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It's always projection.

All this shit accusing Florida votes of being doctored is not funny or futile. It's laying the groundwork for what they plan to do in the future.

 

Funny how when the reporter is "stupid" they are usually black, isn't it?

 

I doubt it will. President is abroad. A traditionalist like Mueller would take that into account, I think. Then again, the Wall St. Journal didn't.

 

I wouldn't want to guess one way or the other. Mueller is playing a long game. He could go ahead and drop indictments of Roger Stone and Don, Jr. just to send Trump flying around unhinged, or he may just keep his head down and keep working. He's had over a year to build his contingency plans. He laid off for two months before the midterms so that he did not step in it the way Comey did. He's not likely to move on Trump himself when he is out of the country, but there is no reason to hold back on others.

Trump holding another news conference where he flips out on TV while in another country would tend to undermine him, I think.

 

I found this letter interesting and entertaining. The Dems holding the House and actually investigating is going to be fun. I can't wait for the various testimonies that the House Intel and Judiciary refused to release other than a few cherry picked quotes are released in their entirety.

https://www.politico.com/f/?id=00000166-64ff-d3f0-a1f7-efffe3e40001

Letter from October to Goodlatte in his role as Chairman of the House Judiciary Commitee from Glenn Simpson's counsel, notifying him that Simpson will not testify before the committee, taking the Fifth instead.

"This Committee’s inquiry is not designed to discover the truth. The obvious – and at times explicitly stated – goal of this Committee is to discredit and otherwise damage witnesses to Russia’s interference in the 2016 election, all as part of an effort to protect a President who has sought to placate and curry favor with a hostile foreign power and who demands that the Justice Department stop investigating him. Through its investigation, the Committee has abdicated and indeed perverted its constitutional and traditional role. Rather than probe White House interference with Department of Justice investigations, this Committee has instead trained its sights on the refusal of the Department of Justice to comply with the President’s demands. Such “oversight” reverses longstanding policy, under which Department of Justice investigations are supposed to be free from the political influence of the White House.

Indeed, this “norm and practice” of prosecutorial independence was “sufficiently entrenched by 1973 for Attorney General Elliot Richardson and his deputy, William Ruckelshaus, to resign rather than follow President Richard Nixon’s order to fire the Watergate special prosecutor".

To help weaken the independence of this Justice Department, the Committee has sought to ruin the reputations of some of the government’s most dedicated and experienced civil servants, and, in some instances, has deprived our country of their able assistance in the increasingly urgent fight against foreign interference with our democracy. For example, this Committee has sought to depict the relationship between Christopher Steele and Bruce Ohr – one of the UK’s top experts on Russia and one of the Justice Department’s leading experts on Russian organized crime – as somehow scandalous, when we should all want these two experts to share information in order to make us safer. No American should be required to participate in efforts to malign and
falsely implicate dedicated national security professionals who have served their countries for decades with distinction.

Additionally, this Committee has attempted to prejudge and incriminate our client and his associates by arguing that it is improper for a campaign contractor to report a crime to law enforcement – no matter how egregious the crime, no matter how well qualified the person evaluating the facts, and no matter how potentially harmful that crime might be to the integrity of our political system"

 

Better yet many of the hearings will be public. We will get to see these snakes lie, take the fifth or exert executive privledge and then watch Pig Vomit meltdown.

 

Mueller is doing the classic "stick the guy in the interview room and let him stew for a couple of hours" thing. Figure the next thing is to enter the room and drop a bunch of paper on the table. "Do you know this person? Well, they say they know you and they had a lot of things to say."

 

I think “why are you calling it an invasion?” Is perfectly fine. He answers and you move on.

The media in that room isn’t even remotely interested in Trump talking long enough to commit an egregious fuck up. They’re busy playing prosecutor. It’s not good journalism folks. It’s “accountability theater” and little more.

 

Yeah and his base will love it.

 

What Mueller is likely preparing now is a briefing on the investigation for Whitaker. I wonder if it'll begin with the words, "here's your file, Mr. Attorney General. You should read it."