https://www.skyhinews.com/news/muftic-give-me-a-break-the-fat-lady-has-not-yet-sung/
This falls into the give me a break category. The Trump White House launched ,a "wrap it up" campaign; "one year of the Special Counsel Mueller probe is enough, it has found nothing, and he works for us" the line goes.The fat lady has not even begun to sing in the last act of this historical opera and the White House hopes to shut her up and give her a bad review before the end of the first act. They must fear the rest of the performance will not be music to their ears. There is much of the performance plot they and we the public do not know yet nor do we know what other characters have already sung.
Trump constantly claiming Mueller is on a witch hunt because there is no there there ignores the witches bagged to date: 20 individuals and three businesses that have either been indicted or admitted guilt and a total of 75 charges ,25 of them against Paul Manafort, Trump’s former campaign chairman, now in jail for witness tampering. Other.charges against Manfort include conspiracy and financial crimes. 59% of Republicans do not know about Mueller's actions per a recent poll.75% of Republicans believe Trump's slogan that the Mueller probe is a witch hunt, and 53% of all voters think the probe is politically motivated. .But this is only Act 1
For the Trump White House to claim Mueller has no proof of collusion, (or obstruction, or financial crimes) is premature and empty propaganda coming from the White House mouths, to say the least, since no one yet knows what closed lip Mueller knows and he has not made his reports. Nonetheless, Trump continues the attack on the credibility of the FBI, Mueller, and negative press reports: As he said to Leslie Stahl" he bashes to press to discredit negative stories".
It took three years of Watergate probes into Richard Nixon's cover up, four years of Benghazi Congressional hearings and FBI reports to fail to pin it on Hillary Clinton, and three years from Whitewater to Monica Lewinsky's blue dress for these investigations to play out in the Bill Clinton scandal.. A year seems more than a bit short for these kinds of matters, doesn't it?
The Trump White House mimics the same claim made by Richard Nixon in his State of the Union two years before he was impeached. A year is enough, Nixon said about the special counsel investigation into Watergate, we turned over all documents, and they have found nothing. The break in occurred in 1971.and after special counsel and Congressional investigations,that impeachment was begun and Nixon resigned in 1974. Three years was way too long for Nixon.
Benghazi happened in 2012 and the GOP House and Senate dominated hearings kept the issue alive to skewer Hillary Clinton and never could prove she herself was at fault. The final report was issued in the summer of 2016. For the GOP then four years was just fine; it kept questions about her character alive.
Aside from the irony of the Nixon propaganda parallel, the GOP House investigation run by a Trump loyalist, Rep. Devin Nunes, into the Russian connection was a farce and did not call essential witnesses to testify, concluding there was no there there.
However, the Senate investigation continues and has found there was there there. In their report May 16, they conclude Russians interfered in 2016 to help Trump's campaign, as the result of their findings into the key meeting in the Trump Tower in June 2016 between Trump cohorts and a Russian agent regarding emails of Hillary Clinton. The suspicion is that the Trump minions hoped to get the dirt on Clinton in return for lifting sanctions imposed on the Russians for past bad behavior . The quid (offer to provide missing emails) was there but the quo was not discussed. Whether or not Trump himself was a part of this is yet to be seen. He was in the building and may have been receiving telephone calls. Was the meeting truly a "nothing burger" or there were other events follow ups ,and other meetings that would be evidence of conspiracy? What Mueller knows about any of this we do not know ourselves yet, either.
In the released Senate hearing transcripts regarding the Trump Tower meeting. The angle still unknown is much like Watergate, what did the President know and when did he know about the Trump Tower meeting .We know the meeting was not about Russian adoption as the Trumpsters claimed, but about dirt on Clinton's emails. Donald Trump Jr who organized the meeting was in emails leading up to the meeting eager to seek information from foreign governments that would help his father get elected.
The investigation by Special Counsel Robert Mueller is about Trump cohorts, with Trump assured by Mueller he is a subject in the investigation but not currently a target of a criminal investigation , but it is Trump and his cohorts that say a year is enough. For Trump to fire Mueller would also be the ultimate evidence of obstruction of justice seen as a way to stop the investigation about them before it was finished. Unfolding now is Act II, the maneuvering around whether Donald Trump will ever testify to Mueller in any form about what he knew and when did he know it.
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We have deduced something about what Mueller is finding and investigating from all of the texts of the indictments and participants turning states' witness pleading guilty for lying about their Russian contacts. Trump's campaign manager Paul Manafort and his partner have been hit for money laundering and working for a foreign government. Thirteen Russians were indicted for active measures interfering in the 2016 campaign. While none of the charges so far yet confirm Trump and his cohorts "colluded" with the Russians, proof of obstruction of justice and financial crimes are still charges that we know nothing about what Mueller knows. That those related areas of investigation are within the scope of Mueller's authority to investigate were confirmed in a judge's ruling concerning Paul Manafort's indictment May 15 and the authorization for the probe by the Department of Justice in a document issued in 2017.
https://www.courthousenews.com/poll-most-americans-want-mueller-to-continue-investigation/
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