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Commentary: Mueller's investigation isn't going to 'wrap up' soon - and Trump is still in peril
Los Angeles Times ^ | May 16, 2018 | by Harry Litman

Posted on 05/16/2018 11:45:31 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer

Thursday marks the one-year anniversary of the appointment of special counsel Robert S. Mueller III. The milestone has emboldened White House critics of the probe to declare, as Vice President Mike Pence did on NBC News, that "it is time to wrap it up."

Never mind that the Mueller investigation is, comparatively, in its infancy. The Whitewater probe of Bill and Hillary Clinton, for example, began in 1994 and ended more than six years later. Mueller's 12 months of work has turned up more clear wrongdoing than Kenneth Starr ever did: There have been 20 indictments and 5 guilty pleas, including prominent senior members of the campaign and administration, and that doesn't take into account the wealth of information that Mueller has yet to make public.

A successful ouster of Mueller would not derail the investigation at this point. Too much evidence has been gathered, and too many prosecutors, who have surely considered and planned for the contingency, stand ready to carry on.

In the course of the past year, we've learned not to underestimate what Mueller knows and what bombshell he may have prepared. It may involve the Russians and the campaign, it may involve obstruction of justice, but there are other relevant threads.

The "wrap it up" crowd is indulging in wishful thinking. The first anniversary of the Mueller investigation is unlikely to be the last.

(Excerpt) Read more at latimes.com ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Editorial; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: bias; deepstate; journalism; media; progressives; trumprussia; tyranny; usurpation
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To: joesbucks
"Being under investigation shouldn’t interfere with the Executive. Especially if there is nothing there. A nothing burger should be yielding....well nothing. The President has wasted more time posturing than anything."

"...if there is nothing there...nothing...well nothing" Interesting comment.


41 posted on 05/16/2018 1:02:14 PM PDT by familyop ("Welcome to Costco. I love you." - -Costco greeter in the movie, "Idiocracy")
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Well, there you have it, friendlies. Become impeccable. They want nothing. Show them nothing. Get in shape.


42 posted on 05/16/2018 1:05:51 PM PDT by familyop ("Welcome to Costco. I love you." - -Costco greeter in the movie, "Idiocracy")
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

So far, the only direct collusion found to Russia is Mueller’s FBI colluding with a Russian Oligarch. But I guess that’s not the collusion they’re hoping for.


43 posted on 05/16/2018 1:07:38 PM PDT by Flick Lives (The FBI is the Mob)
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To: freedomjusticeruleoflaw

I concur. This will not stop until it is stopped. By whom?


44 posted on 05/16/2018 2:50:19 PM PDT by YogicCowboy ("I am not entirely on anyone's side, because no one is entirely on mine." - J. R. R. Tolkien)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Has Harry Litman ever had any connections, or other associations of any kind, with the pedophile industry or with any individual or group affiliated with the pedophile industry?


45 posted on 05/16/2018 8:23:55 PM PDT by reasonisfaith ("...because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved." (2 Thessalonians))
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To: gswilder
California Dreaming by Liberals.

If only the Mamas and Papas knew what their dream would become.....would have had a future song called "California Nightmare" on tap for future use...

46 posted on 05/17/2018 2:25:45 AM PDT by trebb (I stopped picking on the mentally ill hypocrites who pose as conservatives...mostly ;-})
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Does the jerk seem to understand that all the guilty pleas were literally due to blackmail and threats and intimidation, that 1 of the 20 indictments was for a company that didn’t exist during the alleged crimes, and that 13 of the indictments are of Russian citizens, so trials will NEVER happen, and all the rest of the indictments will start being thrown out, refuse to go to trial or get plea deals.

Flynn would never have plead guilty if he hadn’t been bankrupted, had his child threatened with jail time whether he did anything or not, just so he would plead out.

Manafort is countering with charges that Mueller is illegally pursuing charges.

The rest will quietly disappear. He doesn’t WANT a trial unless he can get Trump.


47 posted on 05/18/2018 10:07:26 AM PDT by spacewarp (FreeRepublic, Rush's show prep since foundation.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

well... funny how this all turned out...


48 posted on 04/30/2019 3:25:02 AM PDT by strange1 ("Show the enemy harm so he shall not advance" Sun Tzu The Art of War)
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