re: #33 lawhawk

Yeah, there’s a totally boundless fountain of misinformation from the right wing about how this is the limit of the investigation and that this is it.

Mueller got 2 campaign chairmen and a key foreign policy adviser on conspiring against the US and engaging in multiple crimes. All those crimes point to further indictments (the conspiracy part).

And Mueller didn’t even get into the low hanging fruit like Flynn, Kushner, Sessions, or even Donny Jr.

I have heard the conspiracy against the US is sort of boiler plate language and doesn’t have anything to do with “collusion” to subvert the election.

“It is not uncommon when there are multiple actors engaged in criminal conduct—white collar or otherwise—for prosecutors to charge a conspiracy,” Griffin says. That appears to be what special counsel Robert Mueller and his team are doing with the conspiracy against the United States charge. But it is fundamentally a charge related to the other charges of money laundering and misleading federal officials and investigators about foreign bank accounts and lobbying for the Ukrainian government. It’s not about betraying America in some deep sense.

vox.com

IANAL, but I see a lot of people investing a lot of hope in the Mueller investigation to topple the whole house of cards and I think it wouldn’t hurt to temper our expectations a bit. That way you don’t get too disappointed if he doesn’t but you can be pleasantly surprised if he does.