General Trump hilarity free-for-all thread

[Doktor Howl]

Well, the Acting Attorney General doesn't like Mueller much, but I believe a permanent replacement has to be approved by the Senate before they can interfere.  You may recall the Senate Republicans said there "would be hell to pay" if Sessions was fired...I don't know how much faith I put in their statements myself, so I wouldn't necessarily rely on that.

After last night, from this point forward, they are going to do whatever Trump tells them to do.

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If they haven't already begun to yell and scream, they near certainly won't — save maybe a couple individuals who have no real impact (a la Flake, McCain, etc).

I can't see the Senate turning on Trump this late in the game, with as poor a playing field as they have for their own party as is. If they had an unquestionable win, I think they MIGHT clean up, but they did not.

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Apparently Rosenstein went to the White House just now?https://twitter.com/KellyO/status/1060275012719050759?s=20

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Well, the Acting Attorney General doesn't like Mueller much, but I believe a permanent replacement has to be approved by the Senate before they can interfere.

You might want to reconsider.

https://apple.news/AwegbHanFRjCZh4d8O9bang

EDIT: To be clear, this isn't saying you're wrong in a de jure sense. It's just noting we all haven't quite gotten used to the clear fact that the law isn't exactly stopping anyone in this administration from doing whatever the hell they want.

[Prelate Diogenes Shandor]

Republicans<Libertarians<Democrats<Dead people, animals, major appliances, and the Green Party

My math skills might not be what they once were, but are you saying the Green Party is most preferable to you?

Technically a tie for first place between the Green Party, dead people, and inanimate objects

[Doktor Howl]

Republicans<Libertarians<Democrats<Dead people, animals, major appliances, and the Green Party

My math skills might not be what they once were, but are you saying the Green Party is most preferable to you?

Technically a tie for first place between the Green Party, dead people, and inanimate objects

Eat a bag of dicks.

[Doktor Howl]

Well, the Acting Attorney General doesn't like Mueller much, but I believe a permanent replacement has to be approved by the Senate before they can interfere.

You might want to reconsider.

https://apple.news/AwegbHanFRjCZh4d8O9bang

EDIT: To be clear, this isn't saying you're wrong in a de jure sense. It's just noting we all haven't quite gotten used to the clear fact that the law isn't exactly stopping anyone in this administration from doing whatever the hell they want.

Very much this.  Trump now absolutely owns the republican party, the court is stacked, the senate is effectively deep red, and any kind of impeachment is going to die in the water.

Checks and balances are no longer a thing.

[Doktor Howl]

Bets on which position Hannity is going to be offered? 

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In theory, Trump could still potentially make a move so abhorrent that all the Republicans would rise up against him.

In theory.

In practice, if they didn't throw him out on his ass after Charlottesville or publicly labeling himself a nationalist, I can't think of anything he couldn't get away with, especially given he now owns every Republican ass in the same way that a person owns their pet dog.

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Bets on which position Hannity is going to be offered? 

The Trump administration runs on inverse meritocracy, so he'll get something particularly high level. Perhaps Attorney General.

I'm not joking.

[Doktor Howl]

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trump-just-seized-the-reins-on-the-mueller-probe/ar-BBPsgr7?ocid=spartanntp

WHAT I SAID.

[Cain]

Well, the Acting Attorney General doesn't like Mueller much, but I believe a permanent replacement has to be approved by the Senate before they can interfere.

You might want to reconsider.

https://apple.news/AwegbHanFRjCZh4d8O9bang

EDIT: To be clear, this isn't saying you're wrong in a de jure sense. It's just noting we all haven't quite gotten used to the clear fact that the law isn't exactly stopping anyone in this administration from doing whatever the hell they want.

Yeah, you're not wrong at all on that score.  I'm actually not sure what the legal position is on this, but it would not at all suprise me if they just ignored it entirely to do what they wanted.

Of course, there is another option too

"So I could see a scenario where Jeff Sessions is replaced with a recess appointment," Whitaker said, "and that attorney general doesn't fire Bob Mueller, but he just reduces his budget to so low that his investigation grinds to almost a halt."

Who said that? Just the guy who is now Acting Attorney-General.

[Doktor Howl]

Well, the Acting Attorney General doesn't like Mueller much, but I believe a permanent replacement has to be approved by the Senate before they can interfere.

You might want to reconsider.

https://apple.news/AwegbHanFRjCZh4d8O9bang

EDIT: To be clear, this isn't saying you're wrong in a de jure sense. It's just noting we all haven't quite gotten used to the clear fact that the law isn't exactly stopping anyone in this administration from doing whatever the hell they want.

Yeah, you're not wrong at all on that score.  I'm actually not sure what the legal position is on this, but it would not at all suprise me if they just ignored it entirely to do what they wanted.

Of course, there is another option too

"So I could see a scenario where Jeff Sessions is replaced with a recess appointment," Whitaker said, "and that attorney general doesn't fire Bob Mueller, but he just reduces his budget to so low that his investigation grinds to almost a halt."

Who said that? Just the guy who is now Acting Attorney-General.

Yep.

[Cain]

NBC's now reporting Rosenstein has been taken off the Mueller investigation

[Doktor Howl]

NBC's now reporting Rosenstein has been taken off the Mueller investigation

dun DUN DUNNNNNN