President Donald Trump speaks during the 37th annual National Peace Officers Memorial Service on Capitol Hill, Tuesday, May 15, 2018, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

After a good night’s sleep after a barn-burner of a rally in Tampa, Florida, President Trump was on Twitter early this morning expressing his displeasure with one of the favorite targets of his displeasure, Robert Mueller.

“FBI Agent Peter Strzok (on the Mueller team) should have recused himself on day one. He was out to STOP THE ELECTION OF DONALD TRUMP. He needed an insurance policy. Those are illegal, improper goals, trying to influence the Election. He should never, ever been allowed to……..

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 1, 2018

…..remain in the FBI while he himself was being investigated. This is a real issue. It won’t go into a Mueller Report because Mueller is going to protect these guys. Mueller has an interest in creating the illusion of objectivity around his investigation.” ALAN DERSHOWITZ….

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 1, 2018

..This is a terrible situation and Attorney General Jeff Sessions should stop this Rigged Witch Hunt right now, before it continues to stain our country any further. Bob Mueller is totally conflicted, and his 17 Angry Democrats that are doing his dirty work are a disgrace to USA!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 1, 2018

Paul Manafort worked for Ronald Reagan, Bob Dole and many other highly prominent and respected political leaders. He worked for me for a very short time. Why didn’t government tell me that he was under investigation. These old charges have nothing to do with Collusion – a Hoax!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 1, 2018

Russian Collusion with the Trump Campaign, one of the most successful in history, is a TOTAL HOAX. The Democrats paid for the phony and discredited Dossier which was, along with Comey, McCabe, Strzok and his lover, the lovely Lisa Page, used to begin the Witch Hunt. Disgraceful!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 1, 2018

Looking back on history, who was treated worse, Alfonse Capone, legendary mob boss, killer and “Public Enemy Number One,” or Paul Manafort, political operative & Reagan/Dole darling, now serving solitary confinement – although convicted of nothing? Where is the Russian Collusion?

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 1, 2018

“We already have a smoking gun about a campaign getting dirt on their opponent, it was Hillary Clinton. How is it OK for Hillary Clinton to proactively seek dirt from the Russians but the Trump campaign met at the Russians request and that is bad?” Marc Thiessen, Washington Post

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 1, 2018

From my point of view, there is a lot of truth here. The initial FBI counterintelligence investigation started out as a “get Trump exercise” (let’s recall, that in 2008 John McCain had a campaign staffer who had done work for a Putin-affiliated entity and the FBI approached McCain privately about their concerns and the staffer was dismissed, that courtesy was never afforded Trump) and gathered steam as it became what seems to be the “insurance policy” FBI deputy assistant director for counterintelligence, adulterer, and maker of demon-possessed faces, Peter Strzok boasted about.

https://youtu.be/wEIx9EAcMl8

Manafort is being tried on charges that are over a decade old and even a federal judge says the only reason he’s been indicted is to try to coerce him into being a witness against Trump. None of this is to say that Manafort is not a sleazebag, but the way he has been treated should remind us all of what awaits us if we have a bit of bad luck and run afoul of a federal prosecutor.

Getting back to an earlier post of mine today, I think the proper way of viewing all of this is theater. Trump needs a bad guy and Mueller is it. Not that I don’t think Mueller isn’t a heavily bent prosecutor who seems to be pursuing a political agenda rather than whatever the hell it is he’s supposed to be doing. This kind of thing ratchets up pressure on Sessions and Rosenstein. It gives his allies in Congress more courage. It lays out his case to dismiss whatever Mueller is going to inevitably find, which will not be collusion of any kind, as a political hatchet job. (After today, Mueller may add jury tampering to his will-o-the-wisp obstruction investigation.)

I think it also signals that a pardon for Manafort is a high probability once a verdict has been reached.

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