Meaning - we know NOTHING of what Mueller is doing, what he has or what his team is able to demonstrate. But as we noticed in the spring, Trump's outbursts were sometimes precursors to big developments in news. Whether that was future indictments, search warrants, expansions of the investigation, etc., there could almost predictably be crazy or fantastic outbursts from Trump.
And things have been developing and unfolding so quickly since the Russian indictments and the Helsinki betrayal that I've been losing track of some of the outbursts.
So a couple things - earlier this week Rosenstein again visited the White House, and this was followed by Trump's moronic Cabinet meeting confessional. Last time he did that, he informed Trump of the Russian indictments.
Friday Trump jumped on the NFL and flag protests again. He's flogging this morning Mueller's team specifically. (Does he even know there are MORE than 13 people on Mueller's team? Like a lot more?)
Anyway, I just wanted to sort some of his outbursts this week in the context of shit going down: the disaster and fallout of the secret Helsinki meeting is really starting to trouble actual intelligence professionals and staffers. (AHEM: "Deep Throat" was an FBI agent.) The stupid-ass "double negative" explanation. Butina's arrest (outside of the Special Counsel's office). One of Manafort's trials starts soon (like 10 days), he's in custody awaiting it, and losing every supportive defense motion. Cohen has also shown signs that he's praying for a pardon OR flipping.
(I have to say, on Cohen, hard dude for me to read. Like he seems totally crooked, the type of dude that used to complain at the door of the bar about why we couldn't legally deny them admission, etc. because somebody told him they read a lawyer saying you couldn't be denied entry. And that makes me think he is utterly reliant on a pardon, which he expects to receive. He is publicly begging for one. OTOH, he makes references to patriotism and nation over party and personal loyalty, which is a great sentiment if it is genuine, which see above.)
Other gob-smacking things from the week, which ordinarily would have caused strokes, coronaries and resignations in ANY other administration:
Rudy Guliani may have voided attorney-client privilege on the Cohen recordings. Doofus.
Oh, on attorney-client privilege, let me here say this:
These ignoramuses think that it works in this way: as long as 1 lawyer is present, any conversation between any group of people is "protected" by privilege. And, uh, anybody with a brain knows that's not at all how that works.
The payoffs are now becoming a larger issue because of Rudy's stupidity. I really want to believe the abortion rumor with the other bleach-blond porn star, but that one looks like legit it may be Broidy. [frowny face]
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Speculation is in order:
Cohen either has or is doing this week his "Queen for a Day" parley unless Trump pardons him. And then he flips. But a pardon wouldn't get him out of legal jeopardy in IL, NY and whatever other states he's been busy in. This seems like Keystone #1 - or -
Keystone #2: Manafort. He's lost most of his motions to exclude evidence. He's been moved to a jail closer (and perhaps less glamorous) to the trial. Maybe he begins to feel the immediacy more, and from everything that I understand, the USG has him dead to rights. Trump will probably still pardon him, but if Manafort goes to trial, that seems like an enormous risk to die in jail. Maybe he'll take it. Maybe Putin will poison him (which would really suck, because they've already attacked us electronically and digitally, and Trump would still do nothing). And I don't want Paul to go out that way. Too quick.
Trump moves to pardon Butina because Putin asks him to, and because the Maga Hari has the fucking goods on everyone. (That fucking story amuses me endlessly. I would almost pray that she be the one who flips and brings this whole damn thing down. I hope the IC is doing a god-damned number on her. If the torture-fetishists are going to demand it be done to non-white people in our name - and it's bullshit and I believe doesn't work - then Maga Hari can have it, too. But mostly because I just want to hear the story! I want the televised public Congressional hearings of her letting Wayne LaPierre do his little fetishes on her. Ohpleaseohplease.)
Any/all/worse than the above will elicit no more than tsk-tsk from Republicans. I think that's becoming the most (literally) incredible thing: the actions of an entire political party to subvert democracy, and their complete indifference to it as long as their (retrograde and unpopular) policies are enacted.
Unfuckingbelievable.
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