He’s the match; we’re the ammo. Only we can stop ourselves - Trump thread 86

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This is one of the most apt political cartoon I’ve seen.

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/am_i_being_unreasonable/3393501-Couldnt-think-of-a-pithy-quote-so-have-this-instead-Trump-85

talkingpointsmemo.com/news/watch-chuck-schumer-react-to-jeff-sessions-ouster-oh

Something also going on with Rosenstein--on his way to WH.

My son is sending me tweet after tweet with link after link by Whitaker. The bottom line of them all is that the investigation is screwed. I fully expect Mueller to be fired within a week and the investigation either shut down or turned over to someone who will basically subvert it.

And nothing can happen until the new session in January.

www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2018/10/12/trumps-potential-new-attorney-general-once-mused-about-choking-off-robert-muellers-funds/?utm_term=.890c668bec32

Watching CNN. This has got my head spinning. It's like Watergate/Sat Night Massacre all over again.

I need to calm down and absorb these new developments, try to understand the ramifications and what can be done to correct them. New to us, not new to the Scrotus Gang. Of course this has all been planned by Scrotus & the GOP for some time now.

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House Minority Leader Pelosi:

"It is impossible to read Attorney General Sessions’ firing as anything other than another blatant attempt by President Trump to undermine & end Special Counsel Mueller’s investigation."

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'Trump allies are deeply perplexed by his move against Sessions, given that it all but guarantees an investigation by House judiciary.'

On Clinton.

eu.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2016/07/05/reasonable-indict/86731608/

I will eat my woolly bobble hat if Jefferson Beauregard Sessions wasn't wearing a wire all these months.

www.thedailybeast.com/russia-in-dismay-and-despair-as-democrats-take-the-house

THREAD: What should we make of Trump’s firing of Jeff Sessions?
twitter.com/renato_mariotti/status/1060259768323977218?s=21

Kobach for AG?

CNN has been reporting some of Whitaker's past tweets. It's blatantly obvious that he should recuse himself, just as Sessions did. But he won't. It would defeat the purpose of the whole exercise, wouldn't it?

Rosenstein has just left the White House.

Mueller is ready.

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'Jeff Sessions wanted to stay until the end of the week but John Kelly told him no. He was firm it had to be today, @LauraAJarrett and I are told by sources.'

White Nationalists visit to the WH.

talkingpointsmemo.com/news/white-nationalist-leader-posts-pictures-from-white-house-grounds

www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/extremist-files/group/identity-evropa

Um, whoa.

I don't have much else to say. Trump is determined to provoke a constitutional crisis right this minute. Will Gorsuch and Kavanaugh be enough to shield him? Has John Roberts any conscience at all, or at least any concern for history's verdict on his court?

thehill.com/policy/national-security/415491-dems-plan-to-bring-in-mueller-for-televised-hearings-if-trump-fires

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The little elf that gave up his Senate seat to become Trump’s AG patsy faces the ultimate humiliation. Subservience to Trump requires the sacrifice of dignity.

Whoa! Who threw a tantrum when I was sleeping? But ...

Sessions’ replacement will likely have to recuse himself, just as Sessions did

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Whaddaya know: Mark Whitaker, now in charge of the Mueller investigation, chaired the 2014 campaign of Sam Clovis, a grand jury witness in that investigation.

www.vanityfair.com/news/2018/11/post-midterms-trump-is-in-a-bad-mood?mbid=social_twitter

Oh, sorry, I see you’re all over that tidbit! Gosh. Do you think he’s planned for this or he’s just swinging his arms around angrily?

Bernie Sanders warns Trump that firing Mueller would be an impeachable offence.

thehill.com/homenews/senate/415606-sanders-warns-trump-interfering-with-mueller-probe-would-be-an-impeachable

He swings and his advisors plan.