Pierce: The Mueller Charges Remind Us That His Investigation Is About Criminality

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The Mueller Charges Remind Us That His Investigation Is About Criminality

By Charles P. Pierce
Oct 27, 2017


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During the reign of President* Trump, doing this job is like being a fireman in hell. No days off. No weekends free. I understand that it’s even worse on those plucky souls who actually have to cover this White House. The president* gets up every day at stupid o’clock and insults a friend, or an enemy, or a newscaster, or the pope and we’re off and running. This week’s off-the-clock surprise came from a different—and vastly more lethal—quarter.

Early Friday evening, CNN reported that the grand jury working with special prosecutor Robert Mueller had returned the first indictments in the investigation into Russian ratfcking in the 2016 election.

The charges are still sealed under orders from a federal judge. Plans were prepared Friday for anyone charged to be taken into custody as soon as Monday, the sources said. It is unclear what the charges are. A spokesman for the special counsel's office declined to comment. Mueller was appointed in May to lead the investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 election. Under the regulations governing special counsel investigations, Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, who has oversight over the Russia investigation, would have been made aware of any charges before they were taken before the grand jury for approval, according to people familiar with the matter.

Unless CNN has screwed the pooch in epic fashion, this changes the game completely. You had to know something like this was coming; the sudden frenzy over the Steele dossier and the revival of the roundly debunked Uranium One story, two news events which I decline to believe were coincidental because I am not someone who bought an admission to Trump University, were pretty clear tells that bad news was coming from someone. (Note to any legitimate journalists who are pursuing the uranium story: you are refs who have been worked.) Now the stories to be pursued do not involve when Mueller and his people will move, but against whom they already have moved, and who might those people give up to save their own hides. This is now a crime story. That makes all the difference. The mist is beginning to clear across the Great Grimpen Mire.

http://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/a13109176/mueller-charges/

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5. K&R

I'm not going to get my hopes up, because I put nothing past these criminals. They will lie and cheat their way out of anything. They will do whatever it takes, legal or not.

I hope something comes of this, but until I actually see members of this administration prosecuted and jailed, I am keeping my expectations low.

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6. The mist is beginning to clear across the Great Grimpen Mire.

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7. I should have known that something big was coming

When Republican State Media started smearing the investigation again.

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8. Reading Charlie

gives me faith in humanity again!