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She is. The “Waiting for Mueller” Mistake and the Right Wing Bubble

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Among other things, he talks about how any of six big negatives for Trump could blow the election for him:

1. He raped E. Jean Carroll in a department store dressing room
2. He oversaw one of the largest frauds in America history and that he and Rudy Giuliani through all their various misdeeds own over $700M dollars
3. He stole American secrets, lied to the FBI about it, and shared these secrets with other people
4. He led an insurrection against the United States
5. He and his family have corruptly taken billions from foreign governments
6. He is singularly responsible for ending Roe and stripping the rights and freedoms away from more than half the population
[7. "Trump routinely defrauds MAGAt supporters."
8. "The Biden crime family story...was a Russian op]

I would add two more: First, Trump routinely defrauds MAGAt supporters. Over the last week, he turned the RNC into a means to do so on a grander scale. Republicans need to hear that they’re being taken to the cleaner by Trump — and by Steve Bannon, whose trial for doing so will also serve as backdrop to this election season.

More tellingly, Rosenberg addressed this detail when he described how Biden’s two big negatives have resolved (my biggest complaint about this interview is it didn’t address Gaza, the unmentioned third), not when he addressed Trump’s scandals.

The Biden crime family story, we just learned in the last few weeks, was a Russian op that was being laundered by the Republican party that blew up in their face.

Rosenberg treated the manufactured “Biden crime family” that was actually a Russian op laundered by the GOP as a resolved Biden negative after he made this point, the most important in the interview, in my opinion.

We have to learn the lesson from waiting for Mueller. Waiting for Mueller was a mistake by the Democratic Party. It prevented us from prosecuting the case against Trump and his illicit relationship with the Russian government that was out there all for us to see. Right? The Russians played a major role in his election in 2016. This is not in dispute in any way. And so I think now what we need to do is not wait for Jack Smith or wait for Merrick Garland. We need to use what’s in front of us and prosecute this in ways that we know is going to do enormous harm.

No superhero will come tell any one of these stories for Democrats. Trump’s opponents have to tell the story of Trump’s corruption. They cannot wait for Mueller. Or Jack Smith.

Your - https://www.emptywheel.net/2024/03/14/the-waiting-for-mueller-mistake-and-the-right-wing-bubble/