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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsAm I evil for hoping Meuller has a wicked sense of perfect timing?
I mean, wouldn't it be devilishly delicious if Junior and Jared got rolled up this Friday, and Trump then had to deliver the SOTU just a few days later?
Probably won't happen, unless Schiff gets the transcripts of Junior's testimony to Meuller tonight...
50 Shades Of Blue
(10,010 posts)dem4decades
(11,296 posts)As Trump was heading to meet with Putin.
It was not by accident.
aeromanKC
(3,324 posts)Due to the McCarthy Obstruction of Justice of not seating the GOP members of the Intelligence Committee until today, Tuesday is the soonest that Mueller could come down with an indictment based on the newly released Testimony evidence from the earlier hearing. But still, a Tuesday Jr. indictment would come down just in time to make it before the SOTU. (same day) YIKES!!
pnwmom
(108,980 posts)So I don't see how Mueller could come down with an indictment on Tuesday.
at140
(6,110 posts)Who currently is the acting Attorney General at DOJ, a Trump appointee.
The acting AG can sit on the report, and even redact it as he sees fit.
This is what I have read, but I could just as well be wrong about the protocol.
shanny
(6,709 posts)and full of detail. He is protecting his work product and making sure it will see the light of day.
at140
(6,110 posts)I think next few months will be very interesting!
dawg day
(7,947 posts)Don't think much of him, but he's an actual establishment lawyer, not some Saul Goodman creep like Whitaker. (Seriously, if we need one more reason to think that Trump is an a-hole, who else in the history of the world would have named someone like Whitaker acting AG? Sleazeball.)
Barr and Mueller, weirdly, are old friends, and socialize. (Does Trump know that?) Not to say that will protect Mueller, but it's pretty unlikely that Barr will buy Trump's belief that Mueller is some evil vampire out for his blood.
at140
(6,110 posts)So it looks like we should not expect Mueller to release his report before Barr takes over DOJ.
world wide wally
(21,744 posts)dgauss
(882 posts)dawg day
(7,947 posts)This new revelation about discovery material showing up on the internet-- a big reminder that the Russians are manipulating our justice system too.
He's leading up to something. Notice how Stone wasn't invited to surrender-- his house was stormed. (Yay!) this notion that Mueller is winding up-- he wouldn't have ordered that kind of operation if he wasn't still playing hard ball.
jmowreader
(50,559 posts)You know the whole Trump family is going to be at the SOTU, and they'll have to be prepared for the camera. Perfect timing would be arresting them in the dressing room while Trump's head is getting the Earl Scheib treatment.