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I had a Russian under contract from Home Depot put in my pergo flooring during 2016. He didn’t say much to me for a couple of hours as I was blabbing to him about the flooring, then all the sudden started talking with a perfect Southern accent. He just about ya’lled me to death. I told him I thought he was from Russia but he said no, no I was mistaken, he was actually from North Carolina and he thought it was about time Roy Williams retired. Then he started badmouthing Hillary Clinton...for no apparent reason, just started calling her a bitch. Told me he was voting for Trump. On the way out the door he started cussing Roy Williams again. Definite collusion.

This (to my untrained eye) looks like a legal nothing-burger. Let me guess: none of the individuals indicted are currently on American soil, and they will never return. The “entities” will never be prosecuted, either, and will simply morph into something else.

I haven’t heard when the indictments were actually handed down, but this looks like something that was pre-packaged and could have been announced at any time. I believe two events influenced the Friday afternoon indictment dump: first, the Florida school shooting. The FBI screwed up big time, and it only reinforces the notion that much of the agency is so politicized it cannot do its job, or even supervise agents, analysts and technicians who are trying to perform assigned tasks. Rosenstein, Wray and the rest know that any tidbit on “Russia, Russia, Russia” will send the MSM into a feeding frenzy and divert attention from those 17 students and teachers who died (in part) due to FBI incompetence.

The second event, as others have observed, is the appointment of Judge Sullivan to handle the Flynn case. Sullivan has absolutely no tolerance for any sort of prosecutorial tomfoolery and Mueller and Co have been playing fast and loose since day one. Predictably, Byron York is one of the few journalists who have been following Judge Sullivan’s actions since taking on the case. He reported that Judge Sullivan immediately ordered Muller to produce any evidence that might aid Gen Flynn’s defense—despite the fact he has already entered a guilty plea—and Sullivan told Mueller that he, not the prosecutor, will determine what evidence might be beneficial to Flynn’s defense team.

Sullivan got his fill of government inaction and failure to produce required documents during the IRS case and the litigation over Hillary’s e-mails. Mueller and his band of Democratic loyalists understand there’s a new sheriff in town and they’re going to play their hand more carefully from this point forward. Look for them to re-energize some of their probes into financial activities; the collusion narrative is done.