Out In The Open

Observation: Cult45 is almost eager to manifest "Consciousness Of Guilt".

But they always do these things right in front of us - hiding in plain sight - to help us maintain our illusion of "Well, they don't seem to have anything to hide - I guess it's OK".

Pretty much every time you turn around, somebody's saying 

• Trump shouldn't talk to Mueller for fear of perjuring himself
• Trump should just pardon himself and then fire the whole DoJ
• Trump has to do something to keep Flynn from flipping - to keep Manafort from flipping - to keep Cohen from flipping.

Every one of these items can easily be taken to indicate how thoroughly fucking guilty 45* knows he is.

John Bowden, The Hill:

President Trump's lawyer Rudy Giuliani told Fox News on Saturday that he believes special counsel Robert Mueller has targeted former Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort because Mueller thinks Manafort will be easier to flip against the president.

In an interview with Fox News's Jeanine Pirro, Giuliani speculated that New York's attorney general had passed off the investigation into bank fraud charges against Trump's longtime personal lawyer, Michael Cohen, to Mueller while continuing to investigate Manafort, Trump's former campaign chairman.

"And of course [New York] developed that whole Cohen investigation and gave it away. Why did they give away Cohen, and not Manafort? Maybe they think Manafort's somebody they can flip faster," Giuliani said.

The spin of course is, "gubmint's out ta git me", which plays inordinately well with about 20 million rubes.

Way back in the 90s, I recall Mr Starr doing almost exactly what the Repubs are bitching about. (yes, I know it gets old playing "where was your outrage when blah blah blah - and no, that's not what I'm doing)

Repubs knew Bill Clinton would eventually step on his dick, so they needed an excuse to establish the Special Prosecutor (Whitewater), and then they just had to find an excuse on occasion to keep it going until Clinton did, in fact, step on his dick.

They tried the same with Hillary-n-Benghazi, and Hillary's Emails - failing until Comey came to rescue and stepped on his dick as an act of public sacrifice(?), but that takes it into a slightly different rant.

So anyway, a variation on Daddy State Rule #1 applies here.

1. Every accusation is a confession

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