Its AMAZING how things have changed from a few weeks ago after the summary. Like damn. If I'm Trump or part of
His campaign, I'm fucking concerned.
Ok this is fucking damning, we need to impeach this fucker.
Same here. Putting him and the various players on the stand will sink him. He won't resist lying to make himself look good and he will be furious at people throwing him and his family under the bus left and right.This report is a package with a bow on it for Congress to begin impeachment proceedings. It's actually insane how much Barr mischaracterized it.
The Senate GOP is completely bankrupt though. I dunno, I don't understand why we have the mechanism if we don't use it this circumstance.
I honestly don't necessarily trust the electorate or that trump won't somehow rig this in his favor given the lengths he went to in 2016.
And I don't think continued investigations and impeachment in the house help trump. His base isn't large enough to win and I think he's completely lost most of the independents and will continue to lose what's left of them he had before.
They probably want Mueller interviewed before beginning that process.
Same here. Putting him and the various players on the stand will sink him. He won't resist lying to make himself look good and he will be furious at people throwing him and his family under the bus left and right.
Separately, as I understand it once impeachment proceedings are initiated, there won't be be any of this waffling on subpoenas and requests for records as it is a clear constitutional right of Congress.
They can start impeachment and still interview him after. In fact after impeachment it gives them much more power to interview people and get documentsThey probably want Mueller interviewed before beginning that process.
I doubt you're going to hear about impeachment until Mueller has a hearing plus something comes out of SDNY
Nothing preventing Barr from blocking SDNY investigations, since they are federal.I doubt you're going to hear about impeachment until Mueller has a hearing plus something comes out of SDNY
Nothing preventing Barr from blocking SDNY investigations, since they are federal.
Just the press conference this morning was an own-goal. It makes him look so much worse than if he had let his summary last month stand as his final statement on the report. The press conference reeks of desperation now.Yeah, it was a massive own-goal to have Barr put out that summary. The report still got had to come out anyway, and now Barr (who had actually gone into his hearings with the same ~bipartisan~ branding that a lot of AGs hope for) is just perma-branded a stooge. Trump only got like, what, a month out of him before he lost all credibility with the media?
I usually like Glenn Greenwald but his Twitter meltdown today is embarrassing.
Volunteering this information is something, alright. Like, you didnt know Glenn was embarrassing before? Lmao.I usually like Glenn Greenwald but his Twitter meltdown today is embarrassing.
Based on responses to the Mueller report, I expect the trump approval rating will remain basically unchanged.
Regardless of criminality, he has always been a personally loathsome individual and you're either on board with that or you're not.Looking at that 538 tracker it's astounding how stable it has been since, well, forever. Constant -12 split.
Regardless of criminality, he has always been a personally loathsome individual and you're either on board with that or you're not.
When your worldview is "I HATE THE UNITED STATES" without much more intellectual backing than that, becoming a Russian lapdog seems to be the obvious end result.I used to find Glenn admirable as well, but I haven't for several years now. I'm not sure what happened, but he is morally compromised at this point and isn't worth paying attention to.
The Democrats have to impeach, threat of failure be damned. The Republic cannot go on without Congress exercising this check on flagrant criminality. 2020 will literally not matter if they abdicate that power, because the future is a President above the law; the result is the same if they fail to convict or if it doesn't happen.