Trump Is Reality TV, Mueller Is The Wire

[wufwugy]

Because he's an egomaniac unfamiliar enough with DC politics to believe that Mueller would dig into the facts, expediently find nothing, and exonerate him.


Because Mueller hasn't exonerated him yet.


He's waiting until he can dub him "Exonerator"

I find this a credible point of view. A credible interpretation is that Trump is acting way too arrogantly here. Or stupidly (more like inexperienced in this specific domain).

Honestly I don't even disagree with the view. I'm not sure what I think is more likely: the Trump admin is investigating other crimes with Mueller as a smokescreen or an aid, or if the Trump admin is using Mueller to get exonerated....or a third option, that the Trump admin is using it as a way to control the news cycle and get things done behind the scene. Each of these have >0 probability, and there is some overlap between them.

It's the idea that the Trump administration is legitimately investigating itself that has near non-existent credibility. The slimest sliver of credibility it has emerges from the belief that Trump and his administration is beyond incompetent, which doesn't stack up to the evidence (yet does stack up to the hallucinations of Trump Derangement Syndrome).

[Poopadoop]

It's the idea that the Trump administration is legitimately investigating itself that has near non-existent credibility.

Do you think Nixon was investigating himself too? How about Bill Clinton?

Explain how this is different.

[wufwugy]

Do you think Nixon was investigating himself too?

Congress made that happen. A crime had been committed and Congress was adamant in making sure it was investigated properly. Nixon couldn't stop it.

The current situation is nothing of the sort. No crime has been identified and Congress is not pushing for anything. This "investigation" comes from the choice of Trump, Sessions, and Rosenstein.

How about Bill Clinton?

Wasn't that a Congress thing too?

[Poopadoop]

Congress made that happen. A crime had been committed and Congress was adamant in making sure it was investigated properly. Nixon couldn't stop it.

The current situation is nothing of the sort. No crime has been identified and Congress is not pushing for anything. This "investigation" comes from the choice of Trump, Sessions, and Rosenstein.

Ah, but a crime has been committed here as well. Also the investigation was underway before Trump took over afaik, and Rosenstein's hiring of Mueller was in direct response to the Comey firing.

Sure, Trump can do his own version of the Saturday Night Massacre if he wants the whole thing to go away. But that won't make it go away.

[BananaStand]

Ah, but a crime has been committed here as well.

Oh please.....tell me a story