Trump's "No Collusion" narrative just took a direct broadside....

[scheming daemons]

....with the news that Manafort visited Assange right after joining the Trump campaign.


That's why Trump is panic-tweeting today about "both sides!"


His "No collusion" argument is going away...and now he is only left with "both sides do it!"


His poll numbers are tanking, as even parts of his base are starting to erode.


As the economy moves into recession within the next year, I predict he won't run for re-election.

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[vlyons]

1. Even if he did run for re-election,

the GOP establishment would not give it to him. For 100+ years, the GOP has stood against tariffs and supported free trade. Trump ain't got the moxie to negotiate trade deals. And farmers are pissed, as are auto workers.

[Gidney N Cloyd]

6. Maybe not 100+ years.

The Republicans under Hoover passed a lot of tariff legislation.

[thesquanderer]

9. Of course he will run. Two big reasons...

One is he'll never walk away from the limelight.

The other is, staying in office is the best protection he has against getting indicted or imprisoned.

[leftyladyfrommo]

20. Or poisoned by Putin.

When you sell your soul to the devil there are consquences.

[StevieM]

11. The GOP establishment doesn't pick the nominee, the voters do. And they love Trump.

Falling poll numbers won't affect him since they are obviously fake polls.

[Major Nikon]

13. The GOP establishment isn't like the DNC establishment

There's no real ideology for the GOP anymore, assuming there ever was. It's all about funneling money to the top, and the only way left to do that is through nationalism, which was always the inevitable path for a party chasing an increasingly larger share of a shrinking demographic. Trump isn't their problem, he's a symptom of their problem and the GOP establishment has no choice but to inevitably embrace him and everything he stands for.

[True Blue American]

16. 84 farmers

Just filed for bankruptcy.

5 GM plants closed in ohio, Michigan and Canada. 5% of white collar workers gone, 65 thousand workers. Stock market wiped out 2018 gains. Deficit up $1 trillion.How much more?

[ffr]

2. If they're even in tRumpland. They're probably still just bots or Russian trolls.

Conservatives are rather simple. They don't form their own opinions on their own, that's what Fox Noise is for.

Not sure if they could come up with FO and the other comment. Iffy.

[Jarqui]

3. The Trump claim of a perjury trap was that he would say one thing,

someone else would say another and then what he said would get cast in doubt because of the difference.

If it turns out that he colluded with Manafort to come up with written answers similar to what Manafort told them that Mueller knows are lies, that would be sweet.

Since the news about Manafort's lying came out:

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So he goes back to smearing Mueller and attempting misdirection ...

Facts are stubborn things

[califootman]

4. "Facts are such horrid things!"

Jane Austen was prescient... Trump is like a modern day Lady Susan! Well, except that Lady Susan was attractive and smart. Trump only has her scheming, amoral, and self-centered qualities.

[Maeve]

5. Y'know...prosecutors do normally look at one side

but I'd be fascinated to hear what the Con thinks the other side is..

"Did not!" isn't really much of an argument, especially when the evidence says "Yes, you did".

[Moostache]

7. I agree...the "but they did something too" defense is not going to clear him!

His entire ranting nonsense about "the other side" is immaterial to the question at hand and it ALWAYS IS!!! This is nothing more or less than "what-about-ism" run amok as a deflection from accountability.

The Mueller investigation was chartered with a broad mandate to investigate Trump, his campaign and his finances related to ANY potential criminality...that is a life's worth of work in and of itself...now that Trump is realizing just exactly what that means (and that chanting his "no collusion" mantra is not making it go away), he is shitting himself hourly.

I only hope the stress causes him to have a major cardiac event and to cease respiring with all due haste...

[MyOwnPeace]

8. Moo.............

I agree with EVERY SINGLE WORD!

I especially like the last sentence....

[dalton99a]

10. +1

[progressoid]

12. His poll numbers aren't tanking.

Nixon and Bush's numbers tanked. Trump's are just back to 38% where they have been there before.

[NewJeffCT]

15. poll drops rarely happen instantaneously

even with big events, it takes a week or two to register in polling.

[NewJeffCT]

14. "Fuck Off" is not a denial

as I responded on Twitter

[Ferrets are Cool]

17. I want him in jail BEFORE he gets a chance to even voice his

intention of running.

[47of74]

18. Sounds like a big ol YES to me.

[Scurrilous]

19. K&R