Anti-Trump Republican strategist Rick Wilson believes that President Donald Trump knows he's about to get absolutely crushed by special counsel Robert Mueller's probe -- and his frantic tweets attacking Mueller are the only weapon he has left in his arsenal.
Writing in the Daily Beast, Wilson explains how the House GOP for two years has helped Trump dodge accountability, all while attacking the FBI for investigating whether the president's campaign worked with Russian agents to defeat Hillary Clinton in 2016.
But now that Democrats have taken back the House and special counsel Robert Mueller is seemingly preparing to level a devastating report on his actions as president, Wilson says that Trump can feel his power to block accountability being stripped away from him.
"Playtime is over and Donald doesn't like it," Wilson quips.
Wilson then speculates that Mueller had long known that former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort was not being honest with him -- but he waited until Trump had turned in written answers to his questions about Russian collusion before he made his findings public.
"It now appears that Robert Mueller carefully timed his withdrawal of Manafort’s plea agreement to line up with the president finally turning in his homework," Wilson writes. "Mueller is careful, methodical, and strategic. His silences are important, disciplined, and consequential."
In conclusion, Wilson writes that "pain -- political, economic, and legal pain—is coming to Donald Trump, and he's earned every bit of it."
