Trump knows he's screwed. He's just not sure whether Putin or Mueller presents the bigger threat.

[kpete]

“Putin obtained receipts at each stage of...Trump’s willing engagement in a conspiracy with Russians for help getting elected.“

Link to tweet

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People are looking in the entirely wrong place for the kompromat that Putin has on Trump, and missing all the evidence of it right in front of their faces.

Vladimir Putin obtained receipts at each stage of this romance of Trump’s willing engagement in a conspiracy with Russians for help getting elected. Putin knows what each of those receipts mean. Mueller has provided hints, most obviously in that GRU indictment, that he knows what some of them are.

For example, on or about July 27, 2016, the Conspirators attempted after hours to spearphish for the first time email accounts at a domain hosted by a third-party provider and used by Clinton’s personal office. At or around the same time, they also targeted seventy-six email addresses at the domain for the Clinton Campaign.

But Mueller’s not telling whether he has obtained the actual receipts.

And that’s the kompromat. Trump knows that if Mueller can present those receipts, he’s sunk, unless he so discredits the Mueller investigation before that time as to convince voters not to give Democrats a majority in Congress, and convince Congress not to oust him as the sell-out to the country those receipts show him to be. He also knows that, on the off-chance Mueller hasn’t figured this all out yet, Putin can at any time make those receipts plain. Therein lies Trump’s uncertainty: It’s not that he has any doubt what Putin has on him. It’s that he’s not sure which path before him — placating Putin, even if it provides more evidence he’s paying off his campaign debt, or trying to end the Mueller inquiry before repaying that campaign debt, at the risk of Putin losing patience with him — holds more risk.

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THE REST:
https://www.emptywheel.net/2018/08/02/lawfare-missing-the-kompromat-for-the-pee-glee/

[LonePirate]

1. Mueller won't dispatch his subordinates to inflict physical harm to 45 or his family.

[marble falls]

2. He honestly thinks he can wipe his hands of it and walk away with no repercussions ...

what so ever. He'll not be resigning, he'll be declaring bankruptcy from office. He's got to go to jail.

[2naSalit]

3. He's never

had consequences for his actions because, in his twisted mind, as long as he can pay off the victims or discredit them enough to skate on debts, etc...

[Kablooie]

4. I'm sure he is screwed and is likely to go down but...

what happens afterwards?

Pence will likely become president and pardon Trump.
I know Pence has some involvement but he can claim being duped and not knowing what was actually happening. This would probably be enough to protect him, at least for the time being, particularly as there will be so many others clearly culpable and swept up in the legal wash.

But once Trump is out, there will certainly be a big push from RW media to frame it as a government coup.
The crazy right isn't going away and I doubt they will allow their golden calf to be torn down without a serious fight.

I hope Trump is impeached soon but that won't be the beginning of a new dawn.
It could be the start of a new civil war and Trump, whether in prison or not, will remain a force shaping America for a long time into the future.