If you listen to the people droning on 24x7 at MSNBC they keep talking about whether the POTUS can be indicted and will Mueller break with precedent etc. That is nonsense. MSNBC is a complete waste of time.
Here’s what seems like a far more likely scenario. It is obvious that Trump committed indictable offenses. But Mueller is a prosecutor. His goal is twofold: a) to convict criminals, and b) to inform the Congress and maybe the public about what happened. Indicting the POTUS is just not a priority. The fact is the country has an opportunity to take care of Trump in November 2020, and Mueller will let that river run its course. There is no upside for Mueller to get entangled in this “Can he do it? Will he do it?” drama. Mueller can accomplish his goals without wasting time on that
So what does that tell us? Mueller has systematically worked up the totem pole. He certainly hoped to flip Manafort and evidently that did not happen. But he doesn’t really need Manafort. Mueller has all the evidence he needs to bring indictments against Trump Jr., Eric Trump and Jared Kushner. Notice that there have been absolutely no reports of Mueller’s team interviewing any of those three. Why not?
Either Mueller is afraid of repercussions from Donald or else he is intending to indict them. I’m going to go out on a limb and say Mueller isn’t backing down from Trump and he is planning to indict “the family.”
Now, I’ll concede that the Justice Department may be kneecapping Mueller. I’d like to think if that were the case that Mueller would be cluing the Congress and the public about this obstruction of justice and he has not. So I think the rational person must conclude that indictments of at least Junior and Jared are coming — probably have already been granted by a grand jury under seal.
And further, if you are Mueller and you are planning to indict those two, when do you do it? It think it is pretty obvious that Donald’s head will explode when that happens so this will probably be among Mueller’s final moves.
So that’s my prediction. Mueller will continue to tie up loose ends. When that completes, and it may be in its last few weeks now, Mueller will have a flurry of indictments of Americans including Junior and Jared. And more to the point, they will include charges of conspiracy with Russia. The Trump Tower meeting is sufficient evidence for that case, and I bet Mueller has a whole lot more.
P.S. I bet Prince is also indicted in this final package.