{"id":42162,"date":"2019-07-12T12:29:40","date_gmt":"2019-07-12T19:29:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=42162"},"modified":"2019-07-12T12:50:06","modified_gmt":"2019-07-12T19:50:06","slug":"trumps-cowardly-scheme-to-upstage-the-mueller-hearing-is-stymied-by-house-democrats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=42162","title":{"rendered":"Trump’s Cowardly Scheme to Upstage the Mueller Hearing is Stymied by House Democrats"},"content":{"rendered":"

For more than two years Donald Trump has exhibited signs of mortal fear whenever the subject of his unsavory connections to Russia were brought up. That’s especially true with regard to mentions of special counsel Robert Mueller and his probe of Russian interference in the 2016 election.<\/p>\n

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Most of the time Trump has endeavored to lie about and malign Mueller<\/a><\/strong> in the harshest terms, calling him corrupt, conflicted, dishonest, and even treasonous. He tried to prevent Congress from ever seeing the Mueller report<\/a><\/strong> (and the public as well). Although on a few peculiar occasions Trump tried to butter up Mueller<\/a><\/strong> with faint praise in order to validate his delusional assertion that the final report exonerated him. Never mind that even Fox News’ Senior Legal Analyst<\/a><\/strong> and Chief Political Anchor<\/a><\/strong> didn’t buy that delusion.<\/p>\n

A few weeks ago the House Judiciary and Intelligence Committees scheduled hearings to get Mueller’s testimony on the record. It was a necessary step to inform the public, most of whom have not read the Mueller report in full (like many members of Congress<\/a><\/strong>) and are not familiar with its conclusions that identify criminal activity on Trump’s part and multiple instances of obstruction of justice. The hearings were set of July 17.<\/p>\n

Shortly after that announcement, Trump announced<\/a><\/strong> that he would be holding another one of his Deplorable Cult Rallies in North Carolina on the same date. That was surely no coincidence. Trump was plotting to steal the media’s attention from the congressional hearings that he obviously feared. This is a tactic that he has used before. When he refused to participate in a Republican primary debate on Fox News because he was afraid of Megyn Kelly, he held a phony “charitable”<\/em> event<\/a><\/strong> on the same day. And he often tries to manipulate the press with releases intended to distract from coverage of other news that he fears.<\/p>\n

Now the Democrats in Congress are discussing delaying the Mueller hearing for one week. That would mean that Trump’s deliberately competing rally would not interfere with the Mueller hearing after all. Trump would either have to reschedule his rally also, or schedule an additional rally a week later. Either way it would make him look brazenly opportunistic and self-serving.<\/p>\n

Still, we can’t rule out Trump changing his calendar in order to thwart the congressional testimony of Mueller. His fear is a powerful motivation for much of his behavior as president. He proved that again just yesterday with this trembling tweet:<\/p>\n

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….conflicted and compromised Mueller again. He said he was \u201cdone\u201d after his last 9 minute speech, and that he had nothing more to say outside of the No Collusion, No Obstruction, Report. Enough already, go back to work! I won, unanimously, the big Emoluments case yesterday!<\/p>\n

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 11, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n