Nice article about the hang over the country will feel in the long run over Russia hysteria. Vanity Fair is no right wing publication. They ask some great questions…
“they might want to remember that Trump won’t always be in office. The weapons you create for your side today will be used by the other side against you tomorrow. Do we really want the special-counsel investigation to become a staple of presidential life? It’s a creation with few boundaries on scope and a setup that encourages the selection of a suspect followed by a search for the crime, rather than the other way around.”
“If it’s any consolation to Trump haters, we san say this much: the special counsel’s office is going to put together a hell of a report. It will have less sex than Starr’s did, but that’s for the best, and the testimony of Michael Cohen will still guarantee a lot of great scenes, many of them certain to become immortal and embarrassing. Trumpworld won’t fare well under a bright light. Like Starr, Mueller is also likely to include footnotes and selections that will hint at criminality, the things he suspects but couldn’t prove, and the most ardent believers in collusion will claim vindication. But the international conspiracies will be few, and the collateral damage of the Russia scare will be extensive, stretching far beyond Trump or his circle to the country as a whole. It might hurt a president who many Americans hate, but even the president’s most ardent foes should reflect on a question that will linger: Was it worth it?”
I get annoyed at things like SNL that are fawning over Mueller and he’s totally going to get trump. And then the trump apologists who, like trump, started this thing off by denying Russia even did anything. The hacks were an inside job, maybe a 400 pound guy from New Jersey! Everyone vocal is annoying, except me. I’m reasonable and pleasant.
No, investigating the opposition without a crime will. Criminalizing politics. This sets the precedence you don’t need a crime to have a SP investigate a president.
What was the crime the counsel against Bill Clinton was supposed to investigate? What charges related to that crime were ever formally brought against him?
The “opposition” isn’t being investigated. Mueller, a Republican, was appointed by a Republican president’s Republican deputy AG to investigate crimes against America. If he uncovered Republican crimes along the way, shouldn’t you be happy we’re catching criminals? Or do you just want selective, partisan law enforcement?
It started with allegations of an illegal loan in the whitewater issue. But it ended with some kind of “false statement” charges or something along those lines.
