Quite a few thoughtful folks discussing whether Mueller now has enough to charge Trump with obstruction, along with my interjection that that's the wrong question to be asking. More to follow.
https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2018/01/26/trump-tried-to-fire-mueller-so-what-216539 …
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What do you make of the fact that the obstruction investigation is so far ahead of the conspiracy one? Might Mueller use a "conclusion" on corruption to buy space for the conspiracy one? If he did so would it affect politics/law surrounding pardon authority?
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He must make a persuasive case that there's cause to continue the conspiracy investigation. How does he do that without tipping his hand?
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Oh. I think he's about to roll out another cooperator who was aware of outreach to Russia, plus the superseding for Manafort (and Gates if Gates doesn't flip).
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That's plausible. You mentioned elsewhere that it's early for manafort's superseding to give away the whole game, so I'm just trying to suss out the timing here.
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I expect Mueller will start working his way through the people who lied in their testimony in the weeks before he rolled out the Papadopoulos plea. I think there are at least 2 who're in trouble.
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Care to guess or rather not say? And thanks for your work on this.
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Oh, I've got specific names in mind, based in part on other tea leaves. But I'd rather not say publicly. If Mueller is keeping it secret it's probably for good reason.
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