For many Robert Mueller watchers, the air these days is electric. People sense the big shoes are about to drop.
Donald Trump has submitted his written answers to Mueller’s questions.
Paul Manafort has entered a plea agreement, but then continued to lie—at least according to Mueller.
Jerome Corsi,fringe-right author and personality, is vowing to go to jail for life rather than sign on to Mueller’s version of events.
Roger Stone is expecting to be indicted for something.
So is Donald Trump Jr.
And, most significant of all to those looking for a big payoff, Michael Cohen has pleaded guilty to lying to Congress about the timeline of a deal he was trying to make to construct a 100-story Trump-branded tower in Moscow. It turns out that the deal exploration continued past the time Trump had secured the Republican nomination, and Cohen and his associate Felix Sater, a real-estate promoter and one-time racketeer, had even discussed giving Vladimir Putin a $50 million penthouse in the building. “This is it,” people are saying. “This is the big one!”
We see the familiar cycle of hype, and there’s no use fighting it, but, once heart rates have slowed, the same old question remains:
so what?