“Discussion: Senate GOP Want Trump To Tap New AG To Quell Furor Over Mueller Probe”
Trump thought no one was watching ,when he tried to pull this one off.
And how exactly is a new AG going to change the fact that Sessions is only gone because he refused to interfere with the probe in the first place? Moving past it is just providing more cover for what should’ve been the end of his presidency.
Barr didn’t refuse the position, but suggested they look at other alternatives.
That’s what I always do when I’m not turning down an invitation.
Trump will nominate someone with a clean criminal and ethical record. Having at least a nominally prestigious legal CV. And a pronounced philosophy favoring Executive power, paired with a known animus towards Special Counsels, and Robert Mueller specifically.
And the Senate will confirm him/her, after the requisite appropriate number of Senators soberly intone they’re casting an “Aye” with great reservations, and a few “We have our eyes on you, buddy, stay in your lane…” tossed in for effect.
Well, yes. That’s what this Republican Senate does.
I wonder what bottom-of-the-barrel Bushie they’ll find to throw into the maw of the Orange Moloch? They’re as aware as everyone else that ETTD. Probably don’t want to sacrifice someone with a future.
Interesting. They’re viewing with thoughtful expressions the carnage over in the other chamber, and mulling the scenarios, and this is that they decide. Triage, you save the ones you can, and wheel the ones whose fate is sadly certain out into the hall. Oh well Two Scoops, it was fun while it lasted, but they’ve decided and they’d rather save themselves than go down with you. I kind of thought they might, at some point. Most people do.
Can we kick the can further?
Senator Cronyn: Did you miss the election last week? You know, the one where Beto kicked ass?
Do you not see your future? You need to my more aggressive or we will show you the door in two years.
The times they are a’changin’
Trump’s lawyers have reportedly contacted President George H.W. Bush alum Bill Barr about the job, sources familiar with the conversation told Politico. Barr didn’t refuse the position, but suggested they look at other alternatives.
That sounds like a refusal to me. But after the way Trump treated Sessions, WTF would want the job? What any nominee will need to say in order to be confirmed will inevitably anger Trump. Even numskull Matt Whitaker is already having second thoughts .
No one Trump taps is going to quell the concearns over interference in the Meuller probe, because a willingness to interfere in the Mueller probe is one of the things Trump is looking for in a candidate.
GOP Want Trump to Tap New AG
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Our media have to come to terms with the fact that Trump committed obstruction of justice in the harassment and firing of Sessions, and it should be enough to topple him on its own. I know our incoming Dems are not letting it slide, but the media and the GOP (minus Flake) are letting it slide.
At least the GOP is acknowledging that it’s a festering problem. The media act like it’s just another cocktail party in Trumpland.
Chuck Todd would bail us out, but he’s busy writing bad Yelp reviews against his hair stylist.
I’m going to disagree with Flake. When has Flake voted against Trump?
With respect for your insight and knowledge generally, but I have a couple of questions here. Let’s set aside the fact that the media are not a monolith. Without charts and graphs to show exactly what all “the media” have or have not done, I think it’s doubtful that the GOP has taken more public notice of the pattern of obstruction than the media have. The old-school electronic media tend not to have their own editorialists any more, but the new ones like Maddow very much do. They’ve been pretty vocal about it. The print folks in general I would say very much have as well. They’ve accommodated themselves to the fact that the way to remove a lawbreaking president is impeachment, and that’s a political process, and at the moment the GOP won’t hold him to account. We’ve all accommodated to that, until the recent election. So what would you have them do, that they haven’t done? Screech all day and night, month in and month out? They reported on all of it, they continue to do so, and the people with power to act do nothing. So what’s next, what’s left undone? This seems like an argument by assertion if you can’t say something more could have been done and wasn’t.
Senate GOP doesn’t care since Whittaker has had time to download the entire Mueller investigation and hand it over to Trump and Putin for maximal deconstruction.
I don’t read the local paper. Yesterday’s news today! Anyway, I do see it face up on various surfaces. The gym, a car lube shop, a coworkers desk. I don’t recall, after a notable and particularly pronounced incident of Trump telling a whopper about an important event, the headline above the fold addressing the story saying “Trump Blatantly Lies Again!”
What’s left for the local print and broadcast news to do? Well, how about for starters labeling blatant lies as blatant lies?
I think this “suggestion” is that the POTUS get on with a confirmable AG appt. is more like a “demand”, and a sign that dissent from major dudes like George Conway, Ted Olson, Neal Katyal, Lawrence Tribe, Norm Eisen and others is having an effect. That and the fact that the Dems flipped 37+ seats in the House a week or so ago. The GOP hears the footsteps, and this Whitaker affair is a just giant albatross for 2020.
Now whether Trump cares what the Senate GOP thinks is another story.
Hi Khyber.
Yesterday Trump made a comment on Twitter “The inner workings of the Mueller investigation are a total mess.”
I was wondering if you had any thoughts on what Mueller may have done to protect confidential information about the investigation or whether there’s anything he could have even done to prevent this. It appears to me one of the key benefits to appointing Whitaker is that he could leak what evidence they did have immediately to his boss to prepare a proper defense to discredit it. Yes, of course this is obstruction of justice but as we’ve seen, Trump doesn’t seem to care one whit about that.
It’s hard to imagine that Whitaker didn’t convene an appointment with Mueller immediately upon taking over Rosenstein’s duties to get an update of the investigation including all the evidence they currently had on Trump.
His twitter comment implies Whitaker has been doing exactly what Trump appointed him to do. Any thoughts on this?