Trump predicts exoneration in Russia investigation as allies fear a 'meltdown'

[highplainsdem]

Source: CNN

Until those next signs emerge, Trump is boasting to friends and advisers that he expects Mueller to clear him of wrongdoing in the coming weeks, according to sources familiar with the conversations. The President seems so convinced of his impending exoneration that he is telling associates Mueller will soon write a letter clearing him that Trump can brandish to Washington and the world in a bid to finally emerge from the cloud of suspicion that has loomed over the first chapter of his presidency, the sources said.

This account of how Trump and his senior staffers are privately grappling with the Russia investigation is based on interviews over the past week with nearly three dozen White House officials, lawmakers, outside advisers, friends of the President and sources familiar with the Mueller probe. It depicts a president genuinely convinced of his innocence and advisers preparing for him to explode early next year if the probe doesn't end as neatly as Trump expects.

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"The President's mantra is 'All this Russia stuff, it's all going to wrap up soon.' He repeats it as fact," said one source who speaks to Trump. "Part of me is like -- 'Are you serious? You believe this?'"

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Three sources familiar with the President's recent conversations about the investigation said Trump has become convinced that he will receive a letter of exoneration, which would be unusual. One source worried Trump would have a "meltdown" if that doesn't happen.

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Read more: http://www.cnn.com/2017/12/18/politics/trump-russia-investigation/index.html

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"Trump has become convinced that he will receive a letter of exoneration"...

Sounds like Trump's becoming more delusional as Mueller closes in.

[bluedye33139]

1. He has been asking for that letter for months

He has been asking for that letter for months

[Girard442]

2. Hope Trump's cabinet has been reviewing the 25th Amendment.

No matter how corrupt and craven they might be, "you and everybody else will die if you don't" is still a pretty compelling argument.

[Iliyah]

3. t-rump watches fake new (Murdoch) and totally knows what

fake news and his allies (House and Senate) are doing to Mr. Mueller's creditability. t-rump may be delusional but he is also a ugly con man.

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

4. And how would we be able to tell if he has a meltdown? nt

[Mr.Bill]

7. A blinding white flash

over a city near you.

[Lochloosa]

9. Perfect answer

[yurbud]

34. I'm pretty sure the guys at the Pentagon have replaced the nuclear football with this:

"and if you ever need to call us, just use that red phone."

[Mr.Bill]

36. We can only hope. n/t

[murielm99]

44. When a narcissist has a meltdown, you know.

My mother still has them periodically. The first one I remember was when I was four years old. It involved a very angry neighbor, the sheriff, and my dad coming home from work early.

These days, she has no one to complain to except other elderly friends and a pastor who takes it with a grain of salt, for the most part. The pastor does think I am a monster, though. And a few years ago I received a crank call from one of her friends who refused to give me her name.

Everything is always someone else's fault. And stay out of the way. They can be dangerous.

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

45. I just figured he's been in a decade long meltdown so it's

hard to differentiate.

[yuiyoshida]

5. lets just say it , shall we??

TRUMP I S FUCKING DELUSIONAL!

[highplainsdem]

6. CNN covering this now.

[Javaman]

8. frankly, when it's shown that he is guilty of so very much....

I think that the orange asshole will choose to ignore the findings.

meaning, that he is so incredibly self absorbed that it just won't compute in his brain.

there won't be a moment of shock to him, because shock would be introspection.

he's completely incapable of that.

when and if it does "sink in", he will blow a gasket the likes of which we have yet to witness.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

14. He may say "it was necessary for ME to MAGA". His trumpanzee core will salute him. . . . nt

[Delmette2.0]

10. IMHO Trump really believes it.

If reports are true that Trump doesn't use email, then he can claim that he had no knowledge or participation with any of it. He can claim that he didn't receive or send any of the thousands of emails. He will say it was all done by people around him and he knew none of the details. He will probably declare shame on them for what they have done and throw them under that bus he is driving.

I hope the Mueller team phrases their questions carefully.

[standingtall]

12. If Trump does not use email

how did he sign up for twitter?

[Delmette2.0]

13. I don't subscribe to Twitter, but

I would guess a person just needs an email account to have something to link to. Just like Facebook or Netflex.

[standingtall]

16. That is the point you

have to have a valid email account to sign up for stuff on the internet. So Trump uses email the only thing that can be argued is what context he uses it.

[Delmette2.0]

17. Or to put it another way

You must have an email account, but you don't have to actively use it.

Seriously, can you imagine him following a long email chain and understanding all of It?

[brush]

28. Hope Hicks is his email conduit...for plausible deniability.

As if Mueller is buying that she didn't relay everything to trump.

He has the emails, dumb ass.

[Delmette2.0]

35. Yep, I think You're right.

Trump believes that will protect him.

[unc70]

39. Mueller also has many recordjngs

The number of people under FISA and other surveillance strongly suggests that Trump himself is widely recorded. That should fill in for the lack of emails from Trump directly.

[Delmette2.0]

40. We know that, but Trump doesn't.

[tanyev]

11. I think it's highly likely that he has all the emails go through the kids and Hope Hicks

so if there's no other way out he can fling them all under the bus and deny all knowledge of what they were doing.

[KewlKat]

15. where is the liar in chief's letter saying he was wrong about

President Obama not being born outside this country. F him.

[estefanyo]

18. It's good that he's overconfident

If he's overconfident he doesn't fire Mueller...and he or his son (or both) get indicted along with his son in law.

[Botany]

19. So is that why Trump's lawyers are gonna meet w/Mueller & company this week?

https://www.democraticunderground.com/10141940551

[PatSeg]

21. Why yes, of course

Mueller wants to hand them the "letter of exoneration" in person!

[Botany]

23. Mueller must want to thank Trump's lawyers for being the best lawyers in the world too ...

... and then hand 'em the "letter of exoneration."

[PatSeg]

25. Absolutely!

The best lawyers the world has ever seen, believe me.

[brush]

30. Must be the resign-or-else meeting...like during the end of Watergate.

[Botany]

32. Maybe to let Trump's lawyers to know just how strong a case Mueller has ....

.... and what is the schedule for the upcoming indictments too.

[brush]

37. Fingers crossed, popcorn at the ready.

[brooklynite]

20. In the closing days of WW2, German Generals would create stories of victories by fake military units

to keep Hilter happy.

[L. Coyote]

22. Trump is simply delusional. Remember when Nixon said this, and the worse it got the more often.

[Maxheader]

24. Watches 8 hours of TV

a day? Double deductions may not carry the day for ole don...,
and he knows it. Mainstream America needs to get more
vocal about the rot the gop is creating. Do not let the govt
buy you out with smoke and mirrors.

[Dopers_Greed]

26. He can't face reality

He watches the propaganda outfits that shill for him, and actually believes the BS.

[PaulRevere08]

27. I imagine it will look like this. Substitue Mueller for Steiner.

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[bdamomma]

29. is this sick SOB

thinking his little hands are clean???? WTF.

[get the red out]

41. That's the question!

I keep wondering if he does with every article I read about his reaction to the Mueller investigation.

[bettyellen]

31. It sounds like he plans to lie and say he got a letter of exoneration

[rickford66]

33. Mueller should have a lavish framed proclamation presented to him.

Lots of seals and ribbons etc and everything in Latin calling him a f...ing moron.

[DFW]

38. Mueller won't be saying a word.

Let Trump believe what he wants for as long as he can. If he knows something we all don't know, good for him. If Mueller knows things Trump doesn't know, or doesn't think Mueller could possibly know, maybe NOT so good for him.

[Gothmog]

42. Denial is not just a river in Africa

[Locrian]

43. two words: Fox News

They practically MADE trump. Of course he's completely mind controlled by them.
Some think it's the other way around - but FOX is the really mind control expert - not trump.

He's their best "celebrity talking head".

[mr_lebowski]

46. This asshole got elected President after being caught saying 'grab 'em by the pussy', people ...

Not to mention ... Mueller is GOP.

I submit to all of you that if you think there's NO CHANCE that Mueller can be bought off somehow (or threatened with firing, such that he'll lose his ability to go after ANY guilty parties), given the GOP's control of all 3 branches of power, essentially ... you're deluding yourselves.

Sorry, everyone ... it had to be said.

Mueller might very well be forced into a position where he has to let Trump and his inner cadre completely off the hook in order to nail ANY 'bad guys'. And he may very well decide that's the most advantageous course of action. C'mon, people here put faith in him, because its all we've got ... but we don't KNOW THIS GUY, any of us!

I cannot help but feel that Trump would've already fired this guy if he didn't SOMEHOW KNOW ... no serious shit against him is going to happen, it's just going to be some fall guys take some heat ... like Manafort.

And that's all we're gonna get. Just like it's all we got with Iran/Contra, and the WMD lies, and the Plame investigation, etc.

Our side never wins these battles, because the GOP are traitors, our politicians are total f***ing wussys, and we have a firmly entrenched Corporate Media in this country that will never really call a spade a spade. They have their advertisers to worry about.

Plus ... 30 years of brainwashed idiots, thanks to RW radio.

We ain't getting Trump out via Mueller, the only way we MAYBE get him out before 2020 ... is if we get the House back. Period.

Or ... side effects of one too many Big Mac attacks ...