Interesting article in Vanity Fair by T.A. Frank. Interesting and remarkable considering that publication's left leaning bias. The title says it all...IS THIS IT?: A TRUMP-HATER’S GUIDE TO MUELLER SKEPTICISM.
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2018...ler-skepticism
This is the kind of thing that is needed as a balance to the anti Trump hysteria that consumes people on the left, their media cohorts and their never Trump allies on the right. There are things about the Mueller probe that the people who are drooling about Trump's demise should be thinking about. I would say that few are. None of them are considering the future of US politics and the impact that this hysteria will have.
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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. This caused calamities in the era of Bill Clinton, and it doesn't get any better just because the partisan dynamics are reversed.
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Mueller is obviously a hero to some but he represents the worst of prosecutorial overreach in the American system. The ability to destroy the lives of his targets to procure testimony against other targets. Micheal Flynn is an obvious example. No one bats an eye when these tactics are used against mafia types but Michael Flynn, a decorated 38 year veteran. Destroying him financially and threatening his son to obtain testimony. Shameful behavior. If Mueller's team investigated Mueller what would they find?
Former FBI Director James Comey enforced two sets of rules, one for Hillary Clinton and the Democrats, and one for Trump.
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Certainly, Trump’s ethical standards are low, but if sleaziness were a crime then many more people from our ruling class would be in jail. It is sleazy, but not criminal, to try to find out in advance what WikiLeaks has on Hillary Clinton. It is sleazy, but not criminal, to take a meeting in Trump Tower with a Russian lawyer promising a dossier of dirt on Clinton. (Just as, it should be mentioned, it is sleazy, but not criminal, to pay a guy to go to Russia to put together a dossier of dirt on Trump.
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Mueller's probe will likely end up painting a very unflattering portrait of the Trump presidency and his dealings before 2016. It may even find criminal or ethical crimes or it may just suggest them. But to what end?
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Like (Ken)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?
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