Robert Mueller’s report is in. Now here come the biggest of Trump-Russia indictments. They just won’t come from Mueller.
During his lengthy investigation into the Trump-Russia election scandal, Special Counsel Robert Mueller encountered a number of other crimes allegedly committed by people in Donald Trump’s orbit. We know this because Mueller has already referred some of these criminal cases to the SDNY for completion and prosecution. Now that Mueller has filed his report, we’ll soon start to see what’s up his sleeve – and not just with regard to the report itself.
Put another way: does anyone really think that Robert Mueller went to the trouble to dig up crimes committed by a relative peon like Michael Cohen and hand it off for prosecution, but Mueller didn’t bother to dig up any alleged crimes committed by more central players like Trump’s kids, and refer them for prosecution? Of course he did, if he found evidence that Trump’s kids committed crimes. That goes for everyone else who got looked at in the probe. Jerome Corsi says that Mueller already told him he will be indicted for perjury, but that hasn’t happened yet. Unless Mueller has changed his mind, that indictment is surely coming.
In fact it’s reasonable to conclude that, of all the criminal cases Robert Mueller has handed off to U.S. Attorneys’ offices, at least some of them have reached the indictment stage but have been kept under seal until Mueller’s report has been filed. Why? Let’s say, hypothetically, that one or more of Trump’s kids has been indicted. If those arrests were carried out before Mueller could complete his report, there’s a good chance Trump would have become enraged enough to take the risk of trying to fire Mueller on the spot.
Again, we don’t have any way of knowing what indictments might be under seal at this moment, or when they might be unsealed and carried out. But now that Robert Mueller has managed to safely submit his report without getting fired first, the clock starts today on those indictments. That doesn’t mean they’ll be unsealed today, or tomorrow. But it does mean that if they’ve remained under seal so Mueller could file his report, we’ve reached the part where they can be unsealed, as soon as prosecutors are strategically ready. Update, 6:40pm: it turns out Adam Schiff agrees with us.
