Serious alarms
Walter Shaub, the ethics guy, put out a statement yesterday:
Walter Shaub, senior director, ethics at the Campaign Legal Center (CLC) warned the administration, its surrogates, and its allies to back off their attempt to undermine the investigation led by Special Counsel Robert Mueller. President Trump’s lawyer, Jay Sekulow, has publicly called for a second special counsel in a transparent effort to muddy the waters and impede Mueller’s investigation. In response, Shaub gave the following statement:
“The coordinated effort by President Trump and his surrogates to discredit the Mueller investigation raises serious alarms. Rather than making themselves complicit in this assault on the rule of law, Members of Congress should send a clear message to the President that firing Mueller is a red line he must not cross.”
They are of course doing the opposite, hinting broadly that they will support him if he fires Mueller.
Anyone in the Trump creature’s administration and anyone in the Republican Party who even tries to derail the Mueller investigation — let alone succeeds in doing this — before its results are in is a traitor (whether or not such behavior fits the legal definition of the term).
They’re already trying. And all to defend this terrible, thieving, corrupt man. It’s shameful.
I beggars belief that they can be so brazenly contemptious of the law, yet so stupid that they appear not to realise that every action and every word against Mueller and every attempt to shut down the investigation or to discredit it – and the law enforcement agencies – only makes those people more determined to nail Trump and his den of thieves.
My anxiety levels are sky-high right now. When you study the history of the rise of the Third Reich, one thing that is clear is that there were several points where the Nazis could have been stopped but never were. The left were in disarray, too busy fighting among themselves to see the threat growing on the other side. Many right-wing German politicians thought they could control Hitler or limit his ability to do very much. By the time they realized that they could not, it was too late. He had usurped too much power.
I’m not saying Trump is Hitler. I am saying that this is how democracy dies. If Trump fires Mueller and the Republicans do nothing, then they empower him to do absolutely anything. And by the time they realize that he is no longer serving their interests and decide they need to do something, it will be too late and they will no longer be able to.
Yes. I find this very anxious-making too.