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In reply to the discussion: I watched every minute of Mueller's testimony this morning and I am royally pissed [View all]dawg day
(7,947 posts)And one witness.
I'd love to have some of his deputies come testify too.
We're jaded because we know all this stuff. (We know far more than was revealed, in fact.) But most people probably have a sort of vague sense that "Trump cheated". Half of them already have decided for other reasons maybe that they wouldn't vote for Trump for all the money in the world.
A third would vote for Trump even if he actually did murder someone on 5th Avenue on camera.
But the other 15% or so... they probably didn't watch the hearings, but they'll see the news and read the headlines, and they'll get, "Trump was NOT exonerated." "Russia cheated to help Trump." "Russia is still interfering." "Trump refused to help." "Manafort, Flynn, Cohen, Papadopoulus, lied under oath."
"FBI investigating Trump campaign in counter=intelligence inquiry."
"Mueller warns that Russia will do it again."
That's what the 15% who don't already hate Trump (or salivate to his every drool) are going to see and hear. They're going to be concerned... wonder why the Democrats aren't doing something... and then, oh, here's a hearing. Oh, here's a court saying Trump has to release his tax returns.
It might actually take until close to the election, but for my take, that's not a bad thing. It will mean the Republicans won't have a chance to replace Trump with Pence at the top of the ticket.
And it means we'll all be treated to ANOTHER ENTIRE YEAR of Trump melting down and getting more and more demented.
I hope he doesn't end up taking us to war, but that's beyond anyone's control at this point. The best we can hope for is that he constantly threatens and then loses focus and gets mad at CNN instead of Iran for a week.
But the 15% coming home to watch the news now, the ones who aren't decided yet, who don't pay that much attention but do vote... they'll hear this: Russia is doing it again, and Trump wants them too.