteWho the heck in baby Alfie??
Deletetopic, are you going to do a post on Baby Alfie? I would love to hear your thoughts.
The smart Republicans are already fearing for their re-election prospects. Some are simply getting out, failing to run for re-election. I'm sure they're planning on sitting out a cycle or two to distance themselves from the shitstorm that will be coming, hoping the voters will forget their association and enabling of the national disaster that is Trump.
DeleteThey're not going to do a damned thing.
https://www.politicususa.com/2018/04/28/fridays-bad-news-means-trump-is-going-down.html
ReplyDelete“the show must go on.”
"When Manafort flips and starts cooperating with the Mueller probe, and if Michael Cohen does the same thing, Trump’s chances of avoiding indictment will have gone to zero. " Until
'The End'
Pulitzer!
ReplyDeleteWar on Peace
https://www.thedailybeast.com/bill-maher-grills-ronan-farrow-on-the-metoo-movement-aziz-ansari-and-al-franken?ref=home
https://www.amazon.com/War-Peace-Diplomacy-American-Influence/dp/0393652106
'A harrowing exploration of the collapse of American diplomacy and the abdication of global leadership, by the winner of the 2018 Pulitzer Prize in Public Service.
US foreign policy is undergoing a dire transformation, forever changing America’s place in the world. Institutions of diplomacy and development are bleeding out after deep budget cuts; the diplomats who make America’s deals and protect its citizens around the world are walking out in droves. Offices across the State Department sit empty, while abroad the military-industrial complex has assumed the work once undertaken by peacemakers.
We’re becoming a nation that shoots first and asks questions later.
In an astonishing journey from the corridors of power in Washington, DC, to some of the most remote and dangerous places on earth―Afghanistan, Somalia, and North Korea among them―acclaimed investigative journalist
Ronan Farrow illuminates one of the most consequential and poorly understood changes in American history. His firsthand experience as a former State Department official affords a personal look at some of the last standard bearers of traditional statecraft, including Richard Holbrooke, who made peace in Bosnia and died while trying to do so in Afghanistan.
Drawing on newly unearthed documents, and richly informed by rare interviews with warlords, whistle-blowers, and policymakers―including every living former secretary of state from Henry Kissinger to Hillary Clinton to Rex Tillerson―War on Peace makes a powerful case for an endangered profession. Diplomacy, Farrow argues, has declined after decades of political cowardice, shortsightedness, and outright malice―
but it may just offer America a way out of a world at war.'
Rachel Maddow
DeleteEdward R. Murrow &/or A Peabody
http://deadline.com/2018/04/rachel-maddow-andrea-mitchell-letter-tom-brokaw-harass-linda-vester-nbc-news-1202378644/
'The Morning Joe co-host joined Rachel Maddow, Andrea Mitchell, and more than 60 other women who currently or formerly worked at NBC News, who have put their names on the document.
The carefully crafted letter begins by saying that “as professional women, we fully endorse the conversation around abuse of power in the workplace. In the context of that conversation, we would like to share our perspectives on working with Tom Brokaw.”
Brokaw, the letter says, “has treated each of us with fairness and respect. He has given each of us opportunities for advancement and championed our successes throughout our careers” and that they “know him to be a man of tremendous decency and integrity.”'
Yep, need to look out for fakers claiming me too when in fact they are angry about something else.
Delete'Former NBC correspondent Linda Vester and another woman say Brokaw sexually harassed them in the 1990s. He vehemently denies the claims.' “ambushed and then perp walked”
Delete"In both accounts, Vester says that Brokaw made unwanted advances to her on two occasions in the 1990s — once in New York, and once in London — when she was in her 20s and he was in his 50s. The Post also reported another unnamed woman claims that Brokaw “acted inappropriately toward her” in the ‘90s when she was a production assistant and he was an anchor."
“ambushed and then perp walked” <RIGHT!
"“What do you want from me?” Vester said she asked him. She recalled him looking at her with mild exasperation. “An affair of more than passing affection,” Brokaw told her.
“But you’re married,” she said. “And I’m Catholic.”
Then Brokaw patted the sofa next to him, she said, while she sat down on the opposite end of the couch. She brought up a sexual harassment case that had been uncovered at NBC just recently, to try to signal she was not interested in what she felt was about to happen.
Brokaw leaned over, “pressed his index finger to my lips and said, ‘This is our compact,’ ” she wrote in her diary at the time. “My insides shook. I went completely cold.”
Then, “very quickly,” Vester said later in an interview, Brokaw put his hand behind her neck and gripped her head. “Now let me show you how to give a real kiss,” he said, in Vester’s recollection, and jerked her head toward him. She remembers tensing her neck muscles and using all her strength to wriggle free and stand up. She wrote, “I said ‘Tom . . . I don’t want to do that with you.”
Brokaw sat silent for a few minutes, then finally said, “I think I should go.” " acknowledging that he did indeed meet with her but should not have gone and “emphatically did not verbally and physically attack her and suggest an affair in language right out of pulp fiction.” Brokaw also says that he helped get her an introduction with Roger Ailes at Fox News after she said she was interested in the then-budding network."
" there was “pervasive verbal sexual harassment” at NBC" "NBC last year said it is conducting a “thorough and timely review” of what happened with Lauer and will share what it learns, no matter “how painful” it is. Five months later, the review still isn’t done."
https://www.vox.com/explainers/2018/4/28/17296052/tom-brokaw-linda-vester-matt-lauer-nbc
The republicans use the excuse that impeachment would be bad for the country.
ReplyDeleteWhy doesn't someone ask them how leaving a corrupt traitor in the WH is good for the country.
The Republicans pushed impeachment for Bill Clinton because he told a lie; how many lies has Traitor Trump told?
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