Robert Mueller has a sealed indictment up his sleeve and it’s probably against Donald Trump
Special Counsel Robert Mueller announced today that he’s obtained grand jury indictments against thirteen Russians who conspired to rig the election in Donald Trump’s favor. It’s a clear sign that Mueller is going for the jugular, and it’s caused a lot of people to ask when or if Mueller will indict Trump himself. The answer is that it looks like he already has indicted Trump.
Multiple attorneys representing people in the Trump-Russia scandal are now acknowledging that Mueller may simply move to indict Trump despite the fact that he’s a sitting president (link. Although Richard Nixon’s DOJ was of the theoretical opinion that a sitting president should not be indicted, that theory was never tested in practice. Mueller can get a grand jury to indict Trump, and then he simply has to get the court system to rule that the indictment is valid. In fact there is strong circumstantial evidence that Mueller may already have a sealed indictment against Trump.
Palmer Report pointed out back in November that when Mueller got a grand jury to indict Trump campaign advisers Paul Manafort and Rick Gates, they were listed as “Indictment (B)” in the official court paperwork (link). That means there’s an “Indictment (A)” in that same case, and it’s still under seal. By definition it would have to be against a bigger fish. But the big fish like Jared Kushner and Jeff Sessions weren’t connected to the financial crimes that Manafort and Gates were indicted on.
In other words, there is every reason to suspect that the sealed Indictment (A) is against Donald Trump. If so, Robert Mueller can unseal it at any time. In fact he may be collecting sealed indictments against Trump from each of the grand juries against Trump’s underlings, so that Trump can’t pardon his own co-conspirators. Now that Mueller is swinging for the fences, will we see that indictment unsealed soon?
