Is it too late for the republicans to stop Mueller? I think it likely that he has a fist full of
sealed grand jury indictments that is growing daily.
Mueller and his team are by no means foolish enough to feel secure in this politically panicked environment. The only reason that republicans in Washington and perhaps in state houses around the country are feeling the cold hand of the law descending on them is that they , indeed,
are complicit in the conspiracy to to steal the presidency and defraud our democracy. Thus their desperation to find some way to end or contaminate Muellers efforts to uncover the Russian interference in our democratic election process. The prospect that exposure will delegitimize a portion of the Republican Congress is a nightmare that the republicans may never be able to wake up from.
If they thought trump would be the only causality from this investigation they would not be as panicked as they seem. They would just try to delay rather than destroy, appearing patriotic rather than complicit. They sense a massacre coming, an Alamo of their own making, a Dunkirk of their own doing with no boats on the horizon, no life vests either.
Deven Nunes is the classic example of a desperate un indicted co-conspirator. His flailing, scrambling and inept efforts to throw smoke into the investigation have done nothing less than make the need for this investigation more obvious. His willingness to expose highly classified information suggests the lengths to which he and others will go to try to save themselves from the acts they committed for the Russians and trump.
It is too late for trump to end the investigation, indictments and trials, perp walks and felons in cells are coming to a video screen near you.
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Think of Mueller as a special DA because that's basically what he is. He's leading the special investigation but he also determines what lines should be pursued and what laws have been broken. So that makes him a DA as well as an investigator. He's following the law and there should be no political motivation for his activities. (Try to forget about Kenneth Starr, if you can.)
Articles of impeachment can only be brought up in the House of Representatives and voted upon by the entire House. Then it goes to the Senate where it must be debated and voted upon. If the Senate votes yes then the President is impeached and it means there will be a trial in the Senate chambers. (Being impeached doesn't mean the President has been convicted. It means he'll be brought to trial, where he may or may not be convicted of the charges.) In U.S. history there has never been a President who was impeached and subsequently removed from office. Twice we've had impeachments where the Presidents (Bill Clinton and Andrew Johnson) were found not guilty, so they remained in office.
Keep in mind that other scenarios may play out instead. For example the President has the option to resign just as Nixon did, in order to avoid impeachment. Another possibility is that the 25th Amendment could be invoked and the President could be removed from office if his entire Cabinet votes unanimously for his removal. This doesn't seem likely but it could happen.
Mueller's job is to provide evidence of Trump's illegal activities and perhaps legal context for which laws have been broken. The rest is up to Congress and/or the Cabinet. By the time this is over, we're all going to be experts on impeachment.
I said he really has only one option, or he can drop the case entirely if there's nothing found.
We already know he has lots of evidence though.
