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I know that Bob Mueller is a saint and above reproach but amid the greatest scandal in American history, the clear betrayal of the US by a president and his team, traitorous acts, there is a growing perception nothing wrong was done.
That's because of the way this case has been made to date. That could change with shocking developments. But if the case ends up this way, we may change our view of this process.
Some of this has to do with the success the president has had in making the case that collusion--not a crime--had to be proven or this case was a witch hunt. It's preposterous and is not only a disservice to justice but it is an aid to our enemies.
We are looking at the possibility that apparently it is possible to drive a freight train of crimes on a mission to undermine democracy in American and to weaken our country through legal loopholes and blindspots in our justice system.
This travesty is compounded by the fact that the Constitutional remedy for such crimes is unlikely given the complicity of the GOP Senate. Donald Trump may be our worst president ever and the greatest threat the US faces but he will have one major achievement on his record:
He will have proven that in America in 2019 a man--if rich enough, if supported by the right men and institutions--can be above the law, far above it and can rise to the highest office in the land on the back of serial crimes, espionage and conspiracy with our enemies.
This may be an over-reaction to the shocking, absurd and unjust Manafort sentencing. But there is not only a narrative emerging that supports the above concerns but that the people advancing that narrative are growing more confident about it.
If that is how this plays out--with no comment being made about the sincerity of the effort of prosecutors--our system will have turned a corner and we will have begun an irreversible decline as a society. Those are the stakes.
If Trump and those closest to him get away with the theft of an election and their wanton disregard for the law and the interests of the American people, we should stop playing the national anthem when the flag is raised and start playing taps for what we will have lost.
