Mueller Time Approaches

Nonsense news churned out by both the White House and Rudy G is the best announcement of the Mueller Investigation’s effect. Clearly the indictments, plea deals and massive mountain of evidence is having an effect on the trump team. They pretend to negotiate an interview agreement with the investigative team, but actually demonstrate their fear. Of what? Of the evidence that indicates so many things.

Collusion with Russia is only one arena of interest. The corruption of the trump election team is another. Influence peddling by third and fourth stringers to the trump organization is another.

I had a young man tell me during the runup to the Hillary – Trump election, that he thought the US was a sea of corruption that was an embarrassment to him and the nation. I agreed. But his solution was to ‘drain the swamp’. I knew differently. The swamp was exaggerated when politicians defined it by competing politicians. The real corruption is both in plain sight and well-hidden.

Of course, it turns out that the hidden corruption that has now been introduced to the nation’s capitol was resident in the political camp of the complainer-in-chief. That’s irony. I wonder what the young man feels about this today?

Rudy G continues to demand Mueller’s investigation end so we can get on with the real business of the country. Besides wondering what that business could be (!), the truth is this investigation is so far much shorter than Ken Starr’s. And in Starr’s case, nothing much came of his effort. No president was unseated and no indictments or convictions resulted from all the years and dollars consumed on it.

Stark contrast to that experience is the current Mueller probe. It has produced results. Convictions are just around the corner, plea deals and prison sentences have been made, indictments handed down, and all of this in a short period of time.

Another telling difference – Starr spoke often with the press and news commentators throughout his investigation. We haven’t heard a word from Mueller. Only actions speak for Mueller. The actions that count.

Besides the embarrassment of being found out and publicly humiliated, what is it they fear? Loss of job? Loss of influence? Loss of personal assets? Prison?

If the latter, what is it they fear in prison? The loss of freedom? The exposure to physical harm? Bullying? Loss of power and subjugation? Tell me. I want to know.

The fear – of whatever – is palpable now. It is written on their faces. Their actions, too, are volatile, angry. Their strut for the cameras less certain. Doubt has crept into the images. These people are scared.

We can smell it.

Yes. I want the Mueller investigation to be over, too. I need this long nightmare to be over. The nightmare of our nation. The world community awaits resolution of this nasty chapter of American history. Americans, too, want and need the nightmare to end.

Then we can return to building and rebuilding a nation of values and dreams. Only then the dreams will benefit the common good of America and the global community.

I sense a new industry will be birthed by all this – Civics: Understanding how a modern democracy works and prospers.

August 13, 2018