Yes, this is good. I think a serious discussion can be had over whether the Mulehead investigation really ever hurt Trump.
After all, with a few exceptions (not getting all the Wall money, not getting a “comprehensive” immigration bill), Trump has won on basically everything for 2.5 years. He won on the economy, on tariffs, in the courts, on his travel ban, on his pulling out of TPP and Paris and NAFTA, on scuttling the Iran deal.
Yes, Trump works harder than any two men. But it’s hard to argue simultaneously that Trump has been incredibly successful (which he has been) and at the same time was “hamstrung” by Mulehead. I don’t buy it. I also don’t buy that Mulehead significantly hurt the GOP in 2018. I think that was almost entirely a factor of over 20 retiring GOP incumbents; a group of very poor candidates whom the GOP wasted money on (Comstock, the CO guy), a lot of fraud in CA and a little in AZ, and the GOP failing to have a comprehensive national program, least of all one supporting Trump.
And, for every vote Mulehead’s investigation cost Trump, it’s likely it generated at least one sympathy vote for an underdog whose opponents are piling on.
Trump as it turns out DID get the wall money as of the USSC decision on Friday over turning a lower court injunction.
No it can’t, not a serious discussion. A serious discussion would admit that the attempted coup not only hurt Trump, and Republicans in general, but has damaged the country. Trump’s Campaign Chairman and National Security Advisor were charged with felonies. His personal attorney was raided and is now in jail. Those events, no matter how unfair, led to the loss of one House of Congress to Democrats. The loss of the House has led the coup attempt being allowed to continue to this day.
Trump may have survived the coup, but to say it never hurt him is obscene, and disrespectful.
Granted he has been amazingly successful to date, I can’t go along with the any assertion that he or the Republicans haven’t been hurt by this.
I believe they have been hurt although not nearly as bad as they might have been had it not been for the take no prisoners leadership of Donald Trump.
Now it’s time for the responsible people to be held accountable for their malfeasance. I pray that Barr/Durham and soon to be Ratcliffe are up to the task.
Valid observations of Trumps successes, but that the enemy’s ABCNNBCBS successfully pushed their impeachment and Russian agenda for now three years without any visible opposition hurt his influence over the RINO branch of today’s GROPElites.
Was it my impression only, or a valid observation, that Mueller’s Anderson followed two patterns.
The democrat would be provided a long accusation “for the record” of many different charges regardless of accuracy or relevance, and Mueller answered “Yes.” (Or, see my report. “)
But when the republicans asked a question, Mueller would hem and haw, delay and mumble his response, stammer and question each page number or quote, demand his partner/lawyer find each page and delay through the republicans’ five minute limit.