Tell me again about the outcome of Watergate.
There are at least 29 investigations into Trump and his closest allies—that we know of
There are currently at least 10 federal criminal investigations underway that touch upon the dealings of Donald J. Trump and his top allies. Ten! And that's just the ones we know of!
The New York Times put together a comprehensive list of federal, state, and congressional investigations linked to Donald Trump and it is certainly ... illuminating ... to see it all in one place. By the Times' reckoning, there are 29 such investigations underway at present. Of those, 10 are for possible federal crimes, eight others are state or local (most in Trump's home state of New York), and 11 are congressional works in progress.
Nearly all fall into three distinct groups. There are multiple investigations into the grift machine surrounding Trump, centered mostly around Trump's inaugural committee and the gobs of still-unaccounted for money that sloshed through it, but also on potential improprieties in who has been granted security clearances and on the administration's very curious attempts to boost Saudi Arabian efforts to acquire nuclear technology.
There are numerous investigations as to whether the current president has been a lifelong tax dodge, bank and insurance fraudster, money launderer, and committed other financial crimes. Numerous. Trump's status as a still-unindicted Individual 1 in a hush money scheme during his own presidential campaign may not be the capper of that lot, but is the most developed; Trump lawyer Michael Cohen and his prosecutors now appear to agree that Trump himself ordered that a criminal action take place.
And then, of course, there’s Russia, its actions to boost Trump in his presidential election, and Trump's robust and ongoing efforts to keep federal investigators from delving too deeply into his campaign and administration's own solicitations and responses.
Now that Robert Mueller has submitted his final report, each of the cases taken up by the special counsel's office has been parceled out to other offices; this appears to include still-secret investigations we don't yet know about. The majority of the work involving Trump himself, however, has now landed at Congress' feet. Mueller was explicit in his determination that he lacked the authority to bring indictments against a sitting president, regardless of evidence.
But he laid out considerable evidence that suggested Trump's actions would be considered criminal if he was not subject to such a policy, along with repeated invocations of impeachment as the only remaining remedy.
As Congress takes up each of the issues that Mueller could not, it may come to that. Trump, his newly installed attorney general, and the rest of his team are now blocking all substantive attempts by Congress to gain access to even the full contents of Mueller's report, much less testimony and material evidence from the key players.
Lest we begin to normalize this, too, it should be again noted that 10 federal criminal investigations of a sitting president is a lot, and the sheer volume of scandals surrounding not just Trump, but past and current administration members from Ryan Zinke to Betsy DeVos to Steve Mnuchin to take-your-pick is unprecedented, in modern times. Few of the resulting probes will be going away when Trump leaves office, meaning we'll be dealing with the aftermath of Team Trump's grifting, incompetence, and corruption for years.
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