Mueller investigation heats up

Move over, Sherlock Holmes. Ever since May 2017, the White House has been on edge as special prosecutor Robert Mueller was appointed to take on the case relating Russia’s involvement in the 2016 Presidential Election.

This raises the question that developments found by Mueller will lead to the process of impeachment against President Trump. The first arrest warrants issued by Mueller in October make that seems more of a possibility.

The first warrants was issued to Paul Manafort, a high-ranking adviser to President Donald Trump during campaign season. Manafort has questionable ties as he has been directly linked as a public relations adviser to former Ukrainian president Viktor Yanukovych, who has pro-Russian ties. On Nov. 2, Jared Kushner’s staff turned over documents to the special counsel unsolicited as witness interviews pointed to his role in the campaign. Michael Flynn pled guilty to lying to the FBI and will now cooperate with the investigation. Through this, Trump admitted to knowing Flynn lied when he fired ex-FBI Director James Comey in a tweet, bringing up the question whether or not he obstructed justice.

The New York Times reported that Mueller is looking to interview the president. The potential of a Mueller interview could foreshadow the transition into the impeachment process; as usual, Trump has continuously downplayed the negative coverage of him and on Twitter he said it was “fake news,” pointing a finger at Democrats without citing any factual sources.

Politics in Washington have become so childish and his repeated denials of the truth are perfect examples of that. This should serve as a wake-up call that the new political era we now live in is shrouded in falsehoods and against the good of the public.

A current inquiry suggests to some there may be political bias in the investigation, which is non-partisan, but I do not think this will impact the quest for truth into Russia’s meddling.

The House Judiciary Committee addressed this topic Dec. 13. The New York Times reported that text messages between a former FBI agent and a justice department employee on the investigation team show that some agents on the case were anti-Trump, and some allege that the Justice Department is biased towards the Democrats. Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein testified in December that these circumstances do not justify ending the investigation, and I agree the investigation should continue based on a simple fact: Republicans aren’t the only party implicated in the Russian investigations.
The Wall Street Journal shows that funds filtered through various law firms from the Democratic National Convention helped to pay for a dossier filled with information of Trump’s collusion with Russia. Instead of pointing fingers at Republicans, Democrats on social media seek to use this information to remove corrupt individuals from the party.

In half a century, this is the third time – the most recent being 1972 and 1998 – that a president has been investigated with public scrutiny, and this investigation has occurred in both political parties.

With many respected news sources saying Russia’s collusion with the Trump campaign is bigger than Watergate, the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth will determine the next course of action taken in order to let justice prevail. So it is written, so it shall be done for the sake of the welfare of inhabitants of the United States.