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[v3numb]

The movie adaptations to this are gonna be ridiculous. I am seriously wondering how serious a tone they are gonna play it? House of Cards seriousness? Pain and Gain levels of stupidity? Arrested Development?!?!/

Anything above slapstick would be too high brow for how dumb this administration is.

 

[FF Seraphim]

Come on Trump get someone to fire Mueller! You know you want to! Just do it! Nothing bad will happen at all....

 

[Pai Pai Master]

Trump: Mueller better not follow the money!
Mueller: I think I'll follow the money.

 

[Doctoglethorpe]

Worst cover up in history continues.

Remember, this is brought to us by the same saga that gave us "I didn't meet with him because if I did I wouldn't tell you."

 

[Harrison Bergeron]

 

[I H8 Memes]

Everyone launders money in this city.

 

[Mahonay]

"You think this a game?"

 

[Couleurs]

Trump: Don't you dare look at my business.

Mueller: Nah.

I wonder if he sincerely thought Mueller would be like "oh the president said I'd better not look into his businesses, guess I'd better obey"

 

[ahoyhoy]

To paraphrase our lord and savior Lester Freedman: "You follow the Russians, you get Russian agents and Russian handlers. You follow the money, and you don't know where you're gonna wind up".

 

[commedieu]

Heh. Crazy how short Obama is.


I think trump probably knew this, pre times article..

What's the likelihood that he knew, and was literally trying to scare Mueller in that article away? Because that's how he deals with problems in the business world.

 

[Surfinn]

Damn. I just realized Trump's "red line" he set for Mueller might be used to fire him..

 

[Dead Prince]

How long til Trump fires Mueller?

Tomorrow?

nah. tomorrow friday. gotta make sure his weekend is clear even though he said him and his team gonna work on that repeal and replace but we all know how that will go.

 

[gcubed]

The best outcome would be a man left destitute and penniless begging for change on a NYC street corner.

 

[Christian]

I seriously let out a huge Snively Whiplash-style laugh at work upon reading the thread's title. Mueller gives ZERO fucks.

 

[Beer Monkey]

Yeah, this guy will be fired soon. Trump is not going to let someone send him to jail. Especially when he has the power to remove them from the equation.

It's not going to be nearly as easy to fire Mueller as it was to fire Comey. Shit's gonna get crazy soon.

 

[Sephzilla]

Mueller getting fired is an incredibly huge long shot, guys. Trump would need to fire Rosenstein and then appoint another deputy AG who would then terminate the Muelller investigation. Plus, on top of that, I'm pretty sure Schiff and the House committee have already said that they'd reappoint Mueller as a special investigator if Trump would pull something like this.

Mueller aint going anywhere.

 

[BlueTsunami]

Seventy years of privledge possibly all crashing down

This is schadenfreud for the ages

 

[Malvolio]

Trump is the new "increasingly nervous man".

 

[FyreWulff]

Trump: "don't look here"

Mueller: *looks there*

 

[Netherscourge]

So he's getting fired soon.

Adam Schiff already said if Trump fires him, the House Intel Committee will immediately appoint him Special Counsel to their investigation and he'll keep right on going.

Not to mentioned that firing a SECOND guy who is leading an investigation is obstruction of justice.

 

[Wet Bloodfart]

AFAIK Trump can't fire Mueller. He would have to have Rosenstein do it, or fire Rosenstein to find someone who WILL fire Mueller.

 

[Tacitus_]

Yeah, this guy will be fired soon. Trump is not going to let someone send him to jail. Especially when he has the power to remove them from the equation.

This is why some of these investigation details need to kept secret. Good job running this story, Bloomberg.

He can't fire him directly though. And the guy who can has stated that he's not going to fire him. So Trump needs to fire that guy (which he can) and then find a replacement willing to fire Mueller.

 

[Skellig Gra]

At this point I bet they already have enough to convict him but he's going for the slam dunk.

 

[JettDash]

Mueller should coordinate with New York authorities on this. Trump can't do anything about a state investigation.

 

[FyreWulff]

I wonder if he sincerely thought Mueller would be like "oh the president said I'd better not look into his businesses, guess I'd better obey"

Trump has gotten used to decades of everyone in his companies being kissasses. Mueller isn't falling for any of his "alpha" bullshit.

 

[Exile20]

Trump: Sorry I can not comply with that request, I am under audit.

 

[Any Questions]

I almost feel sorry for Trumpo. Almost

 

[Random Human]

Adam Schiff already said if Trump fires him, the House Intel Committee will immediately appoint him Special Counsel to their investigation and he'll keep right on going.

Are we sure Republicans on the committee would do this though?

 

[Link]

Was Mueller's appointment actually the beginning of Teflon Don's downfall? Dare I begin to hope?

Technically, Trump firing Comey was the beginning.

 

[Karsticles]

The movie adaptations to this are gonna be ridiculous. I am seriously wondering how serious a tone they are gonna play it? House of Cards seriousness? Pain and Gain levels of stupidity? Arrested Development?!?!/

I want something between Curb Your Enthusiasm and Arrested Development.

 

[davepoobond]

The whole justice department is getting replaced soon just watch

 

[Acheteedo]

Aha, there it is, right on cue.

 

[Dubbedinenglish]

AFAIK Trump can't fire Mueller. He would have to have Rosenstein do it, or fire Rosenstein to find someone who WILL fire Mueller.

And since he's understaffed the DoJ he really doesn't have loyalists in the line of succession.

 

[kevin1025]

lol isn't this EXACTLY what Trump called a "red line" and warned Mueller not to cross?

I love this guy!

Trump literally told him, "don't look into my finances!" He told Mueller where to look, haha.

 

[bumclot]

Beat me to it. Perfect.

 

[Lunar15]

Honestly, they better deliver the goods or the media's fucked forever. I can't stress this enough.

 

[chadskin]

 

[Joe Shlabotnik]

The movie adaptations to this are gonna be ridiculous. I am seriously wondering how serious a tone they are gonna play it? House of Cards seriousness? Pain and Gain levels of stupidity? Arrested Development?!?!/

Just take all the script pages from Veep, Arrested Development and House of Cards and put them in a deck shuffler.

 

[Chmpocalypse]

You're fired (c)

Trump could fire him as things have reached this point. It may not be tonight and won't be tomorrow but at some point Trump could fire Mueller for doing this.

Not legitimately. It would be further obstruction of justice.

 

[Tovarisc]

AFAIK Trump can't fire Mueller. He would have to have Rosenstein do it, or fire Rosenstein to find someone who WILL fire Mueller.

He most likely would need to cut DOJ all the way to the bone in order to find anyone willing to do career suicide and become unhirable by any firm or corporation practicing law.

 

[RPGCrazied]

If Trump is smart(he isn't), he would fire Mueller and then resign.

Mueller is going to end up finding something really bad in his finances that could get someone close to him arrested.

 

[Shadow Puppetry]

Trump: Promise me not to look into my fiances, ok?
Mueller: K. /crosses fingers behind his back.

 

[FF Seraphim]

Adam Schiff already said if Trump fires him, the House Intel Committee will immediately appoint him Special Counsel to their investigation and he'll keep right on going.

Not to mentioned that firing a SECOND guy who is leading an investigation is obstruction of justice.

Schiff said this? That would be great.

 

[boiled goose]

Yeah, this guy will be fired soon. Trump is not going to let someone send him to jail. Especially when he has the power to remove them from the equation.

This is why some of these investigation details need to kept secret. Good job running this story, Bloomberg.

Trump knew this already. Which is why he threatened mueller earlier.

Details coming out is good. Makes it clear why firing happened instead of them being allowed to make excuses like they tried and failed to with comey.

 

[ElectricBlanketFire]

Trump money is dirty as fuck
Here him with a mob member at wm 4

...is that a shoot?

 

[GK86]

"Single greatest witch-hunt in history! They couldn't find any evidence of collusion, so they are going after my mega rich companies! Sad!"

 

[TheCochese]

Mueller getting fired is an incredibly huge long shot, guys. Trump would need to fire Rosenstein and then appoint another deputy AG who would then terminate the Muelller investigation. Plus, on top of that, I'm pretty sure Schiff and the House committee have already said that they'd reappoint Mueller as a special investigator if Trump would pull something like this.

Mueller aint going anywhere.

Trump can directly fire Mueller repealling the act that. We've established this before.

The president, therefore, would have to direct Rosenstein to fire Mueller — or, somewhat more extravagantly, Trump could order the special-counsel regulations repealed and then fire Mueller himself.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/post...now-i-wrote-the-rules/?utm_term=.ad4d0306ad8d

Adam Schiff already said if Trump fires him, the House Intel Committee will immediately appoint him Special Counsel to their investigation and he'll keep right on going.

Schiff doesn't hold the power to do that.

AFAIK Trump can't fire Mueller. He would have to have Rosenstein do it, or fire Rosenstein to find someone who WILL fire Mueller.

See above.

Listen: You. Do. Not. Want. Trump. To. Fire. Mueller.

Yes, it will look horrible. But there's no guarantee Congress would hire Mueller back. It will also look horrible for them as well. There's no guarantee Mueller has set up ways to pass his findings to someone like the NYAG. We would hope so, but that's it.

Firing Mueller would be an absolute shit show in the public. But Republicans will just nod and say that the President has that power.

 

[super-famicom]

Get fucked trump

 

[Future]

Either this is gathering a huge pile of evidence that actually will create a rock solid case that is indisputable, or another example of non stop investigation leading to nothing as usual

 

[Random Human]

If Mueller were to find something like money laundering that has nothing to do with Russia, could he still pass that on to prosecutors? I'm curious if we could see the whole Trump real estate empire topple, including Junior and Eric.