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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWhy Trump's failed attempts to derail Mueller have left 'all exits blocked'
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No way out: Ex-NSA analyst explains why Trumps failed attempts to derail Mueller have left all exits blocked
President Donald Trump pauses while listening to a reporter ask questions at the press conference held at the Lotte Palace Hotel in the Villard Room. (Evan El-Amin / Shutterstock.com)
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While no one knows special counsel Robert Muellers next moves, former National Security Agency analyst John Schindler knows one thing for certain: President Donald Trumps efforts to kill the Mueller probe have all been massive failures.
Writing in the Spectator, Schindler says that Trumps surprise win in the 2016 presidential election may be one that he will live to regret, as its drawn new scrutiny to his years of shady business dealings.
It has all caught up with The Donald, and theres no way out, he writes. The president has desperately sought exits since his first days in office, when he compared Americas spies to Nazis for knowing his secrets It hasnt worked, instead having the opposite effect, and Americas spies loathe Trump as they have no other president.
Schindler then turns to Trumps decision to give Attorney General Jeff Sessions the boot and then replace him with Matt Whitaker, a political loyalist who has in the past been highly critical of Muellers investigation.
He speculates that Trump may have brought on Whitaker thinking he could cripple the probe, but he says any such plans have now backfired spectacularly given bipartisan blowback to his appointment as acting AG.
Whitaker lacks the political capital to do much of anything at this point, so Trump has no decent cards left to play, he writes. The White House may try to sink the Mueller inquiry still, in an act of kamikaze-like desperation, but that will only blow up the administration too President Trump, all his exits blocked, and off-ramps folded up, has settled on rage-tweeting at Bob Mueller as his salve.
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https://www.rawstory.com/2018/11/no-way-ex-nsa-analyst-explains-trumps-failed-attempts-derail-mueller-left-exits-blocked/
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Why Trump's failed attempts to derail Mueller have left 'all exits blocked' (Original Post)
jodymarie aimee
Nov 2018
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Turbineguy
(37,324 posts)1. I think that Mueller has put in safeguards, poison pils, whatever.
Trump made it pretty clear just who they were dealing with.
C_U_L8R
(45,001 posts)2. I'm still amazed
that there's anyone as dumb as Whitaker willing to take that job. That was a big womp womp before it even began. Fucking genius.