A Criminal Controls the Detective: Why Trump Will Soon Fire Robert Mueller








Investigators who have worked under Robert Mueller in the past say he always has the same investigative tactic: start around the edges and work towards the middle, picking off the easy prey at first, getting their cooperation by giving up others, moving slowly and steadily towards the main target, never forgetting that the money trail is hard to hide and a magnificent source of unhideable treasures when finally revealed for all the world to see.  This is exactly what Mueller has been doing for many months, and its scope is both broadening (not just Russia, but corruption in the Trump campaign, plus Trump financial dealings made off that campaign) and narrowing now as it hones in on Donald John Trump himself.  At Mueller’s side is an all-star legal team, experts in unearthing deeply buried secrets, dedicated to the truth.


When the investigation first started I didn’t think much would come of it.  It seemed to me that at most it would uncover piddling stuff, with some embarrassments perhaps for Trump and crew, but nothing major, nothing criminal, nothing worthy of, say, impeachment.


I’m beginning to think I was wrong.  All of those things are suddenly looming possibilities, now very real.  I am becoming sure that there are big things to find, things Donald Trump himself doesn’t want to thinks about: much actual documentable collusion with the Russians perhaps,  money dealings with promises made to whomever, false feeds to evil persons about Hillary, and perhaps even photos of that pissing game in Moscow that may or may not have happened.  Hmm. 






Here’s why I think all this is about to explode:


Trump’s behavior (always hard to explain unless you are a Kindergarten teacher who is constantly dealing with five year olds) has pointed us the way to his own guilt.  If there were nothing big to hide he wouldn’t keep making noisier and noisier stinks about it.  But every day it gets worse, and his nightly tweets now sound like the yapping of a particularly pissed off chihuahua.  It’s clear that aides, fearing a political catastrophe, have had to talk him out of firing the special counsel in the past when he was aching, aching to do so.  They just think he’s being, well, crazy.  I think he’s being, well, guilty and panicked. 


The Donald’s pissed all right, and the reason he’s so frantic is that he knows what the coming bad headlines will say, though the rest of us will have to wait for Mueller to reveal all before we hear the details.  When these revelations start leading on the evening news, the internet, and when indictments are filed in federal court, the Trumpster is right to worry they’ll quickly lead to (1) disgrace, (2) impeachment or resignation, (3) and/or prison.



Oh, but Our President can avoid all of this!!!  Just fire Mueller, claiming he’s a lackey of the Democrats who’s involved in a major witch hunt.  Refuse to allow further investigations.  Surely that will work!  He’s the President, by God!  And here’s what makes it all the more likely: Trump’s past life has been just like this!  Yes, he routinely has gotten himself into major trouble, even criminal trouble, but, with a payoff here and there, and some fancy maneuvers, he escapes more or less whole even if other enterprises (discrimination in housing in New York, casinos going bankrupt in Atlantic City, bad investments here and there, regular stiffing of people to whom he owes money, the bringing of endless baseless lawsuits, a major fraud with creating Trump University by taking the money of people who loved him—see below) crash and burn while he walks away, things collapsing in the background, and becomes a TV star.  Our President.  Donald Trump always comes out on top, and never mind the collateral damage.



Would it work out okay?  One more time?  Well, Trump hugely hopes so, but . . . well, he lives in a dream world as we all know.  Real life will be less friendly.  One of the major reasons Nixon resigned resulted from his firing of a lawyer investigating Watergate.  Almost no one supports the criminal dismissing the cop, and while the post-Mueller firing process will be longer and messier than a complete investigation by Mueller, it will likely end the same.



Maybe that’s enough for Trump.  Instead of being thrown out, say, later this year, he’ll make it to the next before he goes, possibly negotiating a deal that avoids jail at all.  That result would be worse for the country but perhaps better for Trump himself.






Asked to choose between those two (America, Trump) which do you think DJT will pick?







So, readers, that’s why I now predict Trump will fire Mueller soon.  I’d better hurry and post this or it will be old news.







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Related Posts:

“A Guide to the Best of My Blog”; http://douglaswhaley.blogspot.com/2013/04/a-guide-to-best-of-my-blog.html

“Comparing Donald Trump to a Badly Infected Big Toe,” August 3, 2016, http://douglaswhaley.blogspot.com/2016/08/comparing-donald-trump-to-badly_3.html

“Trump University: A Fraudster for President”? March 10, 2016; http://douglaswhaley.blogspot.com/2016/03/trump-university-fraudster-for-president.html

“President Preposterous: Donald Takes the Helm,” November 14, 2016; http://douglaswhaley.blogspot.com/2016/11/president-preposterous-donald-takes-helm_14.html

“Calm Yourself: What Trump Can and Cannot Do About LGBT Rights,” November 16, 2016; http://douglaswhaley.blogspot.com/2016/11/calm-yourself-what-trump-can-and-cannot_16.html

“Careful What You Wish For: Making Trump an Illegitimate President,” January 20, 2017; http://douglaswhaley.blogspot.com/2017/01/careful-what-you-wish-for-making-trump.html

“Fake News You Might Like to Read,” February 17, 2017; http://douglaswhaley.blogspot.com/2017/02/fake-news-you-might-like-to-read.html”

Embracing Michael Pence’s Coming Presidency,” February 28, 2017; http://douglaswhaley.blogspot.com/2017/02/embracing-michael-pences-coming.html

“Is Trump Clinically Insane?  The Goldwater Rule Revisited,” June 29, 2017;
http://douglaswhaley.blogspot.com/2017/06/is-trump-clinically-insane-goldwater.html

“Impeaching Donald Trump:  A Lawyer Looks at the Legal Issues,” August 16, 2017; http://douglaswhaley.blogspot.com/2017/08/impeaching-donald-trump-lawyer-looks-at.html

“Chaos in the Country: Eight Months of Trump’s Presidency”  August 28, 2017; https://douglaswhaley.blogspot.com/2017/08/chaos-in-country-eight-months-of-trumps.html


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