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Of course to say he tried and failed presumes he’s actually trying to make a falsifiable prediction when his secret is scrupulously avoiding ever doing that-the method in his madness is he never wants to be proven wrong-so he scrupulously avoids actually predicting anything that can later be falsified. Rush doesn’t care about the truth-assuming  a disingenuous GOP partisan hack like him would recognize truth if it came wrapped in an Oxytocin bottle. Kellyann Conway may talk about ‘alternative facts’ but Rush already resided in this alternative universe for 31 years.

FN: With all the analysis that an experience Right wing talk show host like Charlie Sykes has done about Right wing radio and how instrumental it was in the rise of fake news, Rush was the real pioneer. To this day, all these Right wing radio hosts owe a debt to Rush-he’s the prototype.

But when Rush declares that the Democrats want to impeach Trump because they don’t think they can beat him, he’s not so much trying to tell his audience what he believes as what he believes they want to hear and even more importantly need to here and secondly he wants to be sure not to make a falsifiable prediction that will show him for the dishonest, clueless hack he actually is.

And to opine that the Democrats want to impeach Trump because they don’t think they can beat him satisfies A and B:

A. It’s unfalsifiable as how can you really prove what the Democrats’ motivations-or anyone’s motivations-actually are? While someone’s motivations may be very obvious, knowing it is one thing proving it is another. So this is one way Rush proves he’s ‘right 98.6% of the time’ or whatever-by making assertions about things that aren’t even falsifiable-it’s not very easy to show that they’re wrong and then his Dittoheads make the false inference that therefore he must be right. 

B. But the reason Limbaugh is saying this is why he says 99% of what he says on his GOP propaganda of a radio show: to-no matter the headlines, and no matter what the facts on the ground, to make his Dittoheads feel like they’re winning.

He’s trying to convince them here that despite all the news about Mueller, the Democrats historical wave election last November, the new investigations the Democrats are ramping up-we are winning. That’s always Rush Limbaugh’s message-we Republican Dittoheads are winning. Ditto Rush!

So he’s crowing. Trump has a 46% approval rating! Let’s have a tickertape parade!

No, no. I think it means the Democrats expect Trump to be reelected. And look, after that CPAC speech Saturday, everybody knows he’s gonna be reelected. A couple more of those, and it’s over. But the Democrats are telling us they think that he’s gonna be reelected. That’s what Nadler’s doing. This witch hunt. I’ll explain this to you. Greetings, my friends, and welcome back. Rush Limbaugh here at 800-282-2882. And the email address, ElRushbo@eibnet.us.”

Okay. So we have the news all over the place — and, by the way, there’s news that accompanies this, and that is the NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll that was published on Monday. It was buried, the news in that poll was buried with the headline: “Trump Faces Headwinds Toward Reelection.” That’s not the story in that poll.

The story in that poll is that Trump’s approval number is 46%, and they’re dying on the left! They’re dying! They have focused everything they’ve got on running Trump’s numbers down, as you’ve now heard me say I don’t know how many millions of times, to the twenties and thirties. That has been the objective all along. That’s been the objective of the Mueller probe; it’s been the objective of all this attention is to separate Trump from his supporters and finally create that wedge. It’s failed.

Has it failed or has it not really begun in earnest yet? First of all, while Rush likes to avoid falsifiable statements note that he throws in one statement that is actually true-the Democrats do want and need Trump’s numbers in the twenties and thirties. But it’s interesting that Rush considers 46% Herculean or something. It just shows you how situational and partisan everything that Rush and his GOP hacks say actually is. Think about it-for years Obama’s numbers were about 46% and Rush was gloating about how unpopular he is.

And that was Obama’s average. This NBC/WSJ poll is actually an outlier-they have had what Nate Silver calls a Trump house effect-Trump’s poll averages are in the 42-43% range.  According to RealClearPolitics Trump’s average is 43.4%. 

According to Silver’s 538 his average is 41.9%. 

So for Limbaugh to focus on 46% is both misleading-as it’s an outlier, it’s about as high as Trump has gotten in a non Rasmussen poll-and it’s also hypocritical as Obama had an average of 46% for a few years and Rush was gloating about how unpopular he allegedly was.

Again it’s not what Rush believes to be true that matters but what he believes his Ditthoheaded troops need to hear to make them feel as if they’re winning-wether they are or not.

A very similar thing is going on with the economy. In this segment Limbaugh gloats about how great the economy supposedly is therefore presumably making ‘President Trump’ unbeatable.

The economy is going great guns, manufacturing and homebuilding are reaching new highs — things that were plummeting under Obama — and the Democrats are starting to step in it. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the story is she should be going to jail. That will never happen, but she has been commingling personal funds with campaign funds. Like a million bucks! Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s mom got tired of the high taxes in New York and fled to Eustis, Florida. You know where Eustis, Florida, is?

Wait a minute-he thinks AOC should be going to jail for alleged campaign violations? I guess he must have missed Michael Cohen’s testimony last week about the hush money payments. Cohen is going to prison for three years and ‘President Trump’ would be too if he weren’t ‘the President’-as always I use scare quotes as he didn’t win his office legitimately. Rush can say all these things that make the GOP Ditthoheads feel they’re winning every single day and illegitimate ‘President Trump’ won’t become anymore legitimate.

But I’m sure if Rush ever learns of Cohen’s testimony he’s going to start demanding that this so-called ‘President’, this so-called ‘man’ go to jail in the cell next to where he thinks AOC should go to.

UPDATE: Hopefully you are sitting down for this so as not to go into shock: the alleged campaign violations of AOC is just more slander on the part of Rush and his fellow GOP co-conspirators.

But wait until he hears that Trump only ‘won’ that election by coordinating and conspiring with the Russians, Wikileaks, and the rogue anti Clinton pro Trump agents at the FBI-Chapter A for more. He may demand that Trump go to prison for the rest of his life like his campaign manager is supposed to according to guidelines. But a Trump supporting judge, T.S. Elliot did a Jim Comey and said ‘to hell with the guidelines they’re being so mean to President Trump.’

In reality, Manafort should never taste freedom again and it’s still possible he won’t. 

But as strict as Rush is about AOC’s alleged campaign violations what would he say about someone who committed what amounts to treason-morally if not legally? He’d probably see the idea of ‘President Trump’ spending the rest of his life in the same jail cell as Manafort way too lenient-Limbaugh believes in the death penalty, of course.

As for the economy the overall numbers are about the same as Obama. The Obama years-post the financial crisis-were characterized by modest GDP growth and rapidly rising stock market and that’s what we’ve seen under ‘President Trump.’ Though 2018 was a very forgettable year for the market.

The dirty little secret is that Presidents-as well as ‘Presidents’ like Donald Trump-get way too much credit/blame for the economy anyway.

But the utter and abject hypocrisy of Rush and his GOP friends lauding the same economy to the heavens that they claimed was the worst in human history under Obama tells you everything you need to know about my central premise in this book: the moral and intellectual degeneracy and bankruptcy of the modern-post New Deal-Republican party.

Ok back to Limbaugh’s underlying premise-the Democrats want to impeach Trump because they know they can’t beat him-because of the same Obama economy he was demonizing when Obama was the-legitimate-President.

“The story in that poll is that Trump’s approval number is 46%, and they’re dying on the left! They’re dying! They have focused everything they’ve got on running Trump’s numbers down, as you’ve now heard me say I don’t know how many millions of times, to the twenties and thirties. That has been the objective all along. That’s been the objective of the Mueller probe; it’s been the objective of all this attention is to separate Trump from his supporters and finally create that wedge. It’s failed.”

It hasn’t really started yet. Rush’s GOP friends-Trump’s co-conspirators in Congress-totally obstructed the Russia probe. Devin Nunes was declaring ‘President Trump’ innocent before the investigation even began and then ended it prematurely in February, 2018 declaring ‘no evidence of collusion’ while failing to even interview Paul Manafort, Michael Flynn, or George Papadopoulos.

After this Nunes and friends went back to investigating Hillary Clinton again-the legitimate President. but alas, it was stolen from her and she’s a private citizen. Investigating a private citizen is Banana Republic stuff, of course, but then so are the ‘Lock Her Up’ chants-that the Deplorables were chanting the evening we learned a MAGA guy sent Clinton a pipe bomb. Don’t call them deplorable they are so not deplorable. 

Nunes and friends also put the investigators themselves on trial. The whole Andy McCabe canard was driven by Nunes and friends. But even before the very premature ending of the Russia investigation, all the hearings were behind closed doors to save ‘the President’ political embarrassment. They declared they had found ‘no evidence of collusion.’ Do you know how they looked for such evidence? They simply asked them: Gee, Roger Stone, did you collude with Russia, did you see President Trump colluded with Russia, did you see anyone on the campaign collude with Russia?

After Stone’s denials-like the ‘President’ himself, Stone is a pathological liar-the GOP declared ‘See that Democrats? There was no collusion with Russia.’

Because that’s how you figure out if someone is innocent or not-if they say they’re guilty they’re guilty. If they say they’re not guilty then they must not be guilty. Yes, the Senate investigation has been a less obvious trainwreck than Nunes and friends. But Richard Burr has clearly been trying to help the ‘President’ with his public statements lately and, regardless of what they’ve done in that investigation, it hasn’t been public and is so at this point, of little value.

I agree with Rush that the goal of the Democrats is to push Trump’s poll numbers down 10 to 20 points-ie, Nixon territory. But you can’t claim the push has failed-it’s only just beginning. Last week’s Cohen testimony was the first public hearing on Russia Collusion Conspiracy and Coordination after the two years since the Russia investigations in Congress were formally opened. My own belief is that the public hearings will over time knock Trump’s numbers into Nixon’s territory.

This theory of mine may be right or wrong-maybe public hearings won’t put a dent in his 42%. But you can’t say it’s disproven yet as they are just starting. The Mueller investigation has been 100% behind closed doors-when we see the Mueller report, if we see it remains to be seen.

In Chapter A I give you my conjecture: the Trump campaign-which obviously includes Trump himself-will find two criminal counts: coordination with Russian interference-the public evidence for it is the emails between Roger Stone and the Trump campaign on one side and Stone and Jerome Corsi on the other. The other criminal count I’m predicting-not that there can’t be other criminal counts around George Nader and the Trump Tower August 3, 2016 meeting with the Saudis, set up by Eric Prince, etc-why did Nader go on to pay Joel Zamel $2 million dollars-is conspiracy to commit computer crimes. The evidence for this is the emails Peter Smith sent to Michael Flynn, Steve Bannon, Sean Spicer, Kellann Conway, etc-expressing his desire and intent to pay Russian hackers to hack Clinton’s emails and help him reach Wikileaks.

Parenthetically, Cockburn says his sources say today could be the Mueller report and it won’t be good news for Trump.

Beware the Ides of Trump

The Special Counsel may hand in his report on Friday – word is that it will make the case for collusion.”

One former official, passing along information from a ‘100% reliable’ source inside the Department of Justice, tells Cockburn that Robert Mueller will give his report to the Attorney General on Friday. It will make the case for ‘collusion,’ he said, and will not just be about ‘process’ – perjury, obstruction of justice – or financial crimes.

The same former official was also convinced that there would be indictments for one or more of President Trump’s children. Cockburn spoke to two others  – each (apparently) with their own sources on the matter – who said this Friday would be a big day in the Trump-Russia investigation.

The former director of the CIA, John Brennan, has clearly heard the same. He said as much when he appeared on Lawrence O’Donnell’s show on MSNBC, The Last Word. ‘I think Robert Mueller wants to be able to conclude his work and turn over the investigative threads to the Southern District of New York, the Eastern District of Virginia and other jurisdictions as appropriate. I wouldn’t be surprised if, for example, this week on Friday – not knowing anything about it – but Friday is the day the grand jury indictments come down.’

‘And,’ he added, ‘this Friday is better than next Friday, because next Friday is the 15th of March, which is the Ides of March, and I don’t think Robert Mueller will want to have that dramatic flair of the Ides of March when he’ll be delivering what I think are going to be indictments, the final indictments, as well as the report to the Attorney General.’

The Ides of March is the day in the Roman calendar that corresponds to March the 15th, a week tomorrow. Julius Caesar was assassinated on this day in 44 BC.  Shakespeare’s soothsayer warns Caesar: ‘Beware the Ides of March!’

On MSNBC, Brennan appeared to choose his words deliberately: ‘If anybody from the Trump family, extended family, is going to be indicted, it would be the final act of Mueller’s investigation.’ He said: ‘Bob Mueller and his team knows if he were to do something – indicting a Trump family member or if he were to go forward with indictment on criminal conspiracy involving US persons – that would basically be the death of the special counsel’s office, because I don’t believe Donald Trump would allow Bob Mueller to continue in the aftermath of those types of actions.’

Lawrence O’Donnell told his viewers they really had to ‘listen to every word’ of Brennan’s carefully. Those words, it seems to Cockburn, do more than hint at indictments for Trump’s eldest son, Don Junior – ‘family – or his son-in-law, Jared Kushner – ‘extended family’. Brennan said Mueller would use his report to address whether there had been a ‘criminal conspiracy,’ that is a conspiracy – or collusion – involving Russia, the allegation he was asked to investigate.

This does not mean that Mueller would, or could, indict Donald Trump himself. Department of Justice policy is that a sitting president cannot be indicted by the criminal justice system. That would be left to the House of Representatives, which can impeach – or charge – a president, by simple majority vote. A trial in the Senate would follow, with two-thirds needed to convict. House Democrats are trying not to seem too eager to impeach Trump but Cockburn would bet a porn-star sized payoff that impeachment proceedings are inevitable.

Let’s be very clear-this is not my prediction. Though Cockburn and I are both predicting that  collusion conspiracy and coordination will be proven-I’m don’t have his presumed sources, I come by my prediction just based on the publicly available evidence. I have no knowledge of when the report will come out-though Brennan’s words on Lawrence last night were pretty interesting.

But to get back to Rush, regarding the Democrats failing to bring down Trump’s poll numbers that will only happen with public hearings and exposure-if the Mueller report is as I and Cockburn think it will be then that will be  real test-will Trump’s numbers begin to slide then?

Despite Limbaugh’s cockiness-at least he’s trying to project cockiness for the benefit of his Ditthoheaded audience-Trump is not teflon and 42% is not his permanent bottom. We saw this during his  clownishly despicable shutdown in January. Trump’s average fell beneath 40% as even some Trump voters were expressing buyer’s remorse. After it ended, his numbers snapped back up to the-42-43% level that Rush thinks are so impressive.

More alternative facts from Rush:

Folks, they’ve given it everything they’ve got. They have fired every weapon. They’ve used every bit of ammo that they’ve always used. And they’ve done it repeatedly. They have done it multiple times a day, every day, for over two years. And Trump’s numbers are now creeping up in their polls. He’s over 50% in the Rasmussen poll.

Rasmussen is a joke-but we’ve already established Rush doesn’t know that outliers don’t matter what matters is the average.

So Bill McInturff, “Well, you know, the biggest thing you learn as pollsters is ‘please.’” I don’t know what the hell that means. “Our country sort of comes to a steady state, and it’s very hard to change.” Meaning, you guys, if you haven’t dislodged him by now, you may as well forget it. With all this Russia stuff, you better have more than what you’ve had up ’til now, because the people are saying there’s a heck of a lot more that you need to get. This country’s nowhere near where it needs to be to impeach a president.”

Nowhere near? There is today more support for impeaching Trump than there every was for impeaching Bill Clinton. During the entire Whitewater-Ken Starr-Monica Lewinsky fiasco the more the GOP pushed the higher his poll numbers got-I remember a show where even Rush himself acknowledged that. The week the GOP impeached Clinton Gallup-the only game in town for polling back then-had him at 81%.

Trump’s approval is half that. Some polls have shown a plurality-if not a majority, around 48-49%-want to impeach Trump. The NBC had it lower-35%-but that’s still 1 in 3 Americans who want him impeached today. The fact that Clinton was at 81% approval when the GOP impeached him would suggest that no more than 19% supported impeaching him. Yet the GOP did it anyway.

And even if the NBC poll has support for impeachment at only 35%, it also has 64% of Americans believing he’s a crook. In other words based on this poll the majority of Americans agree Trump’s a criminal but don’t want to impeach him-at least not yet. 

Back to Rush: “…if you look and if you have the ability to look objectively, all signs indicate that Trump is going to be reelected. This business of impeachment that they’re going…? No doubt they are. But not for between now and 2020. This is to prep impeachment for 2021 and beyond.”

A. If you look at all signs objectively it’s not at all clear he’ll be reelected. But Rush is not about being objective but saying what the Ditthoheads need to hear.

B. But the idea that it’s not for 2020. I’ve heard some MSM pundits say there’s no time between now and 2020 to impeach Trump. Really? We have 20 months until 2020. Limbaugh’s GOP friends impeached Clinton-over what they now dismiss as ‘process crimes’-in 20 minutes, during the lame duck, after they’d suffered a historical loss in the 1998 midterms-with his approval at 81%.

FN: Rush mentions Nixon only showing that my theory held up in the first Watergate.

But I think Nadler and all these other efforts here are far beyond that. Because they’re not gonna get this done in the next two years, and they’re not even promising to. If they thought they could beat Trump at the ballot box, I don’t think they would be doing all of this. I think this is yet another way in which this silent coup is kind of like Watergate. ‘Cause, remember, the Democrats knew that Richard Nixon was gonna be reelected — and he was. In a landslide, in an historic landslide.

Again why can’t they get it done in 2 years? The GOP impeached Clinton in the lame duck in 2 mintues.

“So the Democrats started Watergate as an insurance plan even before the election. Remember all of this Watergate stuff was discovered before the 1972 election. They knew Nixon was gonna win reelection. The Democrats had McGovern. They didn’t have a prayer. Just like the Democrats now. I mean, did you see that CNN did a focus group on Plugs? They did a town hall meeting or something with Biden, and then they focus grouped it, and they found out that it’s not that he’s too old, it’s not that he has fake hair, it’s not that he’s a plagiarist.

 

At the very least the Democratic leaders have a lot more restraint than the GOP. Sometimes I wonder if they have too much restraint. 

But let’s look at Limbaugh’s question: why would the Democrats want to do all these investigations and maybe impeach Trump?

Well maybe he can tell us why he did all that cheerleading for investigations and impeachment of Clinton in the 1990s. Was it because he didn’t think the GOP could win without it?

Speaking for myself not as a Dem leader but as a member of the Dem base, I want to impeach Trump if that’s where the facts lead, politics be damned. Recovering Republican Nicole Wallace asked a very good question for the Democrats yesterday: what is the line-is there any line? Paraphrasing Michael Flynn if Clinton had been simply accused of 10%-1%-of what Trump has the GOP would already have impeached her, regardless of what a Democratic Senate might or might not do.

First and foremost Trump should be impeached as he ‘won’ his office through nefarious means. Regarding 2020, I actually think we’ve got a good chance to beat him-he lost by 3 million votes last time despite the assistance of Russia and the rogue anti Clinton agents at the FBI.

And quite honestly, if Bill Clinton can be impeached for lying about sex then Trump can be impeached for conspiracy with a foreign government and rogue anti Clinton agents at the FBI-to rig an American Presidential election in his favor.

FN: Meanwhile Trump has now been accused of forcibly kissing a campaign aide in 2016 and the conspiracy of silence among Rush Limbaugh’s allegedly liberal media is deafening.

Why do the Democrats want to impeach Trump? Do they? I’m not sure. Or maybe pace Cockburn they do but are just trying to seem like they don’t really just yet.

I will say that as a Democratic voter if the Democrats fail to impeach him if that’s where the facts lead then I may sit out 2020 altogether. After all, what’s the point in electing Democrats if even they give GOP ‘President’s special treatment?

And I’ve spoken to many fellow Democrats and liberals who feel the same.

Yesterday Judge T.S. Ellis gave Manafort the lightest wrist slap. Many argue he tends to have a soft spot for white collar criminals-thinking they’re crimes are no big deal. So you stole from millions of people, why make a federal case out of it?

That means he’s also a Republican-after all isn’t this what Republicans believe? That ‘white collar crime’ is a contradiction in terms? What you call  ‘white collar criminals’ they call  ‘job creators.’

But the fact that he complained about this being ‘all about getting President Trump’ tells you that this is all about him protecting ‘President Trump.’

Americans hate this. I went through the history elsewhere in the book. Ford for self serving GOP partisan reasons claimed that he was pardoning Nixon not for the good of the Republican party but for the good of the country. It’s what defeated him in 1976. Ford had claimed that the country should ‘move on’ and ‘look forwards not backwards.’

The irony is that this prevented the country from looking forward. The American people wanted accountability and wanted Nixon to go to prison and were disgusted that his GOP buddy, Jerry Ford, put him above the law again-‘if the President does it, it’s legal.’

But these notorious words of Nixon in the 1977 interview aren’t really true or at least they’re imprecise, and their imprecision obscures the whole truth. What he-and Ford-and Rush Limbaugh-and Lindsay Graham-who was breathing fire about Clinton’s ‘process crimes’ in 1998-really believe is: If the Republican President does it it’s legal. 

Perhaps that’s also what T.S.Elliot believes. Clearly it’s what Ken Starr believes:

The MSM still hasn’t caught onto the fact that Ken Starr is not some public minded prosecutor of the highest integrity but just another shameless GOP hack-a Rush Limbaugh with the power to subpoena. He’s so concerned about sexual harassment he totally looked the other way at Baylor. The only way to understand GOPers is they’re partisan hacks with GOP partisanship where their moral compass is supposed to be.

But Ken Starr finally got some comeuppance.

https://twitter.com/joshscampbell/status/1104002459976908800

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2019/3/8/1840566/-Ken-Starr-went-pimping-on-CNN-and-surprisingly-walked-into-a-bear-trap?utm_campaign=trending

Turns out Starr threatened Lewinsky with 27 years in prison and locked her in a hotel room.

Then Bush Sr. pardoned Casper Weinberger and the rest five other Iran Contra co-conspirators. Bill Barr later boasted of advising Sr. to pardon not just Weinberger but the other co-conspirators. This was late in Bush Sr’s attempted reelection campaign. Yet the Ben Wittes and Chuck Rosenberg’s of the world are assuring an institutionalist like Barr will do the right thing and release the full Mueller report. Hope they’re right but what’s different this time than with Poppy Bush?

While it’s not remembered today, as I discussed elsewhere in the book, Iran-Contra may have been just one chapter in a much larger scandal extending back to the 1980 election and possible conspiracy between the Reagan campaign and the Iranian government to delay the release of the hostages to make sure Reagan defeated Carter.

While no doubt many will try to dismiss this as tinfoil hat conspiracy, there were actually three different congressional investigations and task forces that investigated it. When Bill Clinton and his Dem Congress came in 1993, they shut all matters Irangate down. Rush, Newt,  and their GOP friends thanked Clinton by investigating on the fake Whitewater scandal for five years that ultimately led to impeaching him over an affair with an intern. Now that’s a ‘witch hunt.’

Ken Starr was appointed initially on the well predicated basis of: how did Vince Foster really die? For his magnanimity, Clinton was rewarded for a ‘shellacking’ in 1994 just like Obama received in 2010 for his own magnanimity in declining to prosecute or even investigate the Bush-Cheney or Wall St. criminals.

The lesson in all this is that Americans believe in redemption but they also believe in accountability. Trump and his GOP co-conspirators deserve no redemption as they have no regret like Manafort failed to express yesterday.

America is hungry for accountability-not for another whitewash for GOP co-conspirators, perjurers, obstructors colluders, and traitors-more ‘let’s look forward not backwards.’ If the Democrats fail again to insist on accountability, as a life long Democrat I’m going to have a hard time answering those who ask what the point of voting for the Democrats is in the future.

Again I think the optimal political strategy could be-and Nicole Wallace is right, the Dems should be thinking about the right thing which is demand accountability-to both impeach Trump and defeat him. 

Putting it this way will no doubt confuse many who confound impeachment-indictment in the House-and conviction and removal by the Senate. They say ‘if the House Democrats impeach Trump it will fail because of Mitch McConnell’ missing the point impeachment is indictment. Someone remains indicted even if they aren’t ultimately convicted.

But the optimal outcome could be:

1. The Dems impeach Trump

2. Mitch McConnell and friends as usual put party over country and acquit him.

3. Kamala Harris beats him in a landslide while the American people punish Mitch McConnell and friends for abdicating their role of holding Trump accountable out of the usual Republican partisanship.

On the other hand if the Dems impeach him they should do it close to the 2020 election-maybe 11 days before like the Comey letter. Then the last 11 days will be about nothing except ‘will Mitch McConnell and his GOP Senate impeach President Trump or not?’

What could a ‘dream walking’ mean if not seeing McConnell forced to answer those questions?

FN: Regarding my premise the Dems should impeach 11 days before the election I can imagine some skittish types arguing that would ‘play right into President Trump’s hands’ as he can play martyr as that would be so ‘clearly political.’

But that assumes that the preditable GOP whining about politics at its worst will be more compelling to voters than the fact that the ‘President’ was just impeached for treason.

In 2016 Clinton supporters like me howled about the clear politics in the FBI dropping that bomb then 11 days before the election. But clearly that didn’t ‘play right into Secretary Clinton’s hands’-all the MSM wanted to discuss were the damn emails not the palatable unfairness of Coney doing it at precisely that moment.

Honestly nothing would make Trump a martyr as nothing isn’t too good for him. I mean conspiring with a hostile foreign power-and the FBI rogue agents?

We know what they used to do to traitors.

UPDATE: Rick Wilson on Manafort’s future and the lesson of teaming up with Trump.

For those of you facing indictment, including those are you in the Trump orbit who know what’s coming but haven’t yet heard the knock of the U.S. Marshals on your door, here’s a helpful reminder: Trump will always lie. He will always throw you under the bus. He will always shift the blame. He will always promise you everything and leave you hanging.

Think of a single time you’ve ever seen Trump stand up for someone in trouble for their work for him. You can’t. Do you think Trump believes in any joint defense agreement or will raise money for your legal defense? Do you think Trump is going to offer you a pardon to save you from death behind bars? Get a grip.

You worked for a conman, a fraud, a serial adulterer, a man comfortable in the presence of criminals, and someone who displays every single worst aspect of humanity. Trump will do everything it takes to preserve his power, image, and money. He will burn the entire Republican Party—and likely the nation—to the ground to save himself. Enjoy the free government health care in prison.

Already Manafort is a shadow of his former self, his once-lustrous black hair grayer and thinning, his ostrich jackets and bespoke suits already becoming a distant memory.

Karma is a magnificent bitch. Manafort’s service to the worst in this world brought him the highest position in the Trump campaign. His lies, crimes, and attempt to subvert justice brought him this term in prison. In protecting Trump and playing for a pardon that will never come, Manafort sentenced himself.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/paul-manafort-gets-a-47-month-taste-of-whats-coming-for-trumps-tools?ref=home

He will always promise you everything and leave you hanging. Think about how much he’s promised our country. Will not just Trump”s co-conspirators but America itself wake up before it’s too late?

 

 

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