The Republican Reversal on Robert Mueller
This is a blog about my opinions and ideas, I usually don’t get into why things are the way they are, it gets a little too into speculation for my taste. But for this post we are going to do exactly that: speculate. Today the New York Times ran a story about the fraying relationship between the Trump Administration and the Special Counsel headed by Robert Mueller. In the past few weeks the Republican party has walked back its initial almost universal praise of Robert Mueller, and denouncing the investigation in general. “ Not looking good, it’s not looking good — it’s quite sad to see that, my people were very upset about it” said Donald Trump in typical meandering fashion. It has been pretty amazing to see the decent of opinion since the investigation begun handing out subpoenas. But I think this sudden effort by the right to discredit the man whose honor was ‘beyond doubt’ is simply due to calling the Trump family’s bluff. There has been two collection...