Mark Penn, who worked as a pollster for Bill Clinton during the Whitewater investigation that morphed into Lewinskygate, has been probably the sanest portside observer of the continuing Mueller fandango.
Writing for The Hill, he's got it nailed:
Most people don’t understand what it is to not only be personally investigated for something you didn’t do but also have your friends, family members and associates placed in legal jeopardy over it. Special counsel Robert Mueller’s team systematically targeted the people around the president, squeezing them like lemons, indicting them on mostly process crimes created by the investigation itself. They reviewed everyone’s emails, text messages, phone calls, bank statements — and yet their conclusion on collusion was clear and definitive. It has to be believed.
But it's not likely to stop Jerrold Nadler and Adam Schiff from staying on the trail. Why? Ask Penn:
But the problem is that Reps. Jerrold Nadler (D-N.Y.) and Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) are congressmen from safe districts who are nobodies if they have no investigations to launch. It’s in the interest of their egos to keep it all going so that they can have daily press availabilities. And they are whipping up their political bases. It will take some Democrats of courage to turn this off and stop the abuse of going after the president’s financial records. These are the kinds of things Nixon was doing, and there is no justification for those in Congress to be doing exactly those things for which Nixon resigned from office — going after his political enemies.
Exactly. The Democrats are projecting more than a 20-screen multiplex and have been since the inception of this drama. Will they take Penn's advice and call off the chihuahuas? The bet here -- not a chance.
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Fact is: they won't. Because they can't.too much is invested in this game.
Have you been reading Brian Cates at Epoch Times? He's got some very interesting ideas about where this is all going. Foreign lobbying/bribery stuff. We could be looking at members of the media and of Congress looking at legal jeopardy before this is all over. I mention this because it provides motive for people like Schiff and Nadler to try to destroy Trump (before he destroys them.). We'll see.
WBP, not familiar with his work. I'll check it out!
Link?
The links are difficult to read, but hover over “Writing for the Hill” and you should be able to see it.
I meant the thing that wb is referencing.
If I were Trump, and had the idea that I could track who would do the leaking, I'd be tempted to release those tax records and then prosecute the Democrats who inevitably leaked them to the press.
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