I’m pretty sure Parscale is a front man, not a hired gun in the usual sense. The real actors are elsewhere and he’s a sort of straw figure who helps hide them.
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“I have zero concern that the President is going to fire Mueller. Zero,” Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) told reporters on Capitol Hill Monday, despite having introduced legislation that would prevent Trump from doing so.
OK, Lindsey says it can’t happen so now I am really worried. When was the last time this man was right about anything?
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Trump VIP…
I keep remembering but not finding an article about him from just after the election describing him as a one-man fundraising machine. He was described as this tech-genius with cutting edge tools for grassroots money gathering. He was arrogant and dismissive of the dems whom he thought of as missing the boat, entirely.
Now we know.
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Where is Trump in all of this? From 60 Minutes, after the election:
LESLEY STAHL: So how do you feel about what you did?
BRAD PARSCALE: I’m proud.
SCOTT PELLEY: And here is Donald Trump.
BRAD PARSCALE: He thanked me after the election, told me I did a great job, can’t ask for more. Well, and we had some-- tense moments during the campaign him and I, so.
LESLEY STAHL: Oh, tell me about that.
BRAD PARSCALE: I remember I was sittin’ on my computer. And he goes-- what are you working on? So show him some ads, he spends about 20 minutes with me.
BRAD PARSCALE: So he looks at the TV, and he says, “That is what I believe wins a campaign.”
LESLEY STAHL: TV?
BRAD PARSCALE: TV.
LESLEY STAHL: Not digital.
BRAD PARSCALE: So he starts layin’ into me about TV…and I don’t believe in this mumbo-jumbo digital stuff. And, you know, it’s incoming. And I, all I can say is, you know, "It’s gonna work. And Trump’s just laying into me. I was crushed actually. It was the first time he had ever, just-- I hadn’t even seen him yell at anyone, let alone me.
LESLEY STAHL: It took forever for Trump to buy it, to think it was a valid way to go about reaching people.
ANN SILVIO: But he came around.
LESLEY STAHL: Well, when he won, he came around.
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“Foolish actions” define Donald Trump. He embraces them.
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IF Trump does fire Mueller, then we will hear… “Who could have predicted this”?.. We should have acted before, but it’s too late now.
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Sadly, I believe that Alito and Roberts have already proven themselves to be partisan hacks… the jury is still out on Gorsuch
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You are right that he thinks that, but this misuse of the word is becoming common enough that it is edging into common usage and in some dictionaries is listed as the primary definition.
Once again I ask–What Kompromat does Putin have on RepubliKKKlan Senators and Congressmen?
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‘Trump will never…’ The rallying cry of the Republicans as they watch their country circle the drain…what a bunch of bullies and cowards.
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Pity his writers don’t.
Yes, I’m sure many of the GOPers would love for the Mueller investigation to just go away, and if trump fires Mueller, they’ll just shrug and babble as stupidly as they do right after a mass shooting.
There are more than a few who would be exposed if the investigation followed through on Russian influence in the 2016 election. Tons of rubles poured into GOP campaigns, assisted by Ryan, McConnell and the rest of the leadership. Better to mutter insincerely about caring, then just let trump take the blame for killing the whole thing.
His oligarchs poured millions into their campaigns. The compromised GOPers want to keep the cash flowing.
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Simple cost-benefit analysis. If you were them, which would you rather be trying to run through damage control:
“Oops, sorry, but gosh, now it’s too late. Welp, better luck next time with your politicized and biased investigations.”
OR
“Oops, sorry, I guess we’ve been running interference for a criminal and it makes our entire party look like a criminal operation to subvert our country’s election processes and undermine our democracy.”
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In January, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) said that there was no need for legislation to protect Mueller, because “there’s no effort underway to undermine or to remove the special counsel.”
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/975163071361683456
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/975350027169206273
Yup, no effort to undermine the special counsel there.
1st I’ve heard it used in a long time in any context so I wouldn’t have a clue that it’s becoming common.
Dictionaries used to be guided by what professional writers, not illiterate buffoons, use.
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Meanwhile at the white house
Blast from the past.
We know that the approval rate for Congress is below 20%, and that’s even lower than trumpp’s which is startling on the face it. So we understand they don’t mean a word they say in public. I think backstage they’re all sweating to one degree or another.
All this emphasis on “collusion” (re. Trump always and Grassley quote in this article) is all about raising the bar on this whole thing. It paints it as though the only thing that would matter is proving Trump and Putin personally agreed they had mutual interest in Putin’s helping Trump and to a specific quid-pro quo for that help.
Mueller can get indictments on all of them, right up to Trump himself, for aiding, abetting, not reporting, involvement with and in Russian interference/influence operations in the 2016 election, money laundering, false reporting, failure to report, perjury, lying to federal investigators, obstruction, conspiracy to obstruct, etc. But with the standard they’ve defined of “collusion”, they can “declare victory” saying “no collusion”.
Each time they say “no collusion” we collectively need to respond: so what–look at everything else.
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