Donald Trump seems to have finally gone completely off the deep end with his claim that he could run the Mueller investigation if he wanted to.
I came up with this handful of possible explanations, and I’d like to see what the consensus here is.
- He had to top “Truth isn’t truth”.
- It’s just fodder for his base, showing them once again that he’s the best at everything and they should revere him as a deity.
- He thinks that shutting the investigation down qualifies as “running” it, as in, running it into the ground.
- He would use it to prove himself innocent, the way a Stalin-era show trial could convict a ham sandwich of crimes against the People.
- He would pervert it in another direction, say, to use like the old House Un-American Activities Committee.
- He means “could” as in he has the power to take it over.
- He really believes he could somehow investigate himself honestly.