OK sorry, more on topic this time. The topic being the unfitness of Whitaker. I don't feel too bad bumping this thread again at 12 AM CST. Exclusive: Trump loyalist Matthew Whitaker was counseling the White House on investigating Clinton: Despite this being the case, on Friday as he was leaving on a trip to Paris, Trump told reporters, “I don’t know Matt Whitaker.” He also claimed that he never spoke to the then-DOJ chief of staff about the Mueller investigation: “I didn’t speak to Matt Whitaker about it,” he said. Yeah, so Trump knows exactly who Whitaker is (a loyalist) and has spoken to him about diffusing the Mueller probe. If you believe the sources, that whole Vox article is pretty explosive. Trump would have weighed the inevitable backlash in the press against the advantage of installing a stooge, and decided that the advantages of the latter outweighed the drawbacks of the former. So that's fucking scary. I was wrong about predicting something from Mueller by COB this week, but I'm still buckled in tight.During this period, Whitaker frequently spoke by phone with both Trump and Chief of Staff John Kelly, this same official told me. On many of those phone calls, nobody else was on the phone except for the president and Whitaker, or only Kelly and Whitaker. As one senior law enforcement official told me, “Nobody else knew what was said on those calls except what Whitaker decided to tell others, and if he did, whether he was telling the truth. Who ever heard of a president barely speaking to his attorney general but on the phone constantly with a staff-level person?”