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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsTrump Has Resumed That Whole Melting Down Over the Russia Investigation Thing
Its been a while since Trump has railed against the Mueller investigation like we saw Thursday morning. The inner workings of the Mueller investigation are a total mess, the president tweeted 15 minutes after touting how smoothly the White House is running. They have found no collusion and have gone absolutely nuts. They are screaming and shouting at people, horribly threatening them to come up with the answers they want. They are a disgrace to our nation and dont
*deep breath*
care how many lives they ruin. These are Angry People, including the highly conflicted Bob Mueller, who worked for Obama for 8 years. They wont even look at all of the bad acts and crimes on the other side. A TOTAL WITCH HUNT LIKE NO OTHER IN AMERICAN HISTORY!
Link to tweet
Link to tweet
Theres no public evidence that Muellers team has been screaming and shouting at each other. The claim could be another indication that, post-election, Trump is no longer just exaggerating, inflating or distorting reality, but totally fabricating events he believes prove whatever half-baked point he is trying to make. On Wednesday, he claimed to the Daily Caller again, without evidence that people were voting, going into their cars to put on a different hat and going back into the polls to vote again. They mixed the votes up and now you cant find the ones that were put in, he said nonsensically of the situation in Florida. They just put them into a batch.
Provably false is Trumps claim that Robert Mueller worked for Obama for 8 years. A lifelong Republican appointed by George W. Bush, Mueller led the FBI from 2001 to 2013. Obama took office in 2009. After serving under Obama for four, not eight, years, he was replaced by James Comey, whom Trump fired in May 2017, ostensibly because he refused to quash the FBIs investigation into the Trump campaigns ties to Russia. The day after last Tuesdays midterm elections, Trump fired yet another top Justice Department official, Attorney General Jeff Sessions, for their inability to protect Trump from the investigation. To fill the vacancy at the top of the DOJ, Trump tapped Sessions chief of staff, Matthew Whitaker, a former attorney with a reportedly Trumpian penchant for grifting and a long history of bashing the Russia investigation. When Trump was asked last week by CNNs Abby Phillips if he wanted Whitaker to rein in Mueller, the president exploded. What a stupid question that is. What a stupid question, he said. But I watch you a lot. You ask a lot of stupid questions!
Trumps outburst Thursday morning could indicate Whitaker has clued him into some concerning piece of information regarding the investigation, and possibly provided insight into its inner workings. Either that or someone was ranting about it on Fox News. Regardless, its been months since hes strung together so many panicked tweets about Mueller and his team. A few hours after writing that the investigation is A TOTAL WITCH HUNT LIKE NO OTHER IN AMERICAN HISTORY, he doubled down on the posterity angle, suggesting that universities will someday study what Mueller and his gang of Democrat thugs have done to destroy people.
Link to tweet
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/trump-russia-mueller-whitaker-756712/
C_U_L8R
(45,021 posts)Trump is screwed.
wiggs
(7,819 posts)to issue new indictments this week, or unseal olds ones....BUT, doesn't he have to clear this with Whitaker now instead of Rosenstein? What if Mueller proposes indictments and the acting AG says no? Would we even find out about those? Should someone ask Whitaker? Could Mueller's office release information about denied indictments...not the details, just the facts about denials? Or about reports he files with the AG that don't see the light of day?
UniteFightBack
(8,231 posts)are looking at crimes on their/his side..is that right donnie.
Just like when Trump says nothing happened besides Obama didn't stop it. Now how can you stop something that never happened?
If you get a chance read the Moscow Project. 80 + documented contacts 'tween Trump's campaign and Russia and the one thing they all have in common is that "they" lied about or tried to cover up every one.
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)after Whitaker's appointment they're working for 3 days on answering the very limited written questions they've agreed to.
Apparently Trump's grossly exaggerated description of what happens in interviews when they believe people are lying is close enough to the real thing that experts are wondering if Whitaker might have provided records.
The Blue Flower
(5,446 posts)...demanding the answers they want.
KPN
(15,662 posts)indeed study what is now being done to destroy people who actually need to be destroyed in order to save our democracy and basically (hopefully) all of mankind.