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Bob Mueller's White Hot Summer
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Trump will need to fill Rosensteins seat, and maybe Sessions. And he might face a Senate experiencing just enough of a bipartisan revolt to block any nominee in protest. As Republican Judiciary Chairman Grassley archly tweeted last year when Trump first threatened Sessions, the agenda for the judiciary [sic] Comm is set . . . AG no way.
And so ironically, Trump may have succeeded in creating narrow majorities where just enough Republicans join every Democrat to demand to see the Mueller report. If they do, court precedent says they will get it. Trumps efforts to shut down the report could backfire spectacularly.
As for the political impact? All of this the conclusion of Muellers investigation, the issuing of his report, the fight over its release and the fallout from a firing of Rosenstein will play out loudly in public before November.
Quickly, release the report will become the central political axis of this political year. In these crowded months before November 6, we may see political tumult unseen since 1974. And just as then, the fate of a presidency may hang in the balance.
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https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2018/05/29/bob-mueller-trump-rosenstein-fired-218549
This seems to be a sound analysis of the situation
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Bob Mueller's White Hot Summer (Original Post)
Uncle Joe
May 2018
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empedocles
(15,751 posts)1. Seems like a good partial analysis of part of the situation
Focuses a lot on 'the Report'. Much of the important work Mueller has done, which we know of, has been in the indictments, and other court filings, [such as the Manafort statute of limitations gambit, foiled by Mueller statute of imitations clever 'extension' of time]
Judi Lynn
(160,530 posts)2. This article is really helpful. Thanks for posting it, Uncle Joe.
Uncle Joe
(58,361 posts)3. Thank you Judi Lynn
Nitram
(22,801 posts)4. I agree with this analysis. It is already happening to a small degree, with a some Republicans
bucking their leadership to join Democrats in immigration policy vote.
Uncle Joe
(58,361 posts)5. And now Gowdy along with "Almost Persuaded" Dershowitz
bucking Republicans in regards to Mueller's investigation, cracks are beginning to appear in the dam.
Nitram
(22,801 posts)6. Gowdy kind of worries me. What is he up to?
We must be doing something wrong if HE agrees with us.