Indictment-O-Rama 2: The Lying Game

[Person Man]

https://twitter.com/christinawilkie/status/974698517217316864

[Person Man]

So there's identity theft in the mix now?

[Person Man]

McCabe's been fired btw

Think they are moving for Mueller?

[Person Man]

Trump's lawyers are now calling for an end to the russian probe - CNN

But things have just only started to get sexy...the night is still young!

[Person Man]

Trump's lawyers are now calling for an end to the russian probe - CNN

He's obviously going to do it which will only contribute to a gigantic midterm wave election

We can then just go the 1990s route of civil suits, investigations, and eventually impeachment proceedings.

[Person Man]

McCabe's been fired btw

Think they are moving for Mueller?

No, Trump can at least claim McCabe did something wrong and terminate him for (spurious) cause. Mueller, not so much.

Isn't McCabe supposed to retire in a few days anyway? I bet a move this petty was over his pension eligibility.

Trump is also testing the waters....nobody in the GOP cared about him firing McCabe since the whole party is corrupt so now he's gonna try and can Mueller since he knows that McConnel and Ryan are cowards who know their place.

Frankly I don't even care anymore....this country deserves a good Constitutional crisis for being both stupid enough to vote for Trump and lazy & ignorant enough to never participate civically. Though I would argue, the weak Democrats whose choice was always 'were the least worst' share some of the blame in this too.

Are we ready for the consequences of a Constitutional Crisis? I can see things spiraling out of control very quickly and it causing social unrest.

[Person Man]

I know Mueller is very thorough and everything, but he might want to pick up the pace abit. Its not a good sign when Trump is directly referring to him in tweets. 

I’m sure he has contingencies

Not to mention, I'm sure the attorney general of New York would step up to the plate on the financial aspects of Mueller's investigation. But still, its nerve racking all the same. The civil unrest alone that a Mueller firing would cause could be immense.

That is probably the only deterrent at this point.

[Person Man]

Sessions lied under oath when he told the Senate he had opposed the Russian outreach of the Trump campaign:

Exclusive: Sources contradict Sessions' testimony he opposed Russia outreach

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And you better believe that's a paddlin'.

[Person Man]

Holy Piss Tape Batman!

https://twitter.com/sahilkapur/status/975813554610860032

Our country is run by the mob...

[Person Man]

At some point...Mueller's going to get canned

Outgoing lawyer says Trump approved statement calling for end to Mueller probe

Start planning for our Constitutional Crisis now.

My (hardly novel) predictions:

-Muller gets fired as part of a massacre
-The GOP will make noise, but not actually do anything
-Trump will continue to get worse
-Trump starts a war when he gets desperate (probably this year, but maybe next year)
-The Dems will win big in Nov, but not big enough
-After winning, the Dems put the brakes on, but don't play hardball like they should
-2019 and 2020 are disastrous for the United States

I think it's basically a coin flip on whether the GOP establishment turns on Trump in 2019 and then campaigns on trying to walk a line that appeals to both crazies and centrists, or whether they stick with him and try to blame all the disasters in 2019 and 2020 on the Democrats in Congress (and Hillary Clinton's emails).

I hope Democrats win in November. We can survive a constitutional crisis and we can survive an inept opposition. But can we survive a government as completely unaccountable as both scenarios combined?

[Person Man]

New Mueller court filing links Trump campaign, Russian intelligence, and WikiLeaks
The special counsel says Rick Gates was "directly communicating" with a former GRU officer in the fall of 2016.

https://thinkprogress.org/rick-gates-trump-campaign-russian-intelligence-gru-mueller-f53c55bb1ac6/

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Who wants to do the honors?

[Person Man]

Just a thought. What if he fired Mueller and state AGs pursued him and got felony indictments on him? And say they grant no bail.

[Person Man]

It comes down to the classic question: What did they know and when did they know it? If Trump knew about Manafort's sketchy connections in late 2016 and didn't do anything, that's a paddlin'.

You better believe that's a paddlin'.

[Person Man]

Trump lies again

https://www.twitter.com/JuliaDavisNews/status/979465218559565826

Not good!

We are cucked.

[Person Man]

I mean, as much as I think Trump is likely to do this...
... why are we believing Russian propaganda TV?

Everyone brags.

[Person Man]

I don't think you can be pardoned from disbarment but I am pretty sure he will be able to make a fortune off of this.

[Person Man]

Drumpf having a mental breakdown as we speak

https://www.twitter.com/brianstelter/status/984849328899436544

Is Melania going to wake up one morning and go into the bathroom and see Trump slouched over on the toilet with a bucket of KFC and watching Fox News on the bathroom TV Elvis style?

Or find Trump dead of a heart-attack. 

Which I don't want to have happen -I want him to face the music. 

His cultists would turn him into a martyr. Deep state assassination for the nuttiest of the nuts, killed by the stress of an unjust conspiracy against him for those who think they're not in a cult

He needs to survive, so that our society can demonstrate it is functional enough to reject him.

Yeah. I'm pretty sure if society doesn't rise to that level of "functional", that I will outlive it.

[Person Man]

Schneiderman covering his bases in NY.

So I guess they just don't go to New York.

[Person Man]

Immediately jumping to an easily disposable alibi? That's odd.

[Person Man]

Imagine being counsel to somebody this insistent on ignoring your advice

Been there, done that. Though he is in the upper 5% out in terms of headache clients.

Always someone worse.

[Person Man]

A puppet is a puppy that isn't a full size puppy.

[Person Man]

Well, in other news, taking this Politico story at face value, none of this matters and we are wasting our time. Why, you ask?:

1. Mueller issues a report concluding that Trump is a felon.

2. Mueller states that his legal opinion is that a sitting President cannot be indicted (probably right), and the only remedy is impeachment and conviction.

3. By then, Trump has nailed down his rabid base, which believes after a concerted agitprop campaign by team Trump that Mueller is the Great Satan, and so there are insufficient votes in the Senate to convict him because his base won't stand for it.

4. Then end.

Well not quite the end. At the end of Trump's term, the first thing he is handed is a criminal
indictment as he leaves the podium at the conclusion of the inauguration of the next President.

Oh, one other thing. If you believe the Politico story, Rudy Giuliani is a very cynical man.

So, in other words, Donald Trump must run for re-election (and win) in order to avoid jail time.

Couldn't he pardon himself, technically?

Then a state court would file information and he can always be sued for damages in states court.

[Person Man]

Trump has had months to fire Mueller and hasn't. One wonders why.

My theory is that he knows the path of least resistance is a media campaign to tarnish Mueller’s credibility so his base will dismiss as false whatever comes out about him. Why complicate things for himself?

That's not how He plans. He lives simply to generate provocation. Suspence, especially amongst dumbs, is a great way of doing it.

[Person Man]

Trump has had months to fire Mueller and hasn't. One wonders why.

My theory is that he knows the path of least resistance is a media campaign to tarnish Mueller’s credibility so his base will dismiss as false whatever comes out about him. Why complicate things for himself?

This is my sense as well.

The ultimate goal of all of this are that people just want policies because they identify with them, not because they are objectively better than others. Laws are the new fashion statements.

[Person Man]

Apparently Michael Cohen recieved payments from a Russian oligarch that has Mueller's attention. https://www.cnn.com/2018/05/08/politics/robert-mueller-russian-oligarch-payments-michael-cohen/index.html?sr=twCNN050818robert-mueller-russian-oligarch-payments-michael-cohen0604PMStory

Good to see a source for this that is not Mike Avenatti