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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsMy niece came home from DC
where she attends GW University and works at Scott Peters' office (Dem rep for San Diego). She lectured her mom and me since we were discussing the likelihood of the fucking moron firing Mueller. Apparently she and my sister have had this discussion before. She insists that since she works in DC for a rep she has the REAL info and her mom and I are rubes. Her "in-the-know" DC friends are sure that he won't fire Mueller and that Ryan doesn't want him to and not many Repubs REALLY wants him to. My sister and I are older and wiser and do not trust any Repub as far as we can throw one (neither does her dad and my parents (all heavy duty life long Dems).
Are we being too pessimistic or too realistic?
0rganism
(23,855 posts)too many factors, some of them unknown, to really claim the preliminary high ground on this one imho. none of us know for sure. i'm inclined to think that if Trump were planning to fire Mueller, the GOP wouldn't be going all out against the FBI & DOJ over the last few weeks, but that's just my opinion
Jim__
(14,045 posts)If they discredit the investigation sufficiently, they can just proclaim any report that Mueller files is biased.
Of course, the republicans can't control Trump, and even under that scenario - where Trump is protected by the republican congress - he may still fire Mueller and bring the whole world crashing down upon himself.
appalachiablue
(41,052 posts)NotASurfer
(2,138 posts)However, everything this administration has the following implied qualifying clause:
* except for when it actually happens like this administration planned all along
Basic principle of understanding them is to finish every utterance coming from anybody representing the administration with "except when we do it anyway" basically. Makes a lot more sense and more accurately captures their intent
Iliyah
(25,111 posts)and Mueller may the ticket although there are t-rump's lap dogs during the howling.
Irish_Dem
(45,622 posts)DURHAM D
(32,595 posts)But my experience is that they actually know very little about policy unless they are assigned to a committee. Also, they know nothing about what is going on in the WH unless they have a close friend who is an adviser to the President.
KT2000
(20,544 posts)he has no use for others - including R politicians
we just don't know and neither does she
this is one of the many things wrong with that asshat
RandomAccess
(5,210 posts)flaunting convention, norms, rules and guidelines, some etiquette, even laws.
If someone point out to him something that he shouldn't do, he's usually quite keen on doing just exactly that, just to prove he can.
Your guess is as good as mine, but I wouldn't rule it out.
ProudLib72
(17,984 posts)I don't think she can state, with any certainty, what tRump is plotting. I'm not even sure tRump knows what tRump is plotting until whatever it is has come to pass.