At least this is what I would do.
Yes, Trump has a plan
Trump likes the publicity of the DOJ FBI not cooperating with congress. It sets them up in the long run for him to have grounds for firing them and people wont be able to complain., especially if they are found in contempt of congress. It also pits trump against the phony russia investigation. The slimy rosenstein appointed muller and hes hiding docs from congress. Makes rosenstein look crooked.
Why stop your enemies from being destroyed by their own actions?
In bizarro world, revealing truth obstructs justice.
Trump tried ordering the DOJ to cooperate with Congress a few weeks ago.
It prompted a meeting hosted by the White House in which Kelly introduced himself, told them to get the lead out and left to allow the parties to sort it out.
And immediately afterward Democrats in Congress screamed about Trump obstructing the Mueller investigation by trying to order the disclosure of information that would help Trump defend against Mueller.
And still here we are.
He’ll have to fire Rosenstein (and maybe Sessions) to get the DOJ to stop concealing its crimes in the sting operation against the Trump campaign. I suspect there are by now actually forged documents inserted into the government records to protect DOJ lawyers and FBI personnel.
Trump’s lawyers have told him if he fires Rosenstein it would be worse than firing Comey in terms of giving Democrats and the McCain/Flake-types grist for impeachment.
he gets impeached by the House ... At least this is what I would do.
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Don’t fret, Ryan will never allow a vote on it.
Trump will order him to release in time to have maximum effect on the Midterm elections.
That’s my theory anyway.
One could probably just shoot his enemy, but when that enemy is absolutely insistent on tying a rope around his neck and hanging himself, why bother? It’s much more entertaining and way more politically useful to just watch him hang himself than forcing the issue.
There’s plenty of talk about a ‘Constitutional crisis’ if President Trump does or doesn’t do this or that. But most of those scenarios are utter nonsense, because many of the things discussed are clearly Constitutional and quite well-defined, in that the President has a specific power, or that he is not subject to a specific demand by Mule-head.
My view is that a Constitutional crisis will occur when Trump declassifies and orders Rosenstein, the DOJ and the FBI to turn over the documents, and they refuse. And I really believe that the will refuse, with a B.S. excuse that they are patriots who are protecting the country.
What they are protecting is themselves, Obama, Hillary and a host of others.
Why don't we have a blue wave? It's because Trump has been leading the Republicans away from their bad habits that would have gotten them all tossed out and shown them the way to reelection, which means to stop pandering to the globalist/socialist/crony capitalist uniparty.
Now that they are learning that they can play to the crowds - and save their seats - by attacking the unipartiests they are taking a stand against the weasels who have mined the structure of the government. And in this LARP of a Kabuki, Rosenweasel cannot see that it isn't a charade and that he has to produce documents he won't produce because if this doesn't end the GOP is going to get tossed.
So he is going to get himself fired because he obstructed justice by refusing to turn over documents, which Trump will then produce. What impeachment [of Trump]. It's masterful really.
Because the “political theater of Rosenstein dancing & sweating” is useful for the midterms.
Because you want the maximum impact of such an order on the Fall elections.
Trump gave Sessions two priorities when he appointed him: 1) to restore integrity to DOJ/FBI, and 2) investigate and prosecute all thosevwho have broken the law. That’s what has been going on ever since.
That may be what you'd do, Sessions isn't going to do squat and anyone waiting for him to move is going to be waiting a very, very long time.
What Would John McCain Say?
That's why.
There are many reasons for Trump to stay out of this right now -
It is politically benefitting him - he appears to the the victim to his base and increasingly to independents
The longer the DOJ obstructs congress the worse it looks for the Special Counsel investigation
It is a matter of timing - he knows what happened (there is little doubt in my mind he already knows) so he can choose when and how to declassify documents and put out information that benefits him
I would bet there are things we are not yet aware of - i.e. prior admin involvement, etc etc. As long as this is hanging over their heads (not Trump) they are amazingly quiet contributing to the rudderless lurch to the left within the DNC
There are also likely some investigations behind the scenes that have not leaked. Trump is a fighter like we have never seen before so you know there are some counterpunches coming and as of right now he looks to be above it all
It will come out in good time - nobody trolls the media like Trump and he is a master of controlling the news cycle. Have faith.
Trump can fire him and mueller too. And as regards the “trump is letting them hang themselves” theory— that made some sense a long time ago. Not now. They’ve long since disgraced themselves. It’s time to cut them down off the tree and give them merciful political burials.
The conflict works to Trump’s electoral benefit. Therefore I expect that sometime after the midterms this happy-horsesh- is going to abruptly end.
Wouldn't it be simpler & quicker to just compel Rosenstein to turn over the documents? First off, can Sessions even rescind his recusal? It takes time to impeach Rosenstein. If the documents expose FBI & DoJ corruption, or at least by some of the agents & administration, then why not just compel him to release all that are being requested?
Why would anyone want to highlight criminal activity by the Democrats and give the media four months to shrug it off and refocus. It will come out in October.
More than that. He is giving the entire Federal gov. all the rope it wants. By doing that he is revealing not only which people are good and which are not but the flaws in the system itself. He won't act until the people are practically begging him to.