Bob Mueller has a surprise press conference and says absolutely nothing new but Dems decide it’s time to impeach. Guy sets himself on fire in front of the White House. And the dumbest story of the week.

The news cycle is heating up.

I Bid You Adieu

This is a story I don’t care about but I’m going to go over because it is the biggest one of the week so far. Bob Mueller decided to hold a surprise news conference yesterday. It was short (about 10 minutes) and he took no questions. I will summarize it since he didn’t really say much but you can watch it if you want.

In a nutshell, Mueller explained what he was doing for the last two years, how and why the report was written and that he’s done. He said he would not answer questions or appear in front of Congress because everything is in the report. He would not answer any questions that go beyond the report. He was done, finito, kaput.

But he did not give Trump any love. He said that his office never exonerated him. Then he said something amazing. He explained the Office of Legal Council (OLC) memo on not being able to indict a sitting president. So he says: “Charging the president with a crime was, therefore, not an option we could consider.” Wow! He’s basically saying that he couldn’t really investigate because he wasn’t allowed to. He says he wrote the report, he stands by the report and people should read the report.

This is a dog whistle to Congress.

Of course, the Left flips. Jerry Nadler releases a statement that pretty much sums up why Mueller had this press conference.

First off, I don’t understand how anyone is lying here. I read the report. There is nothing in the report that proves anything. How Trump or Barr can lie about what is in the report is insane because anyone can read the report. It makes me wonder whether this dunderhead actually read the report.

The Nadler goes over Mueller’s three points: no exoneration, Trump may have obstructed justice and that it is Congress’s responsibility to take action. The no exoneration thing is in the report. Not sure why it’s a thing. Trump may have wanted to obstruct but he didn’t. He never fired Mueller, nobody took him serious when he ordered others to fire Mueller, he never prevented anyone from being interviewed by Mueller and the Trump administration handed over millions of documents. Alright, he bitched about it a lot, threw temper tantrums and wanted to fire him. So what? Also, there needs to be intent to stop the investigation to cover up guilt. That’s the law. There wasn’t any because there was no crime to cover up.

The third point about Congress needing to get involved is exactly right. He wants Congress to impeach. He said it in the report and he is saying it now. And the Dems all know it. Listens to Nancy “Jaws” Pelosi talk about Trump after the press conference:

Ah, yes. The old everything’s-on-table cliche. I do want you to notice something about both responses? They both seem kind of nervous and they have good reason.

Here’s the truth. Mueller had this press conference to wake the Dems up and remind them that his report is a blueprint for an impeachment. And it is. The Left seems to be waiting for Mueller to pull a unicorn out of his butt that will get Trump out of the White House and into a jail cell. Basically, Mueller has nothing else and he’s telling them to go forward.

Mueller hates Trump with a passion. He’s wants to make a mess of his presidency. And he did for two years. But now he’s done and wants Congress to take the reigns. I also think that Mueller may want to create chaos to protect his buddies at the FBI and CIA. Comey and Brennan are in trouble or, at least, one of them is. And now, the DoJ is investigation into some of the possible questionable behavior that includes the FBI, CIA and Obama Administration. Some, like Dan Bongino, even think the Mueller investigation may have been put together to clean up that mess. I would say this is probably more conspiracy theory except it is curious Mueller wrote the report basically telling Congress to impeach Trump and the lack of acknowledgement of the dirty Steele Dossier which led to the FISA warrants. So I’m not sure it is a conspiracy theory anymore and have a feeling we may find out the truth when Barr gets finished.

The reality is Mueller really screwed the Democrats. He put them in a corner. The reasonable Democrats, like Pelosi, remember what happened when Republicans impeached Bill Clinton and he actually committed crimes which he was punished for after his term (he was actually disbarred). Clinton became more popular. This will happen to Trump, especially since the Mueller report didn’t find any evidence of a crime. Impeachment would be a disaster for the Dems. Republicans would keep the Senate, the Executive and, probably, retake the House.

It’ll be interesting to see what happens. I have a feeling the Democrats will slow play this and just talk about impeachment without actually doing it.

Tragedy in Washington DC

Yesterday, I mentioned that a man set himself on fire in front of the White House. I didn’t say anything about it because I didn’t know if he was going to survive or why he did it. Well, I’m glad I waited. Here’s the video below. It’s brutal so you’ve been warned.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jA5UMNxLQgM

Well, I’m glad I didn’t talk about it. The man died last night and, it sounds like, he may have been mentally ill. His name was Arnav Gupta from Maryland. His family had reported him missing yesterday morning and feared for his physical and emotional well being. Authorities don’t have reason why Gupta did this.

Dumb Story of the Day

Donald Trump just got back from Japan just in time for the New York Times to reported that Trump ordered that the USS John McCain needed to stay out of his sight. Pictures of the ship show it partially covered by a tarp. As usual, they kind of got the story wrong.

Apparently, and I am assuming here because several stories I have read are different, someone from the White House asked the Navy to hide the ship. Trump didn’t know about it. The ship is in Japan for repairs. The ship did have a tarp on it and the crew did have the day off. What unclear is why. But the ship was docked and not really hidden. Trump had some comments about the “controversy”.

Ugh! Why, why, why?

Couldn’t he just say, “John and I had our issues but I would never do that,” and move on to the next question. Stop telling the world you don’t like the dead war hero. I didn’t like McCain either but I wouldn’t trash him every time he was mentioned. And a White House staff member telling the Navy to hide a destroyer is not “well meaning”. It’s stupid and makes the White House look petty. That person should be demoted or fired.

This is where Trump is going to get himself into trouble. All he has to do is stop saying and Tweeting stupid things. The Democrats will bury themselves with all their insane ideas.

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Resources:

https://nypost.com/2019/05/30/arnav-gupta-man-who-set-himself-on-fire-near-white-house-dies/

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/30/us/politics/trump-mccain-ship.html