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Originally Posted by Ohio
Why don't you mention all the investigations going on concerning Comey, McCabe, Strzok, Page, Lynch, Clinton, etc.?
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Because it wasn't relevant to the DNC suit.
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Originally Posted by Ohio
Muller has nothing on the Trump administration other that he likes his women pretty. Salacious for sure, but not illegal, and not abusive.
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Mueller has not revealed what he has.
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And remember, when you are "up to your neck in alligators," your original objective was to "drain the swamp," iow Muller was assigned to investigate election collusion, and there is none. This proves that his entire investigation, fueled by Rosenstein, Strzok, and others, was never about "collusion," rather it was a deep state coup.
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We have already discussed all the pieces to prove that puzzle. I'll wait until his investigation is over to make any conclusions about what evidence he does or does not have and what did or did not happen. But since you like reading tea leaves and Awareness likes studying the stars, I'll let you know how I read the situation.
I think the indictment of Cohen caught Trump by surprise, so no information is being leaked from Mueller's investigation. Trump appeared very concerned by this and I think the recent addition of Rudy G to his team is an expression of that concern as well as his signaling his willingness to pardon reprehensible criminals. I expect Cohen to be indicted on very serious felonies. I don't think a judge would have authorized electronic surveillance without real information of a possible felony. I think that Mueller learned of Cohen's intention to destroy evidence of a crime, which is why he revealed the wire tap. I think that the NY DA now has a treasure trove of documents, tapes, and the fruit of months of electronic surveillance that should have Trump's lawyers terrified. However, I expect it could take a month to go through everything they have seized, maybe two months and they will not want to question witnesses or write an indictment until they have had a chance to go through everything.
Now I expect that one of the nuggets that they will find is that Trump lied about his assets to a number of lenders that he later declared bankruptcy to. Therefore every single creditor that lost money in loans to Trump may decide to sue him for fraud.
I also expect that Cohen could be looking at more than 20 years, a very strong incentive to flip. If he confirms Stormy Daniels story about being threatened and that this was part of the Trump modis operandi then he could be charged with extortion and racketeering. If Cohen was going to destroy documents that would be obstruction of justice and who knows, Trump could be tied to that.
In short, I could envision Trump being embroiled in a multitude of lawsuits as well as criminal trials. This would certainly rise to the level of "high crimes and misdemeanors". So keeping impeachment off the table will depend on the Midterms. Unfortunately for Trump it looks like we will be seeing a steady stream of revelations, indictments, and lawsuits from now until November.
Finally, I don't think you are considering the full picture revealed by these polls. When Trump won the election he didn't have a majority of votes and the democrats were split between Clinton supporters and Bernie supporters who felt betrayed by Clinton. Trump won as much due to voters staying home as he did by his base. But from my very unscientific polling of the democratic electorate they are highly motivated to show up and vote this time, much more so than last time.