How the Mueller fairy tale ends Matthew Walther Illustrated | NICHOLAS KAMM/AFP/Getty Images, JIM WATSON/AFP/Getty Images October 22, 2018 Perhaps the best argument I have seen in favor of repealing President Trump's pointless tax cuts is the superabundance of disposable income American liberals apparently spend on things like Robert Mueller bobble-head dolls, "Mueller is Coming" and "It's Mueller time" T-shirts, Mueller "prayer" candles, and even children's booksfeaturing a super-buff bare-chested but tie-wearing Mueller lookalike hero. Turning the affectless head of a special counsel investigation into some kind of badass comic-book character who is going to rescue America from the nefarious clutches of — I wish I were making this up — "President Ronald Plump" could not be more childish. Goodness knows how many adults really believe all this stuff. I feel bad for them, in the way that I feel bad for kids who are about to discover that the Tooth Fairy is fake. After 17 months of appending compound adjectives ("Russia-linked," "Kremlin-backed") to the names of an increasingly obscure cast of characters accused of things like sending spam emails and holding pointless meetings that went nowhere, it looks like we are finally getting close to the end of the Mueller probe. A report in Politico suggests that what skeptics have argued for more than a year and a half is true: namely, that Mueller and his team have not found any smoking-gun evidence of "collusion" between Donald Trump's 2016 presidential campaign and the Russian government because no such collusion took place. It's going to be a letdown. Not only is it likely that the final report will not reveal that the president has been a KGB agent since the late '80s, as at least one mainstream liberal columnist fantasized. It is also possible that it will never even be released to the public, at least not in full. Unless they are granted permission to review them under various conditions that will be imposed by the Department of Justice, not even members of Congress will be able to read Mueller's findings. For reasons that have as much to do with Mueller's own personality and style as they do with the sensitive nature of the material, the text itself is unlikely to be the sweeping anti-Trump manifesto that the president's fiercest liberal critics are longing for. There is every reason to believe that it will be a straightforward, minimally expansive document that does not volunteer information that is not absolutely relevant to the main findings. The fantasy of a piece of paper that would explain away the painful reality that a buffoonish television host beat a former secretary of state and senator in the 2016 presidential election simply by running a better campaign is not coming true. The best hope for Mueller's cheerleaders was not that games of connect-the-dots would implicate Trump in a treasonous plot to sell the White House to Moscow but that the loose-lipped president would trap himself in a lie, perhaps meaningless in itself, about some detail or other that would open him to a charge of perjury. This would not have proved that collusion took place — if anything it would go a long way towards vindicating the president's own "witch hunt" narrative — but it would have satisfied the critics, who just want to see the president charged with a crime. Unfortunately, Rudy Giuliani and the rest of Trump's legal team made sure that this was never going to happen. Every question has been put to the president in writing and answered with the assistance of dozens of professionals with longer attention spans and a firmer grasp of capitalization and punctuation. While it is still possible that Mueller will come up with something substantive, or that something flimsy drawn from some version of Mueller's report will be seized upon by Democrats as evidence if they attempt to impeach Trump next year, it will ultimately be irrelevant. Impeaching the president and removing him from office is a campaign promise on which many Democrats are running this fall. They don't care what is or is not in the report any more than those of us who have grown impatient with all the lunatic decontextualized speculation about Trump and Russia do. Most Americans made up their mind about these questions long ago. The difference is that unlike professional politicians, hundreds of thousands of serious Mueller watchers are actually invested in the reality of the collusion theory. For them the truth might be painful. There are some obvious lessons here. One is that our enemies, real or perceived, are not all working together to destroy all the things we love. Another is that simple explanations are better than complicated ones — an insincere campaign that doesn't even try in the states that it needs to win is probably going to lose, especially to an opponent who has broken with his party in historic ways in order to appease voters in the states in question. The last and most important is that politics is not an episode of The West Wing: Do-gooders rolling up their shirt sleeves and completing some boring procedural task — writing a complicated report, polishing the text of a rousing speech — in between monologues is rarely how the good guys beat the bad guys. We are now a mere 469 days away from Democrats' 2020 Iowa caucuses. It is time for them to give up on fairy tales and find a candidate who can actually beat this guy.
Pussy talk. Mueller is not able to make the kill on Trump which is what it has always been all about. So now all of your ilk are crabwalking over and trying to pretend that you are just happy to have mueller working away like a little worker bee somewhere, doing something. FAIL!! It has always been 100% about Trump. And as doubtful as things are looking for the House, the republicans are probably going to pick up at least a couple Senate seats so you aren't going to remove him by impeachment either.
Wouldn't it take like a 2/3 majority in the Senate to convict and remove a president? Or has that changed? (If it hasn't changed, all this impeachment talk by the Dems is just theater. Yes, they might get a phony impeachment charge out of a Dem-majority house, but they'd never get anywhere near a conviction/removal.)
Oh, indeed. two thirds. No changes in the constitution there. Ditto for impeaching kavanaugh. The dems are all about damaging people now regardless of whether they can actually achieve their larger goal. Damage kavanaugh. Then try to impeach, to damage some more. Can't impeach or convict trump in court? Okay, just damage his political standing with an impeachment charge in the House. Dems need to watch their arses though. They are not the sharpest crayons in the pack. Some of that "damaging" is a gift to the republicans. Wanna keep talking about impeaching kavanaugh if elected? heh, please, by all means. Going back to the impeachment thing. Yup. two thirds. That's why the swamp -in cahoots with dems- moved over to the 25th amendment attempt. Oh, that's right. Just conspiracy talk by infowars viewers. Really? And who was it that said that he took Rosenstein as being dead serious when he talked about wearing a wire? Oh, that's right. Baker- the FBI's chief legal counsel under Comey and he said that in sworn testimony.
Hopefully all of this nastiness by the Dems will wake up more Americans to what asshats and how truly evil the Left is in their efforts to destroy America. And BTW... Trump needs to STOMP THE INVADING CARAVAN INTO THE DIRT! Not put up a front and then let them leak in. That would be a huge disappointment.
Other than talk shit, Trump evidently does not have a plan. The invasion is coming and will be here within a few days. As slow as our military moves, they won't get there in time even if Trump ordered an immediate mobilization. Whoever suggested that the fucking mexicans would assist us should be fired. They are aiding the invaders. We might want to take another look a that trade treaty we just gave them. Someone actually convinced Trump the way to win the elections was to float another tax plan. Seriously, where do they find these morons?
Could be the Dems are thinking this "caravan invasion" could be the defining moment of the Trump presidency.... hoping/believing he'll be soft and somehow let them in. That would be a BIG POLITICAL MISTAKE in my view. America should in no way be "obliged" to accommodate any and all invaders who hope to suck tit on our social welfare system. "Float another tax reduction plan"? Gimme a break. We're already running unsustainable deficits.
I am thought for sure Trump had this. All they had to do was let Trump be Trump. Blame this on Soros. Blame this on Schumer Blame this on Pelosi. Explain these people a colluding to destroy American for votes. Say they are the edge of Treason and Sedition. State the lawlessness of imigration must stop. Lecture them on the legislative proces. Tell them you welcome the acts of Congress on immigration but warn them that their tricks are harming the lives of people. Both here and in Central America. Discuss... wages here Discuss how this harms their people back in Honduras too. Discuss the fact that be serving a relief valve we are massively increasing carbon footprints... etc. Beat them up on humanitarian terms. And round up all these people and fly a few groups home for photo ops and bus the rest home. Treat them with dignity but do not let them in. Then send the bill to the DNC in a flashy ceremony.