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Yup, he's trying out

artappraiser — Thu, 03 May 2018 01:31:44 +0000

Yup, he's trying out narrative points:

It’s fake unless he feels it helps him in which case it’s real. https://t.co/u3MmgArenc
— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) May 2, 2018

It was Opposite Day https://t

artappraiser — Thu, 03 May 2018 00:32:40 +0000

In reply to Ty Cobb: you're fired, big

It was Opposite Day https://t.co/B9dmSIko3g
— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) May 2, 2018

Ty Cobb: you're fired, big

artappraiser — Wed, 02 May 2018 22:46:20 +0000

In reply to Exclusive: Mueller Has Dozens of Inquiries for Trump in Broad Quest on Russia Ties and Obstruction

Ty Cobb: you're fired! Big shot Emmet Flood who helped Bill Clinton: hired:

Trump has a new, aggressive approach to Mueller's probe, and it doesn't include Ty Cobb

By Chris Cizzilla @ CNN, 4:38 pm

On Wednesday at 12:16 p.m. ET, ABC News tweeted out this quote from Ty Cobb, one of the lead lawyers on President Donald Trump's legal team, about the possibility of the president sitting down for an interview with special counsel Robert Mueller: "It's certainly not off the table and people are working hard to make decisions and work towards an interview."

Less than 45 minutes later, Cobb was gone -- "retiring" from the president's legal team.

White House press secretary Sarah Sanders said that "for several weeks Ty Cobb has been discussing his retirement and last week he let Chief of Staff Kelly know he would retire at the end of this month."

Cobb himself told CNN's Jim Acosta that he was leaving because his work was done. "I've done what I came to do in terms of managing the White House response to the special counsel requests," said Cobb [....]

The White House calls Ty Cobb’s exit a ‘retirement,’ but it sounds as though he was pushed

by Collum Borchers @ WaPo, 5:00 pm

Clinton Impeachment Lawyer Emmet Flood to Join Trump Team

By MATT APUZZO and MICHAEL S. SCHMIDT 4:38 PM ET @ NYTimes.com

Ty Cobb, who had at one time persuaded Mr. Trump not to attack the special counsel publicly, will be replaced by the more adversarial Emmet Flood, who represented Bill Clinton in his impeachment.

on CNN TV they just had Carl

artappraiser — Wed, 02 May 2018 22:44:52 +0000

In reply to Ty Cobb: you're fired, big

on CNN TV they just had Carl Bernstein doing his usual ala this is worse than Nixon, this thing is going to blow any minute but my cavaet on that is that he's been saying that for months and months. With Carl, I have the cry wolf thing, also he likes to do the hyperbole to counter what he feels Trump is doing to the country. Basically acting as an advocate, so I don't trust his analysis.

I just ran across John R.

artappraiser — Wed, 02 May 2018 18:48:23 +0000

In reply to June 9 Trump declared he was

I just ran across John R. Schindler on the Veselnitskaya revelation @ The Observer April 30 which happens to give an example of how Trump might answer these kind of questions. From Trump's Michigan rally speech he points out some quotes that I haven't seen elsewhere (probably because the news was coming so fast and furious after the speech.) One thing it makes clear is that Trump is thinking about how he would answer such questions,convincing himself of a narrative, trying out fitting together pieces of a narrative:

[....] The White House seems dumbstruck by this public revelation, which blows apart its cover story about the Trump Tower meeting. On Saturday evening, at a Michigan rally, the president tried to slough off Veselnitskaya’s revelation by stating, “In fact, have you heard about the lawyer? For a year—a woman lawyer—she was like, ‘Oh, I know nothing.’ Now all of a sudden, she supposedly is involved with the [Russian] government.”

Interestingly, the president conceded that obviously Veselnitskaya wouldn’t drop a bombshell like this without Kremlin approval. He explained his take on Putin’s motivation, “You know, this Trump is killing us. Why don’t you say that you’re involved with government so that we can go and make their life in the United States even more chaotic.” This seems highly unlikely. While Trump regularly pronounces that “nobody’s been tougher on Russia than Donald Trump,” this would be news to Ronald Reagan or John F. Kennedy—or even Jimmy Carter [....]

from Forget Pee-Pee Tapes: the Kremlin Just Dropped a Bigger Bomb on the White House

June 9 Trump declared he was

PeraclesPlease — Wed, 02 May 2018 16:50:55 +0000

In reply to The odds experts talk game:

June 9 Trump declared he was 100% willing to answer Mueller's questions. 11 months later? still stalling & running scared. Art of the Squeal.

The odds experts talk game:

artappraiser — Wed, 02 May 2018 16:39:01 +0000

In reply to Exclusive: Mueller Has Dozens of Inquiries for Trump in Broad Quest on Russia Ties and Obstruction

The odds experts talk game:

Should Trump Answer Mueller’s Questions? A FiveThirtyEight Chat, May 2

micah (Micah Cohen, politics editor): For your consideration today: Should President Trump agree to be interviewed by special counsel Robert Mueller?

Obviously, we’re not lawyers or legal analysts, so we mostly want to focus on the politics of that question [....]

Yeah, only been over a year

PeraclesPlease — Wed, 02 May 2018 04:24:49 +0000

In reply to I would think so! Pretty

Yeah, only been over a year of Mueller asking permission yo discuss. At some point people stop asking nice.

I would think so! Pretty

artappraiser — Wed, 02 May 2018 01:55:53 +0000

In reply to That could explain the "by

I would think so! Pretty tough stuff, no beating around the bush. And let's not forget the entrance of Giuliani on the scene after that. From the article:

Trump’s remade legal team is now led by former New York mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani, who told The Washington Post on Tuesday that he views Mueller as the utmost professional, but is still reviewing documents and considering conditions he might set before deciding whether to recommend that Trump agree to an interview. “Hopefully we’re getting near the end. We all on both sides have some important decisions to make,” Giuliani said. “I still have a totally open mind on what the right strategy is, which we’ll develop in the next few weeks.”

Edit to add another quote from the article:

For his part, Trump fumed when he saw the breadth of the questions that emerged out of the talks with Mueller’s team, according to two White House officials.

The president and several advisers now plan to point to the list as evidence that Mueller has strayed beyond his mandate and is overreaching, they said.

“He wants to hammer that,” according to a person who spoke to Trump on Monday.

“Mueller is in Kenny Starr territory now,” said another Trump adviser,

That could explain the "by

moat — Wed, 02 May 2018 01:19:03 +0000

In reply to Mueller warned of a possible

That could explain the "by any means necessary" approach taken by the Trump team since that time.