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Robert Mueller. |
12/3/18: Trump is ALIVE!!! He’s back in Washington and back to work tweeting insults and tampering with witnesses. Clearly, he realizes the Mueller investigation is closing in.
He knows, if he ends up in jail, Melania is not coming to visit.
First, he attacks Michael Cohen, his former fixer, for pleading guilty and fingering him in the process. According to Trump the rat should go to jail forever. His wife and parents ought to go to jail too – and his children – and his dog – and his pet goldfish! Trump is judge, jury, and asshole, rolled into one. Trial by tweet! It takes the president two shots to lay out his “case:”
“Michael Cohen asks judge for no
Prison Time.” You mean he can do all of the TERRIBLE, unrelated to Trump,
things having to do with fraud, big loans, Taxis, etc., and not serve a long
prison term? He makes up stories to get a GREAT & ALREADY reduced deal for
himself, and get.....
....his wife and
father-in-law (who has the money?) off Scott Free. He lied for this outcome and
should, in my opinion, serve a full and complete sentence.
First, we have the president putting an orange thumb on the scales of justice and pushing one side down.
Next, we have a little not-so-subtle witness tampering! Trump tried this gambit with Cohen back in April, insisting he’d never turn against him. (Wink, wink: Michael, hold out and you can expect a pardon!)
But Cohen flipped. Now, Trump says, Cohen is “weak.”
Knowing the circle is being closed around him, Trump flails away. This time he’s hinting at a pardon for a different underling:
“I will never testify against Trump.” This statement was recently made by Roger Stone, essentially stating that he will not be forced by a rogue and out of control prosecutor to make up lies and stories about “President Trump.” Nice to know that some people still have “guts!”
“In the face of great personal danger.”
Stone is the guy who testified in front of Congress that he never met with any Russians during the campaign. Then he had to amend his testimony and admit he did (after the “Fake News” people uncovered the details).
Finally, Trump lashes out at Special Counsel Mueller: “Bob Mueller (who is a much different man than people think) and his out of control band of Angry Democrats, don’t want the truth, they only want lies,” Trump tweets. “The truth is very bad for their mission!”
In other words, Stone has “guts” because he’ll lie to
protect Trump. Mueller is not the man people think he is.
Coming from Trump, there’s a bit of irony in these tweets. Mueller had the “guts” to join the Marines and saw combat in Vietnam. When Trump’s feet hurt too much to serve, Mueller was bleeding for his country. As a Marine officer he was caught in one firefight and awarded a Bronze Star with “V” for valor for leading his men out of a danger. In a second firefight, on 22 April 1969, Mueller was “seriously wounded.” For his actions that day he was awarded the Navy Commendation Medal with “V” for valor. A squad-size patrol under his command had come under fire from a large enemy force in ambush. “Completely disregarding his own safety,” the commendation reads,
First Lieutenant Mueller led the
remainder of his platoon in an attempt to relieve the beleaguered squad…By his
courage, aggressive leadership and steadfast devotion to duty in the face of great personal danger,
First Lieutenant Mueller inspired all who observed him and upheld the finest
traditions of the Marine Corps and of the United States Naval Service.
By comparison, Stone had “guts” like Trump had “guts.” He managed to avoid serving in the military. Born in 1952, he was the perfect age to enlist in 1970, had he wished. No thanks. He wished to head to college, where he would remain safe and sound and un-punctured by enemy fire.
In 1972 he did go to work for the Nixon campaign, making him a small cog in the most corrupt administration (until now) in U.S. history.
In 1976 Stone was elected president of the Young Republicans. His campaign manager was Paul Manafort.
In 1980 the two men formed a lobbying partnership with a third individual; and because they lobbied for a variety of brutal dictators, the firm won the nickname, “The Torturers’ Lobby.”
These are the kinds of people you continually uncover when you
look under the rocks of Trumpistan.
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WE ALSO LEARN TODAY, from Roger Stone’s lawyer, that his client has invoked the Fifth Amendment rather than hand over requested documents to the Senate Judiciary Committee. Because nothing says, “I did not meet with Russians during the 2016 campaign,” like pleading the Fifth.
Gary Smith, his attorney, calls it a simple “assertion of a Constitutional right by an innocent citizen who denounces secrecy.”
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