To be honest, I don't follow the #TrumpRussia investigation (that much) except on days like today. Tonight, the NYTimes reports Trump tried to fire Mueller last summer:
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/25/us/politics/trump-mueller-special-counsel-russia.html
"WASHINGTON — President Trump ordered the firing last June of Robert S. Mueller III, the special counsel overseeing the Russia investigation, according to four people told of the matter, but ultimately backed down after the White House counsel threatened to resign rather than carry out the directive."
So, let's try to think back to June 2017: what was going on?
Let's see: Comey gave his testimony on 6-8-2017:
"Read Comey's prepared testimony"
https://www.cnn.com/2017/06/07/politics/james-comey-memos-testimony/index.html
Also, Mueller hired a criminal prosecutor on 6-9-2017:
"Top Criminal law expert joins special counsel Robert Mueller's Russia probe"
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/top-criminal-law-expert-joins-special-counsel-robert-muellers-russia-probe/2017/06/09/daafb86e-4d45-11e7-bc1b-fddbd8359dee_story.html
Furthermore, news broke on 6-14-2017 that Trump was being investigated for obstruction of justice:
"Trump investigated for obstructing justice: Report"
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/trump-being-investigated-for-obstructing-justice-report/article/2626030
Obviously, in my own scientific analysis of today's news, Trump was freaking-out back in june '17 thus he decided to fire Mueller. The NYTimes explains it more accurately:
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/25/us/politics/trump-mueller-special-counsel-russia.html
"Amid the first wave of news media reports that Mr. Mueller was examining a possible obstruction case, the president began to argue that Mr. Mueller had three conflicts of interest that disqualified him from overseeing the investigation, two of the people said."
Nothing about Trump's actions surprise me anymore. His sense of self-preservation "trumps" everything at the expense of being socially acceptable to the majority of Americans.
Recently (segue into Stormy Daniels story), I saw a comment which essentially stated:"imagine if Obama had paid off a porn star". The difference with Obama (or even W. Bush for that matter) is that he was someone you actually respected (even if you didn't agree with him) & couldn't picture paying off a porn star. But with Trump, of course you could picture him paying off a porn star: why not?
There's been a barrage of news about Trump (hard to keep up), each article more incredible than the last. But I gotta say, the porn-star news did catch me off guard for a moment when I first heard about it. But then I thought; of course Trump is involved in the porn world: Trump acts like an immature teenager (sorry to teenagers) using nicknames like "lyin' Ted", "sloppy Steve", etc. Therefore, like an immature teenager, Trump likes porn stars.
However, as ridiculous (but believable) as it sounds to have a president who was involved with a porn star, tonight's news are just as unsurprising. Because, of course Trump tried to fire Mueller: why not?
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