Some special counsel investigations have taken longer; it is the nature of such probes to drag on and on. But why did Mueller need nearly two years to determine whether the Trump campaign and Russia conspired or coordinated to fix the 2016 election?
He didn’t, it appears. In the wake of the release of Mueller’s report, there are indications that special counsel prosecutors mostly knew by the end of 2017, and certainly by a few months later, that the evidence would not establish that conspiracy or coordination — or collusion, to use the popular term — had taken place. Mueller clearly spent a lot of time on the other half of his report — trying to establish that Trump obstructed justice — but on the most explosive and consequential allegation of the Trump-Russia affair, the conspiracy allegation, the Mueller investigation was essentially over long before it officially ended.
...Mueller.....could NEVER indict a sitting president, no on with a half brain would have "concluded" that the final report would call for an outright indictment.......if that was the expectation, then those expecting it were fools...
I'm with you on "Johnny The Commie" Brennan. That old commie fool with less than half a brain told us to expect indictments.
...Mueller's task was .... [f]or Congress to take up the task and utilize the evidence offered to invoke "high crimes and misdemeanors" as the conduit towards developing artciles of impeachment...
No it wasn't. Mueller has no authority to conduct an impeachment inquiry, Congress has the power of Impeachment and Muller was operating within the Executive Branch.
....were Trump just an "ordinary citizen" he WOULD BE INDICTED based on the report...
If wishes were kisses I'd be covered in lipstick. Trump IS the President. Trump WAS Comey's Boss and had every right to discuss Comey's work and to make recommendations. Your novel theory of an FBI director that is unaccountable to the elected head of the Executive Branch is yet another bit of nonsense that the Left has burped up for clicks from idiots.
The country is never going to stand for a President being removed from office for exercising his lawful constitutional powers. As Barr warned, go down this path and any prosecutor can, after the fact, criminalize ANY decision by ANY member of the Executive branch that the prosecutor disagrees with.
Now an unlawful act, like when Clinton lied under oath or arranged for Monica to submit a false affidavit to the court, those are clear crimes and frankly the country didn't support impeachment for even that.
But if you guys want to impeach Trump, by all means get on with it. I know some people claim it would destroy your party, but hell, you survived starting and losing the Civil War, why shouldn't you survive this as well? I say: "Giddy Up!"
...Of course, one extreme necessity for Trump is to be re-elected so that statutes of limitations would lapse, allowing him to escape justice.
Trump will be re-elected. Do you think Dems should nominate another woman, or knowing that would mean that the first two democrat women nominated go 0-2, wouldn't be better for Biden to take a flop for the team?
Mueller only ended this farce because of the IG report that was going to report that this entire thing was a hoax engineered by the Obama Administration complete with under oath lies to FISC. When Mueller was appointed SC, his billing rates likely tripled and he would have hung around until run out of town, but with the IG report due, he packed up his crap and ran like his tail was on fire.