Posted on 03/04/2017 7:00:02 AM PST by LS
Over the past week the hysteria on the right and among some weak-kneed Trumpers has been over the top. Even Rush Limbaugh began to wiggle uncomfortably, fearing Trump did know what he was up against, and hadn't moved fast enough to deal with the "silent coup" against him.
Jeff Sessions' recusal supposedly showed that Trump, like all the rest of the Republicans, didn't know how to play hardball.
Ooops.
I can always tell when something big is about to happen at Team Trump when my contact messages aren't returned. And I'm always pleasantly surprised that Team Trump is one to a dozen steps ahead of anything I'm thinking.
Case in point: yesterday I drafted a memo urging Trump to go on offense against the Democrats, specifically the Congressional rats. And as usual, I'm thinking of building a bowling alley while Trump is envisioning a gleaming skyscraper.
Today Trump's offensive began. But only after cleverly baiting the hook, luring the enemy Cannae-style into an envelope from which there is no escape.
He didn't fight back against the guys in the ring. He went after their manager, their coach, and their funder-in-chief. Trump went after the head of the snake.
By Tweeting that Trump Tower and his personal residence were bugged---and apparently the evidence of such a wiretap approval exists---Trump again shows why he plays 3D chess and his enemies are playing Parcheesi. The Bible says it this way: "They will come at you one way and go away fleeing seven."
Other than the fact that this is OBAMA he is going after, the juciest part is that Sessions did NOT recuse himself from a wiretap investigation of Obama. Get it?
Trump just leapfrogged the whole Russia thing with an "It ends today." Now Team Trump has leverage to force a full and total standdown of all opposition to Trump inside Congress, all end to the disruptions, and meek and timid confirmation of all appointees. Or Zero goes to jail. That simple.
Many here will want blood. But I'm reminded of Sam Houston after he defeated Santa Anna at San Jacinto. Instead of hanging the dictator, he merely took all of the American Southwest. Santa Anna was out soon anyway, but we still have Phoenix, Denver, and (unfortunately) California. It will be a negotiation from strength, and the Dems will have no choice but to comply. They won't completely give up---there will be surreptitious acts with enough deniability---but this was a perfectly baited hook that all of Trump's enemies just walked into.
:-)
The more the MSM acts like crazed rabid skunks, the fewer people pay any attention to them!
Yes... I read something about that and wanted to follow up/find more but RL* got in the way and didn’t see anything else about it.
*Real Life
Yes.
I was responding to a poster who said Minor left no doubt.
GOOD!
Turban Durbin needs to become a permanent resident there.
That’s where the ‘just heard’ part of the wire-tapping tweet comes in. There are two possibilities: Jeff was mis-informed of DJT’s wish to not recuse - and by whom? - or Jeff went against the boss’ orders. Just two options.
I’m going with Jeff was mislead into thinking Trump wanted him to recuse.
I was so mad .. Abby was gushing all over him .. saying what a truly nice person he is .. I’m at puke already.
I don’t think he’s a nice person .. I think he’s a snake in the grass .. and he will stab you in the back if it profits him.
They were "surprised" because they all had confidence in the quality and quantity of their cheating.
We weren't, because we saw the size and enthusiasm of his rally crowds.
Yep!
Disgusting!
LOVED Shaffer’s response!
Isn’t the name of the book....Game of Thorns
I knew the momental ge announced on the escalator and never wavered. They are all deaf dumb and blind...by their own choice.
Thanks HL27 for the lesson on killing swamp snakes.
We knew, sooner or later, that the attack on corruption would begin. Well it began in a 5:30 AM Twitter attack that roused quite a few snakes out of their beds.
Their nightmares are just begun...
You guys will have more luck defining the meaning of “is” than this argument because one opinion excludes Cruz, Rubio and Haley.
Yes, Game of Thorns is the name of the book. Nice catch.
Good to see you!
I too became a Trump friend on June 16, 2015......
It think it likely that the justification for the wiretap warrant was the pee-gate document—the document that was so obviously fake that it fell apart the moment it hit public scrutiny (because, if they had anything else, it would be out by now).
If that’s the case, it raises questions about the judgement of the govt and the judge.
Of course, I believe that after they got turned down the first time, the govt went judge shopping till they found one that would issue the FISA warrant.
If Sessions was misled into recusing, then the finger should be pointing at Rinsed Penis. Chief of Staff is the only guy in the White House that could convey that message to the Attorney General.
He deliberately waited until every @sshole in the leadership of the Democrat Party had made fools of themselves calling for Sessions to resign over his contacts with Russian officials ...
He has essentially yanked the rug out from under the RATs, the RATagandists and their FAKE-news Russian-hack narrative.
I wonder if members of the general public will notice the disappearance of this story from the news-cycle.
We agree. I said, Sessions was scheduled to meet with Trump, who would have talked him out of recusing.
Which could be because of leaks.
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