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LOOK OUT: Robert Mueller Follows Donald Trump on Twitter

LOOK OUT: Robert Mueller Follows Donald Trump on Twitter

Last updated on: July 26, 2018 at 5:46 pm by Susan Wright

LOOK OUT: Robert Mueller Follows Donald Trump on Twitter 2018-07-26T17:46:16-04:00 Susan Wright

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Please. Keep tweeting.

This is not a surprise. I’ve been saying for a year that President Trump is pretty much a tweet away from major legal issues.

The New York Times is reporting that special counsel Robert Mueller, along with everything else that has been made available to him, is perusing the president’s Twitter feed to glean items for his obstruction case.

He has plenty of material to play with. Where to start?

The Times, citing three people briefed on the matter, reported that Mueller is particularly interested in Trump’s tweets about Attorney General Jeff Sessions, former FBI Director James Comey and former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe.

Now, there’s your cornucopia of material to wade through. So much of it could be damning.

Anyone who has access to social media has seen or heard about Trump’s Twitter habits. From the very beginning of the Russia probe, it has been a near-daily emotional breakdown, as Trump has lashed out, denied, whined, and pouted for the world to see.

He has attacked each of the men mentioned at various times since the beginning of Mueller’s work, with varying degrees of intensity (or insanity).

Of course, President Trump’s attorney, former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani, has his own hot take on the news.

“If you’re going to obstruct justice, you do it quietly and secretly, not in public,” argued Rudy Giuliani, the lawyer representing Trump in the Russia probe, in a statement to the paper.

I don’t think he really put any thought into that statement.

We’re talking about Donald Trump. He will shoot himself in the foot, over and over again. I doubt very seriously that he has taken a moment to stop and consider how his Twitter attacks might look to certain interested parties, or how they might be construed.

He certainly doesn’t listen to his advisers.

I’m seriously expecting him to confess to being involved in the disappearance of Jimmy Hoffa, at some point.

The belief, for now, is that Mueller may not be looking for that one, smoking gun type of confession (although he certainly might find something out there). Rather, he could be mapping the behavior of Trump, monitoring Trump’s various responses to the day’s newsfeed.

Is there a pattern of behavior to watch?

So what sort of insanity might Robert Mueller be perusing, as we speak?

Trump has tweeted and said in interviews that he would not have nominated Sessions as attorney general if he knew Sessions would recuse himself from the Russia investigation.

That one will surely catch Mueller’s attention. No, it’s not something that could sink Trump, but, again, very odd, given his current status.

Then there were the comments about former FBI Director James Comey. I’d be hard pressed to determine who caught it the worst, Comey or Jeff Sessions.

During an interview with NBC News’ Lester Holt, President Trump said of the then-recent firing of Comey that it was because of the “Russia thing.” It was only after that he began firing off multiple reasons.

In May of this year, however, Trump tweeted that he “never fired James Comey because of Russia!”

Make up your mind.

Former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe, fired in March for a failure to come clean during an interview with the inspector general, has been a frequent target of Trump’s Twitter hand, as well.

The Times’s report comes three days after Giuliani told Bloomberg News that he suggested to Mueller that Trump would sit for an interview only if Mueller agreed to rule out questions about obstruction of justice and focus on the matter of whether Trump’s campaign colluded with Russia during the presidential race, which Trump has vehemently denied.

And there’s no way they should be able to call the shots, as far as what is important in this investigation and what is not. The stakes are too high.

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