Analyst says imminent indictments and arrests are coming for Donald Trump Jr and Jared Kushner
The clues have been mounting for the past few days. Special Counsel Robert Mueller suddenly decided he needed to immediately indict and arrest Roger Stone on Friday for his WikiLeaks-related crimes, even though the overall criminal case against Stone isn’t complete yet. Now Mueller is getting his hands on Donald Trump Jr’s perjured testimony transcripts, suggesting he’s next. This has prompted one analyst to predict that Junior, Jared Kushner and others are about to all be swept up in one big indictment and arrest frenzy.
In a lengthy new piece of analysis for Salon, Lucian K. Truscott IV tracks the pattern of Robert Mueller’s recent language in court filings, and concludes that everyone connected to WikiLeaks and the stolen Democratic National Committee emails is about to get busted all at once. In his view that includes Donald Trump Jr, Jared Kushner, and Julian Assange, though it’s still not clear how Mueller will get his hands on Assange. So what are the odds of this happening?
Actually, we think it’s pretty realistic. The most logical reason for indicting Roger Stone on WikiLeaks-related charges now, rather than waiting until the overall criminal case against Stone is complete, is to legally establish the criminal conspiracy involving Stone and WikiLeaks. This opens the door for conspiracy charges against everyone else involved, which would definitely include Trump Jr, and would seemingly include Kushner; they both communicated with WikiLeaks in their own right, in addition to any role they may have played in Stone’s antics.
It’s becoming clear that Robert Mueller is very close to making his big endgame move against Donald Trump; it’s just never been clear what his endgame is going to look like. Mueller was never simply going to file a report about Trump and call it a day. There were always going to be shock and awe fireworks aimed at breaking Trump. Arresting Trump’s family in one big sweep would be quite an aggressive way of going for the kill.
