I will note that Rosenstein’s name is everywhere even when, as noted, he is supposedly a material witness.
Rosenstein, as an employee of the Justice Department, is trying to launch an illegal, but judicially executed, coup against his ultimate boss, Donald Trump. Jeff Sessions is AWOL.
Can’t we put someone in charge of the Justice Department who 1) likes Donald Trump; 2) values the rule of the law; 3) possesses moral courage; and 4) is intelligent?
Is that REALLY asking too much, Mr. President? Again, I don’t know what’s going on. Maybe you are getting ready to issue arrest warrants for all the Clintons, their cronies, and their enablers. I don’t know. But if there is nothing going on but mumbling and fumbling, this is not what competent management looks like. Trump can do better. He knows it. He also knows better than I do what has stayed his hand so far.
And I can’t resist the idea that Giuliani putting the idea out there that Trump lied about the payment to Stormy Daniels is a sort of trial close, a balloon lofted to see which way it goes. Does anybody care? Apparently no. The usual screamers screamed, but they do that every day, no matter what. One would think they would be tired by now, never shutting up.
Here is the thing: EVERYONE knows that Trump knew about the payment. We knew it then, and it doesn’t surprise us now.
And most of us can contextualize this as maneuvering in a severely hostile environment, filled with liars, thieves, and probably a few murderers.
We know that for every lie Trump might tell to cover his ass, the media and his enemies tell 100 trying to get his ass. And a great many of us are on his side. Fuck those people. Fuck the people who lie as easily as breathing, yet are somehow surprised and disappointed that we don’t react the way they hoped when they show us some new alleged atrocity Trump has committed. We get they are criminals themselves, covering for criminals, trying to get a man who is honest in the ways we care about.
If Trump fucked Stormy, then gave her some money to shut up for a while, so fucking what? That’s between him and Melania. North Korea is on the verge of ending a war which has lasted since the early 1950’s. And I suspect Trump has an end game for the Israeli-Arab conflict too, and quite possibly even Iran. Those are the major conflicts, or potential conflicts, we face.
You have to ask: for whom would global peace be a disaster?
Who are the people who are frightened and threatened by competence, honesty and sincere patriotism?
It’s partly a question of following the money, but also one of following the ideology. I ask again: how did a man who voted for the Communist candidate in 1976 get to be head of the CIA?