On August 16, 2018, a new book published by Transworld is being released suggesting that Donald Trump was "successfully targeted" by Russian operatives affiliated with the Russian Mafia over a number of decades in order to implant a Russian asset in the White House."
The book is titled "House of Trump, House of Putin: The Untold Story of Donald Trump and the Russian Mafia" and was written by Craig Unger, American writer and journalist.
Unger's new book is billed as "a chilling story" that confirms American paranoias about Russian malevolence and as "the first comprehensive investigation into the decades-long relationship among Donald Trump, Vladimir Putin, and the Russian Mafia that ultimately helped win Trump the White House
Maria D. White, you mentioned several times in two different threads that you thought something was going to happen in the beginning of August that was going to alter Donald Trump's presidency.
Any feelings on this now, anyone?
https://www.amazon.com/House-Trump-Putin-Untold-Russian/dp/152474350X
I'm interested to see what the others say about this. I don't have any feelings, not being very psychic myself, but what astounds me is that there have been several great and best-selling books and also TV shows showing Trumps mobs ties and Russian ties, etc, and yet somehow they don't seem to make any difference. I hope this one does.
#MAGAts and Congress are not going to be moved by any collection of facts--they're all in too deep. What's going to cause movement is indictments. And they are starting to become thick upon the ground. When congress critter after congress critter is hauled away in irons, things will change.
Like Runestone said, indictments are going to be coming thick and fast now. The investigation part is over. Mueller has all the information he needs. Now he's going through a legal process, and it's going to go on for two or three months, because he has to go tidbit by tidbit. Since Trump changes what he says constantly, Mueller has to take one thing at a time, and get the Trump team to produce a defense with their version of facts, and then prove that the Trump version is a lie. He'll go through this several times, so by the end of it, it will be overwhelmingly clear that Trump has lied about everything.
Word is that Mueller's team will be resting their case in the Manafort trial today (Monday). The defense will then have the opportunity to call their own witnesses. But, it is sounding like it will go to the jury before the end of the week. It seems likely that the jury will make their decision well before the end of the month.
I mention this because once the Manafort case is tied up, Mueller and his team will be able to put all of their resources and attention into other matters. I think there's a good possibility that Mueller may subpoena the President in the next month or so if he continues to drag his feet about voluntarily talking to Mueller, and probably Roger Stone will be subpoenaed - perhaps to appear before the Grand Jury - at some point too.
However, I've seen some discussion on various (reliable) news sites suggesting that Mueller will hold off on making any indictments too close to the November election in order not to appear to be affecting the election outcome (remember what happened to Comey!). So, if we don't see any indictments in the next few weeks, it's possible that Mueller won't issue any more indictments until after the November elections. The timing must be something Mueller is weighing very carefully.
There are a few problems with Mueller waiting til after the elections. and they are both huge
The first is that the voters have a right to know. We weren't informed in the last election, which was really a problem. If the FBI/CIA, etc. know concrete details, it seems really negligent to not let the populace know before we vote.
And secondly, I have zero confidence in the election not being hacked. Again, intelligence services must be very aware of the ways the Russians can actually alter the vote. There have been many recent articles about how even teens and kids as young as 11 have been able to hack into state machines and literally alter votes. So I would think somehow, someone in authority who gives a damn about our democracy, should step in. But that doesn't seem to be happening.
There's not going to be any serious effort made to fix the voting issues until Trump and the corrupt GOP members of Congress are taken down, because Putin obviously is favoring them in the vote hacking. So I'd think Mueller's indictments should happen ASAP!
At this point Trumplandia is going to fume and cry foul no matter what. So there is no "appearing impartial". No such thing.
Also: Just read this article. Trump packing the courts, and esp the supreme court opening, is another vital reason to act now:
“Spare me talk of how the Mueller probe is moving fast,” she continued. “It’s not.”
“Institutions, already very weak before Trump, are in free fall,” she noted. “Act now or likely lose the option to act at all.”
Just because Russia interfered in the last election in favor of Trump, it doesn't mean they will do it this time around. Russia favors disruption and chaos in the American political process more than any particular candidate. My feeling is that in the midterms they'll be pushing for the most extreme candidates both in the right and left.
As for Mueller's indictments, my impression is that he's trying to wrap things up and be finished about a month before the elections. That way, he can't be blamed for trying to influence the elections - the electorate has had plenty of time to digest and evaluate.
In the past the FBI has tried to stay away from anything that might affect an election in the final two months. This is one of the reasons that the Comey letter right before he last election raised some eyebrows. If Mueller keeps with tradition, any new indictments etc. will have to happen yet this month. Also, Russia has been pretty much intervening on behalf of the far right in every country they are trying to disrupt.