Pick the choice that best represents what you think will happen.
1 ) Trump is not charged with any crime, and Mueller’s report is found to have some procedural issues.
2 ) Trump is not charged with any crime, Mueller’s report offers disclosure showing it was fairly conducted.
3 ) Trump is charged with a crime, but the evidence presented is flimsy and circumstantial and will be quickly dismissed by his legal team.
4 ) Mueller has hard evidence on collusion, including emails, and recordings. Trump gets a subpoena.
Many, many crimes are exposed with hard evidence. Many before he was President. Many while in office. The spineless Senate refuses to impeach and askes “What about Hillary?”
None of the above. Mueller follows the DOJ policy of not indicting a sitting president. He gives report to Congress to decide whether or not to impeach.
3 is not happening. Mueller won’t file charges based on anything less than ironclad evidence, and even then he might choose to leave it up to the Senate rather than the criminal justice system. I think Mueller is highly competent, so 1 is unlikely.
It’ll be either 2 or 4, probably 2 but there’s a really wide range of possible outcomes there. Option 2 would cover everything from “no serious wrongdoing on the part of anyone associated with Trump” to “multiple Trump family members and close associates are charged with conspiring with Russia to fix the election, and massive circumstantial evidence suggests that they did so at Trump’s direction”. Those two outcomes would have massively different political implications.
This. Oh, I HOPE there is enough hard evidence to convict him, but even if there is, what happens in the first stage is the report is given to Congress, and impeachment proceedings, um, proceed. Hopefully, after he’s impeached THEN he gets sent up the river to spend some quality time in prison.
I don’t think so. Honestly, the evidence is mounting and I’m feeling the same sort of death spiral we saw with Nixon as more of Trump’s circle gets picked off and sent to trial. Eventually, it will be like Jinga….someone will grasp the right block and the whole thing will come tumbling down. I don’t think this is a long shot at all…I think it’s 50/50 at this point. At least. YMMV of course.
I know of no legal theory under which the states are so constrained. Them actually going after him while he’s still President would be unprecedented… but then, so much else about this administration is also unprecedented.
There is zero chance of Trump being charged within a week of the report being released. He’ll go through impeachment first at a minimum no one has any incentive to charge him without impeachment.
Longer term I believe that Trump is too dumb to collude and that everyone around him will go to jail but they never told trump what they were doing either because they were afraid he would be too dumb to keep a secret or he isjust a figurehead who they treat like a mushroom.
This, plus the criminality may not be directly related to collusion, but may be unrelated crimes uncovered during the course of the investigation, such as money laundering, or procedural crimes based on Trump’s actions during the investigation, such as obstruction or witness tempering.
None of the poll options fit any of the above, so I’ve left it uncompleted.
I hate to break it to you, but it doesn’t require hard-core leftist political beliefs to recognize that our president is mentally-ill, a crook and, at the very least, sympathetic to our enemies.
As little as 10 years ago, many people who are now considered ‘hardcore leftists’ were considered centrists. The right has gone off the deep end, and their unrelenting and well-funded propaganda blitz demonizing anyone that doesn’t agree with their fantasy rhetoric has a very large number of critical-thinking-challenged Americans believing that these people are now ‘hardcore leftists’.