Anyone catch Rachel tonight? Trump demanding Mueller investigation to end by Jan 1, 2018

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She said he wants a full exoneration, to prepare for the midterms, by then or else he'd 'blow a gasket.' She showed a WP piece. So we can expect Mueller to be fired early in the New Year. What then?

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1. Mueller will call his bluff. If he even tries that he's summoning his own impeachment.

Expect some new indictments before then from Mueller to let trump know he's not running the investigation.

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4. LOL Ryan and McConnell are Russian co-conspirators

Not directed at you but no way in hell will Ryan and McConnell ever impeach Trump or even mouth verbal criticism.

[pnwmom]

9. When Trump is indicted with Russian mobsters will the GOP still refuse to impeach him?

There's nothing to stop the NY A.G. from indicting him, according to the Harvard Con Law prof, Laurence Tribe. And NY is the nexus of his money-laundering and other mob-related crimes.

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11. They'll have to do it if trump fires Mueller. More indictments of people very close to trump and...

media/public pressure will cause trump to resign or suffer impeachment — just as it happened with Nixon.

trump is not getting out this as if he is a dictator demanding the investigation to end.

That's not gonna happen, too many smoking Russian guns pointing right at trump and family.

[NewsCenter28]

13. The GOP is about to elect a child molester in Alabama

They and their voters care nothing about the rule of law. Only power and subjugating us.

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15. If you don't think electing pedophile Moore is the death kneel for the repugs you just don't get it.

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18. Access Hollywood should have ended Trump

But it didn't. Moore should have had to end his campaign but Bannon is rushing to his side to campaign for him next week. 90% of the GOP will always come home to support their guy. Bet you they'd even vote for Jeffrey Dahmer if he had an (R). They are that sick!

Sorry, I'm just really pissed off tonight!

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21. Even repugs are saying that if Moore is elected the repug party is dead. I want Jones to win but...

if the repugs are not able to talk Moore out of running that party is dead.

The party of child molesters and pu_ _ y grabbers is not going to play well in 2018.

[NewsCenter28]

22. I like our 2018 odds

A lot but think we'll have to win, and will win, without Mueller.

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25. Mueller has already helped us.

[Raster]

43. rethuglican hyperbole... it's the electoral power that matters...

...and to keep that electoral power, the rethuglicans would do just about anything...

I hear the Koch* brothers are ponying up for a kiddie pool out on the Mall.

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20. We are already several paces ahead of that.

You’re trusting the GOP to have a conscience. They DO NOT have any. Their president is a serial molester. Didn’t slow down the Republicans. Hasn’t slowed them. Won’t slow them. They are enabling this absolute shit show to proceed ever onward.

Fox, Breitbart, Rush, Hannity, all the usual suspects— they are defending Moore. He’s being portrayed as the VICTIM in this mess. Haven’t you heard? They are screwing with REALITY. Trump’s now saying that his “pussy-grabbing” video was faked.

The old days are gone. What Republicans say is the truth, ISN’T.

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23. Their child molester/pus_y grabber image won't play in 2018. Sorry to disappoint you.

Remember, trump's base that he's been playing to is only a third of the country.

2018 is gonna be a disaster for the repugs as the election pendulum swings back from the extreme right.

Backlashes to the party in power, especially in mid-terms has happened time and time again in American political history.

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32. Disappoint ME? Come on, now.

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I’ve been a loyal Democrat my entire voting life, which I’ll wager is much longer than you have. (Hint: I couldn’t vote until I was 21.) I’ve also been with DU since 2003.

I wish I could share your rosy point of view. Yes, Trump’s base may be a third of the country, but do you honestly think any state in the Deep South or the Midwest is going to vote all Democratic?

The reasons they’re winning with lower numbers: 1) Russian interference; 2) Huge corporate and individual donors (or “free speech” as Citizens United framed it); 3) Gerrymandering. In many states (North Carolina and Texas are the best examples), more Democrats vote than Republicans, but gerrymandering neutralizes it.

I’m not saying a Democrat won’t win the presidency in 2020. And they may take the Senate in 2018. But the House (again, by virtue of gerrymandering) will retain its Republican control. Bet on it.

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34. I doubt you've been a Dem longer than me. Also, I don't believe the repugs are all-powerful

We just saw what happened in Virginia and New Jersey.

Mid-terms often see power shifts from the party in power, not unusual at all.

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37. I registered as a Democrat in April 1970.

And in all that time, there have been only 3 Democratic presidents, as opposed to 6 Republicans. It ain’t easy being a Democrat.

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31. I never trust a repug to have anything but greed. You yourself seem to thing they control everything

and have no vulnerability. Not so.

If trump fires Mueller that will be a huge, public uproar with people in the streets protesting — including me.

If you think the women's march in January was big you ain't seen nothing yet.

Will you be there?

trump and his only one third of the country base won't get away with it.

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36. Hell yes Ill be there. Just like I was in 1968.

I got arrested with several other students by LAPD during a campus protest.

Republicans don’t control everything, but they’ve got: 1) The Supreme Court for several years, at least. And Trump’s filling lifetime lower judicial appointments like a one-armed paperhanger. They will interpret the law of the land, and it’s doubtful they’ll ever break for the little guy. 2) Endless money from the fattest donors who are buying a blind eye to federal regulations. FAR more than Democrats ever have in their war chest. 3) Fundraising and campaigning at state levels. No fewer than 32 states have Republican-controlled legislatures (compared to 13 for Democrats; 5 are split). It’s a lot easier to win a state in a general election when your machinery is already in place. 4) Fair elections— Republicans have already shown their colors (very white) in this matter. They make it tough on Democratic voters, with IDs, etc. Also, the extent of Russian interference is still unknown, and no safeguards have been established or put in place.

Not saying at all that Democrats can’t win, but it will require super-human effort to vault over the obstacles, which I am willing to do, with everything I have.

Peace

[WinkyDink]

24. I think one can overestimate the memory of Americans.

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26. Remember, trump's base that he's been playing to is only a third of the country.

2018 is gonna be a disaster for the repugs as the election pendulum swings back from the extreme right.

Backlashes to the party in power, especially in mid-terms has happened time and time again in American political history.

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42. Actually dodart's base is less than 1/3 of the country

He only truly has 1/3 of the republican party which wapo and other pollsters say leaves his true base more like 20-24 percent

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45. Good points.

[Kentonio]

44. I think 2018 is certainly going to be a terrible year for the GOP

But I don't think Roy Moore would make much difference to it either way.

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46. Last week one of the news stations had a group of GOP women from Al.

They didn't think there was much difference between a child molester and a 'pro-abortion' candidate. One said she didn't like Moore but she feared the democratic agenda even more. They'll get one more vote in the senate. That's all they care about.

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16. I wish that were true. But Republicans will never go there.

They rarely even criticize him to the media. ANY media. With maybe two or three exceptions, they are putting party before country. Republicans are sticking together even as their figurehead pulls America deeper into fascism.

It’s likely that Republican obstinacy is money driven (campaign funds). The Kochs, Sheldon Adelson, the Mercers— they want their money’s worth from the RW pols they bought. That’s certainly the goal of this “tax the middle class and send the wealth upstream” to the wealthy...Sorry, I meant “heroic job creators.”

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17. There will be additional indictments and things will spiral out of repug control.

Mueller will still be standing strong in January.

Just the fact that trump is demanding the investigation be over by Jan. 1 tells you that he's guilty. If he wasn't he wouldn't be worried.

trump is nothing but a bag of hot air, just as he is with NK. They've just tested a new missile that can reach DC and all trump does is say "we'll handle it".

He's nothing but a bluffer. Kim and Mueller both know it.

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27. Trump is not the head of the serpent.

There is actually a very good chance that Putin is the head, or close to it. GOP mega-donors and big corporations are also drooling at the holiday gift that #45 is offering with this deadly tax bill.

Republicans (with the exceptions of Flake and Corker, who are both retiring) have been as silent about Trump’s misdeeds as they were vocal about Hillary’s alleged faults.

We don’t have Republicans of the caliber we had during Watergate. Nobody’s going to call on Trump to resign or be impeached like Barry Goldwater did with Nixon. If those hearings were going on in today’s partisan climate, Nixon would be sprung along with his lieutenants.

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29. The tax cut scam is not a done deal, just as the ACA repeal was not a done deal.

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38. Didnt say it was a done deal. Its the IDEA of such an odious giveaway to the wealthy.

But they’re busting their Republican backsides to get this through. One by one, the senators who stepped away from the healthcare bill are actually giving in on this.

And it’s not like the healthcare bill went down in flames. It JUST missed passing. Far too close for comfort.

[Eyeball_Kid]

33. Trump was DIRECTED, via a direct tweet from a Russian

agent, to make the appeal to "Russia" to get Hillary's emails. That's the famous appeal we've all seen on TV. I've seen the exact tweet many times. Russia DIRECTED Trumpy to make that appeal.

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39. Absolutely. That Siberian Candidate is an affront to anything decent.

[TexasTowelie]

2. I have some ideas for stocking stuffers to put under the Christmas tree.

Note that I did not call it a Holiday tree.

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3. I stopped expecting when we gave birth to the most ...

Vile, dangerous human being to hold The potus

[dweller]

5. oh? so

fuk him... just another tantrum that amounts to squat... so fuk him !

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6. Who on earth ever expected to learn a human can be this filthy? The WORST human ever born

or however it was he got here.

My god.

Can't wait until he leaves, if he will do us the honor. Somehow I doubt it.

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7. go ahead and blow a gasket....

and a few arteries too while you're at it...

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8. I think he'll fire Mueller with impunity

The KGOP will cheer and then that will be that. Forgotten when the next 'sexual harassment' claim is released. The mid-terms then become crucial to determine if Trump sets up a quasi-monarchical presidency for life or is held somewhat in check by a Dem congress. Ryan and McConnell will just lick his boots.

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10. How many people will DT have to fire to get to Mueller? He can't directly fire Mueller.

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14. He can do it by executive order

The EO simply rescinds the DOJ special counsel regulations.

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19. I tend this week to agree with your view.

Some weeks i am more optimistic.

Even if fucking moron us indicted, and charged with crimes, who is going to arrest him ?

[RainCaster]

12. BFD- Rachel knows not to take 45 seriously

Don't lose any sleep over this ass clown. Patience grasshopper.

[SunSeeker]

28. NY AG Eric Schneiderman will just pick up where Mueller left off.

http://www.cnn.com/2017/08/30/politics/mueller-new-york-attorney-general-manafort/index.html

Trump can't fire Schneiderman. But Schneiderman better stay away from prostitutes. That's how Bush's DOJ was able to bring down Schneiderman's predecessor, Eliot Spitzer.

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30. Trump is going to be disappointed or pissed

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35. Apparently, McTurtle has given the Bleached Blowfish the judges he needs, now.

And by then Pedo Roy will be Sen Pedo Roy...

Their game plan is emerging and it looks like an authoritarian dictatorship with a FMOTUS in charge. SMDH

[Skittles]

40. he blew a gasket decades ago

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41. My gut instinct tells me that

Mueller has an ear to the Trump rail and knows the exact timing to drop more arrests/indictments. That will beat Trump to the finish line. Of course, Donnie is a drama queen. He might try to fire Mueller at any time, but my gut again tells me that enough republicans, at that moment, would turn toward impeachment and Trump's removal from office if Mueller is fired. Any way this pans out, we should clean up in the mid-terms. Only the most deluded Trumpanista's are still supporting him and those who kiss his big, fat ..... well you know what I mean.

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47. Numb nuts (NN) doesnt decide when it ends

NN has wanted to fire Mueller for months now, but everyone around him knows he will be impeached for sure if he does.