Far from winding down, Mueller’s probe feels energized

The winding down of the Mueller machine doesn’t mean that his show might end soon. The much rumored—and predicted—indictments of Roger Stone and Jerome Corsi have yet to be handed down. With both Gates and Cohen still willing to sing, Mueller might convert some of their warblings into new or expanded charges. Donald Trump Jr. and Ivanka Trump have come under Mueller’s gaze, says Yahoo News, for their work on the Trump Tower project in Moscow, which we now know was pursued by the Trump Organization until June 2016, six months longer than Cohen had told federal investigators. John Dean and Fox News legal analyst Andrew Napolitano have speculated that Trump son-in-law Jared Kushner will be indicted, perhaps in connection with the back channel work he did with a foreign government during the Trump transition. And then there’s the mystery witness who has been fighting one of Mueller’s grand jury subpoenas under cloak of secrecy in the federal courthouse. Main event or sideshow? Nobody knows. The Watergate investigation lasted four years. The Iran-Contra investigation went on for more than six years, and Whitewater for more than seven. In fact, were Mueller to call it a day before New Year’s, as some suggest he will, it would make this one of the shorter probes ever.

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If Mueller has downshifted, that hardly spells the end of the investigations into Trump world—Russia is only one of the dishes on the investigative smorgasbord. New York prosecutors are examining spending by the Trump inaugural committee and donations by foreign nationals, specifically from Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates. The New York attorney general has put Trump Foundation finances under the lens. Emoluments clause lawsuits against Trump are ongoing. The Trump Foundation faces legal scrutiny. Summer Zervos’ defamation suit against Trump is still alive, too. (For a good roundup of the Trump-related investigation, see this Bloomberg News piece.)

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