Posted on 09/09/2018 10:47:49 AM PDT by Kaslin
You have to know when to hold ’em and know when to fold ’em.
At long last, Special Counsel Mueller blinked. He sent a letter to President Trump’s lawyers this week saying that yes, he would accept written answers to certain questions that he wants to ask the President. The Trump legal team has been coy, but they must know that the game is about over.
Mueller tacitly admitted what Trump and his legal team already knew. He has been bluffing.
He has (at best) a pair of deuces while Mueller knows that the President is sitting with a full house. Sooner or later, they have to lay down their cards. Pretending and playing Go Fish may work in a friendly game with your buddies in the biased media. It doesn’t work in a high stakes game on the Trump Poker Tour.
The Go Fishing expedition has produced nothing linking Team Trump and Russian Collusion. Because there was never anything there to find. It is mind bending to see the extraordinary lengths that the Mueller band of partisans have gone to in their quest to find a crime, any crime that they could pin on our duly elected President.
Granted, not reporting income or paying your taxes are serious offenses. But, charging a distinguished military leader with lying to the FBI even when the very people who conducted the interviews believed that he told the truth? Breaking into domiciles with loaded guns in the middle of the night, ransacking homes and offices, bringing charges, some of which were previously deemed unworthy of prosecution by the Justice Department. None of which involve supposed Russian Collusion. Trampling on the attorney-client privilege? Getting Trump’s attorney to plead guilty to a campaign finance charge that may not even be a real crime?
This is Banana Republic stuff!
Charging a dozen Russians with tampering with our elections, fully expecting that they would never appear in court? One of them shocked Mueller by sending an attorney to demand that Mueller show his cards. Rather than embarrass themselves, they asked for a delay.
All of this in a corrupt attempt to squeeze people to get them to “sing or compose”, as the old judge correctly observed.
Out West, people who bluffed and couldn’t be trusted were called Four Flushers.
Mueller long ago gave up on Russian Collusion, the original excuse for the appointment. Turning normal procedures on their heads, they shamefully morphed into an investigation looking for a crime. Their hopes for obstruction of justice were crushed by the IG report. The one that all but said Comey and Strzok should have been fired for lying, leaking and other stunts that violated department policies.
Maybe, just maybe they could get someone to flip. But, anyone that might flip would also then be guilty of either lying to the FBI or lying under oath to Congress. As democrat lawyer Lanny Davis quickly realized. Doing what may have been the fastest “my bad” in history, leaving CNN with egg on its face.
So team Mueller is down to trying trick the President into a perjury trap. The Trump lawyers haven’t always seemed too quick on the uptake, but they weren’t that stupid. Written responses all but closes that door.
Mueller can now either weave together his report with conjecture and innuendo or he can keep the investigation going. But, he should know that the guy across the table (the one with the full house) is about to start playing some of his cards. Those cards are going to devastate the people Mueller has been bending over backwards to protect and they will destroy the premise for his investigation in the first place.
Trump may not turn over all his cards at once. He could play them one at a time. Pulling the teeth slowly for dramatic effect. His ultimate Trump card is his power to declassify documents. According to some legal experts, the President can also appoint his own investigation team to look at potential crimes and abuses inside the DOJ and FBI. Gregg Jarrett might be helpful.
The President probably knows (or can find out from geeks deep in the bowels of the NSA) which adversaries breached the Hillary server and how long our people have known about it. Was it the Russians or the Chinese, or both? Either way, they got a treasure trove and somebody tried to cover it up. Was it Clapper?
And Hillary’s actions were way beyond “careless”.
Then there is the jackpot of documents that the FBI has been playing hide and seek with Congressional investigators. Trumps’s critics will call it reckless when he makes his move, but only the hopelessly naïve believe that there are not some terribly incriminating things there. Who decided the Steele dossier was credible? Was it Orr or McCabe?
Justice demands that the people who mislead the FISA court in order to get approval for surveillance of the Trump campaign be held to account. There is a paper trail. Exactly when and why did the Russia investigation start? Who authorized it? We will finally learn the scope of the investigation that Mr. Rosenstein approved. What were the crimes? Remember, that is a Justice Department prerequisite. Professor Dershowitz has reminded us that Collusion itself is not a crime. And if there were no real crimes enumerated, why the rush to start an open-ended investigation? Was this just one huge smoke screen to cover up operation Crossfire Hurricane?
Some of the President’s top people will squeal like stuck pigs. A few might resign. Establishment Republicans will gasp. As the documents are declassified, we may finally gain a clearer understanding of the “Insurance Policy.”
For all of their attempts to stack the deck and mark the cards, the Mueller team has been playing against a guy who knows something about poker. The guy who has owned casinos is about to call their bluff and go all in.
I think author Gil Gutknecht is missing the real game afoot here. Mueller will indict any of Trump’s staff on anything to ruin them financially, thus making people think twice about serving in the Trump administration. It’s part of the coup to take down the government by denying Trump good people.
Mueller and his entire staff of liars, con artists, federal union punks, all still feeding on our dime, need to be jailed and in the slammer for life with revoked FERS and revoked AFGE insurance.
1) 2 can play this game. 20 good for the goose...
One can only hope.
It would certainly be fun to put Mueller in the Dock on any number of transgressions.
Thank you Lord!! Red wave in November? Weissman, Ohr, Rosenstein and Comey indicted? Rip VanSessions and Christoper Wray FIRED? Drip, drip, drip to see other perp walks??? Oh please let it be so dear God.
This is what keeps mulehead, comey, rosenstein, etal awake at night.
President Trump has the authority to call for a special counsel for the crimes that we all know exist.
In two months I predict that we will be pleased.
If Inwere in Trump’s shoes, I would start compiling those voter registration cards, census data and current voting rolls. My belief is this is all a distraction to keep the administration busy while the rats rig the elections.
Conversely, those who refused to believe Deep State would ever, ever stoop to this...IN THIS COUNTRY !...will be shocked into reality and offer thanks to the guy who had the balls to call 'em on it.
I will leave this earth with a smile on my face and hope for those who follow.
And DJT bats at the bottom of the inning. After mid-terms and a seated Supreme. Lawyer up Democrats, this Christmas is going to suck for you.
I hope you are right, but timing is critical in the game of thrones. Trump instinctively likes to own the news cycle. It is time to do so with a drip drip drip for the next month when it has the most impact. Contrary to what I believed only a month ago, it DOES NOT appear that Sessions is pushing justice for those who attempted a coup. I base this on the fact that so many of the smaller fish in the coordinated and choreographed plot have not yet been interviewed.
I will say this though - remember that there is a small handful of individuals who likely know most of the story and it would only take one of them to cooperate - potentially preemptively. All indications are that Lisa Page and Bruce Ohr are two potential candidates. McCabe is not stupid and he knows that he is a subject of a grand jury. Lest we forget, he also allegedly said he “would not go down alone” so there are three individuals with a vested interest in protecting themselves. We can also NOT discount the fact that there are likely some whistleblowers with some exposure to being fired at the very least - even if they followed orders. People in these positions are often close to retirement and they do not want to lose it.
This whole story has been difficult to follow and only limited facts have come out in little pieces at a slow pace regarding mostly the President largely thanks to a few investigative reporters and some determined congressional folks. Sessions cannot be so blind that he does not see what is obvious. One way or another this story is coming out - he will either do his job or he will lose his job and it will be done anyways.
There will be some explosive news forthcoming, but without the appointment of another special counsel it will just produce more media theatrics when the entire thing - Midyear Exam, Crossfire Hurricane, the abuse of the NSA by contractors, campaign finance violations, the Clinton Foundation, and many more scream for a fair accounting before the public and in court. That will truly drain the swamp. Anything else is just fluff.
I do like the way you think laplata.........;)
The stupid Woodward book and the pathetic “anonymous” NYT op-ed actually portend very good things for the Trump administration. To me, they are indications that the Mueller charade came up empty ... so the leftists in the media are now back to rumor, innuendo and smear tactics.
“The guy who has owned casinos is about to call their bluff and go all in.”
Please, Oh, Please, Oh, PLEASE! MAGA! :)
When you have a losing hand, and have been sitting at the table with a loaded and cocked .44 Magnum aimed at the other players’ knees -
Maybe it is time to kick over the table and let the game turn to its real objective, which is armed revolution.
Very real possibility of blood on the floor.
Yep—sounds like overconfidence here.
Mueller knows he only needs to give the Dems a fig leaf. If the GOP holds the House, then two fig leafs, for them to continue railing re: impeachment.
And if the GOP doesn’t hold the House, then impeachment is pretty much a done deal.
I don’t see how the Rats take House.
Are there even that many competitive/swing districts left?
The economy is visibly getting better. What are the Rats running on? “Trump is a poopyhead!” is not an issue that I can see that brings normal people out to support them. Yes the crazies will come out - maybe? Though they tend to be more incentivized by presidential elections not off year elections. Also there is not enough crazies period!
I am hopeful too. But the issue is election theft. I believe they were sufficiently thwarted in 2016, but will we be able to keep them in check this November as well?
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