Disestablishmentarian
I believe we DO have a serious problem.
Just as Congress can stymie Trump and he has to work around it, I think he’s stymied by being politically unable to fire either Rosenstein or Mueller. His only chance is if Congress can force information out of the FBI/DOJ that makes Rosenstein’s tilt toward HRC obvious. THEN Trump has a window to get him out in SUPPORT of Congress, not in OPPOSITION to Congress.
1,094 posted on 7/6/2018, 5:47:14 PM by mairdie
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“His only chance is if Congress can force information out of the FBI/DOJ that makes Rosenstein’s tilt toward HRC obvious. THEN Trump has a window to get him out in SUPPORT of Congress, not in OPPOSITION to Congress.”
And that means that it is UP TO US TO MAKE IT RAIN!
# RELEASE THE UNREDACTED DOCUMENTS!!!
(or call or write email/snail mail to your congressvermin and /or all the above)
"In the trench war between congressional Republicans and the Federal Bureau of Investigation, we have arrived at a crucial battle. A House resolution sets Friday as the deadline for the Justice Department to come clean on the beginning of its investigation into the Trump campaign. We’ll find out if the FBI has been lying to the public.
That is, if the department complies. It has flouted so many subpoenas, and played so many games with redactions and deadlines, that the entire House GOP united last week to vote for the resolution demanding submission to Congress’s requests for documents. The vote was an order but also a warning—that this is the last chance to comply, and the next step will be to hold officials in contempt. It is a measure of the stakes that even that threat doesn’t guarantee cooperation."
- I think the last deadline given for documents received a response from RR at about 11pmish?...StormFlag
No, there is another way, and it’s the way Trump is trying hard to see come about.
It’s all about the midterms. If Trump pulls off a huge upset victory and the Republicans hold or expand their majorities, the problem solves itself. His political power increases exponentially. He can then fire whomever he wishes, release whatever he wishes, but he’s not likely going to have to...the resignations will be on his desk that Wednesday morning. One election can be a fluke, but if he wins the midterms too...that’s a movement that cannot be ignored or wished away by the powers-that-be in D.C.
Political prosecutions generally rebound on the prosecutor in America. And American politics is always forward looking as opposed to concentrating on the sins of the past, regardless of how corrupt and egregious those sins are. That’s because these are D.C. issues that impact the power brokers, not the people in their daily lives. The winners of elections are those who concentrate effectively on the needs of the voters.
Trump is going to concentrate on the big prize, which would be increasing his political power in the midterms...which would be an unheard-of victory and if he pulled it off, it’d be transformative - he’d actually have his own party behind him fully for the first time. The Democrats are not being helped by the Mueller effort, And Trump would not be helped by a political prosecution of his enemies either. Those things energize and unite the opposition behind a single “banner.” The Democrats don’t appear united right now, and they don’t appear particularly energized, relative to Trump support, either.
Elections in America need to be forward looking - there’s no percentage politically in pursuing “justice” against powerful figures who are now relegated to history, out of jobs, out of office, out of power. Meet the needs of voters, the sins of the past are the result of the voters and the opposition not doing their jobs well in th past.
When you vote corrupt people into power, and when their opposition is corrupt and milktoast themselves (McCain, Romney, Ryan, Bush et.al.), then you pay the price...there’s no practical, effective recourse...so DON’T vote them in in the first place. That is the real lesson here. In the American system, you have to be careful who you give power to, there is no escaping that. If you choose badly, you might very well lose the American system. So if you are on the side of good...if you are white hats, WIN the damned elections until you eliminate the corrupt.