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[Club Fed? Gallows are more apropos for coup members]

While I’d like to see him air-dropped over Antarctica in winter (i.e. a month or so from now) with a survival kit to find his way back home, that’s not on the menu. What is on the menu is years in prison, assuming the prosecutor knows what he’s doing and can get a jury to agree. The Watergate crew maxed out at 4 actually served. So 10 years at Club Fed is a stretch target.

I’m not actually optimistic - the perps are pretty smart and they know how to cover their tracks. In other words, this ain’t the 90 IQ Sicilian goombahs who keep getting nailed by the FBI, but 120 or 130 IQ Machiavelli types who climbed to the top of the civil service, and understand plausible deniability. Getting Slick Willy’s cronies through the Whitewater investigation was easier because there was a money trail, and the perps were not particularly bright local elites. In fact, Mueller nailed some of Trump’s people in the course of his witch hunt, including Michael “Judas” Cohen, because there were unrelated (lobbying- and hush money-related) money trails. Bottom line is I think the principals in this coup attempt against Trump have a good chance of skating. If Barr pulls this off, he’ll never have to buy another drink anywhere there’s a Republican at the bar.