Keep this in mind every time you hear that Mueller is wrapping up or there is an imminent arrest

[NewJeffCT]

or indictment coming "any day now."

This is an intentional strategy by Team Trump.

The media reports the story based on the rumors, everybody gets excited and anticipates the report. One time, it's ABC, the next time it's NBC or CBS, then it's CNN or the Washington Post or NY Times and then another.

Nothing happens and the investigation continues.

However, the media looks bad for reporting the rumor and it feeds into the Trump narrative of Fake News - why didn't the report come out? FAKE NEWS. The rumors are almost always from somebody inside the White House who is a minion of Donny Dollhands himself.

According to Seth Abramson, various media outlets reported that Mueller was wrapping up soon 7 or 8 times throughout 2018 alone.

Just like the 2017 rumors of Jared Kushner being indicted "any day now"... still hasn't happened.

And now we have Don Jr "about to indicted" since October or November of last year... still hasn't happened.

It took almost 9 months after Roger Stone reported he was about to be arrested for it to actually happen, and he's not related to a Trump.

When it doesn't happen, it feeds the Trumpian FAKE NEWS narrative. If the investigation continues, it makes it look like Mueller is on a fishing expedition (or, gasp, a WITCH HUNT) because Kushner, Don Jr or somebody else was supposed to have been indicted a while ago and it never happened.

[jrthin]

1. MSM millionaire anchors "paid by billionaires." This should be the chyron

running as they are reporting their infotainment.

[spanone]

2. I believed all along the White House leaked the 'next week' BS.

[dalton99a]

3. Yep, I knew it was BS.

[spanone]

5. It appears to be a ploy to defuse the release whenever it does happen.

trump is a master of media manipulation....

[dalton99a]

6. He is amoeba-IQ level dumb, but he is a "smart" con man

who has a natural knack for playing the media to his advantage, and constantly putting them into damn if you do and damn if you don't type of situations

[Polly Hennessey]

4. Thank you.

What you say is true. What astounds me is the media falling for it every time and DU is not far behind. I’m still waiting for the Manafort filing. Granted, Barr MAY have delayed it?? tRump may be an idiot by our standards but he plays the media like a “fiddle”.

[NewJeffCT]

8. The Manafort filing may also need a

lot of redactions as well - so, that may take time

[Firestorm49]

7. I guess all of this happens because Mueller is doing an outstanding job of keeping his and his

staff’s mouths shut.

What’s left? Conjecture. From Rachael, to Williams, to Joe & “please be quiet” Mika, to everyone else dying to know the truth. That’s how it goes down.

I, for one, will be happy just to see the report in its entirety (excluding what may have obvious security concerns). I just hope we will get the chance......we, the people.

[NewJeffCT]

9. There are some things you can tell

CNN was able to figure out to stake out a few likely people and was able to get coverage of Stone's arrest.

4 of the 17 prosecutors were let go recently, so at least PART of the case is likely completed.

[janx]

10. Yes. Pure speculation and no

information as to where information originally comes from. Just "sources." It's getting old.

[janx]

11. kick