Excellent summary, rn; I will try to make time over the weekend to look deeper into this. I spent today on John Solomon's Ukraine docs - which were not all about Ukraine, it turns out.
It does seem there is a sizable group on this thread committed to viewing RR as a 'hero'. As I have said repeatedly, without RR there would have been no Mueller appointment - AND Mueller was just a vehicle for sailing in Weissman and all the Clintonista lawyers in order to sandbag Donald Trump. In his House appearance, Mueller appeared to be unaware of critical issues important to Russian {HRC} meddling in the 2016 election.
Point of view, I guess.
There was going to be an investigation into the Russian Hoax. No getting around it. Mueller, apparently, hired people but didn’t do the work himself. RR made sure that McCabe was not in charge, seems that was his purpose. And by Mueller hiring all Dems, no one could possibly say the investigation was favorable to Trump.
It does seem there is a sizable group on this thread committed to viewing RR as a ‘hero’.
Maybe. Maybe not...
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Exactly. And without the Mueller appointment, Andrew McCabe was in charge of the investigation as Acting Head of FBI.
The SC appointment actually stabilized the situation allowing POTUS time to get SCOTUS, FBI, DOJ, Senate and other factors in better shape for the eventual engagement of forces.
I have often used the metaphor of a quarantine. This is the way we deal with, for example, an Ebola outbreak. Just put all the afflicted together in one place, put a fence around it to prevent contact with the outside world, and let the disease burn itself out.