So the Mueller Report is out and many of our romantic and foolish notions about the rule of law and the Constitution of the United States lie broken on the floor of the United States Senate.
The idea that the Mueller Report would be the straw that broke the back of the Trump presidency lies likewise broken on the cruel rocks of reality. Mueller himself has been typically silent except for a letter to the slimy attorney general stating that William Barr misrepresented the findings of the report in his public comments about it.
Barr himself is so drunk on the Trump Kool Aid that he has been held in contempt of Congress by the House Judiciary Committee for refusing to release the full and unredacted Mueller Report. Like the good and faithful Trump lapdog that he is, Barr has dutifully followed Trump's decree that nothing will be given to any Congressional investigation and nobody under Trump's domain will testify to anybody about anything.
Barr is so full of himself and the backing of the traitorous Republican senators that he actually said to Nancy Pelosi at a National Peace Officers' Memorial Day event, “Madame Speaker, did you bring your handcuffs?”
Nancy Pelosi should have slapped this traitor's ugly face so hard that his jowls quivered for a week, but she is above that. So far.
Trump has two things going for him that keep him safe. So far. The first is the treasonous Senate Republican majority that would never vote to remove Trump in any impeachment proceedings. These small men have easily and constantly violated their oaths to protect the Constitution. Whatever conscience and patriotism they might have had has been kicked to the curb of political expedience and human greed. They are beyond despicable.
Another Trump fail-safe is the 1973 Department of Justice memo that basically says a sitting president cannot be indicted. This is poppycock that has been treated as the law of the land by generations of politicians that should have known better. Michael Beschloss, the leading presidential historian of our times, has stated that this memo is indeed poppycock and could be readily abandoned by the DOJ. He cited that disgraced Nixon Vice President Spiro Agnew was indeed going to be criminally indicted before he resigned.
Of course, retracting that stupid memo would be the last thing Barr's Department of Justice would ever do. So Trump rides on.
And Robert Mueller waits. And America waits for him to testify. If he does, reports are that it will be in June. That testimony will not go beyond the limits of the Mueller Report, but two things could emerge under skillful questioning by Democratic congressmen. The first is that Mueller indeed found Trump's conduct questionable in the extreme, but, abiding by his mandate, left it for the Congress to take action.
The other result of any Mueller testimony is that the American voters will see a career public servant whose rectitude is beyond question. In contrast to the cascade of lies from the White House, Mueller's testimony would show him to be almost Lincolnesque compared with the dangerous and clownish antics and lies of Trump.
Would this be enough to sway enough undecided voters against Trump – and maybe even sway Republicans of conscience that our country is indeed in grave danger?
Like always, time will tell.
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