# What more is the Special Counsel looking for? **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Created:** [February 14, 2018, 11:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-more-is-the-special-counsel-looking-for/808847 "2018-02-14T23:10:53Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 3
**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 16, 2018, 10:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-more-is-the-special-counsel-looking-for/808847/41 "2018-02-16T22:04:53Z")
> [@ElvisL1ves](#): > > Oh, he certainly knows what he’s doing, as a lawyer and an investigator and a prosecutor. I’m a little less convinced, due to less information, about him as a citizen and statesman and historian. Does he have a good enough idea of the importance of what he does to the nation and the Constitution and to history, or is he perhaps too focused on getting all the ducks lined up before he shoots, as he would have done in his previous roles? He may be fine that way, but I’d like to be more confident. Feel better? 🙂 We’re underway at last, and Mueller is a month and a half ahead of where I thought he was. Today’s indictments sure make emails referencing Russians that include language like, "This is obviously very high level and sensitive information but is **part of** Russia and its government’s support for Mr. Trump — helped along by Aras and Emin (Agalarov),” (Emphasis mine) hard to explain. Especially when the response was anything other than, “What are you talking about?” ---
**Author:** ![VinylTurnip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2018, 10:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-more-is-the-special-counsel-looking-for/808847/42 "2018-02-16T22:15:06Z")
Is more nothingborscht. Hillary is real colluder! ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_Ace](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/6bbea6/32.png) [@Johnny\_Ace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_Ace)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2018, 10:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-more-is-the-special-counsel-looking-for/808847/43 "2018-02-16T22:18:20Z")
It’s just amazing how easily Thrump ignores facts. > [@Donald of Orange](#): > > Russia started their anti-US campaign in 2014, long before I announced that I would run for President. The results of the election were not impacted. The Trump campaign did nothing wrong - no collusion! The indictment specifically points out actions taken on his behalf (and others against Hillary) during the 2016 campaign. ---
**Author:** ![VinylTurnip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2018, 10:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-more-is-the-special-counsel-looking-for/808847/44 "2018-02-16T22:47:19Z")
Doesn’t have a super firm grasp of how timelines work, it seems, or maybe just confident that his target audience won’t. ---
**Author:** ![drad\_dog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/aeb1de/32.png) [@drad\_dog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drad_dog)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2018, 12:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-more-is-the-special-counsel-looking-for/808847/45 "2018-02-17T00:27:53Z")
Thank God the government is speaking wtih one voice on this issue. ---
**Author:** ![Silver\_lining](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/aca169/32.png) [@Silver\_lining](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Silver_lining)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2018, 9:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-more-is-the-special-counsel-looking-for/808847/46 "2018-02-17T21:07:52Z")
> [@Clu-Me-In](#): > > Just based on the publicly known information on the escapades of George Papadopoulos, Donald Trump jr., Paul Manafort and the Michael Flynn connections alone, there is evidence of unlawful collusion between the Trump Campaign and Vladimir Putin’s administration. > > Even without Interviewing the President, I agree with House Intelligence Committee member Adam Schiff that there is ample evidence that a crime has been committed. How much longer and what more do you think the Special Counsel is looking to put together before going public with a charge? When does the FBI probe looking into China trying to influence our election start? You know they spy on us more than Russia and are fans of the Clintons. Also why not Iran, they spent far more on Clinton than the Russians did on Trump. ---
**Author:** ![SoThis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecae2f/32.png) [@SoThis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SoThis)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2018, 9:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-more-is-the-special-counsel-looking-for/808847/47 "2018-02-17T21:27:24Z")
What evidence are you referring to? Mueller has found a group of Russian internet trolls that can’t even be indicted. Everything else has been media hype and speculation. ---
**Author:** ![drad\_dog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/aeb1de/32.png) [@drad\_dog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drad_dog)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2018, 11:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-more-is-the-special-counsel-looking-for/808847/48 "2018-02-17T23:27:32Z")
> [@SoThis](#): > > What evidence are you referring to? Mueller has found a group of Russian internet trolls that can’t even be indicted. Everything else has been media hype and speculation. Why don’t we get together and decide how Muellers doing? We must know, after all, we are internet posters/personalities. If we decide he isn’t doing a good job it must be true because his investigation has been fully transparent so far, and we are fully qualified to say. We were supposed to be informed of all of this and we haven’t heard anything, so case closed. Weird. The only thing I know for sure is that there can’t be a case if I don’t know it. That’s the ultimate test. I was supposed to be fully informed. If I wasn’t that’ s not my fault. It’s Hillary Clintons. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-more-is-the-special-counsel-looking-for/808847.md?page=2)