Drama!

The Drama continues!

Manafort went down on 8 counts the day Cohen pleaded to 10. One is in the bag, the other faces a probable re-trial on the ten charges that resulted in a mistrial, as well as the other charges in Washington. Mueller gets to show that this guy is a criminal two more times instead of one. Manafort faces life in prison. 

I have opined on why he has not made a deal yet – was he thinking his old boss would fire Sessions and Mueller, and make it all go away with a pardon?  I don’t see a pardon anywhere – Trump is letting him fry in the cooker. I have to think Manafort now gets this, and that he is actively negotiating with Mueller.  No doubt Hicks is watching this all very intently.

The Trumpsters are crafting a memo to respond to the report that Mueller has not even written yet, based on the idiotic and seditious allegations that the investigation is tainted and illegal. Trump is now openly calling it an “illegal investigation.”

Yes, one of the agents involved had obvious Clinton leanings. Mueller fired him. There is NO EVIDENCE that this man perverted the investigation in any way prejudicial to Trump.

Yes, the investigation into possible ties between Trump’s campaign and the Russians began during the election. The suggestion, now being circulated by Trump’s media whores, that the FBI should have just approached Trump during the election so that he could deal with it is borderline insane.

It is inconceivable that the outreach to the Russians that clearly occurred to and from the Trump camp was a matter of “lone wolves” acting with no direction from the campaign itself. To have asked Trump to deal with it would have been like asking Mr. Wolf to please check on the Chicken Coup to make sure all the birds were OK. The inevitable answer would have been “They are fine…and they were delicious!”

Fact – the Trump Campaign was under investigation by the FBI stemming from VERY disturbing links to Russians that members of that campaign initiated and fostered, where we now all know that the Russians were actually trying to subvert democracy in the USA. How could the FBI have possibly not responded?

Trump’s constant commentary about Mueller and the investigation (“illegal”, “17 angry Democrats”…etc.) is seditious and represents an ongoing case of attempted obstruction of justice. Trump is the number one law enforcement officer in the USA, and not only is he commenting on it, he is openly subverting an on-going criminal investigation!

On its own, and in any other era in American history, this justifies impeachment.

Through his bombardment of idiocy and vitriol by way of his Tweets, and through his minions in the press, he has lulled us all into a sense of stupefaction, whereby we no longer understand what we are actually watching and hearing. He has worn us all down! We need to apply the pre-Trumpian ethical standards expected of elected officials and the executive branch in the USA.

The standards? 

No elected official can be permitted to shamelessly denigrate and attempt to influence the on-going workings of an active police investigation, especially one potentially related to the official himself! In fact, in order to preserve the sanctity of the investigative process and the appearance of legitimacy, elected officials who may possibly be touched by criminal investigations are supposed to step aside until the investigations are over.

How far below this simple and historic ethical standard regarding the administration of justice does this man fall? Far from protecting the integrity of the investigative process, his entire purpose is clearly to subvert it! In any other era, he would already be gone.

Prediction – the second his lawyer McGahn is gone and the mid-terms are over, Sessions will be fired and replaced by Rudy Giuliani.

Over to you, Republican patriots.