'If Mueller were a seer and his report the oracular readings of entrails, we would be within our rights as news consumers to demand the sacrifice of an additional animal for a new omen.' writes jackshafer
For all the deep-dish sleuthing and prosecutorial imagination Robert S. Mueller III threw at his two-year investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 presidential elections, the 448-page report that is its capstone ultimately poses bigger questions than it answers.
If Mueller were a seer and his report the oracular readings of entrails, we would be within our rights as news consumers to demand the sacrifice of an additional animal for a new omen. You might say I’m being unfair, and you’d be right. Mueller isn’t a psychiatrist. He was assigned to scour campaign 2016 for ringing evidence of crime, and he succeeded, winning his case against Manafort and compelling Flynn, Gates and others to confess.
When Attorney General Jeff Sessions told Trump in May 2017 that a special counsel had been appointed to investigate the Russia business, the report tells us, “the president slumped back in his chair and said, ‘Oh, my God. This is terrible. This is the end of my presidency. I’m fucked.’” One way to read this lamentation is that Trump understood that he was guilty of great crimes and that the special counsel’s dragnet was going to collect them all and send him and his cronies to jail.
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