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Waiting for the Shoe to Drop<\/p>\n

After a few days of driving – I’m back!!!!!<\/em><\/p>\n

There is an old saying:\u00a0\u201c\u2026waiting for the other shoe to drop.\u201d\u00a0If you\u2019ve ever lived in a downstairs apartment, with another tenant above, you know what this means.\u00a0 As you lay in bed, trying to sleep, your upstairs neighbor comes home, sits on their bed, and takes off their shoes.\u00a0 First one drops, thump \u2013 and then you wait.<\/p>\n

We, as a nation, are waiting for the other shoe to drop.\u00a0 Florida, Texas and Georgia aside; the mid-term election results, with at least thirty-six House seats flipping to the Democrats, was a statement against Trumpism.\u00a0 The President\u2019s pouting reaction, first claiming a great victory, then firing his Attorney General and replacing him with a Trump \u201cmade man,\u201d then acting like a churlish child in the rain in Paris, then stating over and over and over that there was \u201cno collusion:\u201d all were his reaction to rejection.<\/p>\n

Donald Trump: \u00a0he made the election about himself, and he lost.\u00a0 Donald Trump is a loser.\u00a0 That, to a man of his fragile ego and a life based on image rather than substance, is intolerable.\u00a0The ongoing dribble of defeat, as the narrow election returns and recounts come in, has simply prolonged his agony.\u00a0 He can\u2019t \u201cflip the script,\u201d the next \u00a0return comes in and another House seats falls to the Democrats.\u00a0 And even when he tried to turn his failure into someone else\u2019s fault, stating that Republican Congressman Mia Love lost because \u201c\u2026Mia gave me no love,\u201d fell flat. Love is now leading the recount.\u00a0 It\u2019s almost as if the process was designed to continually humiliate the President.<\/p>\n

All of that was the first shoe, the jolt in the night that interrupts dreams and opens your eyes.\u00a0 You lay in bed, waiting\u2026waiting for the other shoe to drop.<\/p>\n

Special Prosecutor Robert Mueller has carefully avoided breaking precedent.\u00a0 He took his investigation \u201cunderground\u201d for the sixty days leading up to the election.\u00a0 There have been no press conferences, no leaks:\u00a0 he has told his story only through indictments.\u00a0 When last we left off, he indicted the \u201cRussian side\u201d of email theft, social media manipulation and election interference.\u00a0 In those indictments he implicated US citizens as part of the conspiracy (the legal term for the undefined \u201cCollusion\u201d.)\u00a0 The next step, the next shoe to drop, is the American side.<\/p>\n

And yesterday we had a sliver of intrigue, perhaps an accidental glance behind Mueller’s curtain.\u00a0In an August filing on an unrelated case, it appears that a \u201csealed indictment\u201d has been issued against Julian Assange, the founder of Wikileaks, the online organization that was used by the Russians to publish stolen emails.\u00a0 Whether this is part of the Mueller investigation, or some other Federal action, or whether it was just a \u201ccopy\/paste\u201d mistake by a junior Assistant US Attorney, it does lead to some great speculation.<\/p>\n

Roger Stone, the old Nixon dirty trickster, is convinced he is going to be indicted by the Mueller team.\u00a0Stone\u2019s friend, Randy Credico, who has been thoroughly questioned by the team, was in contact with Assange prior to the release of the emails.\u00a0 Credico communicated with Stone, and Stone may well have communicated with the Trump campaign.\u00a0 There is even some evidence that Credico was attempting to negotiate a clemency deal for Assange with the Trumps.<\/p>\n

Paul Manafort, former Trump campaign manager, is cooperating as hard as he can with Mueller; doing anything to avoid spending the rest of his life in jail. Manafort and Stone have a long history going all the way back to their youth in the Nixon campaign organization.\u00a0If there was a path to Wikileaks, it could have gone from Trump, to Manafort, to Stone, to Credico, to Assange.<\/p>\n

It’s absolute speculation.\u00a0We do know this:\u00a0 the Mueller team has asked the Court to delay finalizing the plea deal with Manafort for another ten days.\u00a0 Why ten days, instead of the usual sixty or ninety?\u00a0 What will happen in the next ten days to change his situation?<\/p>\n

Roger Stone; and perhaps Donald Trump Jr and Jared Kushner; must be laying awake at night. And laying alone in the Presidential bedroom of the White House, Donald Trump must be desperately plotting to find a way out of this threat to his family, his business, his Presidency, and his all-important image.\u00a0 Mueller is upstairs:\u00a0 the other shoe is about to drop.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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