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Honeycombe8

(37,648 posts)
Mon Jul 23, 2018, 07:33 PM Jul 2018

My guess on the plan. What's wrong with this as the Trump strategy?

I'm thinking the plan is...

Mueller issues his report this fall.

Trump's team has a lawsuit filed against it immediately, and asks for fast tracking.

Judge fast tracks it, and upholds Mueller's authority to investigate, OR denies it, and the defender appeals.

Kavanaugh gets confirmed and seated in the S.Ct. (Kavanaugh believes that only Congress should investigate a President, if a President is investigated at all, and does not believe a President can be criminally indicted.)

The case is referred to the S.Ct., timed to get on the docket for when the court convenes in October.

Kavanaugh...new to the S.Ct., wanting to be very loyal to the man who just placed him there, and believing in authoritarianism as he does (and groomed for years for this very position)....will rule as expected. Whether the other 4 Republicans follow suit is unknown. (But these are the Republicans who gave us Citizens United, to help their party out.)

I think this is a strategy that Trump's team has in mind and is working with McConnell on it, at least for the Kavanaugh part.

What do you think? Doable by them? They're dreaming, if they think this will work?

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