Miracle at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue

     I never thought Santa Claus would ever come in the guise of a Republican attorney and former Marine but here we are.
     Yesterday, Robert Mueller did a Friday document dump, a series of motions regarding Paul Manafort and Michael Cohen, the former in prison since June, the latter surely going to prison for at least four years for lying to Mueller's team about the Trump campaign's dealings with Russia.
     The filings were heavily redacted, suggesting what we don't now see is potentially more explosive than what was entered into the public record.
     Naturally, Trump squinted, Mayor Rudy squinted and in the end saw nothing but vindication. Trump took it as his being cleared of collusion with the Russians, even stealing Geraldo Rivera's phrase, "collusion illusion."
     But Trump isn't being investigated merely for collusion. There are also infractions of campaign finance laws (See Daniels, Stormy, payoff) carried out by Cohen on Trump's direction, Michael Flynn not immediately registering as a paid foreign agent for Turkey and Mike Pence surely knowing about that. And then there's Manafort's manifold lies to federal investigators.
     As I'd stated here months ago, Mueller's investigation is like a five tentacled octopus and quite possibly six. Trump's very fixation on Mueller investigating his and his campaign's collusion with Russia is in itself quite suspicious. As many people have already pointed out, Trump is not acting like an innocent man. An innocent man would welcome a thorough investigation. But Trump never wanted one into his past any more than Brett Kavanaugh does.
     Like Manafort, Cohen was initially resistant to the idea of working with federal prosecutors and the special counsel, willing to give them mainly information they already had. Cohen's spigots only opened up when prosecutors recommended considerably more than the four years of jail time he now faces and, audaciously, he pleaded for leniency after committing campaign finance crimes, lying to Congress and lying to federal investigators.
     Remember what John Schindler once famously said: Those who cooperate first get the lightest sentences.
     We still don't know more than a small fraction of what Mueller and his team knows but what we do know is quite actionable, three men close to Trump have been given or will be given prison sentences, 33 have been caught in Mueller's many snares, including a Russian spy with provable links to the NRA, and Roger Stone and Jerome Corsi are looking over their shoulders every few seconds.
     And the December Surprise Mueller has in store for us who care about the rule of law is going to make the October Surprise look like a sorority panty raid.
    

     I give you Individual One's new presidential seal.