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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThe Mueller Bombshell Proves Republicans Are Running Out of Time
BY CHARLES P. PIERCE
JAN 26, 2018
It came with the wind through the silence of the night, a long, deep mutter, then a rising howl, and then the sad moan in which it died away. Again and again it sounded, the whole air throbbing with it, strident, wild and menacing.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles, 1902.
So, if I read the state of play correctly, special counsel Robert Mueller is investigating the president* and the president*s administration* for obstruction of justice, and Mueller has been running this investigation for seven months knowing that the president* came within an ace of firing him last June for the purposes of, ah, obstructing justice. Hes had this information in his back pocket every time a member of the administration* came before him under oath. Ive never been a criminal defendant charged with obstruction of justice, but this seems to me to be a bad situation for an obstructor of justice to be in.
The major scoop in The New York Times that has shaken up the world can be read in a number of different ways that all lead to the same conclusion. Right from jump, the president* has been scared right down to his silk boxers of what Mueller would discover regarding his campaigns connections to Russian ratfcking and regarding his business connections to freshly laundered Russian cash. This conclusion does not change even if you think that White House counsel Don McGahn leaked this story to make himself the hero or to cover his own ass. This conclusion does not change even if you think the ratlines off the listing hulk of this administration are thick with fleeing rodents. This whole thing remains a product of the president*s guilty mind.
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The Mueller Bombshell Proves Republicans Are Running Out of Time (Original Post)
n2doc
Jan 2018
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Intent. Intent to obstruct justice is hard to prove. Trying to fire the prosecuter is excellent
Fred Sanders
Jan 2018
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louis-t
(23,295 posts)1. I thnk money laundering will play a huge part of this.
Obstruction and collusion will be the lesser charges.
Fred Sanders
(23,946 posts)2. Intent. Intent to obstruct justice is hard to prove. Trying to fire the prosecuter is excellent
evidence of intent. None better.
Money laundering is the icing on the Shitler cake. Or the other way round, also just fine.