Unable to get to the recusal time machine, a vindictive Trump tries to shift attention from the GOP losing the House. This also means there could be greater pressure to end the Mueller investigation…
Trump tried as usual, to believe he can manage his message in a press conference today. His utter failure, attacking specific media members, may have prompted the release of the AG resignation.
Perhaps Jeff has something to share with Bob Mueller’s people, like information from the 2016 campaign including recovered recollections of the meetings with Russians.
President Trump held a press conference following the midterm elections on Wednesday, in which Democrats regained control of the House and Republicans held the Senate.
Trump’s rhetoric was hostile and defensive as he admonished defeated Republican candidates who did not embrace him and attacked numerous journalists for their questions.
And the press is again “the enemy of the people”… "you shouldn't treat people that way" says the man who has admitted to grabbing women by their genitals...
"CNN should be ashamed of themselves having you working for them. You are a rude, terrible person. You should not be working for CNN." (to Jim Acosta)
Donald Trump has launched an extraordinary tirade against a reporter during a press conference following the midterm elections.
The US president ordered the journalist to put down his microphone and “just sit down”.
The row began following a question about the migrant caravan approaching the US, when Mr Trump was asked by CNN’s Jim Acosta if he thought he had “demonised” migrants by calling the group an “invasion”.
“I think you should let me run the country, you run CNN, and if you did it well, your ratings would be much better,” the Republican said.
After Mr Acosta attempted to follow up his question with a second on Robert Mueller’s Russia probe, Mr Trump added, pointing angrily: “That’s enough. That’s enough. That’s enough. Excuse me, that’s enough.”
Mr Trump said he was “not concerned about anything” because the investigation was “a hoax”.
Continuing to berate Mr Acosta, he added: “That’s enough. Put down the mic.”
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Mr Acosta continued to try to ask questions without his microphone, causing Mr Trump to tell him: “Just sit down, please. When you report fake news – no – when you report fake news, which CNN does, a lot, you are the enemy of the people.”
www.independent.co.uk/...
"We are a hot country. This is a hot White House. We are a White House that people want to work with."
Nearly two years into his investigation, Mueller has gathered reams of evidence after flipping senior members of Trump’s inner circle into cooperating witnesses, including Trump’s former campaign chairman Paul Manafort and his old self-styled “fixer” and attorney, Michael Cohen.
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Mueller has set other probes in motion that have taken on lives of their own.
Cohen, Trump’s former “fixer,” pleaded guilty to eight counts in New York in August, including two stemming from campaign finance violations. Cohen said he helped orchestrate hush-money payments in fall 2016 to two women who claimed to have had sexual relationships with Trump. And he said that he did so at Trump’s direction.
Cohen has reportedly spent hours answering questions about Trump’s ties with Russia during multiple interview sessions with Mueller’s team. But according to ABC News, he’s also reportedly cooperating with a separate probe by New York state authorities into the Trump family charity and the Trump Organization, where Cohen served as an executive vice president and special counsel to Trump for 10 years. Mueller has also spun off tangentially related probes to other offices, including to U.S. Attorneys in New York and Washington, D.C.
“It would be extremely difficult to end the investigations,” Sandick said. “This is especially true for the non-Mueller cases, of which there are now several.”
news.vice.com/… (September)