Donald Trump quickly gives up on his latest failed attempt at sabotaging Robert Mueller
Right around the time Donald Trump began firing a bunch of his own people earlier this month, a number of White House sources began telling major media outlets that Trump was preparing to publicly go to war with Special Counsel Robert Mueller. This represented a major shift in strategy, after Trump had spent the first ten months of Mueller’s tenure more or less being afraid to even speak Mueller’s name.
Sure enough, Trump began tweeting one ugly accusation about the Mueller investigation after another. What stood out, however, was that Trump never did directly attack Mueller himself, even while mentioning his name. Trump falsely claimed that Mueller’s team consisted entirely of Democrats, and that they had imaginary conflicts of interest, and that the investigation should have ended a long time ago. Trump was still afraid to say a negative word about Mueller himself. In hindsight, that was a big reveal about where this was – or perhaps we should say wasn’t – headed.
By now, Trump is no longer tweeting about Mueller at all. Over the past ten days Trump has used Twitter to attack Amazon, the New York Times, the Washington Post, Governor Jerry Brown, the Democrats, a former Supreme Court Justice, President Obama, Joe Biden, George W. Bush, Hillary Clinton, Congress, former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, and the lawyers he had just finished trying and failing to hire. Even as Trump has gone on this prolonged and wide ranging rampage of rage, he’s gone silent about Mueller entirely.
Maybe Donald Trump will start up again about Robert Mueller at some point. But for now, his big plan to publicly attack Mueller consisted of three tepid tweets about Mueller, before abandoning the strategy. Whatever Trump was hoping to accomplish with his attack on Mueller, he didn’t have the nerve to go all the way with it, and then he quickly gave up on it.
