(Booman posted a really fine article recently titled Why There Hasn’t Been a Saturday Night Massacre. If you haven’t read it, go there and do so. It represents Booman’s keen political mind at its best. I posted a reply and I am now making it a standalone post.)
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Yes.
This is rule of law.
Thank you for your clarity, Booman.
But…another route this man might take would be:
1-Foment a war.
2-Blow it up real big. (The media would help because it would make them a lot of money and the Armed Forces/Clandestine Forces would cooperate because…because that’s what they think that they are there for, most of them.)
3a-Claim that he cannot do his job as Commender-in-Chief while he is constantly being bothered by the Mueller investigation
And/or:
3b- Claim that we need Russia’s help in that war and thus must tone down the whole RussiaGate thing.
and finally:
4-Usurp every power he can get his hands on.
Now…#4 would need a compliant congress. However, it is my belief that he could get away with it no matter whether the RatPubs control both houses of Congress or only the Senate. Why? Because most of the DemRats in Congress will fear being deprived of their seats in the next election if they oppose a Commander-in-Chief during wartime…the very definition of a compliant Congress.
And there you have it.
A war-supported coup.
Could happen…
Will it?
Damned if I know.
But if I were him…genetically impatient, mentally challenged in many ways and truly vicious…I’d bet on the coup rather than wait and see how long the Mueller thing drags on and how deeply and well it fishes. Add to that his probable guilt on any number of fronts.
Watch.
AG
P.S. A few hot summertime riots might do the trick, too. Or a really effective set of terrorist acts. Or a serious financial collapse. Or a truly awful natural disaster. Or any combination or permutation of the five.
P.P.S. Or…
Here is my fondest dream…one day Air Force One takes off…ostensibly to NYC or someplace north of DC…and then just keeps on keepin’ on to the Great Circle route until it lands in Moscow.
We’re all still allowed to dream, right?
And pray, too.
Right?
Let us do so.
Both.
