# A Thread for the Mueller Investigation Results and Outcomes (Part 1) **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [October 28, 2017, 8:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-thread-for-the-mueller-investigation-results-and-outcomes-part-1/800093 "2017-10-28T20:14:44Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 481
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2019, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-thread-for-the-mueller-investigation-results-and-outcomes-part-1/800093/9603 "2019-02-19T17:57:43Z")
> [@BeenJammin](#): > > they kinda gave him too much leash… That’s his tie. You can tell, because even long leashes are shorter. ---
**Author:** ![Aspenglow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aspenglow/32/76_2.png) [@Aspenglow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aspenglow)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2019, 6:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-thread-for-the-mueller-investigation-results-and-outcomes-part-1/800093/9604 "2019-02-19T18:16:24Z")
> [@ThelmaLou](#): > > For one brief instant I read that as revoke his _balls_. Also a good idea. If she can find them. 🙂 Yeesh. Do _you_ want to be the one who looks? 😛 ---
**Author:** ![74westy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/74westy/32/3950_2.png) [@74westy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/74westy)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2019, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-thread-for-the-mueller-investigation-results-and-outcomes-part-1/800093/9605 "2019-02-19T18:22:00Z")
> [@BeenJammin](#): > > …and the makeup artists went rouge. I can’t stay mad at you when you say stuff like this 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![wguy123](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wguy123/32/3161_2.png) [@wguy123](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wguy123)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2019, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-thread-for-the-mueller-investigation-results-and-outcomes-part-1/800093/9606 "2019-02-19T20:26:03Z")
> [@BeenJammin](#): > > I’ll answer this again, to address an additional facet of the issue, by admitting that my impression of the unscrupulous criminals surrounding Democratic leaders is that they are probably a little less dangerous overall than the ones manning the GOP battle stations. > > Probably only due to budgetary limitations. 😉 I’m glad someone finally stepped in to fill F-P’s very large shoes. ---
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2019, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-thread-for-the-mueller-investigation-results-and-outcomes-part-1/800093/9607 "2019-02-19T20:30:06Z")
> [@Aspenglow](#): > > Yeesh. Do _you_ want to be the one who looks? 😛 Eye bleach! Eye bleach! :eek: ---
**Author:** ![CaptMurdock](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/captmurdock/32/11736_2.png) [@CaptMurdock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CaptMurdock)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2019, 1:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-thread-for-the-mueller-investigation-results-and-outcomes-part-1/800093/9608 "2019-02-20T01:14:23Z")
> [@Aspenglow](#): > > Yeesh. Do _you_ want to be the one who looks? 😛 Just imagine the briefs you’d have to file. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2019, 1:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-thread-for-the-mueller-investigation-results-and-outcomes-part-1/800093/9609 "2019-02-20T01:48:37Z")
> [@CaptMurdock](#): > > Just imagine the briefs you’d have to file. 😉 I’d use a ball-peen hammer rather than a file. ---
**Author:** ![SteveG1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bb73d2/32.png) [@SteveG1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SteveG1)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2019, 3:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-thread-for-the-mueller-investigation-results-and-outcomes-part-1/800093/9610 "2019-02-20T03:16:57Z")
> [@Euphonious\_Polemic](#): > > So… Trump and Co. may well be corrupt, venal, idiotic, and Trump has hired a bunch of clowns who met with Russian operatives to influence the election. > > But the Democrats are almost as bad because HERP DERP REASONS. And they are Democrats so we know they are bad. > > Jesus, this is probably one of the saddest, most pathetic comments I have seen here in a month. He’s just the latest, in a long line of similar assholes. ---
**Author:** ![simster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/simster/32/1047_2.png) [@simster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/simster)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2019, 3:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-thread-for-the-mueller-investigation-results-and-outcomes-part-1/800093/9611 "2019-02-20T03:42:15Z")
> [@running\_coach](#): > > I’d use a ball-peen hammer rather than a file. 20#sledge - but nice pun. ---
**Author:** ![jsc1953](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/5daacb/32.png) [@jsc1953](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jsc1953)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2019, 7:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-thread-for-the-mueller-investigation-results-and-outcomes-part-1/800093/9612 "2019-02-20T19:54:29Z")
CNN is reporting that Mueller could deliver the report as early as next week. Unclear what their source is. ---
**Author:** ![Aspenglow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aspenglow/32/76_2.png) [@Aspenglow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aspenglow)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2019, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-thread-for-the-mueller-investigation-results-and-outcomes-part-1/800093/9613 "2019-02-20T20:23:12Z")
> [@CaptMurdock](#): > > Just imagine the briefs you’d have to file. 😉 True story: A public defender I knew well from having worked together in our shared past once dropped a brown paper bag on my desk during a trial I was clerking, to be marked for identification as an exhibit. The bag contained a pair of worn, unlaundered underwear. As he waited for me to mark the exhibit and note it in my minutes, he leaned down and whispered, “Counsel, have you filed your briefs?” Ordinarily exhibits of this sort are offered as evidence by a prosecutor and are pre-marked for identification in advance of the trial. To the greatest extent possible, we pre-marked all exhibits before jury selection. Not always possible, as demonstrated in this instance. But I’ll never forget that line, or how I struggled not to show any reaction in front of the jury. I wondered how long he had yearned to find himself in the exact circumstances that allowed him to use it. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2019, 8:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-thread-for-the-mueller-investigation-results-and-outcomes-part-1/800093/9614 "2019-02-20T20:29:23Z")
> [@jsc1953](#): > > CNN is reporting that Mueller could deliver the report as early as next week. Unclear what their source is. Could be the Trump-appointed DOJ spokesman they hired as an editor yesterday. ---
**Author:** ![Aspenglow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aspenglow/32/76_2.png) [@Aspenglow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aspenglow)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2019, 8:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-thread-for-the-mueller-investigation-results-and-outcomes-part-1/800093/9615 "2019-02-20T20:32:18Z")
> [@jsc1953](#): > > CNN is reporting that Mueller could deliver the report as early as next week. Unclear what their source is. There have been credible reports from sources not linked to wishful thinking of Trump types for about a month that a report submission is imminent, between mid-February and mid-March. Couple this with the pending departure of Rod Rosenstein in about 3 weeks, who vowed he would not leave until he had seen the Mueller investigation through to at least an interim report, as well as the fact that Mueller released some of his key team members back to their regular lives, and I do believe there is a reasonable basis to think a report will soon be submitted. I’m not sure it will be a final report, but a substantive interim report will be just dandy. I expect the actual investigations to continue for years. Maybe even a decade. There is also a rumor that SDNY may be willing to take on the DOJ policy to not indict a sitting president. Oh, how I hope this one is true! ---
**Author:** ![Rick\_Kitchen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rick_kitchen/32/522_2.png) [@Rick\_Kitchen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick_Kitchen)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2019, 8:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-thread-for-the-mueller-investigation-results-and-outcomes-part-1/800093/9616 "2019-02-20T20:40:02Z")
> [@JohnT](#): > > Could be the Trump-appointed DOJ spokesman they hired as an editor yesterday. spokeswoman ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2019, 9:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-thread-for-the-mueller-investigation-results-and-outcomes-part-1/800093/9617 "2019-02-20T21:31:01Z")
Her too. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![TroutMan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/troutman/32/6721_2.png) [@TroutMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TroutMan)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2019, 10:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-thread-for-the-mueller-investigation-results-and-outcomes-part-1/800093/9618 "2019-02-20T22:16:53Z")
On a more conspiracy-minded note, it seems Google has determined there is a connection between [James Comey and former Spice Girl Mel B](https://slate.com/technology/2019/02/james-comey-mel-b-spice-girls-google-search-result-mistake.html). We’re through the looking glass here, people. ---
**Author:** ![EinsteinsHund](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/einsteinshund/32/8400_2.png) [@EinsteinsHund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EinsteinsHund)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2019, 10:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-thread-for-the-mueller-investigation-results-and-outcomes-part-1/800093/9619 "2019-02-20T22:20:28Z")
> [@TroutMan](#): > > On a more conspiracy-minded note, it seems Google has determined there is a connection between [James Comey and former Spice Girl Mel B](https://slate.com/technology/2019/02/james-comey-mel-b-spice-girls-google-search-result-mistake.html). We’re through the looking glass here, people. Shrug, A glitch in the google matrix. ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2019, 12:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-thread-for-the-mueller-investigation-results-and-outcomes-part-1/800093/9620 "2019-02-21T00:18:04Z")
> [@TroutMan](#): > > On a more conspiracy-minded note, it seems Google has determined there is a connection between [James Comey and former Spice Girl Mel B](https://slate.com/technology/2019/02/james-comey-mel-b-spice-girls-google-search-result-mistake.html). We’re through the looking glass here, people. _Pfffft._ There’s a connection between ME and former Spice Girl Mel B. ---
**Author:** ![Mollie\_Magill](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mollie_magill/32/20882_2.png) [@Mollie\_Magill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mollie_Magill)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2019, 1:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-thread-for-the-mueller-investigation-results-and-outcomes-part-1/800093/9621 "2019-02-21T01:58:31Z")
Stalking doesn’t count. ---
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2019, 6:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-thread-for-the-mueller-investigation-results-and-outcomes-part-1/800093/9622 "2019-02-21T18:19:11Z")
It does seem like the Mueller investigation is wrapping up, and I think it will end not with a bang but a whimper. Even as indictments are popping up all around him, Teflon Don is convinced he is without a scratch or even a grease spot. The Pubbies aren’t going to turn on him. He will go on to get elected for another four years and even the Dope will get tired of giving a shit. I hope I’m completely wrong. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-thread-for-the-mueller-investigation-results-and-outcomes-part-1/800093.md?page=480) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-thread-for-the-mueller-investigation-results-and-outcomes-part-1/800093.md?page=482)