He's gonna do it, isn't he?

He's getting rid of all the people who could talk him out of shutting down the special counsel.  And he's winding himself up to do it.  Rosenstein could be next to go.






In a previous post, I said I thought Trump's attorney John Dowd was one of the more competent ones and was surprised by him saying that they should shut down the investigation.  I was thinking of Ty Cobb when I said that.  John Dowd has always seemed like an incompetent nutball, so there's really no surprise here.

President Donald Trump’s personal lawyer, John Dowd, told The Daily Beast on Saturday morning that he hopes Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein will shut down Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s probe into Russia’s election interference.

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“I pray that Acting Attorney General Rosenstein will follow the brilliant and courageous example of the FBI Office of Professional Responsibility and Attorney General Jeff Sessions and bring an end to alleged Russia Collusion investigation manufactured by McCabe’s boss James Comey based upon a fraudulent and corrupt Dossier,” Dowd then wrote.

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As late as mid-December, another Trump lawyer, Ty Cobb, had brushed aside talk of stopped Mueller’s investigation, stressing that there was "no consideration at the White House of terminating the special counsel." The president himself has called the Mueller probe a “witch hunt,” but has not publicly urged Rosenstein to shutter it.

  The Daily Beast

Unless somebody else gets to him quickly, I have a feeling that's coming.

When The Daily Beast initially asked Dowd if he was speaking on behalf of the president, he answered, “Yes as his counsel.” After publication of this story, however, Dowd emailed to say he was actually speaking in his personal capacity, and not on the president’s behalf.

Somebody smarter than either Trump or Dowd stepped in, obviously.  And Trump is apparently fuming about it.  Add that to the recent subpoena of the Trump Organization, along with the Stormy Daniels interview and James Comey book tour, and there is a grave danger of his head exploding.  I just hope it happens before he pulls some other outrageous act.