The only moves he is ahead of anyone is in the ice cream scoop distribution...

Mueller has not been fired yet

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If it feels it is getting out of control, he will fire Mueller in a New York second, in my opinion. I would not underestimate his capacity for manipulation.

Tiddlywinks

but of course he might be just shooting darts. But chess? I don't think so.

Sam

wait a minute: delete "darts" and insert "spitballs." That will do it.

whoever he picks would STILL have to be confirmed by the Senate - now with the onus that the person would be threatened with a "loyalty oath". He can't just add a new person in there on his own however he wants.

He is playing tiddly winks and his staff are playing marbles trying to knock their colleagues out of the circle.

Not that impossible.

and mainly because he used to be their colleague. Now you have this "loyalty" thing out there so whoever is nominated is going to have rough going.

If Sessions does go away, they may try McCabe in there since he has lasted this long as acting and would be available since a nominee for FBI has been submitted.

Probably can't play checkers very well, either.

Keep in mind that to him everything is a business deal. So any looking or planning ahead he's doing is in the nature of "How do I make this the best deal for me?"

In a way, his worst move was that he didn't find some quasi-legal way to keep Comey from testifying in the open. He's probably so convinced that it's Comey who's lying, or that the Republicans would shut him (Comey) down or reveal that he's making things up. Because that's what Donald does. Just makes up things.

Trump also likes like the four year old who denies he got into the cookie jar, even though he has cookie crumbs all over his face and he's still holding a half-eaten one behind his back.

..and escapes the law for money-laundering with the Russians, by being a dunce.

And I do recall that one of his tax preparers told him that he was skirting the edge of illegality on some of his tax deductions.

Plus, he's not the ones filling out the forms. He pays people big bucks to do that for him.

In that regard (meaning income taxes), I've seen it suggested that all members of Congress should have to fill out their own tax forms every year. They'd be allowed to phone the IRS help line, but no trained tax preparer. Just put them all in a room together on April 1st, and let them go at it.

We'd get a more simplified tax code rather quickly, I suspect.

All it takes is smart attorneys and daddy taught him that.

If a dunce can hire a good accountant, them yes... he may easily escape paying taxes.

The Orange Shit-stain in Chief can tweet all he likes, and the GOP can deflect as much as they like. However, the American Public has seen what the GOP is made of now, and it belongs in a sewer.

..his motives and plans in such a way, in my opinion.

Your faith in his mental acuity and strategic oversight is admirable, but I think, rather misplaced.

I've seen no evidence that contradicts his consistency acts of administrative buffoonery and legal ignorance to anything resembling strategy... and speculation is simply not evidence.

When his tactics are much more evil and contrived.

Trump's in this mess because of his own stupidity, ignorance, and bullheadiness. His agenda is tied up in knots and his administration is a dysfunctional mess. Yet you seem to claiming he is playing 3 dimensional chess while everyone is playing checkers.

And he is consolidating his power as we speak. If it was easy, he would already be gone.

Putin wants us to start killing each other, we have to not do that, but that is his plan.

Trump is an idiot.

She jumped backwards after the second jump.

He fires Sessions and Sessions' replacement fires Mueller.

How is it to his benefit?

He wastes political capital and a president with approval rating in the mid to high thirties doesn't have much of it to waste.

...and believes he can manipulate whatever issues might arise. But, by then, the damage is already done.

A strategic thinker would say if I do this how do other reacts and how do I react to their reactions.

Firing Mueller would only invite more scrutiny.

Would it inure to his benefit?

No.



* And I'm not even sure he could even get a GOP Senate to approve a Trump lackey for A G who would fire Mueller to kill the investigation.

...with a couple of Democratic votes?

And the nominee for AG is going to be asked if he or she is going to interfere with the special counsel. What does that nominee say?

What will the AG nominee say? He will lie. No big deal.

How does it inure to their benefit ?

Trump barely knows how to play human.

plead insanity if charges are suggested.

and they are still in charge. That is the present reality. At least, until the next election.

but some of them clearly don't.

If the base turns against them, they go down. That is primary in their thoughts.

If the Republicans would do their job, his ass would be glass

Then I'm expecting him to knock the pieces over, take a dump on the board, and start strutting around and claiming victory.

The idea of Trump playing chess?!?

can get rid of Mueller is a (wet) dream of the cons. That would be incredibly damaging.