I'm not holding out "hope" for SDNY or any other outfit. The fact that the Mueller report dropped, basically nothing happened, still hasn't been released in full etc.. tells me all I need to know about how all this is gonna work. He's not going anywhere until maybe well after he's no longer a sitting President.
The focus now for me is on policy and that's where Dems have picked up W's.. Trump is horrible on policy so why not attack him there.
And if something comes out of SDNY then great
This article is a must read.
Robert Mueller’s Legal Masterpiece
(Manhattan federal prosecutors)
had teamed up with their counterparts in the Brooklyn office to probe the Trump inaugural committee’s mysterious finances. The president raised more than $100 million for his inauguration, much of which came from major corporations and prominent political donors. Of interest to federal investigators is whether Middle Eastern countries with interests in Trump’s foreign policy illegally donated to the fund through American intermediaries.
(DC prosecutors)
There are signs that Mueller parceled out portions of this investigation to the federal prosecutor’s office in D.C. as well. The first public indication that investigators were looking into the inaugural committee’s finances came in August, when American lobbyist Sam Patten pleaded guilty to multiple charges related to helping a Ukrainian oligarch illegally buy inauguration tickets. The inquiry could ultimately lead investigators further into Trump’s business empire: ProPublica reported that an uncertain amount of the committee’s money went straight into the Trump Organization’s hotel in D.C.
(SDNY)
Cohen’s plea deal in August, followed by his three-year prison sentence earlier this month, shows how Mueller can still extract cooperation from witnesses in the satellite investigations. And with multiple U.S. attorney’s offices involved, Trump would face a much greater challenge in halting the Russia investigation or any of its spin-off inquiries. When former FBI Director James Comey testified before the House Oversight Committee earlier this month, a lawmaker asked him what impact Mueller’s dismissal would have on the current investigations. “As an informed outsider, I think that [you’d] almost have to fire everyone in the FBI and the Justice Department to derail the relevant investigations,” he replied, “but I don’t know exactly what the effect would be.”
(Closing)
Was all of this a conscious tactical decision on Mueller’s part? It’s possible that he spun off ancillary avenues of the investigation to avoid Starr’s fate, or to insulate the investigations from disruption if the president fires him. He may have done so for logistical reasons—perhaps he realized his staff couldn’t pursue it all—or to hew to his narrow prosecutorial mandate from the Justice Department. Whatever his intent, the effect has been deeply damaging to Trump’s political standing and legal fortunes, and it’s trending in the wrong direction for the president.