Here is the odd thing: On July 17, if Robert Mueller does
what he said he would do – that is, simply repeat what is in the Mueller Report
-- it will come as news to most Americans. Let’s face it: The report is on
line, naked or annotated, and at least three editions are in print, but hardly
anybody read it.
I started
reading on line the day it was released. I ripped off 137
pages out of the starting gate, but it took another two weeks to reach the end.
My doctor made it to page 3 and called Amazon. My ex-boss didn’t even try it on-line and waited for a print copy. You can bring Tablets to us old folks, but you can’t make us
use them.
And the young
get their news from social media.
Donald J. Trump
understands that. And that is why everybody I run into hasn’t read the Mueller
Report but knows that it says No Collusion, No Obstruction, and maybe some other
stuff. So if Mueller simply repeats it kinetically, it will be a shock in many
quarters.
That is part of
the devious plot House Democrats stumbled into.
The other half
is that Trump now has three weeks to make bellyaching comments about Mueller,
and maybe three weeks under the Twitter will provoke the stolid Mueller to give
some clue to what he really thinks of Trump.
A bunch of
A-list actors gave Book II a dramatic reading Monday in New York. You probably
can still see it here. It runs about an hour and 20
minutes. Joel Gray tries a Southern accent as Beauregard Jefferson Sessions II.
John Lithgow takes Trump's lines.
I still say
the impeachment action is in Book I, where it says the
Russians tried to beat Clinton and elect Trump, and that made Trump happy, and
the Russians will do it again. Impeachment hangs on the fact that the president
knows all that and has done nothing to prevent it, and some little things to hamper efforts to prevent it.
But I still
think the brain dead Democrats will fumble the opportunity. The Rs understand the new media, and the Ds don't understand much of anything. The
better hope is that Trump irks Mueller into responding.
"The better hope is that Trump irks Mueller into responding." This just might do it. Trump has accused Mueller of a crime. He's claiming that Mueller illegally deleted emails between two FBI staffers who were having an extramarital affair. The affair is probably incidental to the accusation, and the timing doesn't add up that Mueller had anything to do with it. But that's classic Trump, just fling poo and see what sticks. I hope Mueller does respond.
ReplyDeleteNotice in the NYTimes account that this was all negotiated with members of his former law practice (some of whom may have been part of the investigation). I hope the Dems focus their fire power with one or two members of the committee who are steeped in the report and who have spotted the IED.
ReplyDeleteOff topic but related: my daughter is having a torn meniscus repaired July 16. On July 17 we can gather on her couch where she will be immobilized and debate the fate of the nation. (Shades of Sam Ervin!) I know it will make her feel better.
During the Watergate hearings, we painted the outside of the house and listened to the hearings on the radio. In the evening, we watched the rerun on public television. What a wonderful wallow in Watergate. To top it off, we were a Nielsen family that week, and NPR was the runaway TV station in Milwaukee.
DeleteWhat a summer that was....Even the kids loved Sam...went around imitating him...and the eyebrows!
DeleteTimes article: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/26/us/politics/trump-mueller-testimony.html?searchResultPosition=2
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