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Related: About this forumWhite House 'not happy' with Trump lawyer Dowd's disastrous statement on dumping Mueller
https://www.rawstory.com/2018/03/slip-white-house-not-happy-trump-lawyer-dowds-disastrous-statement-dumping-mueller/
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White House 'not happy' with Trump lawyer Dowd's disastrous statement on dumping Mueller (Original Post)
DonViejo
Mar 2018
OP
It was a slip up all right because I think firing Mueller or doing something that stops the
cstanleytech
Mar 2018
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duforsure
(11,885 posts)1. He spilled the beans
a little early. dowds not that smart doing this.
Iliyah
(25,111 posts)2. He told the truth.
justhanginon
(3,290 posts)3. Too soon?
ffr
(22,670 posts)4. Conservatives see their best move as to slowly chip away at Mueller & DOJ
They might fear riots and chaos in the streets if Mueller is fired outright, which is probably why they are slowly chipping away at everything around his investigation.
Honeycombe8
(37,648 posts)5. Is this a 1-2-3 strategy to end Mueller's days in stages?
#1- Destroy McCabe, the only supporting witness for Comey. Get Sessions to do it.
#2 - Get rid of Sessions.
#3 - Get Sessions' replacement to fire Mueller? Or get him/her to strangle the investigation so that it no longer has teeth, and report back to the W.H. And issue reports like the House of Rep Intel Committee reports. And clamp down on Mueller's ability to investigate further.
????
cstanleytech
(26,291 posts)6. It was a slip up all right because I think firing Mueller or doing something that stops the
investigation is exactly what they intend to do they just did intended to publicly reveal it until after it was a done deal.