Howard Fineman: Trump considering asking Sessions to prosecute Mueller...

[riversedge]

If anyone thinks donny has let up on Mueller, they are wrong.




Brian Krassenstein 🐬? @krassenstein

BREAKING: According to Howard Fineman, an NBCNews contributor and analyst for MSNBC, an unnamed Trump advisor stated that the President is considering asking Attorney General Sessions to prosecute Special Counsel Mueller!!

Sources Say this is Trump's way around firing Mueller.

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News analysis

WASHINGTON — Donald Trump is telling friends and aides in private that things are going great — for him.

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Sources say that Trump has adopted a two-track strategy to deal with the Mueller investigation.

One is an un-Trumpian passivity and trust. He keeps telling some in his circle that Mueller — any day now — will tell him he is off the hook for any charge of collusion with the Russians or obstruction of justice.

But Trump — who trusts no one, or at least no one for long — has now decided that he must have an alternative strategy that does not involve having Justice Department officials fire Mueller.

"I think he's been convinced that firing Mueller would not only create a firestorm, it would play right into Mueller's hands," said another friend, "because it would give Mueller the moral high ground."

Instead, as is now becoming plain, the Trump strategy is to discredit the investigation and the FBI without officially removing the leadership. Trump is even talking to friends about the possibility of asking Attorney General Jeff Sessions to consider prosecuting Mueller and his team.

"Here's how it would work: 'We're sorry, Mr. Mueller, you won't be able to run the federal grand jury today because he has to go testify to another federal grand jury,'" said one Trump adviser.

The president also thinks he has figured out how to deal with Congress. The Obamacare "repeal and replace" effort failed because he left the matter in the hands of Congress, only to find that the leaders there — especially Speaker Paul Ryan, R-Wis. — had no detailed plan and were too tied down politically to come up with one. .....................................

[dewsgirl]

1. For what reason? Does he even understand the word prosecute?

This will go over a lot better with the public. People will love it, things will calm right down.

[Anon-C]

2. WT actual F!

Nothing to see here, move along.

[chuckstevens]

3. Enough!

General Strike? Democrats shut down the government no matter what it takes do it?

Trump and the entire GOP need to feeling the growing wrath of 70% of this nation that have had ENOUGH!

[asiliveandbreathe]

4. Didn't sessions recuse from russia/dumpster??/ Didn't Rosenstein already, before the socalled

congressional Investigation say "I have not seen anything that Mueller has done, to warrant removing Mueller" -

[riversedge]

5. Correct on both counts.

[bigbrother05]

6. Literally will be Trumped up charges

this stuff just writes itself

[YessirAtsaFact]

7. So Trump is turning the DOJ into his secret police

I shouldn’t be surprised at the silence from the GOP but I am.

[CousinIT]

8. Rep Adam Schiff: 'When a defendant is guilty, they want to prosecute the prosecution'

Just saw the video. I think he was talking to Anderson Cooper.

[R B Garr]

9. Missing Al Franken now and how he handled Sessions.

This has really opened up new avenues for the Trump vendettas.

[Turn CO Blue]

10. Stuff like this puts me on the ceiling, but I wonder if Mueller reads this and starts LAUGHING

I mean, people at the very top of the mountain in their careers and in their skillsets (like Robert Mueller III) must get a nice little chuckle out of these knuckleheaded ideas.

[n2doc]

11. Drumpf just throws shit out there

To see if anything will stick. If not, it serves his purpose anyway, by keeping people's attention off of the looting and monkey wrenching of the US Government.

[spanone]

12. trump still thinks sessions is his lawyer