After a year and a half and over 7 million tax payer dollars to fund Robert Mueller’s witch hunt on Trump and Russia, there still has been nothing found. Paul Manafort, who the media loves to bag on was indicted on charges unrelated to the campaign. Michael Flynn was indicted not for collusion with Russia but for lying to the FBI. Now left wing Politico is reporting that Mueller, getting really desperate these days after his hired goons have been exposed as biased Democrat shills that he may indict Trump, simply to “make a point.” This is especially true after the release of the Nunes memo on Friday.
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Neither attorney claimed to have specific knowledge of Mueller’s plans. Both based their opinions on their understanding of the law; one also cited his interactions with the special counsel’s team, whose interviews have recently examined whether Trump tried to derail the probe into his campaign’s Russia ties.
“If I were a betting man, I’d bet against the president,” said one of the lawyers.
The second attorney, who represents a senior Trump official, speculated that Mueller could try to bring an indictment against Trump even if he expects the move to draw fierce procedural challenges from the president’s lawyers – if only to demonstrate the gravity of his findings.
“It’s entirely possible that Mueller may go that route on the theory that, as an open question, it should be for the courts to decide,” the attorney said. “Even if the indictment is dismissed, it puts maximum pressure on Congress to treat this with the independence and intellectual honesty that it will never, ever get.”
The lawyers’ assessments hardly resolve the public debate about whether a federal prosecutor can indict a sitting president — one that several attorneys involved in the Russia probe said they are closely tracking through online op-eds and Twitter dustups. (“It’s so much fun!” said one.)