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This is a thread where you get to post your personal theories for anything related to the Mueller investigation. You are not required to post direct evidence of every component of your theories, but they should at least be informed by everything we know to date. In other words, you could post your theory that Mueller is really investigating Obama and Clinton, but since there is nothing in objective reality to lead to such a theory, it would not be valid. But so long as your theories do not obviously and ludicrously contradict objective reality, you're basically free to don your tin foil hat and go to town.
I'll start with a couple of my own:
1)The official court records that have resulted as products of the Mueller investigation (indictments, sentencing memorandums, guilty pleas, etc) are the Mueller report. In this way, there would be no quashing of the report because along the way the report has been made public consistently (if not all at once as we would like). Although there would be an official report summarizing everything we've learned, and it would of course contain key details that we have yet to learn, the report is happening and has been happening all along.
Even though Mueller's team doesn't leak, doesn't officially speak to the press and doesn't even respond to Trump's and Giuliani's daily barbs, the way he's speaking is through public record of the court. In this way, we have learned an extraordinary amount about how Russian espionage agents and institutions have been attacking the United States, the scale of their attack, and who precisely has been doing it. We learned who in Trump's campaign was working, directly and indirectly, with those Russian agents. We've recently learned about some of the efforts, both illegal or unethical, by the White House to obstruct justice and affect the outcome of the election. And finally, we've learned at least one of the driving motivations for Trump's utterly bizarre and consistently obsequious behavior toward Putin.
In other words, everything we've learned through official court records is exactly the kind of information we would expect to come out in a final report anyway. And that report is still coming out in real time. This is a particularly intelligent strategy, because with each revelation as presented in court documents, firing Mueller becomes less and less defensible, and increasingly pointless. The end result is that both Congress and the public become aware of the truth as it is uncovered, which could be said to be his primary function from the start.
I'll start with a couple of my own:
1)The official court records that have resulted as products of the Mueller investigation (indictments, sentencing memorandums, guilty pleas, etc) are the Mueller report. In this way, there would be no quashing of the report because along the way the report has been made public consistently (if not all at once as we would like). Although there would be an official report summarizing everything we've learned, and it would of course contain key details that we have yet to learn, the report is happening and has been happening all along.
Even though Mueller's team doesn't leak, doesn't officially speak to the press and doesn't even respond to Trump's and Giuliani's daily barbs, the way he's speaking is through public record of the court. In this way, we have learned an extraordinary amount about how Russian espionage agents and institutions have been attacking the United States, the scale of their attack, and who precisely has been doing it. We learned who in Trump's campaign was working, directly and indirectly, with those Russian agents. We've recently learned about some of the efforts, both illegal or unethical, by the White House to obstruct justice and affect the outcome of the election. And finally, we've learned at least one of the driving motivations for Trump's utterly bizarre and consistently obsequious behavior toward Putin.
In other words, everything we've learned through official court records is exactly the kind of information we would expect to come out in a final report anyway. And that report is still coming out in real time. This is a particularly intelligent strategy, because with each revelation as presented in court documents, firing Mueller becomes less and less defensible, and increasingly pointless. The end result is that both Congress and the public become aware of the truth as it is uncovered, which could be said to be his primary function from the start.
