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Richard Epstein parses the conclusions of the Mueller report, the implications for the Trump Administration, and whether the investigation justified the resulting political dislocations.
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Professor Epstein couldn’t be more correct about his characterization of the excessively long Mueller investigation. But, what troubles many of us who came to realize the Mueller investigation was based on false grounds is the myopic belief that “all is now vindicated and the liars and deceivers have been exposed for what they have done.” I would wager we don’t know but a fraction of what was behind a still ongoing coup attempt. Gregg Jarrett’s book, The Russia Hoax, is a great read and well reflects this fraction, but it cannot be the whole story, nor is the balance likely to be exposed in the Mueller report that was focused solely on Trump and his campaign. And perhaps it would be naïve to believe we will learn much more necessarily from the forthcoming Michael Horowitz report on the DOJ, or the John Huber investigation of the FBI, even though the latter could potentially result in indictments. We need to know about the machinery behind the curtain in this land of Oz.
If the Republicans in the House and Senate don’t wage a coordinated, fact-based and well-planned legal attack on the long list of persons formerly in the DOJ, the FBI, the CIA, Susan Rice, Hillary and perhaps even BHO himself, then NEW hallucinations will continue to be birthed by the Democrat and major media machine. That machine is incredibly adept at keeping the average American glued to his/her TV and iPhone saying, “Oh really. Wow, I didn’t know that!”
The Republicans have got to get ahead of the PR curve and expose, expose, expose with daily press releases what was going on from the middle of the 2016 campaign period until this day. A well-financed House-Senate Republican team with an experienced staff needs to become the tip of their spear, or all of the false boogymen like we’ve seen with Mueller will be repeated. Judicial Watch can certainly help, but it takes them so long for their FOIA lawsuits to kick in that without a Republican team they will never get ahead of the curve. Maybe JW should be part of “the team”.