i think people underestimate the extent to which guys like mueller/rosenstein will go to protect long standing "norms" in US politics. people that think mueller is out there with the same sort of blood lust for taking trump down that we have are mistaken. shyt like "not wanting to interfere in the 60 days prior" really resonates with these type of people. so does that idea of hiding shyt from the public if the truth would be too "traumatic" for the public and our politics.
a historical analogy would be lincoln during the civil war. people don't concentrate on this because he's known as the great emancipator etc, but lincoln was very open about the idea that if he could prevent war and keep the south in the united states WITHOUT freeing the slaves, he wouldn't have done it.
i think mueller's "law and order" mentality is such that he wants to prosecute or expose trump's crimes. but if he can get trump to resign w/o there being the national spectacle of the world/country learning every depraved detail, i think he would happily take that as well.
Mueller hails from the FBI; an agency long tasked with keeping the status quo which is why they were taking down the KKK and the Panthers simultaneously. The shyt Mueller is sitting on is probably beyond our wildest dreams. One of his biggest tasks will be deciding what can be released and pursued which will allow Trump (or at least those close to him) to face judgement without the US losing more prestige on the world stage/collapsing domestically. Heavy is the head that wears the crown.
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