{"id":30644,"date":"2018-06-30T02:01:21","date_gmt":"2018-06-30T02:01:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=30644"},"modified":"2018-06-30T02:04:27","modified_gmt":"2018-06-30T02:04:27","slug":"let-the-mueller-probe-continue-and-conclude","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=30644","title":{"rendered":"Let the Mueller probe continue &#8230; and conclude"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/mueller.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-30288\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/mueller-300x163.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"163\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/mueller-300x163.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/mueller-768x416.jpg 768w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/mueller-1024x555.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/mueller.jpg 1160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Congressional Republicans keep harping on the length of time special counsel Robert Mueller has been investigating whether the Donald Trump presidential campaign &#8220;colluded&#8221; with Russians who meddled in our 2016 election.<\/p>\n<p>They keep saying it&#8217;s gone on too long. They want Mueller to wrap it up <em>now.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Hold on here.<\/p>\n<p>Mueller&#8217;s probe hasn&#8217;t lasted as long as the Whitewater investigation that ended up with President Clinton&#8217;s impeachment; or as long as the Iran-Contra probe; or as long as the Benghazi probe that looked for years to find criminality against Hillary Rodham Clinton.<\/p>\n<p>Mueller has been given the opportunity to find the truth to a highly complicated set of issues. The president keeps saying there was &#8220;no collusion.&#8221; He keeps calling the investigation a &#8220;witch hunt.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>If that&#8217;s the case, then let the probe continue to its conclusion.<\/p>\n<p>And has anyone noticed that Mueller&#8217;s team has been water tight? There have been zero leaks? Can the president&#8217;s team make that claim? No.<\/p>\n<p>Let the special counsel reach his conclusion at his own meticulous pace. Then let the man deliver his report to the nation.<\/p>\n<p>And stop griping, Republican partisans, about the length of time he&#8217;s taking.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congressional Republicans keep harping on the length of time special counsel Robert Mueller has been investigating whether the Donald Trump presidential campaign &#8220;colluded&#8221; with Russians who meddled in our 2016 election. They keep saying it&#8217;s gone on too long. They want Mueller to wrap it up now. Hold on here. Mueller&#8217;s probe hasn&#8217;t lasted as &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=30644\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Let the Mueller probe continue &#8230; and conclude<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[74,589,7849,1424,1941,2139,2321,3983,5256],"class_list":["post-30644","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","tag-2016-election","tag-benghazi","tag-bill-clinon","tag-donald-trump","tag-gop","tag-hillary-clinton","tag-iran-contra","tag-robert-mueller","tag-whitewater"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30644","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30644"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30644\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30650,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30644\/revisions\/30650"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}