In the late 90s, another President was under Investigation, Bill Clinton. The genesis of the Mueller Report was the Starr Report. The Starr report was known as the Independent Counsel Report. Unlike the Special Counsel Report from Mueller, the Independent Counsel Report had much more latitude and fewer restrictions in their investigation. In fact, it was thanks to this wide-ranging and lengthy (4 years) investigation that politicians decided to limit the scope of any future such investigations and the Independent Counsel Investigation turned into the Special Counsel Investigation....

Communication is a tricky skill. Humans begin to communicate even before they are born. A baby will communicate to the mother if she's uncomfortable with a kick or punch. Once the child is born, they'll communicate through sounds (mostly crying), and their actions (sleep). As mother and child grow closer, their communication also becomes more effective. Crying becomes more nuanced. Crying grows from "what does this kid want?" to "She's hungry" or "She's sleepy", etc. As we get older, we lose this effectiveness. This is partly because we...

According to the second part of the Mueller Report, James Comey's account of his interaction with the President is accurate. This is in spite of the many denials from the President about the matter. After Comey's account of the President's request to "let[] Flynn go" became public, the President publicly disputed several aspects of the story. The President told the New York Times that he did not "shoo other people out of the room" when he talked to Comey and that he did not remember having a one-on-one...

The veiled threats the President often volleys across to his opponents, or people who simply do not agree with him, have been so normalized that we often rationalize them as "his public persona", or "that's just twitter", or "he's go people writing that for him", or anything that helps us better understand why a person with so much power could be so vindictive and petty. Yet, as the report shows, the Trump on twitter is not his "public persona", but Trump himself through the twitter megaphone. Right after...

The job of a President is something only 45 people in the history of the U.S. have ever experienced. So to say that it's a tremendously difficult taks is an understatement. This means that in order to even attempt to do this job, you need to have people you trust around you. People that will say and do what you ask them to do. I'm not talking about "talking heads" that repeat the mantra of the day or week. That's easy. I'm taking about the real work of...

In Volume 1, the special counsel investigated the potential coordination between the Russian government and the Trump campaign. In that volume, the Special Counsel concluded there was not enough evidence to reach a conclusion of coordination (aka collusion). Volume 2 of the report focuses on obstruction of justice by the President of the United States. And this volume of the report is more discreet in its conclusion. In fact, it is so discreet as to state: ... if we had confidence after a thorough investigation of the facts...