U.S. President Donald Trump is "committed" to regime change in Iran, Trump's lawyer and confidante Rudy Giuliani said on Saturday. The unusual statement comes just days before Trump will have to make a dramatic decision on the fate of the nuclear deal with the Islamic Republic.

Giuliani, the former New York City mayor, said at an event hosted by an Iranian opposition group in Washington that regime change in Iran is "the only way to achieve peace in the Middle East."

The president is "as committed to regime change as we are," Giuliani said in his address. Giuliani predicted that Trump will withdraw the United States from the 2015 deal with Iran. "With Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on his right side, and National Security Adviser John Bolton on his left side, what do you think is going to happen to that agreement?" Giuliani asked with a grin. 

Giuliani said that regime change in Tehran was "more important than an Israeli-Palestinian deal" and could contribute to reaching such a deal in the future. (...)

HERE is a strong sign of the limits of Mueller’s power: the story of federal judge TS Ellis voicing doubt about the motivations of federal prosecutors in pursuing a fraud case against Paul Manafort for actions that don’t seem related to Trump’s campaign and possible collusion with Russians. Manafort’s attorney Kevin Downey argued that the investigation into Manafort’s Ukrainian activities started years ago and that therefore special counsel Mueller should not be involved in that investigation. Ellis has the power to detach Mueller from that investigation if he agrees with Downey.

Downey is trying to limit Mueller’s power over Manafort. Judge Ellis is listening to Downey and may grant his requests. Does that strike you as sign of Bob Mueller having unfettered power?

As VV has pointed out, you are conflating all sorts of cases together. I don’t think anyone on these boards with a shred of common sense is willing to wander into a conversation with you about the supposedly corrupt and impenetrable thicket of federal criminal law and federal agencies and how apparently Trump is doomed because the federal criminal law bureaucracy has a secret mission to take down Trump. Harvey Silverglate may believe that, but with all due respect to miamizsun, I think Harvey is a nutjob. 

Steeler and I asked you to SPECIFY what about the Mueller investigation struck you as “heavy-handed” (that’s the term YOU used) or outside the law. You as usual failed to provide the details. Instead as VV stated, “You are casting your net wider than ever and are conflating the original premise which was that what Mueller is doing has parallels to what other normal unfortunate people are facing in the US on a frequent basis.”

That is your MO. You fail to back up your claims with evidence and make ever-larger sweeping generalizations. Honestly, it was a pleasure to rebut your unfounded claims of politicized cronyism during Obama’s bailout of the Big Three. You clearly had no idea what you were talking about, but just kept doubling down on wilder and stupider claims.

You make these sweeping claims and then pretend that a response to you was too long for you to read (boo f%#&in' hoo) or that your responders missed some big point you made (“Am I writing in Slovenian?”). Don’t blame others for your failure to articulate and support your claims: that’s YOUR failure. Over and over again. This is like the “Ask the Libertarian” thread all over again where you couldn’t answer even the most basic questions about libertarianism.