A White House olive branch: no plan to fire Mueller

[Julian Englis]

Source: Axios

After a weekend at war with the Mueller investigation, the White House is extending an olive branch. Ty Cobb, the White House lawyer handling the probe, plans to issue this statement:

“In response to media speculation and related questions being posed to the Administration, the White House yet again confirms that the President is not considering or discussing the firing of the Special Counsel, Robert Mueller.”

Why it matters: The White House strategy had been to cooperate with Mueller. So this is an effort to turn down the temperature after a weekend of increasingly personal provocations aimed at the special counsel.

Read more: https://www.axios.com/white-house-fire-mueller-no-plan-ty-cobb-71a537f7-a8f0-4b17-a694-efb0e0099b93.html

[chuckstevens]

1. They can wipe their asses with their olive branch!

[unblock]

2. "We assure you we have no plans to burn down your restaurant."

[errant boy]

3. And if you believe that,

I've got a bridge in NYC you can buy. Cheap!

[FrodosNewPet]

34. Is it the Grand St. bridge?

Swing bridges have always fascinated me.

http://www.bridgesnyc.com/2010/06/grand-street-bridge/

[johnp3907]

4. In other words....

...Trump is planning to fire Mueller.

[truthisfreedom]

6. +1

[TheSmarterDog]

16. Yep

[brush]

21. It's not that simple. The head of the DOJ has to fire Muelller, or as it is now, the deputy head.

Rosenstein has said he won't fire him so trump has to fire Sessions, who recused himself and thus can't fire Mueller, appoint another Attorney General who can then fire Mueller.

Rosenstein will most likely resign then as he has said multiple times that Mueller is doing a good job and there is no reason to fire him for cause.

Even for trump that's a lot of bloodletting and more revolving door chaos for repugs not to at some point react.

And of course Democrats and the Media will be howling, and even more repugs will be putting in their retirement papers in order not to hit by the coming blue wave in November.

[Hong Kong Cavalier]

5. "The White House strategy had been to cooperate with Mueller."

...yeah. Sure it has.



Have they checked Tangeranus' twitter account lately? 'cause he's not going along with that "strategy".

[onetexan]

8. trump floated the trial balloon and found out they shouldn't dare shut down Mueller's campaign

or face impeachment.

[wishstar]

7. Ty Cobb, voice of reason from WH, understands that Obstruction of Justice is a crime

whereas John Dowd, Trump's other attorney stupidly stepped way over the line demanding Mueller probe be shut down

WH Counsel Don McGahn is undoubtedly having a tough time talking Trump down again about trying to fire Mueller

[tableturner]

9. What about "putting someone in charge who will strictly limit/hamstring the investigation"?

I didn't see where he promised that. So yeah....never believe them anyway, but also, their promise is full of holes even if you could believe them.

[bucolic_frolic]

10. Don't read their lips, read their record

and watch their actions

This is ALL a SMOKESCREEN

When the time is right, Trump will swing the axe

[KY_EnviroGuy]

35. I suspect you're right.

I would not put it past tRump to have Graham throw out some contrary bullshit to the media just so they can refute it, just to keep the pot stirred. His intent is to keep everyone's head spinning with chaos, including the press.

............

[ailsagirl]

11. I smell a rat

What are they up to now?

[Freethinker65]

12. Mueller is competent and knows exactly what he is doing. The WH/Trump is the polar opposite

Trying to create diversions and noise does not work with an FBI career professional. The media may report on every tweet and threat, but the investigation continues.

[lordsummerisle]

13. I still can't get used to an administration that just constantly lies n/t

[byronius]

14. "We're guilty, okay? Whaddya want from us? C'monnnnn."

[FarPoint]

15. This is called....

" Ringing the bell."... Getting the conversation out ...every day...

[ffr]

17. We call BS! Slowly undermining the investigation IS THE PLAN. n/t

[brettdale]

19. something is up

Something is up, why would they release a statement like that?

[riversedge]

23. Trump directly tweeted out a nasty to Meuller team...

A taste of the last 48 hours:

John Dowd, a member of Trump's legal team, said Saturday that the investigation should be shut down "on the merits."
And Trump tweeted: "Why does the Mueller team have 13 hardened Democrats, some big Crooked Hillary supporters, and Zero Republicans? Another Dem recently added...does anyone think this is fair? And yet, there is NO COLLUSION!"

[LastLiberal in PalmSprings]

28. The Benghazi probe lasted 29 months.

I don't know why they think there's something magical about the one year mark.

[still_one]

18. no plans.....................

until tomorrow

[John Fante]

20. Gump tested the waters.

Nearly got his toe bit off.

[safeinOhio]

22. Lets Make a Deal

That’s all he has left and that ain’t much.

[msongs]

24. "I have no plan to invade Poland" nt

[Grammy23]

25. No one has control over tRump. No matter what statements are released -

tRump will tweet whatever crosses his pea size brain. Every now and then someone tries to dial down the rhetoric tRump spews so it appears someone is in charge. But tRump has the uncanny capacity to undo everything his handlers try to do to control the chaos. It is like juggling hand grenades around there. Drop just one and oooppps.

[azureblue]

26. yeah, right

sure. this time you're telling the truth.. No, really. Gotcha. Mm Hm..

[SayItLoud]

27. Now, Rod Rosenstein....

We are not commenting on that possibility.

These Friggin traitors and their Repubic enablers.

VOTE VOTE VOTE!

[Turbineguy]

29. Trump is better off

letting the investigation continue. It's nice and slow and that time will provide him with many taxpayer funded golf outings. And who knows, maybe he'll make a deal with NKorea? And what's more, maybe Mueller will find something, but not enough to prosecute on.

Every day in power is a small victory.

Nah,..... he'll fuck it up.

[D23MIURG23]

30. He'll never fire Mueller

Instead he will fire Sessions and appoint a replacement who he can easily control, who isn't recused from involvement in the investigation (maybe Devin Nunes). Then he will order that person to fire Mueller.

"Mr. Nunes concluded that we didn't need a special council, because his investigation found no collusion and I support him 100%."

Hopefully, the team has a good strategy in place for protecting the information they have compiled and getting it into hands that can use it in the case where that happens.

[bringthePaine]

31. so what? dont believe it...

Absolutely every utterance out of the all-too-aptly named White House must be presumed
false in some preposterous dimemsion. No exceptions. Its all bullshit, no matter the disposition
of behaviors after the fact. Their verbiage serves only as a window into the corrupted thought processes of sociopaths, criminals, traitors, and all manner of somewhat lesser despicables. I currently favor Mr. Mueller’s methodology: deny these parasites any directly engaged forum, favoring instead observation and documention, as foundation for judgement of their actions. In
the meantime, we simply weather their futile flailings, however increasingly desperate and fanciful. Such tawdry spectacle serves only as darkly pathetic theater of the doomed.

Darker still the newest proposal to mete death as diversionary spectacle a la Duterte - the worst of humanity always get around to proclaiming human sacrifice as the path to paradise. History clearly demonstrates the total, abject failure of such unworthy connivance.

[Mountain Mule]

32. Ty Cobb is full of shit!

All tRump and his goons do is lie, lie, lie! Sarah Huckabee Sanders told the press that Andrew McCabe was not going to be fired. The next day he was fired - etc. etc. No need to list all the names of all those fired so far and the lies told by this sorry excuse of a WhiteHouse. They'll keep chipping away, trying to discredit Mueller's integrity or maybe the Orange Berserker will fire him early this AM in one of his deranged tweets.

[olddad56]

33. if they say the have no plans to fire Meuller, that must mean that Putin is gonna fire Meuller.