31 January 2018

Surreal

For unknown reasons, writer Howard Fineman and/or his editor(s) buried an explosive revelation seventeen paragraphs into a story (link here) about Donald Trump's State of the Union address last night. I quote verbatim:

"Trump is even talking to friends about the possibility of asking Attorney General Jeff Sessions to consider prosecuting Mueller and his team."

The strategy is then described: Trump wouldn't fire Mueller but he'd hopefully be too busy and distracted with his own defense to spend time on investigating the President.

This possible strategy is so bizarre and surreal that one is left wondering if Trump has lost his grip on reality. Apparently he doesn't realize that, while leading the criminal investigation into the President and his associates, he's only a small part of it. If Mueller is unavailable for any reason, then the investigation continues nonetheless with his many subordinates continuing to work on their aspects of the investigation.

Is Trump such a narcissist that he doesn't understand basic concepts of delegation and team work product? He thinks Manafort must be operating just like him, like some kind of imaginary princeling?

This also shows his fundamental ignorance of how American justice works. This isn't some banana republic -- people can't just be prosecuted on nonsensical fabricated charges. The law is constrained by concepts like probable cause and due process.

A man who doesn't understand legal basics is not a man who would feel bound by the rule of law. If this hairbrain scheme goes no further, Trump can't undo the damage this revelation has done.

3 comments:

  1. Anonymous03:25



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  2. The «45» State of the Union speech was such a big laugh and did show that the republicans are overwhelmed with their too narrow achievements in the past year.

    He is putting one against the other and is still lying on facts.
    The one our TV commentator in Canada pointed out is that it's not quite as easy to some immigrants to enter USA as much as «45» said. Even as a Canadian, it would be very hard to immigrate in USA.

    His obsession on his damn WALL is becoming so ridiculous: NO WALLS can stop drugs or bad people to come to USA. Drug dealers are already using airports and the ocean like in Florida to import their shit.
    Immigrants can always come in the same ways too.
    NO WALL can stop them. LOL!

    BTW, I saw and heard Joe Kennedy's speech and I was impressed. Not only is he a gorgeous ginger man but very intelligent and was speaking words of wisdom too.
    HE could be president for sure and put more «youth» and progressive ideas in the government that seems to be control by too many «oldies»...

    Trump is outdated and his way of thinking is from the 19th century not to mention his way to treat women, black and latinos and also LGBT.

    It's more than time you get that impeachment done.

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  3. Anonymous14:42

    This is an interesting (and stomach churning) article about Trump and the late Roy Cohn.
    https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2017/06/donald-trump-roy-cohn-relationship

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