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http://www.thedailybeast.com/even-trumps-aides-blame-him-for-obstruction-probe-president-did-this-to-himself

 

Trump is his worse enemy. He doesn't understand the world of govt and his 'instincts' are totally off base. He reacts impulsively and makes it difficult for his staff to game plan etc. He is a one man show in an environment that requires team work - wtin the WH, with Congress, wt States, and foreign diplomats and leaders. Even if all of his policies were good and correct, he is the wrong personality to lead the implementation of those policies.

 

 

Trump reportedly floated the possibility of firing Mueller as a way to prod him toward exonerating the president and other Trump associatesparty to the investigation.The New York Timesreported on Tuesday that aides dissuaded him from doing so.

For Ali Soufan, a retired FBI counterterrorism agent, word that Trump is now a target of Mueller’s inquiry explains the trial balloon.

“No wonder President Trump and his surrogates are getting nervous. This explains their sudden attacks on Mueller and the threats to fire him,” Soufan told The Daily Beast.

White House officials are still insisting to the president that he should leave Mueller in his post. “We are all advising him not to [get rid of] Mueller. That has not changed,” one Trump aide told The Daily Beast. “It would be an absolute nuclear explosion if he did.”

Firing Mueller would also put the president in greater legal jeopardy than he already may be in, said former United States attorneyBarbara McQuade.

“If Trump were to fire Mueller and it could be shown that his purpose was to impede the investigation, it could be additional evidence of obstruction of justice,” McQuade, who was appointed by President Obama, told The Daily Beast.

 

Asked what the internal game plan should be, one senior Trump administration official replied, “Keep him away from Twitter, dear God, keep him away from Twitter.”

“The president did this to himself,” the official added.

That sentiment reflects a general internal frustration with Trump’s tendency to shoot from the hip in tweets and public statements that are rarely vetted by his legal team and often undercut White House messaging on major issues.

A second senior administration official pointed to Trump’s role in propagating the rumor that he might fire Mueller—according to the Times, he felt the prospect of being sacked might convince Mueller to resolve the investigation in Trump’s favor—and suggested that the leak to the Poston Wednesday might have been an unintended consequence of that move.

“Whoever leaked [news of the obstruction investigation] was obviously reading that he was thinking about giving Mueller the boot,” the official said. Trump “shot himself in the foot again with this cockamamie scheme to get Mueller to play ball.”

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according to the Times, he felt the prospect of being sacked might convince Mueller to resolve the investigation in Trump’s favor...

 

Trump “shot himself in the foot again with this cockamamie scheme to get Mueller to play ball.”

The ones who don't bend to his will are the ones we hear about. This absurdly antidemocratic, Putin-esque behavior should be hugely disqualifying.

 

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For the love of God someone record this stuff. It's not hard.

Hopefully there are republicans that are collecting data like this, waiting for the right opportunity to be rid of trump and put Pence in that seat. I'm not sure what they are waiting for, though.

 

Not that I am a Pence fan, but the crazy train has to end at some point

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For the love of God someone record this stuff. It's not hard.

Hopefully there are republicans that are collecting data like this, waiting for the right opportunity to be rid of trump and put Pence in that seat. I'm not sure what they are waiting for, though.

 

Not that I am a Pence fan, but the crazy train has to end at some point

 

I'm in agreement. I know there are many who don't like Pence's policies but at least he will act in a more measured and sane way. He understands what it takes to get things done in DC - you have to work wt Congress and not treat it and everyone else as servants.

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Pence will be better in some ways and worse than others.

 

He will be better in that he'll be less likely start a war and would halt the deterioration of our relationships with our allies.

 

He will he worse in that he'd be more capable of passing Republican policies.

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That would be shocking. More shocking to me than a scenario where we all somehow end up okay with everything. Which I hope we can avoid.

 

I mean, it seems like he's not clean in the Flynn stuff. It's just a question if you can prove it.

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Pence will be better in some ways and worse than others.

 

He will be better in that he'll be less likely start a war and would halt the deterioration of our relationships with our allies.

 

He will he worse in that he'd be more capable of passing Republican policies.

 

Choosing the lesser of two evils seems to have been a theme for the past year. I wonder if there are any non-evil candidates that the corporate-sponsored system would allow us to vote for?

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I still think that Pence will be gone too.

That would be a shocker big time. And you base it on :dunno

 

Just gut feeling. If the campaign was colluding with Russia, I don't see how he could have not known.

 

It's a little bit like I know a lady who embezzled a bunch of money from her work over several years. She went to prison and her husband claimed he didn't know she was doing it. Meh.....that's hard to believe.

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I still think that Pence will be gone too.

That would be a shocker big time. And you base it on :dunno

 

Just gut feeling. If the campaign was colluding with Russia, I don't see how he could have not known.

 

It's a little bit like I know a lady who embezzled a bunch of money from her work over several years. She went to prison and her husband claimed he didn't know she was doing it. Meh.....that's hard to believe.

 

She was very good at stretching their dollar!!

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I still think that Pence will be gone too.

I think like you think. And I think Mike's starting to gear up for something ...

 

 

I'm not Pence fan, but getting counsel is just smart for everyone involved. If Trump ends up resigning/removed, then Pence will have a cloud over him unless he's also investigated and shown to have little to nothing to do with the acts or the cover up.
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