EVERYONE IS FREAKING OUT : Trump's West Wing Races to Contain Mueller Fallout

[workinclasszero]

“EVERYONE IS FREAKING OUT”: Trump's West Wing Races to Contain Mueller Fallout
The Trump-Russia “witch hunt” becomes suddenly, terrifyingly real.
BY ISOBEL THOMPSON OCTOBER 31, 2017 3:30 PM

Although the White House had been anticipating charges in Robert Mueller’s “witch hunt” for months, news that one former adviser, George Papadopoulos, had pleaded guilty, and begun working with the F.B.I., exploded like a bomb.

Rising before dawn and gluing himself to his television, Trump at first felt vindicated by the charges against Paul Manafort and Richard Gates, which were seemingly unconnected to Russia. “NO COLLUSION!” he tweeted triumphantly, after he spoke with his lawyers. Others were reportedly relieved that the first batch of indictments did not include Trump’s former national security advisor, Michael Flynn. (Manafort and Gates have pleaded not guilty.)

But the president’s mood darkened after hearing that Papadopoulos had, apparently, turned state’s witness. “The walls are closing in,” one senior Republican in close contact with top staffers told the Post, echoing other sources who described Trump as angry and agitated.

“Everyone is freaking out.” The New York Times reported that White House aides were “stunned and alarmed.”


https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2017/10/trump-west-wing-races-to-contain-mueller-fallout

[HAB911]

1. Trump is reportedly TERRIFIED

over the fact Don Jr might be next to be indicted in Mueller probe-he wants to fire Mueller more than anything

Link to tweet

[Scarsdale]

56. Princess Ivanka

was scheduled to go with daddy this weekend. Supposedly she cancelled "to help push through the wonderful tax cuts" Maybe "smart kid" Jared is on the list for this weekend???

[SummerSnow]

62. Why in the world would he be terrified over fake news?

[Pachamama]

2. They should save their freak out energy for what is coming....

I believe the George Papadopoulos turned state witness is just the tip of the iceberg of bad news that the Trump Administration will be getting....

[underpants]

5. Yeah. "By the end of the year "????

I don't think so.

[Pachamama]

11. I don't see where anyone said by end of the year....

...but based on the rate of motion that Mueller is moving, who knows....certainly by end of next year....

[underpants]

14. From the article

His legal team has urged the investigation to proceed swiftly so that it can be concluded by the end of the year.

Last night, Kelly declared on Fox News that an investigation was needed to probe funding from Clinton’s campaign and the DNC for the research behind the Trump/Russia dossier, and Clinton’s involvement in the Uranium One deal, adding that he thought Mueller’s investigation should “wrap up soon.”

[Pachamama]

15. Missed that....but who knows? Mueller may surprise us, but likely not in the way Kelly hopes...

They wish it will be "wrapped up soon"....

No - certain things will happen swiftly and unexpectedly - and then I hope its a painful long torture for them all...

[workinclasszero]

20. Kelly is full of shit

up to his slavery lovin eyebrows!

[orangecrush]

47. Kelly

Is full of shit

[underpants]

50. I feel a Fox spin being set up

You know Brian a lot of people thought this would already be wrapped up

Yeah Douchey that was what a lot of people expected

Blonde: (nods) they sure were

[L. Coyote]

17. By Thanksgiving, our national Turkey will be cooked.

I'm salivating over that play on words.

Link to tweet

My guess, Sessions is out by the end of the week. Keep in mind that Sessions was the head of the NATSEC committee of the Trump campaign, so it is his minion who wore the wire and turned on Trump. Sessions has a lot more to worry about than his perjury before Congress. Sessions was chairing the meeting where Papa reported on "Putin's niece" offering "dirt" on Hillary.

Link to tweet

[Bernardo de La Paz]

42. Sessions met the Russian ambassador at least twice outside of Senate duties & lied about it. . . nt

[L. Coyote]

53. And pence lied too. You have to wonder when his indictment drops. Before Trump's?

[Neema]

64. God, I hope he doesn't resign this year. Think of the damage Pence can do with a GOP controlled

congress for the next year. *shudder*

[workinclasszero]

7. I find it hard to believe that Manaford and Gates

are going to take a hard 20 year sentence or so in a federal pen to cover orange Hitler's ass as well.

They will be singing like songbirds soon I bet!

[Pachamama]

10. Depends on what they fear the most.....Trump....or Putin and the Russian Oligarchs and Russian Mafia

Robert Mueller and his team are going to need to make it clear that they should not think they are getting Pardons and that they are safer working with them and turning against Trump and Putin.....

I wouldn't want to be Manafort, Gates or any of them....they know they are all screwed....

I wouldn't want to owe money and have a "debt" to the Russian Mafia and its leader Vlad Putin and his posse of Oligarchs....

[workinclasszero]

23. Yeah those assholes are between a rock and a hard place

for sure.

[luvtheGWN]

27. They'd better demand Witness protection. We know

what happens to folks who have crossed Putin and his cronies. They die, mysteriously.....

[Pachamama]

63. +1000

Completely agree....

I can't honestly say that I think they deserve protection....

I think at least let them sweat a lot and panic for awhile every time they eat something or the door bell rings. And stay away from balconies and windows.

[NastyRiffraff]

45. If I were a WH staffer (the gods forbid!)

I'd be mentally reviewing all my contacts/conversations with Papadopoulos with the idea that he may have been wearing a wire. Depending on what I remembered, I may be very, very scared. And freaking out.

[uponit7771]

3. If they really didn't know about G Pop then they're scared shitless, good ... good

[Bluepinky]

4. Coffee boy is ready to spill the beans.

[lagomorph777]

8. Hee! Papa Georgie is the BIG news; Manafort was no surprise.

And how many more are secretly wearing wires???

[Dale Neiburg]

25. They can assume that more people are wearing wires.

With his announcement, Mueller blew GP's cover. He must have redundancy.

[lagomorph777]

28. Absolutely; he's gotten everything he needs from Papa George;

but many more are still in his employ.

The really entertaining part is the way this will crank up mutual suspicions among the already-backstabbing WH staff.

[workinclasszero]

9. He probably recorded volumes of dirt on the Dumpster fire administration before they knew

Mueller turned him.

Now all the FBI has to do is interview everybody in the White House. Ask them questions that they already have taped answers to and....

Let the RATS hang themselves!

[Kirk Lover]

58. It's looking like the best holiday season is lining up to be had in years.......!!!! N/t

[mucifer]

6. Can you imagine they have no idea who is wearing a wire and who to trust and if and when

they themselves might end up in prison.

[workinclasszero]

12. I bet they are.....

[sofa king]

59. ... and the FBI is ...

[NightWatcher]

13. Finally, he's coming to grips with the idea that Mueller knows everything crooked he and his admin

has done re: Russia and the election and any other crimes he and his people have committed.

He probably sees the anarchy that firing Mueller would cause and preferable to being arrested at any moment now...which he has to acknowledge could happen.

[workinclasszero]

16. When will Trump lose his nerve and break, then fire Mueller?

Is he discussing this right now with republican party big shots like Ryan and Turtle?

We know the base religious reich is good with it via that lawless bastard Pat Robinson. Surely he isn't the only one backing that.

[NightWatcher]

18. Apparently he fighting the urge right now, but Congress' focus is the tax cut

It looks like the tax reform might not make it. My guess is that once the tax cut fails, trump will go nuts and the GOP will let him bury himself and then try to salvage what they can after the new year.

I keep hearing that thanksgiving will be nuts. Some people are expecting a major Mueller move by then that will put trump in political danger.

[workinclasszero]

21. Must be the Koch's and Mercer's holding back Commander Bone Spur then

If Trump gets them what they want I bet they cut him loose to twist in the wind afterwards LOL

[L. Coyote]

19. EVERYONE IS FREAKING OUT: Trump's Scandals may jeopardize their TRILLIONS HEIST of the US Treasury!

Otherwise, they would cheer on President-to-be Pence. And, they want to loan that money back to the middle class with interest for the next 20 years.

Fight back with parody:

Trump Reacts to Mueller's Indictments --- the Hitler video --- LOL ---
https://www.captiongenerator.com/751912/Trump-Reacts-to-Muellers-Indictments
Description: MAGA. My Assistants Getting Arrested. ....

[workinclasszero]

29. Yeah the republican dream heist

Killing medicaid and medicare for the ultra rich Koch's and Mercer's...MF's!

[Nitram]

22. I'm not the first to point out how exquisite Mueller's timing was.

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Waited for the Trump tweet crowing that he had been vindicated, and then announced the Papadopoulos guilty plea.

[lagomorph777]

32. Damn what a thing of beauty.

Mueller is an anti-criminal mastermind.

[workinclasszero]

38. Mueller is playing

eleventy level 5D chess with a bunch of mouth breathing fox and friends IDIOTS who are crapping in their diapers right now!

[Tommy_Carcetti]

24. Song of the day:

[SummerSnow]

26. freaking out!!!!

[SummerSnow]

30. Where is Papadop? Is he in jail, or in protective custody?

[lagomorph777]

34. Witness protection program?

[SummerSnow]

61. Possible? Who knows what Trump and his deplorables might do to shut him up.

[AtheistCrusader]

31. They're scared because there's something there.

Nice. Very nice.

[IronLionZion]

33. Excellent, they should panic in a way that causes them to make mistakes

and get caught!

[lagomorph777]

35. I think they already have.

[IronLionZion]

37. Excellent! They need to keep slipping up, leaving evidence to find

[MyOwnPeace]

39. Funny about that "song"

it was recorded by "The Police!"

Oh, the irony!!!!

[IronLionZion]

41. Since Trump says blue lives matter

I really hope uniformed officers will arrest him and team. I want to see perp walks and mug shots and lots of angry tweets

[MyOwnPeace]

48. I can hear it now......

"Dead man walking - dead man walking!"

[workinclasszero]

65. LOL

It fits real good!

[Tommy_Carcetti]

67. In an episode of The Sopranos, they use an excellent mash-up of Every Breath You Take and....

....the Peter Gunn Theme while showing Tony being tailed by the Feds. I like to think that's what's going on right now with anyone associated with Trump.

[Turbineguy]

36. Why freak out?

When you do something illegal, there's always a chance you'll get caught.

[Hamlette]

54. Criminals always think they will get away with it.

always. Not to be too serious but that's why the death penalty is not a deterrent, no criminal ever considers the consequences because they don't think they will get caught.

[Nitram]

66. Especially stupid cdriminals. Who are actually more likely to be caught.

[Hamlette]

68. Yep

when I was a public defender I was thankful my clients were so stupid as some of them were awful people who deserved/had to be separated from the rest of us.


My favorite was my parents house was burgled. They called the cops and while the cops were there interviewing them, they get a call from another cop. The crooks had gone to another house and tried to drive up close to a window so they could just pass they loot out the window to their van and a wheel went into a window well so they called the cops to help them get out. The stuff they stole from my parents was in the van.

[Alwaysna]

40. Guns in desks

I wonder how many of our "honorable leaders" : keep a firearm in their desk with plans to off themselves if Mueller gets to close? If some choose that way out instead of prison I hope they don't fly the flag at half staff. Just my meandering mind.

[lagomorph777]

55. If Turd shoots himself I'll make my flagpole 50% higher.

And my other flagpole will make itself 50% higher.

[pandr32]

43. Good! Maybe more will co-operate with Meuller to save themselves.

[C Moon]

44. WTF? Everyone is freaking out? Why? If they KNOW Trump is guilty, then just walk away!

Traitors!

[JDC]

46. Traitors

[Saviolo]

49. Loyalty!

Trump famously requires loyalty of the people he will work with. He demands it. But he never shows any loyalty whatsoever to those beneath him. Anyone who hasn't noticed this is living under a rock. But I think it will end up biting him badly in the butt. Who's going to show loyalty to someone who would happily throw them under a bus to save himself a buck, never mind his skin?

They're going to start flipping so fast it'll be like a game of pogs over there.

[bigbrother05]

57. Suckie McHuckface will stick til the bitter end

[MFM008]

51. Rubs hands. ....

Good.......good.......

[MLAA]

52. Stunned and alarmed? How dumb is this staff to have not anticipated that at least one out of

the entire campaign and/or staff would squeal under pressure from Mueller and his band of 16 merry prosecutors?

[Loge23]

60. We must stand strong.

It appears that if this situation develops as we all want it to, this country will be thrown into near-anarchy.
Imagine: The Attorney General, the President, the Speaker of the House, the Vice President, members of the President's immediate family - all significantly under considerable legal jeopardy now - fall under indictments or just resign in anticipation of such.

This scenario may be very familiar to all of us on this site but it is not to most Americans who have a poor (and self-afflicted) understanding of the current crisis. I dare say that the tragic events in NYC yesterday cause most Americans more unnecessary paranoia than the unfolding events hinting at treason and espionage at our nation's highest level. The devils we know...

The upheaval to our sense of order in America surely has to be weighing heavily on Mr. Mueller and his team, despite their best efforts to address the serious crimes that are now slowly coming into focus.

Those of us who have carried the banner of resistance since last November must be strong and serve as the true voices of reason as this country begins one of the most significant reunification attempts in our history. We must do this publicly, privately, with friends, with co-workers, with neighbors, and with each other. We must then continue our work to insure proper processes for free elections are instituted and protected. Only then will this country heal.