Mueller Closes In

by Pa Rock
Citizen Journalist

As a taxpayer of too many years to count, I often find myself disappointed in how our government has chosen to spend my cash contributions to the furtherance of civilization, particularly since the Trump cockroaches have swarmed through our national treasury.  But occasionally (rarely in the time of Trump) some good does seem to come from our hard earned tax dollars.  One such case of the public getting its money’s worth is evident with the work of our esteemed special prosecutor, Robert S. Mueller.

Mr. Mueller was appointed last May by Deputy U.S. Attorney General Rod Rosenstein to investigate alleged Russian influence on the 2016 presidential election.  His charge was widely worded, giving Mueller, the former Director of the FBI, a fairly carte blanch latitude to look into a wide range of Russian activities on the periphery of American government.  Mueller’s appointment came less than two weeks after Trump had fired FBI Director James Comey in what many people felt was retribution by Trump for Comey investigating the Trump campaign’s ties to Russia.

The bellicose Donald Trump has, since Mueller’s appointment, brayed on and on that the investigation was a partisan ”witch hunt” and that he and his campaign had done nothing wrong.  Trump blathered that there was no collusion with Russia, and he pouted aloud that Mueller was wasting the government’s money.   Trump has also been quick to point out that Mueller’s investigation has produced only “smoke” and no “fire” – because there is nothing to the “fake news” stories about Russia and its alleged election-meddling.

Nothing to see here, folks.  Just a big old teddy bear being picked on by a scurrilous lawyer.

Poor, poor Donald!

But, like everything else that blows out of Donald Trump’s mouth, his assessment of Robert Mueller’s work seems to be more wishful thinking on Trump’s part than fact-based reality.

Today it was announced that Mueller’s crack legal and investigative team has indicted thirteen Russian individuals and three Russian “entities” in connection with activities related to U.S. elections.  In addition indictments of four previous Trump administration officials had been made public over the past three months.

And former presidential chief advisor, Steve Bannon, a man who was once so close to Trump that he often referred to himself as “President Bannon,” was interviewed by the Mueller’s team this week for more than twenty hours. 

Pay attention, Donald John, because all of that smoke is fixing to burn down your house!  The Pillsbury doughboy is about to get baked!

Damn, it feels good knowing that my tax dollars are finally going toward something worthwhile!