The Fork in Mueller’s Road.

Now that the Steele Dossier is increasingly being exposed for the political ponzi scheme that it is, the question of how this impacts Mr. Mueller’s investigation becomes more prominent.  What is the man with the Democratic all-star team of lawyers and donors to do now that the impetus of his entire effort is crumbling?

Mr. Mueller is rapidly approaching, if he has not already arrived there, a fork in his special investigative road.  One path will lead him to lock up his shop, send his various minions back to work for Clinton Inc. or the DNC, crow about his pitiful indictments of Trump associates on matters entirely unrelated to any Russian Collusion, and slink off back into the WDC political morass of power and influence wherein he resides.  The other path is one that is much more interesting in terms of what it may bring forth.  As the foremost authority, Andrew C. McCarthy, on this entire Russian Collusion Circus recently writes @ http://www.nationalreview.com/article/455426/steele-dossier-fusion-gps-glenn-simpson-trump-russia-investigation, the alternative path is fraught with peril for both Mr. Mueller and his target, Mr. Trump.

If Mr. Mueller so chooses, he is in a position to obviously and significantly deviate from his appointed mission of pursuing evidence of Trump Campaign Russian Collusion and look down another road.   That road would be the one populated by Donald Trump’s personal business and financial connections; a neighborhood that is very likely to possess some extremely unsavory districts.  No sane person who has been paying any attention to Mr. Trump since he first announced his effort to pursue the Presidency can harbor much doubt that he has likely arrived at his current position of wealth and influence through means that are…shall we say…not strictly church material.  You have to assume that Donald Trump’s ambition to become President was not life-long in nature and much more likely a whim that occurred to him rather late in his eventful and privileged life.  If that be true, maintaining a resume that would serve him well in his later political ambitions was of little to no concern for him as his pursued his wealth and fame throughout his pre-Chief Executive portion of his life.  As Mr. McCarthy so clearly points out in his writing, there are bound to be portions of that era that Mr. Trump would just as soon leave buried.  Now the simple fact that Mr. Trump would like to keep this stuff hidden is sufficient motivation to most Democrats to expose it.  But in Mr. Mueller’s case, while it would be somewhat satisfying in a scalp-acquiring kind of way, it would also be accurately seen as a clear admission that he came up empty on his primary mission and settled for crumbs in a feeble attempt to justify his efforts.  In a professional sense and given the glorious praise heaped upon him and his team from certain quarters, that would likely be a very…painful…admission.  Not only would it hurt his pride; it might also bring with it legal actions from the President by challenging the obvious deviation from his primary directive.

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In the case of the President, his will be a choice of reaction…not action.  He will be reacting to whichever path Mr. Mueller selects.  As callous as he might have become in the hard scrabble world wealth, power, and greed, it must nonetheless unnerve him somewhat to think of the possibility of exposing some his less-savory early life adventures to the public eye.  While he might have welcomed such celebrity while hosting reality TV; the experience might not be so rewarding while seated in the Oval Office.  Alternatively, he is now in position to simply poke, prod, and ridicule Mr. Mueller’s efforts,  knowing that the primary target of Russian Collusion will ultimately come up empty; but somewhere in the back of his mind, he must be living in dread that the whole story of the Steele Dossier will come to light.  While he may publicly goad Mr. Mueller and mock his efforts, there is no doubt a bit of reluctance and fear in pushing him too hard to reveal the entire case he is assembling against Mr. Trump. 

It is going to be extremely entertaining to see which path Mr. Mueller selects.   Will he be willing to endure the professional embarrassment that would accompany his admission of no Trump/Russian Collusion in order to revel in the delight in exposing some of Trump’s pre-White House plays of the week?  Or will he simply close up his books, settle for the legal pittance indictments and pleas he has constructed, and call it a day; allowing him to slink back into the shadows of the WDC establishment from which he came with his political gunslinger image pretty much intact?