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Title: Will the Mueller Report exonerate or incarcerate President Trump?
Post by: corbe on March 22, 2019, 06:10:52 pm

   There are rumblings that the Mueller Investigation is about to wrap up 19 months after it started and having purportedly spent upward of $27M, will our President, unlike a few of his associates, survive this unscathed?

   A little historical perspective in the nature of money spent on Special Council Investigations:

How does the Mueller investigation compare historically?

As we’ve reported, the investigation of President Bill Clinton over Whitewater and Monica Lewinsky — headed by Kenneth Starr and then by his successor, Robert Ray — cost upward of $52 million over half a decade. Another $40 million-plus went toward a handful of other Clinton-era independent counsel investigations.

Meanwhile, the investigation of Reagan administration officials over the Iran-Contra Affair, headed by Lawrence Walsh, topped out at more than $47 million over a roughly similar period.

Those figures are direct costs only, and are not adjusted for inflation. Their price tags would be far higher if converted to 2018 dollars.

https://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/article/2018/dec/14/how-much-mueller-investigation-costing-updated/ (https://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/article/2018/dec/14/how-much-mueller-investigation-costing-updated/)

Title: Re: Will the Mueller Report exonerate or incarcerate President Trump?
Post by: ABX on March 22, 2019, 06:15:53 pm

Both..

It will exonerate him on the overall charges of illegal collusion, but implicate (not incarcerate) him for process crimes in various official statements around it and throw in some obstruction of justice charges (aka Bill Clinton).

Title: Re: Will the Mueller Report exonerate or incarcerate President Trump?
Post by: catfish1957 on March 22, 2019, 06:17:39 pm

Quote from: ABX on March 22, 2019, 06:15:53 pm

Both..

It will exonerate him on the overall charges of illegal collusion, but implicate (not incarcerate) him for process crimes in various official statements around it and throw in some obstruction of justice charges (aka Bill Clinton).

I thought I saw an announcement that there would be no further indictments.  So I guess incarcerate is out

Title: Re: Will the Mueller Report exonerate or incarcerate President Trump?
Post by: ABX on March 22, 2019, 06:19:15 pm

Quote from: catfish1957 on March 22, 2019, 06:17:39 pm

I thought I saw an announcement that there would be no further indictments.  So I guess incarcerate is out

I saw the headline and it was third-hand, anonymous hearsay.

Title: Re: Will the Mueller Report exonerate or incarcerate President Trump?
Post by: Sanguine on March 22, 2019, 06:23:07 pm

I think it will not directly tie Trump to any crimes, but will try to imply some misdeeds.