An Adult Check on this Clown President

[bigtree]

John Dean? @JohnWDean

Mueller's appointment provides a sense of relief, knowing there is now an adult check on this clown president and his spineless enablers.

[FarPoint]

1. Absolutely correct....

I actually feel good for now....needed a relief from the escalating anxiety ....

[Ilsa]

2. "A new sheriff's in town!"

Trump's handlers had to shit their pants first for donny to understand this.

[lark]

4. Does he really get it?

That meeting with Russia seems to indicate that he's a totally clueless Kremlin puppet. Does he get it now, after all this, or is that little orange peabrain just not capable of living in reality and thinks his $ and power will always "save" him?

[classykaren]

9. No he thinks his "charm" and "talent" will save him.

I am not a church lady but their is a scripture in the Bible that states Charm may be false. That is him all the way.

[Ilsa]

10. You're right -- he may be incapable of understanding it.

His narcissism and sociopathy may prevent it. His wealth may create a disillusion of vulnerability.

[gordianot]

3. It is just a pause until Trump figures out how to damage Mueller.

Do not expect anything clever the next Trump distraction will be the equivalent of blunt force trauma. For Trump any kind of publicity is good as long as his name is mentioned. He is doing this so he can hear his name featured.

[lark]

6. So scary because we could all see this happening.

Who will be bomb, what false flag terrorist action will be done here in America, what will be pull out of his ass?
What has Putin planned for this contingency?

I hope I'm wrong, but would not be surprised if something worse happens quickly.

[gordianot]

13. Exactly correct Trump has the jingoism card held close.

Remember fight, fight, fight.

[Ligyron]

7. From what I've read about Mueller this man doesn't run organizations that leak.

It might be real quiet as far as what exactly is being uncovered during their investigation. If he chooses his soldiers carefully, Trump and Co. may be totally clueless until someone is indited.

We'll see how much finds it's way into the public domain. Some of our press has been really, really good about managing to somehow dig stuff up and they've largely been right too, for the most part.

[gordianot]

11. War President Trump was born yesterday.

Trump needs full out jingoism to survive.

[democratisphere]

5. The WH blockades will begin construction today.

[Cha]

8. It makes me wonder why

Robert Mueller was chosen? Was it Sessions who chose him?

Thanks bigtree

[bigtree]

15. interesting

...although the major part of his career was advanced by Bush, Mueller is seen by a bipartisan number of legislators as a reformer willing to stand on his principles.

He has a good many critics who've called him out on a few high-profile endeavors, as we'll hear about in the course of his appointment. But his reputation at the FBI may be his most alluring attribute.

Think of what Rosenstein has done here. He has to be trolling Trump by picking a former FBI man to replace the director he was (wrongly) blamed for urging Trump to fire.

He's not just angling for a credible investigation, he's trying to shape the agency to, perhaps, accommodate his own interests at Justice, as well as those of the FBI. By choosing a career man, Rosenstein looks to be standing up the institution, even as Trump works to neuter it. It's either this or he loses his own credibility in staying.

[Cha]

16. Thank you for that analysis, bigtree

[Equinox Moon]

12. It is a relief this is happening.

[zentrum]

14. Does it occur to anyone

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....that in appointing Mueller, Trump Inc., feels they have nothing to fear, since as I understand it, he's such a stand up professional?

Or is it that Pence and the GOP have finally decided that T is too great a liability and want him gone? And taken down in a way that will enable them to mobilize their base, blame the Dems for persecuting their great white leader, and use impeachment as a giant wedge between one part of the country and the other.

This is actually a very tricky time and we should be careful how we play it. The Mueller appointment strikes me as very strange--- a "good" that hides a future huge maneuver.