Team Trump: Expect Trump to Attack Mueller More Directly

[applegrove]

ANDREW DESIDERIO, ASAWIN SUEBSAENG, LACHLAN MARKAY at the Daily Beast

https://www.thedailybeast.com/team-trump-expect-trump-to-attack-mueller-more-directly?ref=home

"SNIP.......


On Saturday, Donald Trump did something he’d never done before, something his closest advisers had warned him not to do: He tweeted Robert Mueller’s name.

But what seemed like a frantic, even panicked, bit of late-night lashing-out is actually a sign of things to come. Multiple aides and Trump confidants tell The Daily Beast that they believe this will not be the last time the president goes after the Justice Department special counsel on his frenetic Twitter feed. And that’s making some of them nervous.

The president, those close to him say, is determined to more directly confront the federal probe into his campaign’s potential role in alleged Russian election interference, even if it means exacerbating his legal standing amid an investigation that has already ensnared some of his most senior campaign and White House aides.

Two sources who speak regularly with Trump said they had noticed an uptick in recent months in the frequency of the annoyance the president would express regarding Mueller and his team, and the irritation at the deluge of negative news stories regarding the probe.

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[chuckstevens]

1. Proceed, Dumbass!

[Wellstone ruled]

2. Nothing will change.

[uppityperson]

6. +++++

[Volaris]

3. Lol...Linkin Park lyrics come immediately to mind...

'...dug a trench out, laid down there,
with a shovel..up out of reach somewhere..'

Keep digging, genuis.

[moondust]

4. Like a cornered little rodent,

he hisses and claws at the air, hoping to clear a path out of the hopeless jam he's gotten himself into.

[Mr. Ected]

5. I wouldn't be surprised if Mueller filed or unsealed an unexpected indictment if Trump persists

Every time Trump tries to delegitimize Mueller, the special counsel seems to have an ace up his sleeve that sits Trump's ass right back down.

We worry about Trump's impetuous behavior, but Mueller is a maestro at the height of his talents. This is a war of cunning and intelligence and Trump is devoid of both.

[poboy2]

7. .

[0rganism]

8. dwarf hole!

i am a dwarf and I'm digging a hole
diggy diggy hole
(i'm) digging a hole (x2)

hole hole
diggy diggy hole
diggy diggy hole
(diggy diggy hole)

hole hole
diggy diggy hole
diggy diggy hole
diggy diggy hole
---
just keep on singing as you work Donald, keep that song in your heart

[Buns_of_Fire]

9. Edgar Allen Poe could work with this information.

The Tell-Tale Trump (excerpt):

No doubt I now grew very pale; --but I talked more fluently, and with a heightened voice. Yet the sound increased --and what could I do? It was a low, dull, quick sound --much such a sound as a watch makes when enveloped in cotton. I gasped for breath --and yet the officers heard it not. I talked more quickly --more vehemently; but the noise steadily increased. I arose and argued about trifles, in a high key and with violent gesticulations; but the noise steadily increased. Why would they not be gone? I paced the floor to and fro with heavy strides, as if excited to fury by the observations of the men --but the noise steadily increased. Oh God! what could I do? I foamed --I raved --I swore! I swung the chair upon which I had been sitting, and grated it upon the boards, but the noise arose over all and continually increased. It grew louder --louder --louder! And still the men chatted pleasantly, and smiled. Was it possible they heard not? Almighty God! --no, no! They heard! --they suspected! --they knew! --they were making a mockery of my horror!-this I thought, and this I think. But anything was better than this agony! Anything was more tolerable than this derision! I could bear those hypocritical smiles no longer! I felt that I must scream or die! and now --again! --hark! louder! louder! louder! louder!

"Are you alright, Mr. President?"

[ProudLib72]

10. I'm surprised he still has any aides or confidants

When he does dumb shit like this, it puts everyone he's connected to in the line of fire. Why would anyone deliberately let themselves be put in the line of fire?

[TubbersUK]

11. This bit is satisfying:

Two sources who speak regularly with Trump said they had noticed an uptick in recent months in the frequency of the annoyance the president would express regarding Mueller and his team, and the irritation at the deluge of negative news stories regarding the probe.

In other words he's panicking.