Robert Mueller, You're Starting to Scare Me - (NYTimes Opinion)

[kentuck]

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/22/opinion/mueller-trump-russia-investigation.html

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Imagine for a moment that Robert Mueller was never pressed into service as a special counsel and wasn’t a household name. Imagine that there had never been any prompt for his investigation — that Donald Trump hadn’t blown all those kisses at Vladimir Putin, that the stooges and grifters around Trump hadn’t swooned at the prospect of sucking on Mother Russia’s teat, or that there’d been no offer of milk in the first place.

What would we be focusing on right now?

Maybe the just-published Politico report of Trump’s deliberate, cavalier use of a cellphone that doesn’t have strict security safeguards would be getting extra attention. The story outraged me, because it’s yet another glaring example of Trump’s dual set of rules — proper ones that apply to others and nonexistent ones that let him and his clan do as they please — and it puts the lie to his supposed horror over Hillary Clinton’s sloppy email habits. Not for the first time or for the last, he’s being a raving hypocrite.

Without Mueller and Russia, Scott Pruitt would be closer to center stage, with an even brighter, harsher spotlight on him. He’s not exactly evading scrutiny, but he’s being spared the relentless top-of-the-screen, start-of-the-newscast treatment that he would likely endure if lawmakers, journalists and other watchdogs weren’t so mesmerized by the convoluted twists of Mueller v. Trump.

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[True Dough]

1. The author is correct

in the sense that the media focuses on one item for its lead news and Mueller is taking some of the spotlight away from these other controversies.

That said, I don't believe those other controversies would lead to any significant change in positions among the public. Trump's base will remain Trump's base. We'll still be deadlocked.

What we need is proof that Trump has committed crime(s). Mueller is our best bet to lay out that case. So godspeed, Mr. Mueller!

[mucifer]

2. Problem is it's all a deep state spy conspiracy so nothing true is true.

More and more people are believing this crap and will never believe the Mueller report.

[True Dough]

3. Yeah, the Trumpistas will stick by his side

but if the Mueller evidence is clear and damning there will be enough changing of the tide to get Trump out of the White House, IMO.

[GusBob]

4. Yeah it's time for Mueller to stop cutting bait and stop fishing as well

Reel in the lines, show us your catch, filet it out and serve it up