The big showdown between Robert Mueller and Donald Trump is just days away
For the past week, we’ve been constantly told that a big showdown between Donald Trump and Robert Mueller is coming. Now we’re getting new information that the showdown is indeed coming, and in fact it’s just days away. However, the “showdown” will take on an entirely different nature and tone than the potential fireworks we’ve been hearing about all week from the media. Instead, the showdown will be almost… civil.
Multiple major news outlets reported on Friday evening that Trump’s attorneys are planning to meet in person with Mueller next week. In other words, we’re getting the big showdown, but it’ll be less of an Old West duel and more of a legal negotiation. Trump’s attorneys will presumably be looking for concessions or reassurances that they can take back to Trump and leave him satisfied that things are still somehow going his way. This matters quite a bit, when you look at how Trump’s attorneys have been coddling him all along.
Trump’s legal team has been telling him all along that he’s not even personally under investigation, and that the entire probe will be finished soon. These assertions are both completely false, and Trump’s attorneys know it. So why would they mislead their own client? You’d have to ask them. Perhaps they know Trump is objectively unsuitable to be president, and they’re hoping to keep Trump calm as Mueller takes him down. Perhaps they know that if Trump figures out how much trouble he’s in, he’ll try to fire Mueller, which could trigger his own swift ouster from office, which would bring an end to the attorneys’ paychecks.
Take your pick. But one way or the other, Donald Trump’s attorneys are simply trying to keep him sedated so that he won’t make a move against Robert Mueller. Their meeting with Mueller next week is a big showdown, in the sense that it’s essentially unprecedented in the history of U.S. politics. It’s just not the kind of showdown that cable news has been predicting.
