What a coincidence, right at the end of primary season and just before the general election, a very dangerous time for Donald, it will be even more dangerous after the election if there are a lot of resentful lame duck republicans in the congress. Donald is not on the ballot during the midterms, so Mueller is gonna soldier on, Trump is panicking because he thinks Mueller might drop his conclusions on congress before the election, though I think it would be worse for him after the midterms, if the democrats win bigly, but before the change of government in january. The outgoing GOP congressmen might just take Trump out with them when they go...
Donald ain't gonna be president forever and when he isn't, Mueller has enough to put him in prison forever. Donald might well end up pardoning everybody but himself (because he can't), though being the only one left to take the fall is not Donald's style, he'll want lot's of company on the way down. Maybe he can get a fill in the date pardon from Pence before he resigns, though a president Pence would be fighting for his political life and writing a blank check for Donald, treason included, is never wise.
Donald is right to call it a "witch hunt", because after Mueller releases his conclusions the majority of Americans will want to burn him at the stake on the WH lawn.
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Trump is powerless as his legal fate spins out of his control
https://www.cnn.com/2018/08/21/politics/donald-trump-president-fate-no-control-frustration-powerless/index.html
(CNN)President Donald Trump may no longer control his fate, a plight that helps explain his increasingly volcanic Twitter eruptions.
Trump's persona -- in politics, business and life -- relies on his self-image as the guy who calls the shots, closes deals and forces others to react to the shock moves of a master narrative weaver.
But as a legal web closes around the President, he's in a far weaker position than he would like, a situation especially underlined by the bombshell revelations that White House counsel Donald McGahn has spent 30 hours in interviews with special counsel Robert Mueller.
Trump reacted to a media frenzy over the McGahn revelations in characteristic fashion: by launching a new Twitter assault on Mueller, taking new shots at his new nemesis John Brennan and diverting attention with newsy comments on the Federal Reserve.
But sources told CNN on Monday that the President was unsettled that he didn't know the full extent of McGahn's testimony and had remained agitated through the weekend, believing the latest developments made him look weak.
McGahn's conversations with Mueller are not the only drama that is leaving Trump waiting on events, rather than dictating them.
Prosecutors and jurors over whom he has little control, the legal exposure of some of his top former associates and the surprising constraints of the most powerful job in the world and those who serve him are leaving him -- for once -- struggling to control his own story.
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