Posted on 01/25/2018 4:57:13 AM PST by EyesOfTX
Today’s Campaign Update (Because The Campaign Never Ends)
Everybody in the fake news media went berserk late yesterday (I know, I know, what else is new, right?) after President Trump calmly and with obvious intent told reporters that he is “looking forward to” meeting with Special Counsel Robert Mueller. The fake hosts at CNN, MSNBC and Fox News immediately put together panels of about 82 know-nothing fake reporters and “experts”, all of whom said some variation of “he’s crazy, he’s a novice, his lawyers should never let him do that!”
Personally, as is pretty much always the case with Donald Trump when he says something like this, I think he meant exactly what he said. He is absolutely looking forward to meeting with Mr. Mueller because he knows he has the Special Counsel and his band of evil minions completely over a barrel at this point. The President knows that neither his campaign or transition team in any way “colluded” with anyone from Russia on anything, and he knows the Special Counsel has no means whatsoever of mounting anything resembling a real “obstruction of justice” case against him.
Don’t get me wrong: a month and a half ago, I’d have also said that the President’s lawyers would be insane to let him sit down with a former Director of the FBI whose sole purpose for the interview would be to try to trick Trump into walking into some perjury trap, which is what the FBI always does when it is unable to make a case on the merits. But since December 12, when DOJ Inspector General Michael Horowitz and his year-long investigation into FBI/DOJ wrongdoing emerged onto the national stage, the entire political equation related to Mueller’s investigation has done a 180.
Think about what else has take place since December 12: Our seemingly sleepy Attorney General Jeff Sessions, who had previously seemed to be worried only about which Americans might be a-smokin’ that evil weed, has suddenly come to life. Since mid-December, his Justice Department has announced the opening or re-opening of investigations into the Clinton email scandal, Uranium One, the Clinton Crime Family Fake Foundation and its myriad influence and money-laundering schemes, the Project Cassandra scandal and now the alleged “glitch” that caused the FBI to “fail to preserve” five months of texts between deep state FBI agents Strzok and Page.
Prior to December 12, it seemed probable that Mueller, lacking anything real to go after the President on, would resort to dummying up a false political charge of “obstruction” and then hope the Democrats win back the House of Representatives in November and use Mueller’s work to justify impeachment proceedings.
But now, knowing that Horowitz has spent the last year investigating not just the Comeys and Strzoks and Pages and McCabes and Bakers and Ohrs of the world, but also most likely monitoring the actions of the Special Counsel’s office, Mueller would have to be crazy to try to bring down the President with a phony obstruction case or an even phonier perjury case. Robert Mueller is a lot of things, but crazy has never been one of them.
Then there’s also the existence of the soon-to-be-released four-page memo put together by the House Intelligence Committee which, by the way, was put together mainly using documents provided by IG Horowitz. Mueller knows that report is likely to reveal all manner of wrongdoing during the Obama years, some of it, like Uranium One, during periods of time when he was serving as FBI Director. Of course, it is the growing clamor to get this memo released that has thrown all the bad actors at DOJ/FBI and on the Mueller team into a panic, and moved them to start leaking their desire to interview the President to their agents in the fake news media.
Remember, we’ve known that Mueller plans to interview the President since December as well, so nothing has really changed here. The current media clamor over it is simply meant to shove news about the memo out of the headlines.
On top of all of that, we now have reports that Sessions’ investigators at DOJ have already begun recovering the 5 months of Strzok/Page texts that the corrupt deep state operatives at the FBI had claimed they just could not find. As the Campaign Update pointed out on Tueday, such messages are never just “lost”, and are stored on multiple storage media in multiple locations. The deep state cabal doesn’t get to just say “the dog ate my homework” in this situation. The net effect of all of this is that every bit of leverage in this situation, legal and political, has shifted to Trump’s corner.
Someday all the fake reporters and fake talking heads might figure out that, when President Trump says things like he said yesterday, he’s doing it very intentionally and with great forethought. That was not just some throwaway line – it was a statement of fact: He is indeed looking forward to meeting with Robert Mueller.
Look, President Trump’s reality here is that he can either do a structured sit-down with Mueller with his lawyers present, or wait for Mueller to get his grand jury filled with Trump-hating Washington DC residents – 94% of whom voted against him in 2016 – to issue a subpoena. As Bill Clinton found out, even a sitting POTUS must respond to a subpoena. I know from personal experience that, when testifying in front of a grand jury, you are in there alone, with no counsel present. Just you, the prosecutors and the members of the grand jury. Trust me, that is not a fun position to be in.
So yesterday’s remarks by President Trump were intentional – he’s sending a blunt message to Robert Mueller that he’s calling his bluff. He’ll do that interview, and in the meantime, the House Intelligence Committee and DOJ Inspector General are going to be rolling out the big guns.
If Robert Mueller wants to be remembered in history as the guy who tried to nullify a national election based on a perjury trap process crime, there’s not much Mr. Trump can do about it. But he can make sure that Mueller and his deep state friends will pay a heavy, heavy price for going down that road with the Democrat Party.
Just another day in Trump just laid down the gauntlet America.
That is all.
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“there’s not much Mr. Trump can do about it.”
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*President* Trump can tell Mueller to go pound sand.
What is coming out is disgusting.
The night of the Benghazi murders/rapes/MANPADxfers
Muelller and McCabe were busy earning their payoffs
covering for Obama and Clinton who were attending a little
boy (Kenyan) and little girl, brought to them under the
eye of the FB”I” childrape/uraniumXFER machine.
He can tell Mueller that. He can’t tell a grand jury that.
“He can tell Mueller that. He can’t tell a grand jury that.”
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What Grand Jury?
And even to a Grand Jury you don’t have to tell squat. And you shouldn’t.
He’s the President, just as he made the mistake of not firing, Sessions, Rosenstein, McCabe or Mueller, his biggest mistake would be talking to Mueller. There is no collusion or obstruction in his firing of Comey, which the constitution allows him to do without explaining his actions. Trump needs better lawyers around him. Mueller will get vicious as his investigation is under attack, he will be like a caged rat.
The key statement in the article is that Trump needs to make everyone pay for the false accusations. All of the people trying to get Trump must pay for what they’ve done. There can be no mercy.
Oh Boy, do I agree with you!
It’s “A Bronx Tale.”
The Donald has already sent out for “Da Guys”.
By agreeing to Mueller he just locked the front door and told him “Now youse can’t leave.”
Mueller’s witchhunt posing as an “investigation” will fall apart before any interview of the President takes place and the President knows it.
This is my theory and I think it will be correct.
I think you are correct. The timeline of 2 to 3 weeks gives me the feeling that Trump knows it will end before that. If the interview was tomorrow, I’d have a different opinion.
Trump is playing by his rules, not theirs and it’s confounding them.
What Grand Jury?
And even to a Grand Jury you don’t have to tell squat. And you shouldn’t.
You are aware, are you not, that Mueller has not one, but two grand juries convened on this case in DC and Arlington VA? Those grand juries. Both looking into this case.
Trump has a choice of talking to them with no counsel present, or talking to Mueller with his lawyers in the room giving him advice and objecting whenever Mueller oversteps his bounds.
That’s the choice here. Period. All other talk and bluster is nonsense that ignores reality.
I think you are correct. The timeline of 2 to 3 weeks gives me the feeling that Trump knows it will end before that. If the interview was tomorrow, I’d have a different opinion.
Trump is playing by his rules, not theirs and it’s confounding them.
Exactly correct. In 2-3 weeks, the House Intl Memo will be public, and the IG’s final report might also have been issued by then.
Trump is in the driver’s seat here, folks. Yes, he has to talk to either Mueller or a grand jury, but when he does it will be in an environment in which all the bad acts by all the bad actors will have been publicly exposed.
If Mueller wants to set a perjury trap in such an environment, then it’s his funeral.
The better approach would set a single condition:
Have the Mueller interview broadcast live.
Mueller’s witchhunt posing as an “investigation” will fall apart before any interview of the President takes place and the President knows it.
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Trump also said he was “willing,” not that he would actually do it. Trump also added that it’s ultimately up to his lawyers.
If Mueller is viscous, they can forget about the midterm election and the next Presidential elections as well. Trump is nationalizing the next election as a reform election. Any charge Mueller brings has to have solid evidence or he will be destroyed. I have a feeling the days of tricks and shadows are over. When Mueller discovered the conspiracy against President Trump he had the opportunity to recommend charges against the conspirators. He failed to do that and has become a conspirator by default. Good luck with the caged rat routine, that day is gone.
And how’s all the “Trump should never do/never have done, X” worked out so far? Just fine...if I had a dollar for every time someone said “Trump’s done for, now”, and invested it in the Trump economy, I’d be in Davos now.
I know some around here hate him, but Levin nailed it.
Trump is either ignoring his lawyers, or the lawyers are stupid.
Or, Trump is setting the press up.
it’s one of the 3.
This! Sessions has not been asleep at his desk. I believe these investigations started very soon after his nomination was approved by the Senate.
I know some around here hate him, but Levin nailed it.
Trump is either ignoring his lawyers, or the lawyers are stupid.
Or, Trump is setting the press up.
it’s one of the 3.
I can assure you and Mark Levin that Trump is not ignoring his lawyers, and Trump’s lawyers are not stupid.
I like Mark Levin, but he too often just goes off on matters like this without first thinking them fully through.
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