Robert Mueller, You’re Starting to Scare Me

New York Times ^ | 22 May 2018 | Frank Bruni

[Magnatron]

Imagine for a moment that Robert Mueller was never pressed into service as a special counsel and wasn’t a household name. Imagine that there had never been any prompt for his investigation — that Donald Trump hadn’t blown all those kisses at Vladimir Putin, that the stooges and grifters around Trump hadn’t swooned at the prospect of sucking on Mother Russia’s teat, or that there’d been no offer of milk in the first place.

What would we be focusing on right now?

Maybe the just-published Politico report of Trump’s deliberate, cavalier use of a cellphone that doesn’t have strict security safeguards would be getting extra attention. The story outraged me, because it’s yet another glaring example of Trump’s dual set of rules — proper ones that apply to others and nonexistent ones that let him and his clan do as they please — and it puts the lie to his supposed horror over Hillary Clinton’s sloppy email habits. Not for the first time or for the last, he’s being a raving hypocrite.

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Mueller’s journey down certain tributaries strikes even some observers who aren’t Trump partisans as invasive and punitive. His crawl and sprawl have also given the president the time and the trove of details that he needs to refine his tactics for delegitimizing the investigation. His shameless effort has evolved in sophistication from the reflexive yelp of “witch hunt” to more elaborate and alluring conspiracy theories, including the scenario of espionage within his campaign.

And Trump’s storytelling has takers. A CBS News poll several weeks ago showed that fewer Americans believed Mueller’s investigation to be legitimate (44 percent) than to be politically driven (53 percent).

[dangus]

So this guy is outraged that the president has a phone that he uses for reading Twitter, without swapping it out monthly, even though its a phone configured exclusively for this purpose, with restriction of outgoing signals so tight it can’t even make outgoing calls. “A departure from previous presidents.”

So this guy isn’t at all bothered by a Secretary of State who stores state secrets in a privately thrown-together bathroom server, but he’s got a problem with Trump’s phone...

[fuzzylogic]

They’re actually admitting, noting his “hypocrisy”, that Hillary was grossly negligent with her email server and security.

Unless there’s actual evidence of Trump being “cavalier” with his phone use then it’s just speculation. He may have IT people all over everything he does - which he probably does considering the spying that has been going on.

Most likely this person is aggravated that his employing tactics that will protect him will avoid the continued spying that is most likely happening.

[Iron Munro]

Much of the diminishing of the Constitution could have been prevented by Sessions.

He did a disservice to the nation.

And it is still ongoing.
Why doesn't he order the DOJ and FBI to comply with Congressional FOIA requests?
Why is he aiding the cover-up through his inaction?

I no longer chalk his conduct up to bumbling and incompetence.
He is intentionally road-blocking action against the seditionists and other criminals.

We know the Anti-Trump plotting extends back to the early days of the campaign.
Was Sessions part of it?
Was he maneuvered into the confidence and trust of candidate Trump as a form of insurance in case Trump actually did win?

At this stage truth has been proven to be stranger than fiction - Anything is possible.

We have already seen the most outlandish theories of Anti-Trump subterfuge proven to be true.

Remember the old adage:

I might be paranoid but that doesn't mean they aren't really out to get me!

[Wiser now]

Didn’t Obama do the same thing with his phone? Did Bruni complain then?

[ripley]

“This is a puke piece.”

Absolutely!

This guy represents a bunch of hardcore leftists in the population who think that it’s OK to engage in extra-legal and extra-Constitutional antics to get rid of a President they don’t like.

Mr. Mueller is definitely scary because he represents that part of the revolutionary population that hates the Constitution and loves “revolutionary” action by way of Stalinist-style antics.

IMHO

[Attention Surplus Disorder]

“Imagine that Jeff Sessions had not recused himself as his first act of “Virtue Signalling” in his new job as Attorney General back in March, 2017.”

Imagine if Mike Mukasey had been appointed atty gen’l 1/09/17. Robert Mueller would resemble a bug squashed against a windshield.

[dinodino]

The author is insane.

[Yo-Yo]

The only reason I can think of for "swapping out" the Twitter phone is to check it for compromises (hacks), and improve hardening (e.g., change passwords, upgrade software). They probably do the same with the other phone.

The Politico article said that Trump uses two phones, one exclusively for calls, and one exclusively for Twitter and news feeds.

The article also said that Trump does swap out his voice call phone monthly, but may go 3+ months on the Twitter phone.

Of the two, I would assume the voice call phone is more critical to keep secure, and that is rotated monthly.

[Libloather]

...Hillary Clinton’s sloppy email habits.

The New York Times declared that Mrs. Bill *Clinton 'broke the rules'. It may be time for Hillary to explain the rules that she broke.

[B.Bumbleberry]

And don’t forget “wingnuts,” Comy’s assistant’s appellation. So to summarize, stooges, grifters, wingnuts, deplorables, bible and gun clutching morons, racists, of course, and so on. Church Lady: “Well isn’t that special.... Feeling a little superior there, aren’t we, Frank?”

[archy]

Imagine for a moment that Robert Mueller was never pressed into service as a special counsel and wasn’t a household name.

One little, two little, three little Indians....

[Billthedrill]

Aaaand here we have the NYT weighing in with the same song and dance. Man, are the talking points ever out!

That's the smell of fear we're getting. Talk about anything but what's actually happening, because what's actually happening is scary.

[sparklite2]

Mueller’s journey down certain tributaries strikes even some observers who aren’t Trump partisans as invasive and punitive.

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Replace tributaries with capillaries and you’re closer.

It seems the opportunity cost of Mueller’s windmill-tilting is less coverage for other leftist accusations. If the endless probing results as expected in a diversionary nothing, perhaps it was all for the best.

[spacewarp]

Is it possible they have already given what is needed, and it’s devastating and yet, they are acting in public that it’s been bad because it stirs up extra hatred towards the corrupticons?

[Radix]

The ‘Barf Alert’ is at the top where they misspelled it as New York Times.

[SunkenCiv]

Another Shill from the NY Slimes worries that somehow or other Trump is gonna get away with it, while rationalizing about Mueller's witch hunt. Thanks Magnatron.

[Luke21]

This article is venomous crap.

[SoCal Pubbie]

It seems odd to me that Trump would find switching any phone out to be inconvenient. I would assume he would just hand it to an aide who would transfer any data to the new phone and give that back to Trump when it was ready. Doesn’t seem bothersome at all. Or am I overlooking something?