Thanks for thread A.B. Hoping Judge Ellis dumps Special Counsel investigation. Mueller claims special verbal super secret instructions as to scope of his investigation (i.e. GET TRUMP!). This is grounds for Rod to fire Mueller and his band of cutthroats, or Sessions to fire them all.
https://thepointman.wordpress.com/2018/05/03/whos-actually-running-this-game/
This piece by “The point man” is so well done i may re read it over and over,thanks to pugmama for providing it.
heres a clip:
I’ve said on previous occasions that although Trump habitually likes to seize the initiative in surprising ways when confronted by problems, he’s actually more of a long-term planner. He understands that some problems have a quick fire tactical solution, but other problems have what can only be called inertia. They need patience and can’t be solved quickly, but must be picked apart over a few months or even a year or two. Any legal problems certainly have inertia and the concept of a quick settlement is a very relative term in legal circles.
His handling of the Mueller investigation has been classic Trump. The whole idea of Russia being able to significantly influence a presidential election was laughable from the very start, especially as I’ve no doubt Putin would rather be dealing with Clinton than Trump for reasons that have become obvious over the last year and a half. Trump has curtailed Putin’s territorial ambitions on Russia’s western approaches and is presently pushing him out of his toehold in Syria. Trump is brutally taking back all the ground lost in the foreign policy disasters of the Obama, Clinton and Kerry years.
Given that Vlad didn’t help him win the presidency, Trump has nothing to fear from the investigation. If it were to start manufacturing a case against him, he’s got more than enough money to hire enough legal firepower to rip it apart, which is why Mueller will steer well clear of going after Trump directly. But there’s another consideration. If you think the whole thing was just set up to somehow delegitimise and most optimistically pull down the Trump presidency, which I do, then it would be a large part of the devious plan to staff it only with Clinton sycophants and Trump haters, which is exactly what they did.
At face value, that might seem a tough situation for Trump to make the great escape out of, but on sober consideration, it has one central and very exploitable flaw running through the whole thing. You don’t just pluck hitherto honourable people out of the air and then instruct them to do dishonourable things just to bring down a legitimate presidency by any means possible. So, you have to go in the other direction, and staff it with compliant scum who’ll do whatever they’re told to do. People who have no professional integrity were always like that. They didn’t suddenly make that change in mid-career. Scum are scum from the word go.
A good example of that is Hillary Clinton, who as a junior lawyer attached to the Watergate investigation, was fired from it for lying and a lack of integrity. As I said, scum are scum from the word go, and they don’t change either. It was as if Trump was sitting down to play a game of poker, but had the advantage of knowing for sure every other player around the table was a cheat. Once you’ve spotted that weakness in your opponent, the problem then becomes one of how to exploit it to maximum effect.
As far as I know, Trump didn’t raise any significant objection to Mueller’s appointment, the terms of reference of the investigation – long since abandoned in desperation by Mueller – nor the selection of personnel on it who were supposedly going to decide his fate as president. When your opponent is putting together a very bad move, you let them get on with it. Mueller duly brought back in all the old Obama/Clinton henchmen who were veterans of several previous dodgy exploits. The whole kangaroo court he ended up with was a left-winger’s wet dream and Trump’s impeachment, for that was what would surely happen, was now only a few month’s away. Oh to have a political hymen like that again.
Seemingly, he’s practically ignored Mueller for over a year. By refusing to engage with the whole thing, he’s made them look like little lap dogs furiously nipping at his heels in a vain attempt to get his attention. He’s been very presidential, and the optics are he’s held himself well above the partisan grubbiness of it all while he got on with the more important matters of state. His hands have always been clean in that he directly had nothing to do with the various scandals that have rocked it about its legal basis and personnel, all of which have devalued any possible judgment they might come to, but I’ve no doubt it was occasionally his hand behind the scenes moving a few pawns around on the board.
In the year the investigation’s been running, there’s been a steady drip of revelations that have totally undermined the whole legal basis of it, never mind any supposed objectivity on the part of the various lawyers and investigators attached to it. Who actually paid for the black ops dossier which was the legal rationale for appointing Mueller in the first place. The machinations of people like Comey, McCabe and McCain in routing that dossier through the swamp to create the investigation. All the leaking of classified information by people like Clapper, Comey and others in a gross betrayal of office. The hate Trumps texts being exchanged by Strzok and Page as they conducted their adulterous affair, as well as supposedly objective investigations into Trump. The list goes on and on.