Trump's Russia strategy: Bash Mueller to beat impeachment

[mystery-ak]

 Trump's Russia strategy: Bash Mueller to beat impeachment

Giuliani and the White House fear Congress more than criminal charges.

By DARREN SAMUELSOHN

05/03/2018 07:34 PM EDT

President Donald Trump and his lawyers have made a strategic calculation that their fight against special counsel Robert Mueller is more political than it is legal.

They’re banking that the lead Russia investigator will follow long-standing Justice Department practice that a sitting president can’t be indicted, and that the only real threat to Trump’s survival is impeachment.

So long as that theory holds, Trump’s plan is to forcefully challenge Mueller in the arena he knows best — not the courtroom but the media, with a public campaign aimed at the special counsel’s credibility, especially among Republican voters and GOP members of Congress.

“The public strategy has now subsumed the legal strategy,” said a source who has worked with the president’s lawyers. “The public stance is fight, fight, fight. So the legal strategy is now fight, fight, fight.”

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[jpsb]

President Donald Trump and his lawyers have made a strategic calculation that their fight against special counsel Robert Mueller is more political than it is legal.


And the president is exactly right. And that POS Jeff Sessions needs to get into the fight.

[edpc]

It didn’t work for Clinton.  He had guys like Carville trashing Starr daily and he still got impeached.

[XenaLee]

It didn’t work for Clinton.  He had guys like Carville trashing Starr daily and he still got impeached.

Yeah, but the difference is.... Starr actually had a prosecutable crime to work with (perjury under oath).  Sure, it was "only about sex".   But then... it WAS done in the Oral Office, on duty, during Clinton's reign....

unlike this Stormy idiocy.

Again, what...exactly.... is the crime here?   What has Trump done that is against the law?  Somebody?  Anybody???

[truth_seeker]

Yeah, but the difference is.... Starr actually had a prosecutable crime to work with (perjury under oath).  Sure, it was "only about sex".   But then... it WAS done in the Oral Office, on duty, during Clinton's reign....

unlike this Stormy idiocy.

Again, what...exactly.... is the crime here?   What has Trump done that is against the law?  Somebody?  Anybody???

In retrospect, Starr's effort was a fishing  expedition, too.

And by doing so then, the GOP set the stage for this against Trump, today.

If the dems cannot completely bring trump down, they can weaken him.

It is far afield from "Russian interference," but that doesn't seem to matter.

As Maxine Waters says, "Impeah foty fo"

[edpc]

In retrospect, Starr's effort was a fishing  expedition, too.

No, it wasn’t.  Many people were indicted, convicted, and jailed over activities directly linked to the original investigation into Whitewater.  The McDougals, in particular, were guilty as hell.