This twitter thread by Seth Abramson (high level criminal prosecutor) details why the Mueller investigation will go on for a long time (thus making impeachment something not likely soon.) https://twitter.com/SethAbramson/status/932474004593696770
It also details the many moving parts in the Mueller investigation, as well as the challenges in getting usable info. Likely there may be civil suits for conspirators via State of New York before actual impeachment.
Due to the sequential nature of twitter, it's best to read from bottom up, starting with "1/ The President and his Congressional and administration allies recently initiated a national campaign to convince America the Russia probe is nearly done," which appears about 2/3 of the way down the thread. Read 1 - 35 plus ps, pps & comments.
This goes a long way toward explaining why group prognostications show no swift and immediate end to our national trauma.
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Wow, Runestone, thank you for posting the Abramson thread. I read the whole thing. Wonderful. Fascinating. I hope Muller can keep from being fired.
Last summer I did several detailed scans of Muller and so much of what I got fits what Abramson says. Mainly what I got that fits is that it's a very complicated investigation and it will take two years. Also that there's much Muller knows and believes but he can only prove a fraction of it. Also that Ivanka is a target too -- probably emoluments clause violations. And more.
Funny how well the Abramson material and your predictions dovetail, Jeanne! <heh, heh!> Look at all the stuff you get to bold as accurate on the predictions page!
As for Mueller, my sense of it is that the investigation has some structures that will close like the jaws of a trap if Mueller gets fired. And I think Trump's lawyers know he is vulnerable to obstruction charges if he fires Mueller.
Something else I'm sniffing around is your September prediction of thousands dead in a storm. Puerto Rico happened, and the official death toll is not being released. They claim 51, but there were over 900 post-hurricane cremations not folded into the official toll, as Medical Examiners were unable to access and determine cause of death.
Add to that the fact that 19% of Puerto Ricans have developed asthma due to mold overgrowth, diabetics and hypertensives can't get their meds, and waterborne diseases like leptospirosis are spreading from filthy conditions--and you have a recipe for deaths in the thousands.
The initial kill-rate may have been 'low,' but the eventual toll will be much higher. Sadly, you may yet be able to chalk that prediction up as accurate.
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Runestone, I read that they compared the number dead compared to the same number last year and calculated an excess in Puerto Rico of about 450 deaths. However those deaths may still be coming since as you said there's the mold and continued bad water and filthy conditions. I think the thousands fatality prediction was off however. It didn't feel right at the time. However, the magnitude of the storm and it's devastating impact was right.
A VERY big shoe has dropped in the Russia investigation. Flynn pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI about his Russian contacts. The real juicy part is that networks are reporting that Flynn is going to testify that he was directed to make contact with the Russians by Trump himself. Trump can't help but feel cornered, since he appears to be, and I just hope that he doesn't totally spin out of control.
Hi Jessi, Thanks for posting and WELCOME!
Hi!
I am new here, and I am curious about Mueller. I don't feel like Trump will be impeached or resign because of GOP supports (as everyone here predicted). I was wondering how Robert Mueller feels about the republican/political system? What is his personal character/ethics and standpoint for this whole shabang? I have read a book about the FBI during his tenure as director, and everyone (including his personal quotes) made me feel he is a lawful, judicial, and honest person who lives with integrity. Does this whole Trump fiasco piss him off, considering he is probably a republican, and he may not get his way? Is he doing anything to protect his legacy for his (maybe, last) major case?
Thank you!
Hi Helloworld, Welcome to our community. I was asking myself your exact question just yesterday. I saw a photo of Muller in a news story and he looked a little worn out. In one way, Muller knew well what he was getting into. I felt las summer when I did a long reading on him that he was telling the prosecutors he recruited that this case was the most important in the history of this country.
You asked how he sees his own Republican Party. He sees the new rank and file GOP politicians as a new weak breed of puppets. There's a line in Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness that describes how I sense Muller sees them:
I’ve seen the devil of violence, and the devil of greed, and the devil of hot desire; but, by all the stars! these were strong, lusty, red-eyed devils, that swayed and drove men—men, I tell you. But as I stood on this hillside, I foresaw that in the blinding sunshine of that land I would become acquainted with a flabby, pretending, weak-eyed devil of a rapacious and pitiless folly. How insidious he could be, too.
In short, Muller sees them as followers and enablers, like the lowest echelons of a crime family, with little inner compass, backbone or character.
He is astonished in one way at how low the party has gone, but he is familiar with criminal behavior, including white collar crime. He sees Manafort as a king-pin white collar criminal, a man who knew perfectly well what laws he was breaking, and used standard money laundering techniques to avoid prosecution.
He sees Donald Jr. as a fool who had to be reminded (probably by Manafort) that what they were doing was "a little bit illegal" and should be kept quiet. But Don Jr never understood the seriousness of their crimes. Muller realized Don Jr and Jared, and even Trump, consider tax evasion, as well as cover ups and obstruction of justice, as standard business practices. He also believes they were unfamiliar with the concept of treason because they don't think about their country, just their money. He saw Don Jr as someone who'd go around saying that technically we have to be careful about these Russia meetings, but no one will figure it out since the Trump business deals a lot with Russians anyway. So who would suspect? Muller felt Don Jr. would be one of the easiest to catch because he's so clueless. But Trump would be another matter.
He sees Jared as more knowingly committing crimes, but one who considers himself above the laws, a big money mentality who thinks that if you are ever going to make big money, you have to break some laws.
He sees Trump as a crime boss. He sees Putin as the godfather, Trump's godfather.
He knew it was going to be tough going up against the political establishment but I feel he, like everyone, underestimated how low the GOP is going.
Now he realizes that some of it may go the way of the O.J. Simpson trial. He could provide the evidence of the President's guilt, and still politics would supersede the law, even treason.
He believes that he will leave a legacy of truth. There will be books published afterwards that tell the whole truth, so eventually the public, historians, and law schools will study this as the case of all time.
THANK YOU SO MUCH JEANNE! YOU ARE SUCH A TRUE INSPIRATION OF MINE BECAUSE OF ALL THE GOOD YOU PUT INTO OUR WORLD! I KNOW I AM "FAN GIRLING", BUT YOU ARE SO INCREDIBLE BECAUSE OF YOUR GOODNESS!
I have no psychic experience whatsoever, but my gut feeling is exactly how you described it. This will turn into an OJ 2.0 trial. I can't believe that politics has ended up this way.
Thank you so much for all that you do Jeanne! You are a strong ray of light during these tough times. Hope everything is good from your end.
THANK YOU!
Helloworld, Thank you for giving me the impetus to look at this issue. I sense so many inner workings of the GOP as I go about my day. I can hear their political consultants spinning, advising, telling them what to say. It's swirling in my head. So it is good to get it out on paper once in a while.