Trump's Future and the Mueller Report

At anytime, Vice President Pence can convene the Cabinet and take a vote to remove him from office as disabled. It wouldn't cost him anything because he cannot be fired. It will either be unanimous or crickets because if the vote succeeds, anyone voting no may be fired immediately. His tantrums should have triggered this. Arrest and competency review surely would.

There is no existing law (just fear) to go forward with a bill of information presented to a federal judge (or a sealed indictment), who would order the Secret Service to shift Trump from protectee to prisoner.

All of the neccesary decisions may have already been made by DAG Rosenstein (which Manfredy explain his planned departure and how sanguine the Mueller team has been about Cohen's testimony to Congress.

The announcement that all reactions will be removed as of February 26th, if not sooner, indicate that the investigation is over. Indeed, an arrest warrant may already be ready to serve on the President and his family, which would end his power to pardon.

If Pence is indicted too, he may become a detainee the second he invokes the 25th Amendment. If he resigns, Pelosi becomes acting President. If not he acts until Trump is released, removed, aquitted or resigns.

If Pelosi does not want the job, she could have the House elect her choice for Speaker, resign and be a Speaker with no vote or retire with a Presidential pension or run for her vacated seat. Anyone could be Speaker, even HRC.

The question of the Mueller Report is next. Special Counsel Barr released a public report, but he had more discretion. The process under the regulations is a memo to the Attorney General summarizing who was indicted and the disposition of those cases, who was not and why. The former will already be public information and the latter will not be released until the statutory secrecy period after we are all dead.

The Bill of Particulars to be transmitted to the House Judiciary Committee for impeachment purposes is also secret. If the Report includes information on the actions by the Southern District of New York, that would be included.

If it is not included, SDNY may send it's own Bill of Particulars to Congress, likely at the same time. That the President is an unindicted co-conspirator in two cases means that Congress will get something.

The Bill of Particulars is and will stay secret. The Committee will vote out Articles of Impeachment but would likely keep the Bill of Particulars secret. If the House adopts the Articles the evidence will be presented to the President and likely be reviewed by Senators in camera.

If Trump resigns or is impeached the information stays secret until it is presented to the jury and/or the judge(s) alone, if there is a bench trial. Trials will be in DC and New York. Only information used ppublicly at trial will be released. We may not see what is not used and if Trump and his family take a deal it will remain under seal. How long can you hold your breath?

The media should know better than to have the public expect a Mueller Report. What it should be talking about is whether Trump can be arrested and if mot, why not. Not dealing with this question is abetting his alleged treason.