Donald Trump is on day two of a Twitter hissy fit about the Mueller investigation, and specifically the New York Times report that White House counsel Don McGahn has been cooperating with the investigation. Trump required three long tweets to vent his rage, in every line conveying his belief that the special counsel’s team is as corrupt and rage-driven as Trump personally. Which makes some sense—if you’re a narcissist with a rage problem and a tunnel view of the world, being able to imagine that other people are driven by things other than narcissism and rage is probably just about impossible.
We’ll get to the next part in a moment, but first, “disgraced and discredited” … because Donald Trump says so? Yes, Team Trump is on a mission to discredit Mueller, but they haven’t managed to come up with anything that’s substantively discrediting other than “we don’t like him.” And bear in mind that Mueller, the head of the “Angry Democrat Thugs” is in fact a Republican. The best part, though, may be the “when they know there is no Russian Collusion,” as if this is a proven fact vs. the very heart of the investigation and something for which there is a large and growing pile of evidence.
Moving along:
Isn’t “looking for trouble” pretty much the job description of someone investigating democracy-undermining election interference? But blah blah blah HER EMAILS, ignore all the indictments coming out of the Mueller investigation.
Is that an admission of obstruction?
In any case, what Mueller has been charging people with is “conspiracy.” Collusion is not the technical legal term and it’s not what the lawyers will use—it’s what’s in the media. And it’s more than clear that people in the Trump campaign—on up to Don Jr.—colluded with Russian agents. The question at this point is not if it happened but which of them reached the level of criminality.