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DonViejo

(60,536 posts) Tue Dec 11, 2018, 10:46 AM Dec 2018

Trump's "reality tremor" as Mueller fallout piles up

Mike Allen3 hours ago

Last week's stunning court filings detonated what one official calls a "reality tremor" that has White House officials and key allies increasingly aware of President Trump’s rising legal and political vulnerability.

What's happening: Some top officials are suddenly much more attuned to the political fallout from the Mueller investigation and are growing more anxious about Trump's re-election prospects, according to people close to the president. And on the outside, some hardcore Trump allies — who have mostly accepted his denials about Robert Mueller — were rattled by the specificity of the Friday night revelations by the special counsel and by federal prosecutors.

One Trump loyalist said after a day of conversation with "hardcore MAGA [Make America Great Again] online influencers": "These are the people most predisposed to believing the 'witch hunt' rhetoric, but they are now expressing real concerns."

Even these diehards "start looking at the legal stuff and have a hard time dismissing it all," the loyalist said.

"I think SDNY [the Southern District of New York, where prosecutors said Trump directed Michael Cohen to make hush-money payments to women] has changed people’s perceptions. ... That’s viewed as a greater potential threat to Trump directly than Mueller. 'Collusion' is still met with eye rolls."

"And even MAGA loyalists are asking why Trump feels the need to go on Twitter with bizarre legal explanations that don’t seem to help."

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Trump's "reality tremor" as Mueller fallout piles up (Original Post) DonViejo Dec 2018 OP

maybe they should try vlyons Dec 2018 #1

fRIEND SAYS cOHN is lying to avoid jail. I assume he had paper work to back up patricia92243 Dec 2018 #2

And When Cohen Goes To Jail. . . ProfessorGAC Dec 2018 #3

I don't have any insight into a Republican mind. And, not sure that I want to. patricia92243 Dec 2018 #4

A Fair Point ProfessorGAC Dec 2018 #6

This is how we get to 20 Republican Senators voting to convict gratuitous Dec 2018 #5

vlyons

(10,252 posts)

1. maybe they should try

Reply to DonViejo (Original post)

Tue Dec 11, 2018, 10:51 AM

Dec 2018

making a wish in a chicken wish bone? Or put a tooth under a pillow and make a wish for the tooth fairy to make it all go away?

or maybe they should just WAKE UP!

patricia92243

(12,597 posts)

2. fRIEND SAYS cOHN is lying to avoid jail. I assume he had paper work to back up

Reply to DonViejo (Original post)

Wed Dec 12, 2018, 08:49 AM

Dec 2018

what he is saying.

ProfessorGAC

(65,058 posts)

3. And When Cohen Goes To Jail. . .

Reply to patricia92243 (Reply #2)

Wed Dec 12, 2018, 09:00 AM

Dec 2018

. . .what will your "friend" say then?

Cohen is going to jail. No amount of "lying" is going to prevent that.

patricia92243

(12,597 posts)

4. I don't have any insight into a Republican mind. And, not sure that I want to.

Reply to ProfessorGAC (Reply #3)

Wed Dec 12, 2018, 09:38 AM

Dec 2018

ProfessorGAC

(65,058 posts)

6. A Fair Point

Reply to patricia92243 (Reply #4)

Wed Dec 12, 2018, 10:26 AM

Dec 2018

Actually, i meant it rhetorically.

We already know they won't really have a sound answer.

gratuitous

(82,849 posts)

5. This is how we get to 20 Republican Senators voting to convict

Reply to DonViejo (Original post)

Wed Dec 12, 2018, 09:49 AM

Dec 2018

For now, they're riding the Trump Train, but the savvier politicians can descry the writing on the wall. As the convictions and plea deals pile up, and the undisputed evidence rolls out, the American people are going to say "Enough!" Despite Trump's crowing about the 2018 midterms, Senate Republicans know they did very poorly in a year that was very favorable to them. The 2020 map is stacked against them the way 2018 was stacked against Democrats. If things keep going the way they've been going, Republicans know their time in the driver's seat is short and getting shorter by the day. Trump is not attracting any new voters; he's just revving up a smaller and smaller contingent of rabid fanboiz.

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