President Trump spent a good chunk of his Wednesday evening ranting to his best friend Sean Hannity about how he could’ve fired special counsel Robert Mueller.
When asked about why he let White House counsel Don McGahn talk to Mueller for so many hours — McGahn’s testimony was one of the most damning for Trump claims of no obstruction — Trump said he wanted to “let everybody testify.”
“I wanted to be totally open because I knew there was nothing there. There was nothing there, nothing at all,” Trump said, before laughably claiming that he “never” talks about how he could’ve fired Mueller. He also defended former White House Communications Director Hope, who just provided closed-door testimony before the House Judiciary Committee Wednesday.
“I could’ve done anything I wanted, I never bring this up because we don’t even get there,” he said. “I could’ve fired Mueller for conflicts, I could’ve fired anybody, but I didn’t want to do it because they said let it play out, it’s a hoax. It’s a disgrace. And that they’re allowed to go forward with interviewing people, having people like Hope Hicks and others, having to pay for a new set of lawyers? They just went through it with the Mueller report. She was totally exonerated, she did nothing wrong.”
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“But I was magnamious……”
They just went through it with the Mueller report. She was totally exonerated, she did nothing wrong.
Didn’t the mango terror pronounce that “magnum I’m an ass?”
If there’s nothing there, why are you fighting every House subpoena in court? And why were there so many people indicted and convicted during the Mueller investigation with unknown numbers of cases still to come?
Democrats often have trouble seeing what’s right in front of their faces. The Mueller/Russia thing bothers Trump to no end. It throws him off message, causes multiple meltdowns and bad decisions. You can go back through the polling of the past 2 years and you’ll see that his poll numbers always dipped with big Mueller news and that it was a factor in framing the general negative view of his Presidency. That’s his weak spot. Exploit it. (incidentally, his numbers went up during the Mueller blackout period in the last few weeks before the 2018 midterm elections)
Right now, the defiance and obstruction of the Congressional investigations feeds his base. It fits into his image as a breaker of the system and a troller of liberals. It’s what his people voted for. However, if Pelosi declares an inquiry tomorrow, power shifts to her. She becomes the center of everything in DC. The political establishment, MSM, foreign gov’t’ and the business community will play to the Dems b/c they’ll sense Trump is done. Pelosi will grab all the attention. The effect on Trump will be devastating because she will be dominating him, and the glare of a woman w/a gavel doing that to him will be too much for his base to bear. They’ll see him as weak and that’s the beginning of the end for Trump.