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Not only have indictments been handed down, a trial is scheduled, several have pleaded guilty, sanctions have been imposed against indicted Russian co-conspirators, ...
This is another point about Mueller. Thus far the main haul seems to be indictment of 13 Russians who will never see the inside of an American court, since we don't have extradition w/ Russia. What a wasted effort!
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Originally Posted by biscuitmom
The Trump administration has now imposed financial sanctions on those 13 Russians, so there's that.
Plus it's been widely reported that their ability to travel to many other countries is impeded by the indictments.
I find it funny that conservatives are whining about the cost of the Mueller investigation but were quite during the Benghazi witch hunt, Trumps weekly golfing trips, and the 10's of millions spent so Melania can stay in New York for 6 months.
'The dog that didn't bark' was a famous Sherlock Holmes story wherein Holmes solves a crime because of a dog that should have barked, but didn't.
I still remember the cost of the Ken Starr investigation from over 20 years ago: $40 million. It was repeated so endlessly by the media that it remains imprinted in my brain. Why aren't we being bombarded similarly regarding the cost of the Mueller investigation. Even a google search doesn't yield any hits more recent than Dec. 2017.
Why is this? Because we still have, for all intents and purposes, a state-run media. And said media was anti-Starr, and is pro-Mueller.
When you say state run media, I think you mean a Democratic controlled media. The media leaned left back in the 1960's and progressively went more left in the 70's-80's. However it has gone hard core left in the Obama years and is nothing more that an ideologically leftist driven propaganda arm of the (D) party.
Thus if Hillary was elected and a SP were appointed to investigate her, we'd be hearing how it was a vast right wing conspiracy, a misogynist witch hunt, and how much it was costing per day.
This would be echoed by most of the MSM, all in the hope of building pressure to bring it to a stop.
However the MSM, establishment DC and liberals hate Trump, so they will not do or bring attention to the cost, in the hopes the SP will find something, anything, that will damage Trump. If nothing else it is a distraction that helps to take away time and energy in accomplishing his agenda.
So we do not have a state run press per se, but when a (D) is in office, that is essentially what we have on a voluntary basis. Needless to say this is not what the Founding Fathers intended when they wanted a "free press".
Hey! Look at that, Mueller investigation total cost: 28 mil, Mueller investigation revenue: 48 mil;
Total profit for the United States produced by the Mueller investigation? 20 million dollars. That's almost 100% ROI in around a year. Damn I wish I could get those kinds of returns in the market.
If we clone Mueller and run a few thousand investigations we can pay off the national debt.
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