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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsGiuliani and the White House fear Congress more than criminal charges.
Trump's Russia strategy: Bash Mueller to beat impeachmentGiuliani and the White House fear Congress more than criminal charges.
By DARREN SAMUELSOHN 05/03/2018 07:34 PM EDT
President Donald Trump and his lawyers have made a strategic calculation that their fight against special counsel Robert Mueller is more political than it is legal.
Theyre banking that the lead Russia investigator will follow long-standing Justice Department practice that a sitting president cant be indicted, and that the only real threat to Trumps survival is impeachment.
So long as that theory holds, Trumps plan is to forcefully challenge Mueller in the arena he knows best not the courtroom but the media, with a public campaign aimed at the special counsels credibility, especially among Republican voters and GOP members of Congress.
The public strategy has now subsumed the legal strategy, said a source who has worked with the presidents lawyers. The public stance is fight, fight, fight. So the legal strategy is now fight, fight, fight.
Trumps legal team now led by a talkative Rudy Giuliani increasingly sees its goal as fighting potential impeachment proceedings by a Democratic-controlled Congress next year, according to multiple sources close to the White House.
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https://www.politico.com/story/2018/05/03/trump-lawyers-mueller-russia-probe-strategy-568481
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Giuliani and the White House fear Congress more than criminal charges. (Original Post)
DonViejo
May 2018
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emulatorloo
(43,982 posts)1. Kick and Rec. Typical Republican smear campaign.
dawg
(10,610 posts)2. They shouldn't.
They have Congress in their back pocket. The State of New York, not so much.
GeorgeGist
(25,294 posts)3. The stupid runs deep
in the Trump Zone.
rock
(13,218 posts)4. We shall see
Congress is as inept as the trump clan.
Mc Mike
(9,107 posts)5. And congress fears its constituents. Therefore, by the transitive property..