“Just more Fake News from a biased newspaper!”
Huh. This is truly BS considering how many “working class Whites” the NYT has interviewed since the election on how forgotten they are and how liberals need to understand them.
Neverminding the fact that tRump does not actually have the power to fire Mueller. He’d have to get Rosenstein to do it for him.
He’s literally saying he could have if he wanted to; he just didn’t want to. Sane people don’t say things like this.
Apparently, the Dotard isn’t enjoying all these stories of him having to be talked down off the ledge.
Bullshit.
Oh my, I could have swore he stole that line from a Pee Wee Herman movie !
Terrified of what’s coming and too cowardly to do anything about it.
His bone spurs may save us yet.
Well, with all the reflexive projection he’s also very close to literally having said I know you are but what am I. He’s so pathological that a parody of extreme childishness and immaturity is the closest fictional equivalent. And yet the Pee-Wee character is a better, saner, more effective human than he could be on his best day. Just pray we survive this.
Infantile.
‘‘If Putin wanted me to fire Mueller in December, I would have.’’
Trump admits what I’ve been observing for several months. Trump missed his window to fire Mueller and doesn’t believe he could politically survive it. He’s looking for ways to discredit the investigation, work the refs, and gain some control over scope by getting others to weigh in on his behalf. No one, not even Beauregard, will do that for him. No one wants to go to jail or damage their professional career to operationalize the bizarre rants of Trump into action.
Trump has no real power in Washington. I even doubt that Mattis would execute an order to undertake a military strike that he thought reckless. Trump couldn’t even get a nut like Pompeo to agree with him to get out of Syria and hand the whole place over to Russia and ISIS.
In a normal scenario, the GOP would look to self preservation and dump Trump and regroup with Pence. But these weak willed bums are too afraid of the GOP voter base which is drunk on Trump racist red meat. The Q poll indicated that Trump’s heavy focus on the border wall and a trade war with China (even though he’s actually backing off of both) is drawing the attention of his white male base. (Although I think that poll was off b/c it read more like a GOP push poll focused on Trump themes instead of things like health care, taxes, race relations, and Russia).
The GOP’s problem is that their base hates the Ryan agenda so they have nothing left except Trumpism or surrender. That’s why I expect retirements to increase.
But we face a real danger in America in that the Republican Party is fully a Trumpist party driven by nativism and nothing else.
Robert Mueller has certainly planned for that scenario. It would very much surprise me if he doesn’t have a number of “button down” responses that will be immediately triggered if tRump is stupid enough to fire him. There will likely be an immediate injunction from a Federal judge. There may be a number of indictments immediately unsealed. He may have stashed evidence for safe keeping. Then there is his staff, starting with Andrew Weissman, who may still be in place.
Mueller is a hell of a lot smarter than tRump, and has been getting threatened with firing from his first day. I can’t believe isn’t prepared for the eventuality.
No, you wouldn’t have fired him, you pu$$y. You don’t have the balls/guts to fire anybody, other than those morons in your other game show. And trying to fire Mueller or Rosenstein via tweet won’t cut it. Send Kelly to do that? Good luck with that, he’ll tell you to get bent.
Preznit Lying Littledick, theoretically the most powerful man in the world, and too chickenshit to fire people to their face.
That’s kind of a low bar, ain’t it? My cat is smarter than Shitgibbon.
Hell, I think it would be close re: whether my Pet Rock is smarter.
Sounds like something from Der Untergang.
Shorter Trump: Why Cant I fire Mueller? Shouldnt Obama fire him??? Someone please fire him. Please!!!
What’s next? “Nanny, nanny, boo-boo?” “I’m rubber, you’re glue?”
Jesus…change his diaper and put him in the gold-plated playpen with a blanket and his binkie, so the adults have some space to get some work done – maybe he’ll fall asleep.
Not quite: nativisim and back-in-the-day-ism. The former is dangerous and nutty, the latter simply impossible. As if chanting “make it how it was, make it how it was” will return us to the days of hand-dug Appalachian coal.
I believe he is planning to fire Mueller and do everything he can to squelch the investigation. My bases for this belief are (1) at this late date, he has not hired a truly experienced enough attorney to replace John Dowd’s role on the defense team (2) his ongoing resort to Joseph De Genova either as a potential attorney (kaboshed, not a flashy dresser, too old) or TV spokesperson (3) his recent intimacy with disgraced Harvard Law Professor and Eternal Self Promoter Allan Dershowitz, who has crossed completely over to Fascism after limiting his fascist pronouncements to zealous support of the most extreme elements of the Likud Party.