05-01-2018, 09:01 AM
The NY Times got and released a list of 4 dozen questions Mueller intended to ask Donald Trump in deposition. A detailed breakdown can be found here:
http://twitter.com/aliasvaughn/status/99...96064?s=19
She does a very good job in detail, almost HotD levels of insight, while explaining why this is explosive and important. The gist:
1. The questions almost have to come from Mueller's team or with his blessing. They are too detailed and specific to be anything that he would have provided to Trump's legal team. The times denies it was Mueller but that doesn't mean he didn't approve it.
2. The release of the questions means Mueller thinks he won't be interviewing Trump in deposition, so a grand jury indictment will be coming.
3. The release also tacitly gives the press a "treasure map" of exactly what he knows, what he's looking at, and exactly where they should start digging for more.
4. The focus on his malicious treatment of Jeff Sessions, James Comey, Rod Rosenstein, means without saying that these men are cooperating allies of Mueller, including Sessions. They wouldn't be asking questions they didn't already have answers to.
5. The questions indicate the impending shift from witness to target for Trump. Mueller has what he needs. Probably from Cohen's files. There is stuff in the questions which was not public knowledge, like the fact that Cohen was brokering deals to establish backchannel comms with Russia and had detailed plans in his possession.
6. The public release of this data means Mueller and Trump are entering endgame status. Expect things to start blowing up with frightening speed. Russia knows it, which is why Putin approved his spy admitting she was a spy. Trump knows it which is why his behavior has been so erratic. Pence knows it which is why he had his own physician report Trump's doctor forethical concerns and got him ousted from the White House, never mind his foolish nomination for the VA. And the Republicans know it which is why so many are bailing while they can.
There will be blood. And it isn't over by a long measure.
http://twitter.com/aliasvaughn/status/99...96064?s=19
She does a very good job in detail, almost HotD levels of insight, while explaining why this is explosive and important. The gist:
1. The questions almost have to come from Mueller's team or with his blessing. They are too detailed and specific to be anything that he would have provided to Trump's legal team. The times denies it was Mueller but that doesn't mean he didn't approve it.
2. The release of the questions means Mueller thinks he won't be interviewing Trump in deposition, so a grand jury indictment will be coming.
3. The release also tacitly gives the press a "treasure map" of exactly what he knows, what he's looking at, and exactly where they should start digging for more.
4. The focus on his malicious treatment of Jeff Sessions, James Comey, Rod Rosenstein, means without saying that these men are cooperating allies of Mueller, including Sessions. They wouldn't be asking questions they didn't already have answers to.
5. The questions indicate the impending shift from witness to target for Trump. Mueller has what he needs. Probably from Cohen's files. There is stuff in the questions which was not public knowledge, like the fact that Cohen was brokering deals to establish backchannel comms with Russia and had detailed plans in his possession.
6. The public release of this data means Mueller and Trump are entering endgame status. Expect things to start blowing up with frightening speed. Russia knows it, which is why Putin approved his spy admitting she was a spy. Trump knows it which is why his behavior has been so erratic. Pence knows it which is why he had his own physician report Trump's doctor forethical concerns and got him ousted from the White House, never mind his foolish nomination for the VA. And the Republicans know it which is why so many are bailing while they can.
There will be blood. And it isn't over by a long measure.
Thank god I am oblivious to the opinions of others while caught in the blinding splendor of my own cleverness.