Day 808 Monday March 25, 2019
588 Days to the 2020 election and 666 Days to Inauguration Day
I repeat:
The Mueller Report
The Mueller Report
The Mueller Report
OMG!
Gag me with a spoon.
It has been reported that Robert Mueller handed in his report to the Attorney General. Great. Now what?
Well, let the speculation begin.
The Speculation Beguneth:
Okay so we’ve learned three tidbits. Two are supposedly direct quotes from the report and the other is that Mueller has no more indictments sealed or otherwise. The other two points is that he found no collusion between Trump and Russia, and he stated that this does not “exonerate” Trump. That’s all we know. “Does not exonerate” is a curious phrase to use.
So there are three lines of speculation:
1) The Fox News/Trump line of “no collusion, witch hunt”,
2) The “We haven’t seen the actual report” and William Barr is a cagey lawyer has he cherry picked?,
3) The Silo argument
The first two I won’t deal with at this time as we will learn as more comes out.
The silo argument is the most interesting to me. That says that if you are a prosecutor you look at each piece of evidence and put it in a particular area of perhaps chargeable offense. ie you put it in a silo. When all the evidence is gathered you go over each pile of data and ask if you’ve got enough to charge someone for the particular offense. This may be what Mueller did. When he was all done he concluded there wasn’t enough evidence in anyone bucket to charge, but the “does not exonerate” seems to indicate a lot of slop is there.
It appears it will be up to Congress to try and figure out what happened.
It also is interesting how many folks are saying, “this is what I thought would happen”, and “remember I warned you about this some time ago.” To be clear, no – I don’t remember, and maybe you did, and maybe you didn’t, but I sure don’t remember anyone saying this in a big way.
The only person who seems to have kept their head thorough all this is Nancy Pelosi. For all the bullying by Trump and Fox, it was Pelosi who steadfastly said, “Wait.”
It’s a lesson we could all learn from.
Hey, here’s a whacky idea. Maybe, we should see the Mueller report, and read it!
Meanwhile, all the criminal investigations continue. Maybe, the only evidence we have enough of is that Trump and the Kushners are petty crooks on a big scale.
It’s hard to know who is more dangerous.
I want to understand how all we know doesn’t in some way cross over into the RICO laws. Maybe that’s where this ends up.
588 Days to the 2020 election and 666 Days to Inauguration Day
PS The Citizens’ Bank of Louisiana one hundred dollar note. The bank was set up after the Louisiana Purchase to replace the Spanish money in circulation. This is not Confederate money! There is a more famous note from this bank. Their ten dollar note. Many of these notes had the amount written out in French on the backside of the note. The ten dollar note had the French word for ten on it, which is the word “DIX,” and the reason the south was referred to as “the land of Dixie.”