Mueller Plunges Across Trump's Red Line
Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s has impaneled a grand jury in Washington, The Wall Street Journal reports, in the latest sign his investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election is moving quickly.
A spokesman for Mueller declined to comment to the newspaper, and President Trump’s attorney, Ty Cobb, said he was unaware of a grand jury but welcomed any steps that brought the investigation closer to its conclusion. That’s somewhat different from Trump, who has called the investigation “the single greatest WITCH HUNT in American political history.”
Separately, CNN reported that Mueller’s probe has now expanded well past the 2016 election. “Sources described an investigation that has widened to focus on possible financial crimes, some unconnected to the 2016 elections, alongside the ongoing scrutiny of possible illegal coordination with Russian spy agencies and alleged attempts by President Donald Trump and others to obstruct the FBI investigation,” the report said, adding that investigators were combing through Trump’s business empire.
The CNN report adds detail to earlier reports from The New York Times and Bloomberg that the probe had widened to look at potential financial crimes. Mueller is said to be investigating whether the Trump campaign colluded with Russia to interfere with the election, business dealings of Trump and his associates, and whether Trump obstructed justice by firing FBI Director James Comey, asking him to drop an investigation into Michael Flynn, and other moves.
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I wouldn't look for anything for a while yet.
During Watergate, the Grand Jury was impanelled for months because that's how long it took to gather all the evidence and testimony. I remember when it was reported that Nixon was named as an unindicted co-conspirator, in Spring, 1974. IIRC. That was a D.C. Grand Jury that did that.
October 20, 1973. Nixon tried to get AG Eliot Richardson to fire Special Prosecutor Archibald Cox. Richardson resigned. Nixon then told deputy AG William Ruggleshaus to fire Cox. He either resigned or was fired (sources are in dispute about that -- amazingly as Ruggleshaus is still alive).
What happened that week was an absolute shit storm. William Chancellor reported on NBC that this was an enormous Constitutional Crisis. Western Union's infrastructure was brought down by the sheer volume of telegrams sent to Congress. By mid-week the first bills of impeachment against Nixon were put forth in the House of Representatives.
The Saturday Night Massacre, in one stroke, put everything into high gear like nothing before it. This was months after the Senate Watergate Hearings had finished.
And here's the real deal...
It would be nine more months before articles of impeachment were approved in the House Judiciary Committee, and ten more months before Nixon resigned.
These things take time.
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