President Donald Trump appears intent on fueling calls for impeachment with unhinged statements calling some who worked with Special Counsel Robert Mueller as possible “traitors” and promising to “turn the tables” and to “bring them to justice”. While the President could simply relish the lack of findings of any criminal conduct, he has again adopted disturbing rhetoric that is reminiscent more of authoritarian regimes than American administrations.
Trump is golfing at Mar-a-Lago but took time out for incendiary tweets. The tweets are chilling:
“Statements are made about me by certain people in the Crazy Mueller Report, in itself written by 18 Angry Democrat Trump Haters, which are fabricated & totally untrue.”
“It was not necessary for me to respond to statements made in the “Report” about me, some of which are total bullshit & only given to make the other person look good (or me to look bad). This was an Illegally Started Hoax that never should have happened.”
“It is now finally time to turn the tables and bring justice to some very sick and dangerous people who have committed very serious crimes, perhaps even spying or treason. This should never happen again!”
It is not clear who Trump is referencing but it is the type of rhetoric that fueled the allegations of obstruction. The Special Counsel report is a 400 page tale of self-inflicted wounds. Trump however is clearly not deterred in leveling such incendiary charges against his critics.
Such rhetoric is likely to only push both Congress and Mueller into more defiant stances when Trump should be trying to move the country beyond the controversy.
Next the impeachment and then reelection. Hilary lost Trump won get over it.
The evidentiary trail leads straight to Obama’s doorstep.
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“POTUS (Obama) wants to know everything we’re doing.”
– Lisa Page to Peter Strzok
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“The White House is running this.”
– “Redacted” to Peter Strzok to Lisa Page
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The Obama Coup D’etat in America is the most egregious abuse of power and the most prodigious scandal in American political history.
The co-conspirators are:
Rosenstein, Mueller/Team, Comey, McCabe, Strozk, Page, Kadzic, Yates, Baker,
Bruce Ohr, Nellie Ohr, Priestap, Kortan, Campbell, Sir Richard Dearlove, Steele,
Simpson, Joseph Mifsud, Alexander Downer, Stefan “The Walrus” Halper, Kerry,
Hillary, Huma, Mills, Brennan, Clapper, Lerner, Farkas, Power, Lynch, Rice, Jarrett,
Sessions, Obama et al.
If “unhinged” means not connected to or unrelated to, then I don’t see how anyone could apply that to how the President is responding to this entire matter. He was accused of doing something he knew he did not do, by people that not only knew he didnt do it, but in fact created the story. I feel that alone gives him the absolute right to connect those peoples efforts to destroy him, his family and his presidency to acts of treason….unhinged ??? sorry wrong choice of words IMO
If he didn’t do it, why was he and everyone in his campaign regularly lying about it?
Trump was telling the truth about Russian collusion…you anonymous moron.
So Ivan, when Trump personally constructed a false cover story for the Trump Tower meeting, you think that was true? Interesting theory.
No, I thought he was deceptive because it was embarrassing for his team to have sat down with Russians offering dirt. It wasn’t illegal to have had this meeting, but he exposed himself to accusations of “obstruction” even though there was no underlying crime.
Hillary, on the other hand, paid Russians to tell lies about Trump and then pushed those lies into the media and the FBI to start a fake investigation.
The difference between the two is enormous as you will soon discover.
If he was or should I say is why did he spend sooo much time trying to hide what he did. Did you see his litany of “I DONT REMEMBER?
As to telling the truth, he doesn’t. Tell the truth about anything.
Whenever the Left (e.g. Anon, L4D, Peter Shill, Fishwings, et al) raise the issue of lying, they show how morally bankrupt they are. Ted Kennedy will always be remembered best for killing an innocent woman, Mary Jo Kopechne, whom he left for dead to save his own skin, when he drove off a bridge drunk, at Chappaquiddick Island in Massachusetts. Yet, the Left celebrate him as a titan.
the Left will abort you like a developing unborn baby when you are perceived an inconvenience. They never have standing in any arguments related to morality. None
JFK, Monster
By Timothy Noah
“I knew that John F. Kennedy was a compulsive, even pathological adulterer, given to taking outlandish risks after he entered the White House. I knew he treated women like whores. And I knew he had more than a few issues with his father about toughness and manliness and all that. But before I read in the newspaper that Mimi Alford’s just-released memoir, Once Upon A Secret: My Affair With President John F. Kennedy And Its Aftermath, described giving Dave Powers a blow job at JFK’s request and in his presence, I didn’t know that Kennedy had an appetite for subjecting those close to him to extreme humiliation.”
Estovir,
I like your style.
Estovir, I wasn’t driving Kennedy’s car. In fact, I wasn’t old enough to drive. To hold me responsible for Kopechne’s death is about as stupid as it gets.
Ivan, the definition of Anon is:
Sense 1. Ignore me now and forever.
Sense 2. Never forget sense one.
Most people, from both parties, have always viewed Russiagate as a sham and distraction, trying to demonize both Russia and Trump with false accusations, while ignoring the fact that every recent US administration is guilty of collusion with Israel. Why not impeach Mr Trump for his mental dysfunction? The evidence for that could not be more clear.
“collusion with Israel.”
I suppose our local … doesn’t think we collude with Great Britain, France, Germany etc. Only Israel is bad. What a horror. A people that live within their borders are attacked over and over again. Israel gives up Gaza with nothing in exchange and missiles fly from Gaza to Israel to kill woman and children. Israel has Arabs on the Knesset and Supreme Court while Jews are lucky to remain alive in almost all those countries.
Some people are haters and not too bright. This person seems to be one of them.
Who are these “most” people to whom you refer? I think most people think Trump has a very strange proclivity to do Putin’s bidding or to at least make policy choices that benefit Putin’s desire to disrupt the EU and the rest of the world. Is it collusion, is it conspiracy, has he been bought or does he just agree with Putin that he and Russia have been bad,y treated and should be able to march into any country it wants, who knows. But it sure smells fishy.
As to collusion with Israel. I assume you mean Trump also.
As to his mental state, the GOP love the circus, they don’t care.
Remember,Remember the fifth of November the Deep state treason and plot.
Remember it? No one here can even describe what it was. I know. I’ve asked most of the true believers here.
Stop the gaslighting. The details of the hoax are extremely well known. In fact there are so many known details that it takes a book-length post to “describe” the details…go read the bestselling book, “The Russian Hoax,” if you’re actually interested.
Or you could just wait a couple of months for the coming deluge: the IG report, Trump declassification, and oh so many Grand Jury indictments.
Gaslighting indeed.
11 Warning Signs of Gaslighting
Gaslighting is a manipulation tactic used to gain power. And it works too well.
Gaslighting is a tactic in which a person or entity, in order to gain more power, makes a victim question their reality. It works much better than you may think. Anyone is susceptible to gaslighting, and it is a common technique of abusers, dictators, narcissists, and cult leaders. It is done slowly, so the victim doesn’t realize how much they’ve been brainwashed. For example, in the movie Gaslight (1944), a man manipulates his wife to the point where she thinks she is losing her mind.
…..gaslighters typically use the following techniques:
1. They tell blatant lies.
You know it’s an outright lie. Yet they are telling you this lie with a straight face. Why are they so blatant? Because they’re setting up a precedent. Once they tell you a huge lie, you’re not sure if anything they say is true. Keeping you unsteady and off-kilter is the goal.
2. They deny they ever said something, even though you have proof.
You know they said they would do something; you know you heard it. But they out and out deny it. It makes you start questioning your reality—maybe they never said that thing. And the more they do this, the more you question your reality and start accepting theirs.
3. They use what is near and dear to you as ammunition.
They know how important your kids are to you, and they know how important your identity is to you. So those may be one of the first things they attack. If you have kids, they tell you that you should not have had those children. They will tell you’d be a worthy person if only you didn’t have a long list of negative traits. They attack the foundation of your being.
4. They wear you down over time.
This is one of the insidious things about gaslighting—it is done gradually, over time. A lie here, a lie there, a snide comment every so often…and then it starts ramping up. Even the brightest, most self-aware people can be sucked into gaslighting—it is that effective. It’s the “frog in the frying pan” analogy: The heat is turned up slowly, so the frog never realizes what’s happening to it.
5. Their actions do not match their words.
When dealing with a person or entity that gaslights, look at what they are doing rather than what they are saying. What they are saying means nothing; it is just talk. What they are doing is the issue.
6. They throw in positive reinforcement to confuse you.
This person or entity that is cutting you down, telling you that you don’t have value, is now praising you for something you did. This adds an additional sense of uneasiness. You think, “Well maybe they aren’t so bad.” Yes, they are. This is a calculated attempt to keep you off-kilter—and again, to question your reality. Also look at what you were praised for; it is probably something that served the gaslighter.
7. They know confusion weakens people.
Gaslighters know that people like having a sense of stability and normalcy. Their goal is to uproot this and make you constantly question everything. And humans’ natural tendency is to look to the person or entity that will help you feel more stable—and that happens to be the gaslighter.
8. They project.
They are a drug user or a cheater, yet they are constantly accusing you of that. This is done so often that you start trying to defend yourself, and are distracted from the gaslighter’s own behavior.
9. They try to align people against you.
Gaslighters are masters at manipulating and finding the people they know will stand by them no matter what—and they use these people against you. They will make comments such as, “This person knows that you’re not right,” or “This person knows you’re useless too.” Keep in mind it does not mean that these people actually said these things. A gaslighter is a constant liar. When the gaslighter uses this tactic it makes you feel like you don’t know who to trust or turn to—and that leads you right back to the gaslighter. And that’s exactly what they want: Isolation gives them more control
10. They tell you or others that you are crazy.
This is one of the most effective tools of the gaslighter, because it’s dismissive. The gaslighter knows if they question your sanity, people will not believe you when you tell them the gaslighter is abusive or out-of-control. It’s a master technique.
11. They tell you everyone else is a liar.
By telling you that everyone else (your family, the media) is a liar, it again makes you question your reality. You’ve never known someone with the audacity to do this, so they must be telling the truth, right? No. It’s a manipulation technique. It makes people turn to the gaslighter for the “correct” information—which isn’t correct information at all.
The more you are aware of these techniques, the quicker you can identify them and avoid falling into the gaslighter’s trap.
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/here-there-and-everywhere/201701/11-warning-signs-gaslighting
See the movie Gaslight with Ingrid Bergman.
Saw it decades ago but remember little of it
“The term originates in the systematic psychological manipulation of a victim by her husband in the 1938 stage play Gaslight, known as Angel Street in the United States, and the film adaptations released in 1940 and 1944.[7] In the story, a husband attempts to convince his wife and others that she is insane by manipulating small elements of their environment and insisting that she is mistaken, remembering things incorrectly, or delusional when she points out these changes. The original title stems from the dimming of the gas lights in the house that happened when the husband was using the gas lights in the sealed-off attic above while searching for the jewels belonging to a woman whom he had murdered. The wife correctly notices the dimming lights and discusses it with her husband, but he insists that she merely imagined a change in the level of illumination”
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaslighting
Anyone on the blog know what “The Joe McCarthy Era” was about?
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Verified account @jadler1969
It seems to me that some folks have adopted awfully broad (and problematic) definitions of “obstruction,” and that these definitions could create problems for the practice of law. (brief thread) 1/
Aggressive rhetoric? Yes. Impulse control lacking? Yes. Does the public persona interfere with effective governance? Yes. Despite these negative attributes, it’s understandable that our President would be angry that there appears to have been a concerted clandestine effort to prevent the Trump Presidency and to cast a cloud over it. Perhaps the Report of the Inspector General will enlighten the citizenry whose tax dollars paid for the prolonged Meuller investigation, the Manafort forfeiture notwithstanding. Perhaps A.G. Barr will reshape the Justice Department to restore our faith in the justice system. Some of us went to law school because we cared deeply about justice. In the meantime, I encourage a robust dialogue and hope that the circumstances that resulted in the two year cloud over the current administration will be fully explored. We deserve that.
Coverup Barr will reshape the DOJ but not to raise its integrity quotient or the faith of the American People. It’s all about the coverup for Barr.
“Barr will reshape the DOJ“
We are looking forward to the DOJ’s IG report on Obama’s legacy at DOJ.
Considering the embarrassing AGs Obummer had, Barr is a welcome for Americans who know DOJ is broken.
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Targeting Bill Barr
Unlike Loretta Lynch, the AG does his duty on ‘prosecutorial judgment.’
Mr. Barr was trying to satisfy the Democratic demand to see the report as soon as possible while he vetted the details for material that had to be redacted for sound legal and intelligence reasons. His four-page summary fairly characterized its conclusions on collusion and obstruction of justice while promising the full report soon. He even quoted Mr. Mueller’s line that the report “does not exonerate” Mr. Trump. A summary couldn’t contain the details that Mr. Mueller took 488 pages to describe, and now those details are public warts and all.
Democrats also want Mr. Barr to take a vow of silence so they’re the only people who can explain what the Mueller report means. But Mr. Mueller works for Mr. Barr, who had no legal obligation to release any of the report to Congress. He made a prudent judgment in the public interest to do so, as he promised during his Senate confirmation hearing.
Especially since Mr. Mueller abdicated on making any “prosecutorial judgment” about obstruction, Mr. Barr also had a duty to provide his own judgment on the law. Democrats may not like his conclusion, but at least Mr. Barr didn’t run for the tall grass like Obama-era AG Loretta Lynch did on the Hillary Clinton emails. She deferred, disastrously as later became clear, to FBI director James Comey’s inappropriate prosecutorial pre-emption. Mr. Barr stood up and took responsibility like a real Attorney General.
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Mr. Barr is also being attacked for making redactions, and House Democrats said Friday they’ll subpoena the unredacted version and all background material. Yet Mr. Barr says senior Members of Congress will be able to see all redacted material except for what is legally protected by grand-jury secrecy. Mr. Barr would have to petition the judge who supervised the grand jury to release such testimony, which is secret under the law to ensure people speak honestly and to protect the innocent.
If Mr. Barr resists the subpoenas, Congress is likely to lose the legal fight. Congress has an interest in the report as part of its oversight duties, but the executive branch also has an interest in protecting the integrity of judicial proceedings. Congress will be able to see everything in the report except grand-jury material. Under the Supreme Court’s balancing test in the Nixon tapes case (U.S. v. Nixon), Mr. Barr is on strong legal ground.
The larger Democratic concern is that Mr. Barr is serious about looking into the origins of the FBI’s surveillance of the Trump campaign in 2016. That could mean turning over such rocks as the FBI-Clinton-media collaboration over the discredited Steele dossier, or whether officials misled the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court in seeking a warrant to eavesdrop on Trump adviser Carter Page. The Mueller report barely mentions the Steele dossier, which suggests the special counsel could not corroborate its allegations.
The Justice Department Inspector General is expected to issue a report on much of this in the coming months, and criminal referrals can’t be ruled out. Several criminal referrals have already come from Congress. Any prosecutions would no doubt require Mr. Barr’s assent, and Democrats are sending a message that he’ll pay a political price if he doesn’t call the whole thing off.
As he’s learning in this second turn as AG, Mr. Barr will be hammered no matter what he decides. The good news is that the country finally appears to have an Attorney General who can take the heat.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/targeting-bill-barr-11555714643
Trump’s tweet you cite contains “calling some who worked with Special Counsel Robert Mueller as possible “traitors” and promising to “turn the tables” and to “bring them to justice”. So, how do you figure this implies Mueller’s team as opposed to the DOJ and FBI and Obama people that we already know should be investigated and, perhaps, prosecuted?
Tog,
Trump’s tweets could be his complaints about those who worked with, or gave statements to, the Mueller team.
His words weren’t specific enough to tell if he was talking about the Mueller team itself, those who gave statements to the OSC, or both.
As far as the FBI and DOJ, it looks like they’ve already “cleaned house” with the dismissals or demotions.
Sessions’ appointment of U.S.Attormey Huber appears to have produced no results, and very little activity in the way of an investigation.
Based on last summer’s testimony, AG Horowitz is was still continuing his investigation beyond what was included in his initial report.
It’ll probably be up to the DOJ to determine if some FBI officials actually violated any laws.
At the DOJ, the activities of the Ohrs and maybe others will be subject to “the same call” on the legality of their actions.
JT stated, “It is not clear who Trump is referencing”
Could that be Sen. Elizabeth Warren, aka Pocahontas? Squaw is low in the polls @ 6% or 7% & thinks she will get more points on score board by calling Congress to begin impeachment proceedings against Trump.
Chiefs, elders, medicine men want to smoke peace pipe with orange man, but Pocahontas no smoke, drinks fire water, seeks war path and scalp of orange man. Bad medicine.
LOL
The real take on this is that Fatso is waking up to the bad news for him in the report details and his endzone dance over the Tool General’s spin was premature.
Good times.
Hammer hits nail. Hammer hits nail. Hammer hits nail. Thought processes non existent.
You are referring to jerry nadler (fatso), right?
That would be “Fats Domino” who had an axe to grind with Trump way back in the 1990’s
At times, it almost appears that Trump may be “a little” thin-skinned.😉
We’ll find out who, specifically, he was talking about when he has them rounded up and imprisoned.😟😲
Have you seen the FISA’s, the 302’s et. al.? Our President has. The storm is coming. Happy Easter!
Is this any less extreme than James Clapper stating live on CNN that Trump was a “traitor” for engaging with Putin in a summit and then refusing to back down? Has not the “traitor” rhetoric been used many times by American politicians (and by many others) to describe our president’s (now disproven) agency with Putin? So lets not get our knickers in a twist, professor.
Trump has overly aggressive response to perceived attacks, but has not demonstrated any questionable actions. He “blows up, screams out death threats and the cools down”. A troubling trait, but not illegal? Hard to know what’s really happening since news reports are no reliable
I’m still waiting for the schill and smallwell drop dead “secret” evidence on collusion they claim to have.
A great many judges and prosecutors (who’ve awarded themselves comprehensive immunity) deserve to be stomped on with steel-toed boots.
Turley’s view is, of course, that you must never hold an attorney accountable for anything unless he’s kinda icky like Michael Cohen.
Professor – Trump knows he is guilty – this is all he has – tear down the Justice Dept, FBI and others. The damage he is doing to the country is generational, and you and the Repubs are supporting and enabling him, and the Dems are a bunch of whiny losers with no backbone by and large. So the country is screwed.
captain, can you list the crimes? No. After over two years the Mueller Report proved no collusion. Learn to face reality.
Trump speaks this way because he lists after the power of a dictator. He wants to be able to bury his critics. He is happy with MBS and Putin because they do it and get away with it. The GOP loves this grim circus and they don’t care what it does to our country.l
and the concept of the rule of law means nothing to you? I would wait for the IG report before slamming Trump and supporting what will most probably prove to be a cabal of seditious angry democrats.
I will judge Mr. Trump on what he says and how he behaves. I don’t need a report for that. I think Mueller has made it clear that it is time for Congress to act but he seems to have forgotten that the GOP loves Trump and no matter what he has done they won’t do a thing.
As to “rule of law”, I believe it was wrong for Mueller not to indict the President because it puts the President above the law. No office should impact immunity to the office holder and that includes the presidency.
Kind of like Obama used his “power” when he had it…you think Obama didn’t “bury his critics”?? only difference is that Trump fights his own battles out in the open…Obama had his dupes and mouthpieces do his dirty work for him….and then he weaponized the instruments of government to go after his critics and “enemies”…..ask reporters/press people what it was really like covering the Obama administration….
“People gotta talk themselves into law and order before they do anything about it maybe because down deep they don’t care.,.they just don’t care”
Impeach Obama!
Peter Shill, you are channeling Linda Blair. The power of Christ compels you!!!