Robert Mueller Is Not Invincible
Paul Manafort’s light sentence shows that the special counsel’s investigation is hardly a “witch hunt.”
by David A. Graham
Mar 08, 2019
3 minutes
For months, Special Counsel Robert Mueller has pushed inexorably forward, delivering indictment after indictment and guilty plea after guilty plea. The track record, combined with Mueller’s public silence outside of court filings, have given his probe the appearance of a grim juggernaut, and inspired sky-high hopes among Donald Trump’s detractors—along with thriving markets in meme T-shirts and devotional candles improbably dedicated to the former FBI chief.
On Thursday, the juggernaut landed in a ditch.
In a hearing in Alexandria, Virginia, Judge T. S. Ellis III sentenced
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