Confessing to fibbing to Congress about whether he talked to Russia about a Trump Tower deal during the 2016 campaign, President Donald Trump’s 52-year-old former personal attorney Michael Cohen struck a deal with Special Counsel Robert Mueller. Called “weak” by Trump, realizing that he burnt his bridges on any presidential pardon, Cohen did the next best thing hoping to avoid prison time. Cohen’s infraction was so trivial, so inconsequential, so irrelevant, that it makes Mueller’s prior plea deals look like utter folly. When Mueller got former National Security Advisor Gen. Michael Flynn to cop to perjury to also fibbing to FBI agents about whether he talked to the Russians before or after the campaign, it shows how Mueller goes after low-hanging fruit. Can you imagine, Flynn talked with 68-yar-old roly-poly former Russian Amb. Sergei Kislyak, about nothing?
Now Mueller bullies his way to another wasted plea deal on, as Trump puts it, “weak” Michael Cohen, willing to do anything to avoid jail time. Mueller’s team and the media view Cohen’s confession a proof of Trump’s alleged Russian collusion, simply discussing before deciding to run for president to build a Trump Tower in Moscow. Trump hosted a Miss Universe pageant in Moscow in 2013, where former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton insisted Trump was a “Putin puppet.” Never mind that Hillary paid FusionGPS researcher former MI6 agent Christopher Steele to dig up all the dirt he could on Trump with his Kremlin connections. Yet Mueller and the media practically stand on their heads to prove that Trump, not Hillary, was the one colluding with the Kremlin. Mueller wants any type of conviction to prove he’s worth the millions spent on the Special Counsel.
Mueller has no interest in investigating Hillary for deleting some 33,000 emails on her personal server, something former FBI Director James Comey said July 5, 2016 did not rise to obstruction of justice. If any other American citizen deleted electronic data from their hard drive, local, state and federal law enforcement would convict the perpetrator for obstruction of justice. No, Mueller won’t go after former President Barack Obama, former Atty. Gen. Loretta Lynch, former National Security Advisor Susan Rice or former FBI Director James Comey for using the nation’s national security apparatus to wiretap Trump’s campaign to help Hillary get elected. No, that’s irrelevant to Mueller, only charging and convicting hapless campaign advisers of “perjury” for misspeaking about Russian contacts. Justice Department and FBI officials charged no one in the Trump campaign of espionage.
Mueller went after Trump’s short-lived former Campaign Chairman Paul Manafort and his business partner Rick Gates for money laundering and tax evasion for work he did in Ukraine 12 years before the campaign. Another conviction for crimes committed outside the 2016 campaign. When you consider the one person the Obama Justice Department targeted as a Russian spy former Trump foreign policy volunteer Carter Page, no charges or plea deals were ever filed, because the charges were phony from the get-go. Obama’s Justice Department did everything possible under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act to sabotage Trump’s campaign with only one purpose: To get Hillary elected. No, that’s no worthy of any investigation only wild speculation about Trump collusion, finding Cohen’s Moscow business deals as proof. Mueller likes perjury traps because they work.
With the House of Representative changing hands, people like Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) and Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Calif.) plan to investigate anything to damage Trump’s chances of reelection in 2020. Looks like Mueller plans to wrap up his Russian interference and alleged Trump collusion probe in the 2016 campaign. What can Mueller really say about convicting Manafort, Gates, Flynn, Trump minor campaign aid George Papadopoulos and now Michael Cohen of perjury in matters on no consequence on the Special Counsel’s mandate? Mueller hasn’t gone after Facebook or Google for letting its space be hijacked by Russians or other foreigners trying to impact the 2016 election. But even if they posted various bogus stories, how does Mueller prove it had impact on even one vote? Mueller’s latest victim shows how the Special Counsel law can be grossly abused for political purposes.
Trump responded to Cohen’s plea deal Nov. 29, saying his family business did nothing wrong. “There would be nothing wrong if I did do it,” Trump said about a Moscow Trump Towers project. “I was running my business while I was campaigning. There was good chance that I wouldn’t have won, in which case I would have gone back into the business and why should I lose lots of opportunities?” asked Trump. Leaping to the conclusion that Trump’s pursuit or Trump Tower Moscow proved Russian collusion is beyond preposterous. Yet Democrats and their media friends have already convicted Trump in the court of public opinion. Cohen told Mueller he wants to return to the “straight-and-narrow,” yet he did nothing wrong other than insist he was not working on a Trump Tower Moscow deal in 2016. Mueller has lost all proportion—and justice—pursuing no-brainer convictions.
