Donald Trump slams the panic button
“President” Donald J. Trump is as thin skinned and transparent as a sheet of onion skin paper. On Thursday, he woke up and tackled an issue that he has not tweeted about since before the election: Special Counsel Robert Mueller. Reports are that Trump has been working with his legal team this week to craft responses to Mueller’s questions, although earlier statements indicated that Trump found many things off limits. That must have him spooked, as he realizes that what he has said and done don’t match up with the substantial evidence that the Mueller team has accumulated.
In the wee hours of the morning, Trump opened with: “The inner workings of the Mueller investigation are a total mess. They have found no collusion and have gone absolutely nuts. They are screaming and shouting at people, horribly threatening them to come up with the answers they want. They are a disgrace to our Nation and don’t…”
The ellipsis clearly demonstrates that more is to come, and moments later, Trump continued: “….care how many lives the ruin. These are Angry People, including the highly conflicted Bob Mueller, who worked for Obama for 8 years. They won’t even look at all of the bad acts and crimes on the other side. A TOTAL WITCH HUNT LIKE NO OTHER IN AMERICAN HISTORY!”
He followed with: “Universities will someday study what highly conflicted (and NOT Senate approved) Bob Mueller and his gang of Democrat thugs have done to destroy people. Why is he protecting Crooked Hillary, Comey, McCabe, Lisa Page & her lover, Peter S, and all of his friends on the other side?” And finished (for now) with: “The only ‘Collusion’ is that of the Democrats with Russia and many others. Why didn’t the FBI take the Server from the DNC? They still don’t have it. Check out how biased Facebook, Google and Twitter are in favor of the Democrats. That’s the real Collusion!”
When Donald Trump goes on these rampages, bad news for him is sure to follow. He is attacking Mueller and the investigation, projecting back on to Hillary and making nonsensical arguments that the Democrats colluded with Russia. He’s trying to paint a picture that Mueller and his team are using bully tactics to get folks to testify. But today and for the foreseeable future, it is Mueller Time, so stay tuned, Trump is panicking and knows that he is in trouble.
Daniel is a lawyer writing and teaching about SCOTUS, and is the author of the book “The Chief Justices” about the SCOTUS as seen through the center seat.