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BigmanPigman

(51,430 posts)
Mon Dec 25, 2017, 04:46 PM Dec 2017

My 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?

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0rganism

(23,855 posts)
1. i guess we'll find out in a couple months
Mon Dec 25, 2017, 04:59 PM
Dec 2017

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)
2. The republicans are constructing a scenario where he doesn't have to fire Mueller.
Mon Dec 25, 2017, 05:08 PM
Dec 2017

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.

NotASurfer

(2,138 posts)
3. There's absolutely no plan to fire Mueller *
Mon Dec 25, 2017, 05:09 PM
Dec 2017

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)
4. I think secretly that Repugs want him gone as well
Mon Dec 25, 2017, 05:22 PM
Dec 2017

and Mueller may the ticket although there are t-rump's lap dogs during the howling.

Irish_Dem

(45,622 posts)
9. I think this is likely, but isn't Congress afraid Mueller will find out they took Russian money too?
Mon Dec 25, 2017, 07:51 PM
Dec 2017

DURHAM D

(32,595 posts)
5. Hill staffers have the best gossip.
Mon Dec 25, 2017, 05:24 PM
Dec 2017

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)
7. tRump is impulsive
Mon Dec 25, 2017, 06:49 PM
Dec 2017

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)
8. One of the things I've noticed about Trump is that he DELIGHTS in
Mon Dec 25, 2017, 07:27 PM
Dec 2017

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)
11. Unless your niece's name is Hope Hicks
Mon Dec 25, 2017, 10:40 PM
Dec 2017

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.

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