gcomeau wrote:Rumors swirling Trump may make a move against the FBI soon, possibly today. If he does things will escalate fast... there is no way to avoid a crisis situation if he tries to directly derail the FBI investigation against him.
And it's pretty clear what the move is. He has spent the entire week actively trying to discredit the entire Federal Bureau of Investigation. His allies in Congress have been going on unhinged rants against the entire agency. The demand for a second Special Prosecutor to investigate the investigation of the first Special Prosecutor is so absurd it is cartoonish. And all based on the scandalous revelation that an FBI agent who hadn't even been working on the investigation for months now had.... wait for it.... PERSONAL OPINIONS that Trump was a moron.
Which is, you know, allowed... considering we don't require FBI agents to be deaf and dumb. And not surprising.
They have spent all week desperately trying to whip up public sentiment that Mueller cannot be trusted to run his investigation properly.
MUELLER.
The guy they all praised as the choice above all possible reproach when he was appointed. This guy:
* Republican
* Vietnam Vet
* Marine
* Bronze Star and Purple Heart holder
* George W Bush appointed FBI Director (confirmed by the Senate in a unanimous vote)
* Appointed by the Republican Deputy AG Rosenstein to Special Prosecutor to bipartisan acclaim
...is being attacked by the draft dodging serial lying con man in the White House as being some kind of Democratic stooge conducting a partisan political witch hunt and we're supposed to believe one of them. (A partisan "witch hunt" that has already caught four actual witches!)
Hmmm. Tough choice on which side to trust here. Yep.
This is ridiculously, obviously an attempt to deliberately undermine public trust in the FBI and Mueller so Trump can try and fire more people to kill the investigation. The question is if the rest of the GOP has become so lost to the rot that allowed Trump to gain power in the first place that they will let it happen.
About a year ago, people on this board defending the Trump election were pretty full of big words about how we didn't have anything to worry about because even if Trump wanted to go full authoritarian like so many of the people he reveres as "strong leaders" like Putin, Duterte, etc... the nation's system of checks and balances would prevent him from getting away from it.
He is actively assaulting the pillars of those checks and balances.