It’s something of a race against time now for the Dems and the Never Trumpers.
Right now it does not appear the Special Counsel actually has evidence of crime by, or even evidence upon which to legitimately predicate a criminal investigation of, the president. It’s just a fishing expedition.
If Sessions resigns and Trump appoints, say, Ted Cruz as Attorney General, Cruz could immediately dismiss the Special Counsel and bring the investigation back into the DOJ itself. Cruz does not have the conflict of interest Sessions claimed he had - he was not a part of the Trump campaign. So Cruz takes back oversight from Rosenstein and simply terminates the Special Counsel.
However, if the Special Counsel can claim that he was uncovering crimes by the president when he was terminated, then he can testify to that effect before Congress, and Paul Ryan and Mitch McConnell would support an impeachment effort against Trump for obstruction of justice. The crimes don’t have to be conspiracy with Russia to hack Podesta’s emails, it could be irregularities in obtaining a Trump casino license, a bribe paid to a sheik in Abu Dhabi, withholding information from the IRS in the course of an audit, or really anything at all in Trump’s businesses.
Ultimately, this is not about President Trump himself or Vladimir Putin or John Podesta’s emails.
It is about immigration and trade.
The globalist interests that are represented by Paul Ryan and Mitch McConnell very much want cheap foreign labor. They want to bring the labor into the US to lower wages and benefits, and they want to use that labor in locations in other countries and bring their product into the US.
The costs of replaced American workers are not borne by the globalists, but are shifted onto the government and to society at large.
It is all financed by ever-increasing massive debt, both at government and by consumers. They need massive consumer debt in order to support a final last binge of spending. They need massive government debt in order to cover the costs of Americans (health care, food stamps, housing, disability, etc) who are downsized by the globalization money play.
President Pence will be business as usual with NAFTA, TPP, comprehensive immigration reform, etc. and the threat to the power of the globalists will subside.
... so are you saying us “little people” are powerless, and our votes are worthless ?? We have no control over our “government?”
I believe this could have to do with immigration and trade.
You got it. You really nailed it big time - the only one here that I have read that makes any sense. I wish we had a way to give out awards.
Last I looked, Trump is no shrinking violet when it comes to planning on spending trillions of dollars.
He's getting no authorization to do so from the very folks you purport to be colluding to do the same very thing.
You are giving Ryan and McConnell too much credit. They are not in the driver’s seat and don’t have the power to do anything.
Trump will not fire Mueller. He’ll just keep him in a box enforcing his mandate to investigate Russian interference only.
Mueller is not Ken Starr. Ken Starr was appointed by congress and reported to congress. Mueller reports to the DOJ which Trump will control when he fires Sessions.
You da Boss! Beautiful analysis.