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Their Offer Is This: To Do Nothing

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I’m genuinely baffled that anyone thought congressional Republicans would do anything to protect Mueller, but in any case McConnell is officially waving the Matador’s cape:

Republican senator Thom Tillis has taken the risky step of endorsing a bill to safeguard Robert Mueller from being fired by President Trump. But the risk was for naught, as Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell told reporters he would not allow any such bill to come to the Senate floor.

McConnell argues, as he has in the past, that such a bill is “unnecessary” because there is “no indication” Trump would fire the special counsel. Of course there are many indications. Innumerable news reports have described Trump raging about Mueller and demanding his firing. Trump actually ordered the firing of Mueller in June, and again in December, and has begun attacking Mueller publicly, as well as attacking the Department of Justice official who oversees and has approved his investigation, both privately and publicly. Trump has also previously fired the FBI director, with whom he closely associates Mueller.

Other than that, there aren’t any indications. But the only indications McConnell will accept as valid will apparently be the actual firing of Mueller, at which point it will be too late to do anything, and McConnell will urge the country to trust Trump’s new attorney general, Sean Hannity, or whoever.

As Chait goes on to say, one really obvious problem with the theory that McConnell would act to protect Mueller is that it fails to explain why he acted to prevent Obama from revealing the Russian ratfucking during the election. If he wanted to use Trump as an instrument to advance his agenda and didn’t care about Russian interference during the campaign, what’s changed? I’m sure after Trump fires Mueller, though, Republicans will totally begin conducting Meaningful Oversight, like sending Encyclopedia Nunes to get to the bottom of how Hillary Clinton’s email server caused Banghazi and murdered Seth Rich. And, of course, urging the Attorney General to arrest pretty much everyone associated with the Obama administration.

The ways Trump can be removed from the presidency are 1)the ballot box 2)that’s it.

 

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