It is being reported that reality is sinking in at the White House after Mueller treated the Trump Organization like a crime family, and the president’s reaction was one of paralyzed fear.
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Jim Acosta of CNN reported:
This is starting to sink in in Trump world and trump world is not pleased obviously. I talked to a source close to the white house saying that based on his own conversations with the president of the last several months, and knowing full well that the president still made decide ultimately to fire Robert Mueller or Rod Rosenstein, that in the words of this source, Mueller has gone rogue. Now keep in mind, as we’ve been saying, the special counsel office referred this to the U.S. Attorney and that is how this raid on Michael Cohen’s office came about.
But that is not sitting well inside of trump world. They see this as Robert Mueller the special counsel going outside of the lines of the investigation, going outside of the Russia collusion investigation and Russian meddling investigation and bringing in just about anything possible into this case and I think that is ultimately something the president will probably very — very closely thinking about it right now. What should he do as a result of all of this.
And obviously people who advise the president from time to time feel very strongly that the special counsel has essentially gone rogue here and gone outside of the boundaries of the investigation. The question, of course, becomes what does the president do about it, what can he do about it. And we talked about this time and again, if the president decides to fire Rod Rosenstein, that obviously opens the door to removing the special counsel, but of course we’ve heard from lawmakers up on capitol hill even inside of the president’s own party saying, wait a minute, if the president does this, he is risking impeachment and members of Congress going and passing legislation to appoint their own special counsel prosecutor.
So this is very much game on right now, is the very first initial impression I’m getting from trump sources, that they feel very strongly that Robert Mueller has gone outside of the bounds of this investigation.
Trump’s response to the Cohen raid wasn’t to proclaim his innocence with facts, but to ramble on with half-baked conspiracy theories while screaming ‘witch hunt.’ The fact that reality is sinking in suggests that Trump isn’t ready to take bold action, but he is behaving like a small-time crook and is paralyzed by fear over being caught.
Trump is desperate and cornered, so the next 24 hours will be critical as he will either try to change the subject or try to fire Mueller.
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