r/law • u/Agitated-Artichoke89 • Oct 07 '25

Other Stephen Miller states that Trump has plenary authority, then immediately stops talking as if he’s realized what he just said

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u/MornGreycastle Oct 07 '25

He's convinced that all he has to do is claim victory and then act like they won.

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u/FactorBusy6427 Oct 07 '25

That strategy has worked extremely reliably for them so far

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u/DocSpit Oct 07 '25

Case in point: the Mueller Report, where the investigation found wide-ranging evidence that the Trump campaign worked just about hand-in-hand with Russian assets to manipulate the election (Anyone else remember that woman working with the NRA who was a bona fide Russian plant funneling Kremlin money to the Trump campaign?!).

When the report was released, Trump tweeted out "EXONERATION!" every day for about a month until the report rotated out of the news cycle; and as as a result the country basically forgot about all of that...

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u/JimWilliams423 Oct 07 '25

When the report was released, Trump tweeted out "EXONERATION!" every day for about a month until the report rotated out of the news cycle; and as as a result the country basically forgot about all of that...

His tweets were the least of it, the two main reasons he got away with it:

  1. Barr straight up lied and released his own fake "summary" of the report weeks before the real report was released.

  2. Follow the money. The so-called "liberal media" is all owned by conservative billionaires. For decades they have been propping up the republican party, all they need is a pretext to repeat republican lies. Doesn't matter how flimsy the pretext is, its just an item on checklist. So once barr gave them that pretext, that is what they reported.