This is not what I wanted to read this morning.
I’ll believe this when Trump tweets it.
Not yet…
“Not currently a target” = “will be a target soon enough.”
Mueller is going to finish the job.
Counting on Mueller to end Trump’s Presidency is wishful thinking. It could happen, and it might happen; but counting on it happening is not a strategy for winning back Congress this fall.
nice work laying out the Mueller tactics by Ale:
easier read here: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/981321977154670592.html
ETA: and yes, no blue wave and we’re phucked. Must. Win. Seats. Many. Seats.
And that’s precisely right. He isn’t going to call the President of the United States a criminal target until he has EVERYTHING locked down on a conviction.
The two important parts are that A) he DID confirm that Trump is a target and B) he is playing a semantics game in an attempt to lure Trump into a sit down interview. He also confirmed that they are investigating obstruction of justice…a charge(s) that will land squarely upon Trump once said report is completed.
also, by throwing it out there that they’re investigating obstruction AND that dotard is a subject of the investigation, firing Mueller would be (hopefully) so far out of bounds that even the R’s would have to grudgingly do something/find their spines.
I guess it’s gonna a rough few months for Honduran refugees while Trump takes out his rage on easy targets.
He might not be a criminal target yet, but he should be the target of every Democrat. Get him out of the presidency as soon as possible. Otherwise we won’t have a country worth having.
I have been thinking the same thing for a while. Mueller could catch Trump with a dead little girl or a live boy in the Lincoln bedroom, and neither would move the Republican congress to do a thing. Nothing happens to Trump until and unless the American people send the Republicans in Congress packing.
Don’t kid yourself.
Trump is the bullseye in this game. Big points for the 1 shot that takes him down.
I target him every time I P lol
And a filthy politician.
Remember way back when that Trump insisted Comey had privately told him three times he wasn’t under investigation. Comey later confirmed this in testimony. However, Comey also made clear the reason he didn’t state this publicly as Trump wanted was because of the likelihood of that changing–which of course it did. So Trump’s current status could also transition from subject of the obstruction investigation to target of the obstruction investigation. It would be consistent with Mueller’s approach which has been by all appearances very methodical.
Well, get him under oath and see if he commits perjury of his own volition which is highly likely, OK Mueller?
But ,Mr Mueller, if you give trump a clean bill of health I will get … well, lets say I won’t be happy.
Well, I’m still stewing since I read this last night. My Irish quick temper got the better of me last night I must admit.
trump belongs in jail for obvious bald faced obstruction for the firing of Comey. How more obvious does it have to be??? I thought that then and I believe it now.
I’ve read some legal analysts saying that Mueller can’t actually indict a sitting president, so that this really is a semantic game on his part. The report he issues will make a recommendation to Rosenstein, who would then have to (a) decide whether to pursue an indictment, and (b) give a full briefing to Congress and the Senate. All this has to happen in public view, so that the Republicans can’t just choose to bury the report.
Remember this:
It is common for subjects of investigation to be subpoenaed if they don’t willingly sit for an interview.
It is highly unusual for a target of investigation to be subpoenaed.
Mueller is laying a trap for Trump—quite successfully—and it will take a miracle from Dog for Trump to evade that trap.
And Dog hates Trump.
Well I guess it depends if that, the obstruction of justice charge, is the only thing you want brought against Trump. For me the goal would be to uncover and expose the criminal enterprise which is Trump Co. and to gather all those who used Trump to get us to where we are now.
I don’t think that’s over reaching because we need to expose the corruption, disinfect the processes, and by G-d get people to the polls.