*You know how you can go to bed one evening and then wake up in the morning to find that the weather has quietly and completely changed? How, overnight, a layer of snow stealthily landed or the roads are freshly wet from a light rain…and it all transpired without you knowing it? That’s how Trump is going to fire Mueller.
It’s going to come like a thief in the night (truly no pun intended but does it matter anymore?), like a utility bill now way overdue that slipped your mind to pay; like a fart that turned out to be something more.
Of course Trump is going to fire Mueller. He’s going to do it—or at least try to do it—simply because he thinks he can, because he’s not smart enough to know or care that firing Mueller would make it appear he’s got something to hide.
He’s going to do it because “strategy” is a gargantuan word for this man, a mental exercise completely foreign and off limits to his “thinking” or whatever activity passes for such in that vacant area between his ears.
Strategy? This is the man who, after criticizing Obama for announcing military attacks, all but commissioned the Temptations to sing their classic, “Get Ready,” in telling the world, enemies included, of his plans to bomb Syria with “smart” missiles. The damn missiles are smarter than Trump.
The president’s firing of Mueller could begin with the dismissal of Deputy Attorney General Ron Rosenstein, officially Mueller’s boss, who, by all impressions and regardless of his political leanings, seems determined to follow the law and rightly allow Mueller’s investigation to run its course.
Or the carnage could commence with the firing of Rosenstein’s boss, Attorney General (AG) Jeff Sessions, not the most upstanding man in any room, whose recusal of himself from the Muller investigation is possibly the noblest thing he’s ever done in his entire career.
Dumping Sessions would clear the way for Trump to install a puppet AG (think E.P.A. head Scott Pruitt, busy turning the country’s environmental clock back to the ‘60s), who would almost certainly get rid of Mueller. Or Trump could, in one fell swoop, fire Sessions, Rosenstein and Mueller. Or try to. All while you sleep.
However Trump decides to fire Mueller, I wish he would get on with it. Perhaps that action—in addition to all the obvious disservice he’s done to the country and the office of the presidency—would be the Molotov cocktail that awakens the Republican Party from its deliberate, sinful slumber and seriously address the misdeeds of this lying, cheating man in the White House.
Those supposedly qualified to ponder these things insist Trump won’t fire Mueller. They say the move would create that much-ballyooed “constitutional crisis,” which would not bode well for the president. Well, we’ve heard that kind of “won’t” before.
They said he “won’t” run for president, and he did. Said he “won’t” win, and he did. After he won the election, they said as president he “won’t” be the buffoon in office that he was on the campaign trail. And remember, they also said Congress, no matter its party, would rein him in. So far, “they” have been wrong about it all.
So, pull that trigger, Trump. Fire Mueller. Please. Because if firing Mueller–the man whose work we pray will save the day and the country–is what it takes to finally begin the beginning of your end, I’m down for it.
Steven Ivory, veteran journalist, essayist and author, writes about popular culture for magazines, newspapers, radio, TV and the Internet. Respond to him via [email protected]
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