Tuesday is going to be an interesting day.
The House Intelligence Committee will finally get to work that morning, following the Republicans’ foot-dragging in naming their members to it, plus the requisite notice given by the Committee to conduct its business.
It’s also the agreed upon date for tRump’s State of the Union Address to Congress.
Adam Schiff has stated that the Committee’s first Order of business will be to officially release prior testimony from the House’s Russian election interference investigation run under Paul Ryan’s Speakership to Robert Mueller’s independent investigation. My understanding up until now is that Mueller’s team has those transcripts, but can’t actually use them as part of any legal action until they are released.
Soooo. Tuesday morning, Schiff calls a vote in the Intelligence Committee, officially releases the transcripts to Mueller. Mueller can immediately use those transcripts in any legal actions he deems warranted. In theory, that official release is the only thing holding up additional indictments for lying under oath to Congress.
Schiff has already flagged Donald Trump Jr.’s testimony as problematic. How long does it take for that shoe to drop?
With that indictment as a likely given, how long will tRump allow Mueller to continue his work?
There are a lot of loaded guns with fingers on their triggers going into next Tuesday. I don’t plan to watch the SOTU. My liver can’t take the abuse. Unless people super close to tRump are indicted earlier in the day, then I’ll be all about it.
This is fun to think about on one level. I don’t think Mueller would ever make such a dramatic move unless circumstances dictated it, and from every prior indication, he doesn’t let concern over what moves tRump might make influence him whatsoever.
But it would be something to behold if tRump had to give a SOTU on the same day his son was indicted for lying to Congress.