Opened for Atomic Rooster in Detroit, '72.
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The classic never get old…
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Very much so, but it does make sense if Rosenstein’s goal is to placate the fool until the investigation is complete.
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I hope you mean Spanky. I’m thinking this is pretty smart of Rosenstein.
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He’s briefing the President and investigating Trump. Fine line he has to walk here, but seems to me he’s doing it.
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This sounds very believable! But I am confused, usually bland and obvious bullshit like this is spoon-fed to Maggie Haberman.
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While President Swamp keeps trying to work the ref, the cagey, savvy ref is very clearly working him.
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Or a new Papa John’s pizza offering?
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That’s my impression as well. He’s in an incredibly unique situation in which he’s investigating the guy who could end the investigation. And that guy happens to be a narcissistic, sociopathic, imbecilic, drama queen with a host of mental health issues. It’s a delicate dance.
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It’s the fact that Trump, like all people with NPD, is so easy to manipulate that always makes Trump so uniquely disasterous.
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Wait until Connecticut finds out they’re now a satellite of the Eastern Bloc. Trump is just waiting until after the midterms to break it to them.
Trump can’t have just a good relationship or rapport with anyone - it has to be “fantastic”. How this shtick has gotten this man to the presidency is something I will never grasp. I have to assume there is some sort of subliminal charisma occurring in person that is totally invisible at a distance. I thought he was an insufferable and boorish egomaniac the first time I ever heard him speak decades ago and my opinion has never wavered.
I guess almost 2 years later I am still in shock.
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That the mad turd king still thinks he’s smarter than professional lawmen and spies is what gives me hope.
Does Donnie just disagree when it’s not HIS idea? He loves Rosenstein because Meadows and Jordon don’t???
“Thank you for the kind words, Mr. President…but you’re still under investigation.”
This is really bad, obvious cover for obstruction. “I can’t be obstructing! I said we get along great!!”
It looks like Trump is schmoozing for points and influence brokering at the same time. Maybe he thinks he can get a little extra grease by playing nice with the DAG, and coming to “an understanding”…
By pushing back on the “impeachment” nonsense, sidling up to Rosenstein like a caring big brother, establishing trust, letting him feel relaxed and able to speak his mind in safety, maybe stumble across a little dirt on the side…
Oh wait. Maybe that’s actually Rosenstein’s play.
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One word: Sting…
If there’s enough evidence to justify it, I think even a sitting President could be ‘set up’ using one…
If Trump feeds Rosenstein misinformation? It could qualify as obstruction. A slip of the lip? Conspiracy. Worse? Treason.
I find it exceedingly unlikely that Rosenstein is buttering up Trump to save his job. Rather, I think he’s doing his job… exceedingly well.
Simply imagine Rosenstein delivering incomplete documents, and Trump asks for missing parts (that he shouldn’t know anything about if he wasn’t complicit). Or Trump’s given purportedly ‘highly sensitive’ (but false) intel that would be immensely beneficial to our ‘enemies’, and see if it triggers a reaction on the Russian side. i.e. What’s really in that letter that Rand Paul is hand delivering to Putin? Will it trigger some telltale actions by the Russians?
We have no idea just how clever these law enforcement folks can be when they’re pursuing possible (and likely) high-level conspiracy and espionage involving a hostile foreign power.
No, Trump wants to paint a picture of jovial conviviality between them, but I’m 100% confident that Rosenstein is having nothing of it. It is definitely something else…
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Reply to tribalogical:
You’re right, it wouldn’t be that hard to manipulate the Trump and he isn’t surrounded by good advisors who could alert him.
I wonder if Rosenstein is recording every visit in a memo. I watched him take abuse from the fanatics lead by Jim Jordan. He stood up very well.
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Not even original.
All J. Edgar Rosenstein has had to do is read the master’s bios.
And there’s no doubt Rod’s highly competent at this sort of prep and planning - you don’t get as high up in the Harvard Law Review as he did by being poor at academic reading & analysis.
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