What is the immediate significance of this understanding renewed by this article?
Special investigator Muller unburdened himself yesterday of a new backhand slap at the president and exited stage left, declaring that he would not be further forthcoming, even to Congress. But the Democrats in Congress and, importantly, those who are announced to be running for president found just enough in the statement to now urge the impeachment of the president United States. As a result, the news cycle just speeded up. The president is more likely to be impeached, it is likely that initial stages of the impeachment process will begin soon.
Speed is of the essence in this foot race in which the Democrats can so damage the president that he is unelectable one year and a half from now. Speed is of the essence for Democrats to so damage the president in the public mind that subsequent revelations of deep state crimes, especially those crimes leading to the bogus Russia hoax investigation with its offshoot obstruction investigation, will not save him.
This is not to say that the president will be removed from office when impeached, it is to say that his reelection chances could well be severely damaged if Attorney General Barr cannot focus the public mind on the silent coup. This, of course, presumes that Attorney General Barr is motivated to see political justice as well as legal justice done. That assumption might not be warranted simply because the Attorney General sees his role as doing only legal justice. He might very well say to himself, I am not James Comey nor am I Robert Muller who play games, who were public servants who got off the reservation and attempted to tip the scales.
Therefore, I will proceed at my own pace, however painstaking and time consuming that might prove to be, regardless of the political needs of the president, to untangle the tentacles which delay my mission to restore proper constitutional government and expose criminality in the deep state.
Probably the Democrats for their part see the issue as a foot race to so dirty the president that he will be beyond recovery on election day. But they might be wrong, perhaps the main thing is not speed but timing. If they bring an impeachment now, and the Senate promptly acquits as McConnell has promised to do, will the president be rehabilitated in time for the November election in 2020? Obviously, the Democrats will try to drag the proceedings out both in the House where they can control the calendar and in the Senate where they cannot but where they can complain, as long as possible for maximum exposure to the public.
The president's team, on the other hand, has the option of stealing the March by announcing an indictment, preferably of one of the FBI miscreants, and dominating the news cycle. Every time the Democrats move, Barr indicts. So the Republicans can have it both ways, they can steal the March and they can prolong control of the news cycles with exquisite timing right up to election day.
The question is, how does Attorney General Barr see his responsibilities? To undo the wrong that the abuse of the legal system has done, or to demonstrate without reference to politics how the legal system ideally should operate?
