Heh, my mother is organizing a protest immediately after Bob Mueller is fired as Special Council, because we know it's a matter of when, not if. Terrible, self-defeating decision? Trump'll do it.
Senator Jefferson Beauregard Sessions III, a Southern gentleman, was in with Trump from the beginning of the campaign, largely because Trump had the same opinions on illegal immigration and Obama being terrible. He was one of the very first establishment Republicans to support Trump, and his loyalty was well rewarded. What Trump didn't know is that Sessions has a greater loyalty to the law than to him (especially if it's a Jim Crow law, but anyway).
This is what happens when Trump is caught in a catch-22. I think it's pretty clear he's committed some felony, whether it be obstruction of justice or fraud or theft or money laundering. Maybe he shot a guy on Fifth Avenue. It doesn't really matter, because they're all acting like they have something to hide. And he came into the presidency thinking that if he had his guy in, they'd never be able to investigate him against his orders, because he's the alpha dog. Which is not how it works at all, of course. If you're in Russia sure, no one investigates Putin, because he's too busy topless horseback riding to commit crimes, obviously.
They've played the game of trying to spin cover stories, except that it gets proven false in two days, so they need another story, and then another. So whatever it is, they weren't smart enough to keep it under wraps against the FBI and Special Council. They've floated trial balloons about self-pardons, as if that wasn't an admission of guilt. Note that the Constitution says pardons don't apply "in cases of impeachment", which means that the founders knew that some asshole would try this eventually. Nor would pardons stop the investigation, because it has national security implications.
Given that Sessions recused, there's no way to have a cover story for the "ordering investigations into me stopped". If he fires Sessions, Congress passes an independent council statute to restart the investigation. So the only approach Trump has left is to try to get the guy to leave of his own accord. Abuse the guy, and get him to quit. Sessions is not that dumb.
So we're on to plan G, which is to rally the base with a transgender military thing from left field and telling Boy Scouts™ how terrible immigrants are, and then to fire Sessions in August and fill the seat with a recess appointment. To which Democrats are already getting wise, and are talking about cancelling summer break. So now both parties are talking about giving up the August Recess, for different reasons. That only leaves the Saturday Night Massacre approach, and we've already seen that leads to resignation.
And Trump, for all that he's displaying early signs of dementia, does not have it in him to resign. I feel like he's still trying to live up to his father's image that a man has to be a "killer". He could never lose face in such a way as to quit being President after promising it would be "so easy". Eventually he's going to come to terms with his failure, because eventually, reality always wins. I'm starting to think we may see the first presidential suicide. I mean, why not? He's a coward and seems to do everything else wrong, so why not this?
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Senator Jefferson Beauregard Sessions III, a Southern gentleman, was in with Trump from the beginning of the campaign, largely because Trump had the same opinions on illegal immigration and Obama being terrible. He was one of the very first establishment Republicans to support Trump, and his loyalty was well rewarded. What Trump didn't know is that Sessions has a greater loyalty to the law than to him (especially if it's a Jim Crow law, but anyway).
This is what happens when Trump is caught in a catch-22. I think it's pretty clear he's committed some felony, whether it be obstruction of justice or fraud or theft or money laundering. Maybe he shot a guy on Fifth Avenue. It doesn't really matter, because they're all acting like they have something to hide. And he came into the presidency thinking that if he had his guy in, they'd never be able to investigate him against his orders, because he's the alpha dog. Which is not how it works at all, of course. If you're in Russia sure, no one investigates Putin, because he's too busy topless horseback riding to commit crimes, obviously.
They've played the game of trying to spin cover stories, except that it gets proven false in two days, so they need another story, and then another. So whatever it is, they weren't smart enough to keep it under wraps against the FBI and Special Council. They've floated trial balloons about self-pardons, as if that wasn't an admission of guilt. Note that the Constitution says pardons don't apply "in cases of impeachment", which means that the founders knew that some asshole would try this eventually. Nor would pardons stop the investigation, because it has national security implications.
Given that Sessions recused, there's no way to have a cover story for the "ordering investigations into me stopped". If he fires Sessions, Congress passes an independent council statute to restart the investigation. So the only approach Trump has left is to try to get the guy to leave of his own accord. Abuse the guy, and get him to quit. Sessions is not that dumb.
So we're on to plan G, which is to rally the base with a transgender military thing from left field and telling Boy Scouts™ how terrible immigrants are, and then to fire Sessions in August and fill the seat with a recess appointment. To which Democrats are already getting wise, and are talking about cancelling summer break. So now both parties are talking about giving up the August Recess, for different reasons. That only leaves the Saturday Night Massacre approach, and we've already seen that leads to resignation.
And Trump, for all that he's displaying early signs of dementia, does not have it in him to resign. I feel like he's still trying to live up to his father's image that a man has to be a "killer". He could never lose face in such a way as to quit being President after promising it would be "so easy". Eventually he's going to come to terms with his failure, because eventually, reality always wins. I'm starting to think we may see the first presidential suicide. I mean, why not? He's a coward and seems to do everything else wrong, so why not this?
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