Robert Mueller's legal team may write a damning report on Trump's ethics, based mostly on flipping minor former business associates of Trump's and transient campaign officials by threatening them with long prison sentences.
Mueller cannot fulfill the hype of the past 18 months, which forecast that the "All-stars," the "Dream-team," and the Mueller "Army" would make short work of the supposedly buffoonish Trump by proving that he colluded with Russia to swing an election.
Once Mueller deviated from his prime directive of determining whether Donald Trump colluded - sought help from the Russian to win the 2016 election in exchange for the promise of later benefits - and turned to indicting political operatives for supposedly giving false testimonies about political shenanigans and engaging in illegal business practices, lobbying, and tax avoidance, he either knowingly or unknowingly established a precedent that the serial misdeeds of 2016 would be treated unequally under the law.
In the present climate, if Donald Trump had been caught in a similar hot-mic exchange with a top Russian official, and had Putin later expressed the idea that he preferred a Trump presidency to a Democratic one, and had U.S.-led missile-defense efforts abruptly stalled in Eastern Europe, then Robert Mueller would be hot on Trump's trail - given that such an overt quid pro quo, benefiting a candidate's reelection campaign, is far more explicit than anything Mueller's 18-month investigation has yet turned up.
CNN, relying on government and congressional officials' leaks, falsely reported a number of damaging Trump stories: that transition official Anthony Scaramucci had colluded with a Russian financial official about easing sanctions; that Donald Trump knew in advance of a meeting that his son had agreed to with a Russian operator; that Trump Jr. knew in advance of the contents of the WikiLeaks Podesta trove; and that James Comey would testify to Congress that he never had assured Trump he was not under investigation.
Deliberate leaking to the media of the now-stale Steele dossier, "Research" from FBI informants planted among minor Trump campaign officials, and improperly warranted government surveillance of former Trump-related officials created a media frenzy, out of which a fired James Comey helped engineer a new lever against Trump: the special-counsel investigation.
In the subsequent 18 months, Robert Mueller assembled a highly partisan team of lawyers and investigators that included a number of Clinton donors; lawyers who had represented either the Clinton Foundation, a Clinton aide, or an Obama official; and rank anti-Trump partisans such as Lisa Page and Peter Strzok.
https://www.nationalreview.com/2018/12/mueller-probe-fisa-warrants-fbi-informants/
Mueller cannot fulfill the hype of the past 18 months, which forecast that the "All-stars," the "Dream-team," and the Mueller "Army" would make short work of the supposedly buffoonish Trump by proving that he colluded with Russia to swing an election.
Once Mueller deviated from his prime directive of determining whether Donald Trump colluded - sought help from the Russian to win the 2016 election in exchange for the promise of later benefits - and turned to indicting political operatives for supposedly giving false testimonies about political shenanigans and engaging in illegal business practices, lobbying, and tax avoidance, he either knowingly or unknowingly established a precedent that the serial misdeeds of 2016 would be treated unequally under the law.
In the present climate, if Donald Trump had been caught in a similar hot-mic exchange with a top Russian official, and had Putin later expressed the idea that he preferred a Trump presidency to a Democratic one, and had U.S.-led missile-defense efforts abruptly stalled in Eastern Europe, then Robert Mueller would be hot on Trump's trail - given that such an overt quid pro quo, benefiting a candidate's reelection campaign, is far more explicit than anything Mueller's 18-month investigation has yet turned up.
CNN, relying on government and congressional officials' leaks, falsely reported a number of damaging Trump stories: that transition official Anthony Scaramucci had colluded with a Russian financial official about easing sanctions; that Donald Trump knew in advance of a meeting that his son had agreed to with a Russian operator; that Trump Jr. knew in advance of the contents of the WikiLeaks Podesta trove; and that James Comey would testify to Congress that he never had assured Trump he was not under investigation.
Deliberate leaking to the media of the now-stale Steele dossier, "Research" from FBI informants planted among minor Trump campaign officials, and improperly warranted government surveillance of former Trump-related officials created a media frenzy, out of which a fired James Comey helped engineer a new lever against Trump: the special-counsel investigation.
In the subsequent 18 months, Robert Mueller assembled a highly partisan team of lawyers and investigators that included a number of Clinton donors; lawyers who had represented either the Clinton Foundation, a Clinton aide, or an Obama official; and rank anti-Trump partisans such as Lisa Page and Peter Strzok.
https://www.nationalreview.com/2018/12/mueller-probe-fisa-warrants-fbi-informants/
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