Awaiting Mueller. and the Fallout From Ill Advised Friendship

THE MUELLER INVESTIGATION is, according to widespread rumor, on the verge of concluding. The rumor is based on the fact that dozens of lawyers who have been working for Mueller have been packing their bags and leaving town, prompting the speculation. President Trump, more vehemently than ever, is calling the investigation a "hoax", and tweeting that it is a witch hunt. He added the cute remark that unless the report itself makes the same assertion, it will have been proven to be what he accuses it of being. People of low moral character and intellect invariably think their remarks clever, which they are not. If Trump is innocent of the activities for which he is being investigated, he would welcome the investigation, and would cooperate fully and willingly with it. That he has, throughout the entire twenty one months during which Mueller has been working, incessantly screamed to the world that the whole affairs is a witch hunt and a hoax is telling. It tells us that No only is Trump terrified of the results, but that he most likely is guilty of serious wrong doing which he knows Mueller has uncovered, whether or not the wrong doing has anything to do with collusion with Russian operatives to enhance his chances of winning election to the presidency. Innocent people welcome transparency, the guilty are terrified of the truth. The more damning the results turn out to be, the more Trump will howl that he was the victim of a conspiracy, the victim of a vast conspiracy to remove him form office for ideological and political reasons, a conspiracy consisting of members of the media, the liberal establishment, and the imaginary deep state. he may even include the Chinese and international communist movement for good measure. His predictable reaction will be pathetic and lame, just like his avoidance of transparency throughout the investigation, and in nearly every other matter in his shady, unethical life long pattern of behavior, the behavior of a clearly reprehensible person of low morality and consistent criminality. Reprehensible as Trump is as a human being, his supporters are even more so, because they always had the choice of disavowing any loyalty to Trump, and turning elsewhere for political leadership. that they refuse to do so before his election, and refuse to do so now, speaks volumes about their moral character, and reveals them, all of them, to be people of low moral character, and moral and intellectual bankruptcy. I have friends who remain Trump supporters, and will likely remain Trump supporters not only after the Mueller report is released, but long after Trump leaves office, regardless of the circumstances under which he leaves, regardless of how shameful and ignominious his departure. I have long since stopped trying to impart facts to or reason with Trump supporters. They are locked into a mindset which precludes all hope of personal evolution. They are as committed to Trump as Hitler's most fervent followers were to their Fuhrer, all the way to the wretched end. Trump supporters are by nature proud and stubborn people, invulnerable to reason, personal evolution, or self examination or self correction. I now consider them hopeless. Whether my friends among them remain my friends after Trump is gone depends entirely how they react to Trump's impending, eventual political and legal doom, whether they renounce their allegiance, and come clean in admitting their error, and acknowledge that Trump was, all along, profoundly unfit for political leadership. If they choose to indulge in a fantasy of victimization, claiming that Trump was misunderstood, mistreated, and blame his demise on a vast, inchoate conspiracy, I will sadly lament their idiocy and dishonesty for a short time, than move on without them, content to leave our friendship behind, pensively regretting that I ever had the bad judgment to befriend them in the first place. I do not associate with people of low moral character.