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(1 of 2) I saw something strange on Twitter today: the idea that those attorneys who see criminality in elements of the "grand bargain" major media has written of are *also* claiming Mueller will *charge* a "grand conspiracy." This is a misunderstanding by folks who are confused.
(2 of 2) A "grand bargain [partly criminal]" and "grand conspiracy [wholly criminal]" are different concepts. I've anticipated conspiracy or aiding/abetting charges against a *small* group, charges of *some* kind against 12-15, and a grand bargain that has some criminal elements.
(PS) Some of the confusion between the "grand bargain" investigative theory of the Trump-Russia case and the idea almost no one's put forward of a "grand conspiracy" is propagated by those aiming to discredit people who discuss Trump-Russia on Twitter. That's annoying, but life.
(NOTE) Less pessimistically, some of the confusion arises in the difference between conspiracy as a legal term and a lay one. A lay conspiracy is a secret agreement; an illegal conspiracy is a secret agreement that's also criminal as to all co-conspirators and chargeable as such.
(NOTE2) For instance, let's say Saudi Arabia, UAE, Israel, Egypt, Bahrain, Russia, and the Trumps secretly agreed to remake the geopolitics of the Middle East. Some criminality may end up arising in such a conspiratorial plot; *other* parts of it will merely be morally grotesque.
