Preet Bharara thoughts on Mueller upcoming Report
I have had this feeling for months now that Mueller's report is not going to do much damage to Trump himself (yes, those surrounding his campaign and others but not Trump). That feeling is more than-not getting my hopes up (like I--and so many others---did for Fitzmas). It is a deep feeling that persists and persists. I am putting for hope into the DA's and Dem investigations at this point.
Preet Bharara Expects a 'Lengthy, Detailed' Mueller Report
But the former U.S. attorney warns those hoping for deliverance from Trump to brace for a letdown, too.
By BLAKE HOUNSHELL
March 19, 2019
https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2019/03/19/preet-bharara-mueller-trump-225818
..............................Bharara is concerned, however, about the larger state of American democracy in the age of Trump, and the gaps in the law he has exposed by flaunting such norms as: presidential candidates should release their tax returns, eliminate potential conflicts of interest once they win the White House and not hire their own children.
“We didn’t contemplate that someone was going to just defile them in that way,” says Bharara, a Democrat who is working on a democracy and rule-of-law task force with former New Jersey Governor Christine Todd Whitman, a Republican of decidedly pre-Trump vintage.
But he’s also concerned about ordinary Americans’ increasingly partisan view of how the law ought to work — he worries about those on the right who still chant “LOCK HER UP!” at Trump rallies, just as he worries about those on the left who think Mueller, rather than a political process, will deliver them from Trump. He sees little chance the Senate would convict Trump even if the House impeached him, barring some major revelations from Mueller.
“All these people who hope that he’s going to take this scourge of a man out of the White House are going to be really disappointed when he doesn’t do that,” Bharara says. “I think it’s perfectly possible that the Mueller report will not be that damaging to the president. And all of us need to be prepared to accept that and move on.”