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kpete

(71,991 posts)
Fri Aug 11, 2017, 09:51 PM Aug 2017

A warning regarding Trump, from Lawrence Tribe

YEP.

Trump may have fabricated a faux nuclear standoff with North Korea to distract attention from what Mueller is finding out about his crimes.






As people catch onto Trump's No. Korea ploy, he's making up the prospect of military intervention in Venezuela! @POTUS is truly desperate.


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A warning regarding Trump, from Lawrence Tribe (Original Post) kpete Aug 2017 OP
Ya think. In the immortal words of Officer John McClain in "Die Hard", "welcome to the kairos12 Aug 2017 #1
While I can't quite hear Robert Mueller saying it, we can say it to Trump for him... bellmartin Aug 2017 #5
Classic kairos12 Aug 2017 #6
Yep. Zoonart Aug 2017 #2
Trump Can Throw Up All The Smokescreens Ccarmona Aug 2017 #3
That seems to be the collective opinion. One of those "failing" newspapers will procon Aug 2017 #4
Trump's threats to NK are straight from the dictator's handbook. cheyanne Aug 2017 #7
Donald Trump,... MarianJack Aug 2017 #8
As was his cruel but fake transgender ban. It's scary to think how far ecstatic Aug 2017 #9
Totally agree! RiverStone Aug 2017 #24
"May have fabricated a faux nuclear standoff"??? oasis Aug 2017 #10
K&R... spanone Aug 2017 #11
No doubt. The problem is that it is not fake to N. Korea. Chemisse Aug 2017 #12
He is so obvious. Mueller doesn't care grantcart Aug 2017 #13
Like Paul Ryan? SCVDem Aug 2017 #14
THAT! BigmanPigman Aug 2017 #20
Rachel Maddow has been leading to an insinuation that the DPRK Ilsa Aug 2017 #15
A new smokescreen every day it seems, but that won't stop the wheels of justice. L. Coyote Aug 2017 #16
Nothing more dangerous than a cornered rat. smirkymonkey Aug 2017 #17
The sad and scary truth is Cadfael Aug 2017 #19
What we need is a giant rat trap. smirkymonkey Aug 2017 #27
mystery solved bora13 Aug 2017 #18
Laurence Tribe is very bright. Hieronymus Aug 2017 #21
Thing is, he's gotten away with it his whole life... Wounded Bear Aug 2017 #22
I wonder how many people 45 would be willing to kill to keep Mueller away? RussBLib Aug 2017 #23
All of them BainsBane Aug 2017 #26
There always seem to be standoffs with N Korea BainsBane Aug 2017 #25
I read that there have been back channel communications WhiteTara Aug 2017 #28

bellmartin

(218 posts)
5. While I can't quite hear Robert Mueller saying it, we can say it to Trump for him...
Fri Aug 11, 2017, 10:21 PM
Aug 2017
Yippie ki yay, motherfucker!
 

Ccarmona

(1,180 posts)
3. Trump Can Throw Up All The Smokescreens
Fri Aug 11, 2017, 09:59 PM
Aug 2017

And diversions he wants, but the focus will always come back to Mueller's Investigation.

procon

(15,805 posts)
4. That seems to be the collective opinion. One of those "failing" newspapers will
Fri Aug 11, 2017, 10:10 PM
Aug 2017

break the real story any day now.

cheyanne

(733 posts)
7. Trump's threats to NK are straight from the dictator's handbook.
Fri Aug 11, 2017, 10:36 PM
Aug 2017

When there is opposition at home, create crises to unite the populace against the "enemies" that he has provoked.

The next step is to use "war powers" to silence opposition, then comes stopping the investigations, inciting violence that allows him to arrest protesters.

Congress is the only bulwark we have against loss of civil liberties.

Our conversation is how can we depose Trump. Congress is supine in the face of someone who has completely broken their power to do anything.

The judiciary will not act quickly enough to stop him.

ecstatic

(32,704 posts)
9. As was his cruel but fake transgender ban. It's scary to think how far
Fri Aug 11, 2017, 10:42 PM
Aug 2017

he's willing to go to distract. He's willing to insult and throw any group under the bus. And he's willing to kill millions or put millions in harms way. That's disturbing as hell. Congress really needs to act NOW.

RiverStone

(7,228 posts)
24. Totally agree!
Sat Aug 12, 2017, 12:13 AM
Aug 2017

Millions and millions in harms way...and a crazy manbaby with a finger on the nuclear is NOT enough to force Congress to act???

WTF will it take?!

Chemisse

(30,811 posts)
12. No doubt. The problem is that it is not fake to N. Korea.
Fri Aug 11, 2017, 10:51 PM
Aug 2017

There are real consequences to these games he plays.

 

SCVDem

(5,103 posts)
14. Like Paul Ryan?
Fri Aug 11, 2017, 10:53 PM
Aug 2017

Who stripped Barbara Lee's bill to remove the AUMF from the President.

So, no. We are hosed from all directions and it really is hard to find anyone who is aware or gives a shit.

Apathy killed America!

BigmanPigman

(51,593 posts)
20. THAT!
Sat Aug 12, 2017, 12:04 AM
Aug 2017

Lee worked 16 years on that bill too! I hope Ryan fries as well as Mitchell and Pence (keep it in the family).
This family is like the Donald Corleone's Sicilian family in many respects.

Ilsa

(61,695 posts)
15. Rachel Maddow has been leading to an insinuation that the DPRK
Fri Aug 11, 2017, 11:19 PM
Aug 2017

scare could be a set-up. The intel of the improvements in nuclear ICBM, etc, story has only come from one agency, DIA, and has not been confirmed by any other agency. And DIA has been wrong before.

If DT can't get mileage out of a DPRK scare, then it won't surprise me that he would try to take on Venezuela for a "win."

L. Coyote

(51,129 posts)
16. A new smokescreen every day it seems, but that won't stop the wheels of justice.
Fri Aug 11, 2017, 11:22 PM
Aug 2017

War on Cuba in 3, 2, 1 .... days. Anyone taking odds?

 

smirkymonkey

(63,221 posts)
17. Nothing more dangerous than a cornered rat.
Fri Aug 11, 2017, 11:24 PM
Aug 2017

He will do anything to take the attention away from the investigation into his crimes. He is a sick man.

Cadfael

(1,297 posts)
19. The sad and scary truth is
Fri Aug 11, 2017, 11:51 PM
Aug 2017

Our country is in the paws of that increasingly desperate cornered rat......

 

smirkymonkey

(63,221 posts)
27. What we need is a giant rat trap.
Sat Aug 12, 2017, 12:52 AM
Aug 2017

I would think with someone so stupid it shouldn't be that hard to trap him. With an ego like his, the bait is easy.

bora13

(860 posts)
18. mystery solved
Fri Aug 11, 2017, 11:35 PM
Aug 2017

according to Maher tonight the trump coup was an invasion of govt and minds
by sado-masochists.

It all clicked when I heard him say that.

The same people I know around here that support him, mainly the men
have been that way for years now. It's not good news because they like to
make people suffer.

Wounded Bear

(58,656 posts)
22. Thing is, he's gotten away with it his whole life...
Sat Aug 12, 2017, 12:09 AM
Aug 2017

but mostly in Civil Court, usually over lawsuits where he cheated somebody.

Mueller ain't accepting no "settlements." He's looking for crimes. And you know what they say, right?

"Behind every great fortune is a great crime."


RussBLib

(9,012 posts)
23. I wonder how many people 45 would be willing to kill to keep Mueller away?
Sat Aug 12, 2017, 12:13 AM
Aug 2017

I guess we have to hope the generals do the right thing.

BainsBane

(53,032 posts)
25. There always seem to be standoffs with N Korea
Sat Aug 12, 2017, 12:21 AM
Aug 2017

Trump has chosen to make it worse, and it may be for the reason Tribe suggested.

WhiteTara

(29,715 posts)
28. I read that there have been back channel communications
Sat Aug 12, 2017, 07:01 PM
Aug 2017

with NK for some time. Sounds quite right. I'm comforted to know that Mueller hasn't announced his August vacation and the wheels of justice grind on.

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