House GOP seems to think Robert Mueller is about to drop the hammer on Donald Trump
Now that I’ve had a full day to think about it, I still couldn’t tell you what the heck yesterday’s GOP House hearings were supposed to be about. Donald Trump’s allies like Jim Jordan dragged in Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein and FBI Director Christopher Wray and basically spent the whole time accusing them of the conspiratorial fantasies that only exist in Trump’s tweets. Nothing was accomplished; not one mind was changed; the investigation still stands. But the timing is becoming more clear by the minute.
Yesterday’s hearing was sloppily and hastily thrown together, even by today’s far-right House GOP standards. At one point Jordan’s questioning about subpoenaing evidence became so nonsensical, it was clear that he hadn’t even run his questions past a legal adviser in advance. Desperate, rushed, pointless, nonsensical hearings like this are a darn good sign that the people in charge of them think they’re working against a very tight clock. This takes me back to something that Mark Warner, the leading Democrat on the Senate Intel Committee, said just a few days ago.
Senator Warner recently said during a private gathering that it was time to “buckle up” because Special Counsel Robert Mueller is about to begin making major moves. He also said that because of his position, there are things that only he and Mueller (and presumably Republican Senate Intel Committee Chair Richard Burr) know about. When Warner’s comments leaked publicly, they caught Donald Trump off guard and he ended up throwing an unhinged fit about it.
House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte, who based on his words and actions is very clearly in cahoots with Donald Trump, would know much (but not all) of what Mark Warner knows. Suddenly, Goodlatte and the other Trump allies on his committee are frantically rushing to take last ditch shots at somehow getting Rod Rosenstein to screw up with his testimony. it sure seems like the House GOP thinks Mueller is indeed about to drop the hammer.
