So now we’ve got the news that Trump’s legal team is gathering information to use in attacking the investigators and prosecutors working with special counsel Robert Mueller (“Trump Aides, Seeking Leverage, Investigate Mueller’s Investigators“).
This bring to mind an old bit of advice for lawyers. It appears in many version, but this one is nice and direct.
“If you have the facts on your side, hammer the facts. If you have the law on your side, hammer the law. If you have neither the facts nor the law, hammer the table.”
Applying that to the president’s approach, and reading between the lines, here’s what’s being revealed.
Trump and his retainers apparently do not have the facts or the law on their side. That’s the clear unstated message. As a result, they are preparing to hammer the table by hitting the prosecutors.
At this point, that seems like a self-destructive strategy. But, then again, if the law and the facts are against you, what else is there?
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Getting Trump impeached by Republicans? Not likely.
Tying up Trump’s hands so tightly with daily legal knots to the point that he cannot do anything?
Priceless.
His own attorney general Sessions is already finished.
The main thing to remember: Even when Donald Trump is gone, his right-wing voters are going nowhere. Good luck convincing them to go liberal.
On one hand, I am experiencing a certain degree of schadenfreude watching Trump and his minions tied up in knots and hope that it lasts until the 2018 elections. On the other hand, I am scared that they might never get caught for anything in the end and the Trump admin could create national and international disasters that are far worse than would occur under a relatively normal Republican like Pence.