Palmer Report speculating that Hope Hicks was on Air Force One b/c Mueller signed off on it

[highplainsdem]

http://www.palmerreport.com/analysis/hope-hicks-air-force-one-trump/11779/

Early this year, it was reported that former Trump legal spokesman Mark Corallo was willing to testify to Special Counsel Robert Mueller that he heard Hope Hicks promising Donald Trump that she would suppress and/or destroy Donald Trump Jr’s emails about the Russia meeting in Trump Tower. Shortly after this surfaced, Trump’s allies on the House Intel Committee hauled in Hicks, in an apparent attempt at figuring out whether she was planning to flip on Trump. The next day, Hicks announced her resignation from the White House. She then disappeared… until now.

The key here is the timing. Just days ago, Mueller called Trump’s bluff on sitting down for an interview about the scandal. If Trump brought Hope Hicks onboard Air Force One today to try to get his story straight with hers before he testifies, then he committed felony witness tampering – and Mueller will charge him for it. Trump has repeatedly demonstrated that when it comes to committing these kinds of crimes, he can’t help himself, even as his attorneys advise him not to do it. Based on the timing, there’s also another realistic explanation.

This kind of “kingpin” interview between Donald Trump and Robert Mueller only happens once everyone else has been interviewed. It’s it’s entirely possible that Mueller is coordinating with Hope Hicks, and Trump doesn’t know it. For all we know, when he invited Hicks aboard Air Force One today to try to conspire with her, Mueller signed off on it, because it’ll give him first hand witness testimony about Trump’s witness tampering.

Keep in mind that if Mark Corallo’s reported claims about Hope Hicks prove to be true, it would mean she committed felony obstruction of justice. If Hicks is still playing for Team Trump, she’s going to prison for several years. However, if she’s playing for Team Mueller behind Trump’s back, she could potentially avoid prison altogether.

Judging by Twitter, Bill Palmer is far from the only person wondering about this...

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

1. I don't consider Palmer to be a particularly reliable source, but these days

anything, including this, is possible.

[empedocles]

2. Be nice to know

if Hicks gets called in again by Mueller.

[Hortensis]

14. Me either. Infowars thinks Hicks could replace Kelly

as chief of staff, which I'm choosing to take as confirmation.

[4139]

3. If Palmer Report said 'a whopper asteroid will NOT hit the earth today'....

... I would get really worried

Palmer Report is always wrong

[dawg day]

4. Is it witness tampering if there's no indictment?

At what point does "obstruction" start?
At what point is she a "witness", and what if he doesn't KNOW it?

There's also the chance that all he wanted to do was tamper with her in another aspect in his awkward buffoonish way. Melania did put out that statement about supporting LeBron right after her husband insulted him.

Boy, if I were Melania, I'd be just hoping he cheats again, to make an iron-tight case for the divorce. I'd be sending Hope nice little texts-- Go ahead! He's great! Well, no, but he's rich. Go for it, girl, and take pics so I can use them in the trial.

[donkeypoofed]

5. Palmer Report is right a large percentage of the time

I like the site because.it analyzes available news / information. And I think if his accuracy was actually analyzed, the numbers would prove his accuracy.

[bearsfootball516]

6. I usually love liberal websites, but Palmer report is garbage.

There's a media flowchart that gets posted around here fairly often that breaks down the accuracy and reporting trends of about a hundreds different news sources, and Palmer Report is one of the dead last in terms of accuracy on the liberal side.


EDIT: I found it. I wouldn't say it's 100 percent accurate, but it's pretty good.

[SWBTATTReg]

11. Neat, I hadn't seen this, thanks for posting! nt

[demmiblue]

7. The Palmer Report...

At least it isn't Mensch.

[lame54]

8. Maybe she's wired

[mythology]

9. Speculating, making things up, same thing in this case

The Palmer report is utter garbage that shouldn't be taken seriously.

[Dr Hobbitstein]

10. Complete list of times Bill Palmer has been right about things.

[Quixote1818]

12. Palmer is crap usually but I was wondering this myself. It's possible. nt

[Mr. Ected]

13. Is it a sin to publish speculation if you label it speculative to begin with?

Goodness gracious, if it stimulates conversation and conjecture among us, and isn't being packaged as fact, but rather opinion, do we have to bare our teeth and growl every time it finds itself on a GENERAL DISCUSSION forum?

[FBaggins]

16. One could speculate... but not in this case

Because the author didn't label it as speculation.

The original poster changed Palmer's actual title... which was: "The real reason Hope Hicks was aboard Air Force One today with Donald Trump"

So the more appropriate question in this case would be: "Is it a sin to publish speculation under the guise that it's actually factual?"

To which the answer, of course, is "yes".

[Mr. Ected]

17. Agreed.

I only read the edited title; didn't realize the original had been altered.

[coeur_de_lion]

15. Not a credible source but wouldn't that be nice?