| | | Senator Richard Blumenthal says that, after Robert Mueller report, “high likelihood” Donald Trump will be indicted
Bill Palmer | 6:50 pm EDT March 22, 2019 Palmer Report » News
The TV pundits really, really, really want you to buy into the narrative tonight that the submission of Robert Mueller’s report somehow means that Mueller didn’t find enough evidence to build a criminal case against Donald Trump. What’s this based on? Literally nothing, of course. Meanwhile, the people in position to know better are expecting Mueller’s report to set off additional indictments.
First, House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff appeared on MSNBC and stated that he thinks it’s “likely” there are more indictments coming; they’ll just come from the U.S. Attorneys’ offices that Mueller handed off the cases to. But this didn’t seem to fit with the doomsday narrative, so MSNBC kept pushing the notion that it’s all over, and everyone who hasn’t yet been arrested is somehow magically off the hook. That’s when Richard Blumenthal stepped to the plate.
Richard Blumenthal, who sits on the Senate Judiciary Committee, appeared on MSNBC and stated that there is a “high likelihood that there are indictments in this president’s future.” He explained that these indictments are likely to come from SDNY and/or other federal prosecutors. But again, this didn’t fit the prevailing MSNBC narrative, so the host cut off Blumenthal, and began asking leading questions which were aimed at painting the picture that no more indictments are coming.
We don’t know why the TV pundits are so eager tonight to push the notion that they somehow know that no one else will be indicted, beyond the obvious fact that scaring viewers is a good way to paralyze them into staying tuned in. But back in the real world, people who have been involved with the overall Trump-Russia investigation, such as Adam Schiff and Richard Blumenthal, are very loudly saying that they’re expecting more indictments. Blumenthal even thinks Trump is going to be indicted.
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Robert Mueller’s report is in. Now here come the biggest of Trump-Russia indictments. They just won’t come from Mueller.
Bill Palmer | 6:05 pm EDT March 22, 2019 Palmer Report » Analysis
During his lengthy investigation into the Trump-Russia election scandal, Special Counsel Robert Mueller encountered a number of other crimes allegedly committed by people in Donald Trump’s orbit. We know this because Mueller has already referred some of these criminal cases to the SDNY for completion and prosecution. Now that Mueller has filed his report, we’ll soon start to see what’s up his sleeve – and not just with regard to the report itself.
Put another way: does anyone really think that Robert Mueller went to the trouble to dig up crimes committed by a relative peon like Michael Cohen and hand it off for prosecution, but Mueller didn’t bother to dig up any alleged crimes committed by more central players like Trump’s kids, and refer them for prosecution? Of course he did, if he found evidence that Trump’s kids committed crimes. That goes for everyone else who got looked at in the probe. Jerome Corsi says that Mueller already told him he will be indicted for perjury, but that hasn’t happened yet. Unless Mueller has changed his mind, that indictment is surely coming.
In fact it’s reasonable to conclude that, of all the criminal cases Robert Mueller has handed off to U.S. Attorneys’ offices, at least some of them have reached the indictment stage but have been kept under seal until Mueller’s report has been filed. Why? Let’s say, hypothetically, that one or more of Trump’s kids has been indicted. If those arrests were carried out before Mueller could complete his report, there’s a good chance Trump would have become enraged enough to take the risk of trying to fire Mueller on the spot.
Again, we don’t have any way of knowing what indictments might be under seal at this moment, or when they might be unsealed and carried out. But now that Robert Mueller has managed to safely submit his report without getting fired first, the clock starts today on those indictments. That doesn’t mean they’ll be unsealed today, or tomorrow. But it does mean that if they’ve remained under seal so Mueller could file his report, we’ve reached the part where they can be unsealed, as soon as prosecutors are strategically ready. |
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