Maybe Iām mistaken, but I think that both Ryan and McConnell have been much more circumspect in recent days. They need to get more pressure from reporters on their support of Trump.
Did DiFi release this statement just to show she knows what everyone else on the planet already knew?
If only a Republican had written thisā¦
After the Comey firing, I canāt imagine Trump attempting to
fire Mueller. Reason aside, the logistic make it impossible for me to get
there. Rosenstein has said he would refuse any firing order absent the
statutory requirement of āgood causeā so Trump would have to fire Rosenstein ā
who unlike Mueller serves at the pleasure of the POTUS. Then we
have the Saturday Night Massacre all over again until someone would be willing
to fire Mueller. And by the way, I donāt think that person exists
inside the DOJ. I donāt think even Sessions would do it ā and I believe
him capable of almost anything ā and the career people are just too serious.
The career people would all resign first.
For these reasons, I think itās far more likely Trump
simply pardons everyone under investigation. And I think this is the
advice he will get from the sycophants he has surrounded himself with.
The WH will issue a statement (and Trump will likely tweet
first) the investigation is a witch hunt that has paralyzed the function of
government, costing tens of millions and must be ended. The
President had no choice to restore order to the nation.
Then impeachment? Iām with Josh. I donāt see the
House ever impeaching Donald J. Trump.
My 2 cents.
I donāt think he will pardonānot early. Issuing pardons is an admission of guilt, and Trump would find that too damaging.
Expect āTrumpās Razorā to be fully operational. He could say or do just about anything. He could fire Rosie and Mueller just to show that he can and out of sheer spite. āPrudent Manā logic doesnāt apply here.
Trump is showing some nicks from cutting too close with the razor, donāt you think?
Next one might cut an artery.
Your comment reminded me of this gem from a Bush WH person from 2004?
"The aide said that guys like me were āin what we call the reality-based
community,ā which he defined as people who ābelieve that solutions
emerge from your judicious study of discernible reality.ā ā¦ āThatās
not the way the world really works anymore,ā he continued. āWeāre an
empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality. And while youāre
studying that realityājudiciously, as you willāweāll act again,
creating other new realities, which you can study too, and thatās how
things will sort out. Weāre historyās actorsā¦and you, all of you, will
be left to just study what we do.āā
The countdown to this possible end to our existence as a nation of laws started the day Ford pardoned Nixon.
Too distracted by legislating granny starving and child suffering. And the press does seem to give a crap about McConnellās secret squirrel gang of 12 machinations.
There are reports today that Rosenstein may have to recuse himself, and that Trumpās bizzaro Tweet attacking Rosenstein this morning has increased the odds that will have to happen. That would leave the number 3 person at DOJ in charge, Rachel Brand, who ā just coincidentally of course ā happens to be much more of a GOP loyalist.
So my take on this is that Trump is trying to maneuver Rosenstein out of the way without having to actually fire him. Then Brand could fire Mueller at a time of Trumpās choosing, either using some cooked-up āfor good causeā justification ā or, alternatively, eliminate the regulations that prevent the President from firing Mueller himself, without the need to show āgood cause.ā
Of course none of this would prevent the epic shit-storm that would follow a Mueller firing. But Trump may believe (and may be right) that he can still count on the party-before-country GOP Congress to protect his ass from impeachmentā¦at least through 2019.
Hereās a Hill article about the Trump probe and hereās another article about Michael Cohen getting ālawyered upā.
Everyone is listening to Kasoā¦ 
It would seem that Kasowitz telling everyone they donāt need a lawyer was all people needed to hear to run out and grab the best they could find as quickly as possible!
excuse me, Iām looking for a paper bag to fit my head (I forgot Cohen is Trumpās actual personal attorney), bb in a bit. uggh
No fair cutting eye-holes.
weird that.
Side-note: Caputo said this yesterday and now heās ālawyering upā as well.
Hereās a Caputo article from '16, because why notā¦bangs head on desk
The hubris of determinism.
invoking the Rucker rule