@ovals49 of the Mueller Investigation is estimated to be about $17.9 Million. That is a lot of money already spent on nothing. After over a year and a half of investigations and nearly $18 million spent, we have yet to see any indictments directly tied to the stated purpose of the special counsel's investigation. This is money that could have been better spent elsewhere on programs that directly benefit people in real need in this country.

IMO, this entire investigation is a red herring intended to divert our attention away from the seriously pressing problems facing the citizens of this country, like enormous wealth inequality, poverty, climate change, lack of universal health care, and the commoditization of our education system, all of which can be addressed by Congress whether or not Donald Trump is President.

Looking to impeach Trump is just another time waster. It will never pass the Senate, so the Dems should be focusing on rallying popular support for programs to benefit our citizens, instead of this damn witch hunt which sucks all the air out of the conversation of other issues and which will be going no where.

Right now, as much as I despise Trump, I have come to despise the Democrats even more. They continue to betray the American people over and over. At least we always knew what we were getting with the Republicans. The Dems continue to lie about who they really represent.

an honest inquisitor. Whenever an election brings control of our government from one party to the other, nothing really changes except the color of the team jerseys. The incoming team simply takes over the larger share of the ongoing illicit activities; the wars for profit, the drug running and the weapons trade, and the lining of the pockets of the oligarchs and their minions ho happen to be in power.

Ironic that Mueller’s investigation has focused on election fraud, considering that the big lie, the one perpetrated by both Republicans and Democrats each election season, is that we have a functional democracy and our votes actually can make a difference.

Finding corruption in DC is easy, just look in any direction. The hard part is making it look like that is what you are actually trying to do as you hand out the immunities, and the occasional indictment of a disposable underling. It’s Kabuki all day, every day.

@gulfgal98
tangent at all! I'm in agreement with Tall Bald and Ugly. The thing about Robert Mueller is that he is the Bushworld "fixer". And his strength is in doing nothing, in taking troublesome issues and stonewalling, delaying, obstructing, and deflating them until some entity pays a fine or some suspect commits suicide, and the issue goes away.

Some of the best researchers and commentators about the Mueller "probe" see it as an attempt to prevent any investigation into other crimes. So in this view Mueller was suddenly set up to control all information that might incriminate DOJ, FBI, Clinton campaign, Clinton State Dept. email server, etc., and hide it under the notion that it's part of an ongoing investigation, which goes on in perpetuity. Nothing's happening, but everything's hidden.

Flynn is a whistleblower. He was fired from the Obama administration for revealing that we were in league with the Gulf State sponsors of the Salafist Islamic State, which became ISIS. Not only did he make that public, he gave televised interviews outlining how we did it. Michael Flynn is the loose cannon that Mueller and the whole deep state are trying to prevent from becoming the bearer of truth. They can handle Trump. They can handle Pence. They can't handle Flynn.

First, I was under the impression that this Mueller probe was about Russian collusion with the Trump campaign which influeneced the outcome of the 2016 Presidential election.

But now, we are headed down this other road, which I do not doubt is an issue. It has been an issue for decades at all levels of government...the 800 pound gorilla that is AIPAC and the untouchable KSA.

Trump, Pompeo and Kushner have also been deeply tied to the coverup of the Khashoggi killing with their financial links to Saudi Arabia exposed, including a $500m loan to Jared Kushner by the Saudi government, one Kushner received while officially representing the US in negotiations with Saudi Arabia.

This “loan” will likely lead to a long prison sentence for Jared Kushner, particularly as Mueller targets Saudi interference in American politics.

Where things are likely to get dicey is the trail Mueller already knows is there, one that ties literally most of congress, to one degree or another, and 6 of 9 Supreme Court justices, directly to foreign lobbying groups, primarily Israel.

We are looking at Congress using the spending bill to criminalize any boycott of Israel. The provision is sponsored by Ben Cardin, a Democrat from Maryland and both Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer are considering supporting such a measure. The fact that such an anti First Amendment provision is being pushed by Democrats shows just how much our legislators in Congress are owned by AIPAC.

The net result of this is that it basically forces Americans to pledge fealty to a foreign government. At least 20 states have passed anti boycott of Israel laws. Since when is a foreign government dictating what we American citizens choose to do as far as exercising our First Amendment rights?

And yes, I know this is a tangent...

@Crazytimes

I believe that Manafort was working with Yanukovych, the Democratically Elected President of Ukraine. He was overthrown by the US/CIA in 2014 and replaced with Neo-Nazi leadership. Almost everything published about him in the English language since his overthrow is a lie.

Yanukovych had grown up in the Russian-speaking province of Donetsk. The Russian-speaking Ukrainian citizens (blue) had voted him in. It's that simple.

The further truth is that the areas that voted for him would be Russia, if the human right of self-determination was in force. That's where the hearts and the ethnicity of of the people truly reside. People who generally do not even speak Ukrainian.

Funny, I thought I read somewhere the other day that Manafort was representing western interests in Ukraine, not Russian ones.....??