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Wait a minute: Who is fueling these imminent Mueller report stories? (Original Post) Kingofalldems Mar 2019 OP
Trump of course. C_U_L8R Mar 2019 #1
Rudy. Glimmer of Hope Mar 2019 #2
The media (and all of us,) I suspect, elleng Mar 2019 #3
It's wishful thinking. louis-t Mar 2019 #4
It was my first thought as well ScratchCat Mar 2019 #5
Or perhaps Amazon and Barnes & Noble. PoindexterOglethorpe Mar 2019 #6
wow nt WeekiWater Mar 2019 #19
People leaving SCO, boxes being carried out of SCO mobeau69 Mar 2019 #7
WHAT is SCO? PoindexterOglethorpe Mar 2019 #20
SCO Special Counsel's Office Staph Mar 2019 #21
Thank you. PoindexterOglethorpe Mar 2019 #22
I smell it, too. GoCubsGo Mar 2019 #8
the media is breathlessly waiting.... spanone Mar 2019 #9
I don't know, but I know who ISN'T NastyRiffraff Mar 2019 #10
Report won't come out soon IMO Johnny2X2X Mar 2019 #11
My thoughts too. Kingofalldems Mar 2019 #12
Ahem nt Codeine Mar 2019 #24
I was wrong Johnny2X2X Mar 2019 #29
Ken Dilanian NBC started this a month ago. Grasswire2 Mar 2019 #13
Yes. And he certainly is a tool. And a pompous ass. OnDoutside Mar 2019 #23
Trump and his Republican enablers are scared of what Mueller will reveal. procon Mar 2019 #14
a deliberate act of fostering expectations--and then,, when no report is immiediately forthcoming, niyad Mar 2019 #15
Or maybe not. onenote Mar 2019 #26
Media click bait lettucebe Mar 2019 #16
And now what do you think. onenote Mar 2019 #27
Pamela Brown on CNN greyl Mar 2019 #17
Don't know who, but I'd bet a lot of money it's coming from the WH. n/t Still In Wisconsin Mar 2019 #18
It was me, and I was accurate :P Socal31 Mar 2019 #25
You win the internet. Kingofalldems Mar 2019 #28

louis-t

(23,297 posts)
4. It's wishful thinking.
Fri Mar 22, 2019, 01:23 PM
Mar 2019

They have to make their base believe there is no criminality. Even after it is released, they will say it shows no collusion, no criminality, no corruption, it was all a hoax, greatest president who ever lived.

ScratchCat

(2,002 posts)
5. It was my first thought as well
Fri Mar 22, 2019, 01:24 PM
Mar 2019

Then when it doesn't come, they will ratchet up the tired "this has to end" nonsense likely with a new twist/allegation that he is now just dragging it on because he found nothing.

GoCubsGo

(32,094 posts)
8. I smell it, too.
Fri Mar 22, 2019, 01:34 PM
Mar 2019

The real question should be: From what else are they trying to distract us? Because, that's all this is. And, people keep falling for it.

NastyRiffraff

(12,448 posts)
10. I don't know, but I know who ISN'T
Fri Mar 22, 2019, 01:38 PM
Mar 2019

That would be Mueller and his team. They've never leaked before, why should they start now?

Johnny2X2X

(19,114 posts)
11. Report won't come out soon IMO
Fri Mar 22, 2019, 01:42 PM
Mar 2019

Mueller has court dates into May for sentencing. This thing should keep going on until then.

Until Mueller or someone from his team says a report is imminent, there is no news on this. And I'd expect them to let the public know a date when they will deliver it. It's not going to just be released on a Friday afternoon with no warning.

Grasswire2

(13,571 posts)
13. Ken Dilanian NBC started this a month ago.
Fri Mar 22, 2019, 01:46 PM
Mar 2019

Bad reporting. Some view him as a tool.

NBC tamped it down for just a few days, dropping the word "imminent" and saying "looming" (according to Nicolle Wallace) but yesterday they went nuts with it.

Dilanian has blocked those of us on twitter who have reprimanded him.

Anyway, here's what Barb McQuade tweeted last night, and it makes the most sense.

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procon

(15,805 posts)
14. Trump and his Republican enablers are scared of what Mueller will reveal.
Fri Mar 22, 2019, 01:47 PM
Mar 2019

If they knew Trump was blameless they'd want Mueller to report everything, no matter how long it takes, because they would see the report as a exoneration.

They have been continually planting seeds of the doubt, fictitious rumors, suspicions and generating fresh waves of media coverage by starting another new whispering campaign that Mueller's report is imminent... this time. It gives Trump an opening to trash Mueller and continue casting doubt on his work, setting himself up as a poor victim of some nefarious Democratic plot to bring down the bestest precident in the history of the world.

niyad

(113,576 posts)
15. a deliberate act of fostering expectations--and then,, when no report is immiediately forthcoming,
Fri Mar 22, 2019, 01:54 PM
Mar 2019

can whine and scream about how incompetent mueller is, and how the whole thing should be shut done.

lettucebe

(2,337 posts)
16. Media click bait
Fri Mar 22, 2019, 02:17 PM
Mar 2019

That is all. It is annoying and I'm sick to death of it. Constant "Mueller report imminent" stories and reporting. BORING and stupid and obviously incorrect since no one from Mueller's office is leaking a drip.

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