Bill Wagner
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Will Wagner is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania. He is an experienced mergers/acquisitions investment banker and a private investor in and advisor to early stage companies.
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Columnist.
The Mueller report is due on Thursday, and the betting here remains that it will provide both sides with enough fodder to keep the narratives alive for quite some time.
Several months ago, I urged the Trump team to declassify everything related to the activities of the Justice Department and FBI in the Hillary Clinton investigation and any "Russia" matters.
Right on cue with my 2nd Amendment commentary earlier this week, The New York Times jumped further into the debate with an op-ed masquerading as a "news" article.
Maybe with the Robert Mueller report in limbo for a couple weeks, we can afford to have a lull. You know it's a slow news day when the lead stories are about the politics-ain't-bean-bag cage match that is otherwise known as the Democrat 2020 primary.
It continues. Rep. Adam Schiff remains insistent that there was Trump/Russia collusion that needs further congressional investigation.
We are now being told that the Robert Mueller report is 300 pages long, which virtually guarantees that there is enough detail in it to provide fodder for different points of view.
Early indications of the post-Robert Mueller era are encouraging and about as expected.
First, some conclusions. The key one is obvious: In spite of Russian efforts to subvert the 2016 election, no one in or associated with the Trump campaign conspired or coordinated with Russia.
There were a few more announcements last week in the Democrat 2020 sweepstakes.
The 2020 elections are still 20 months away, which is the rough equivalent of 47 political lifetimes. But some early observations are in order.
Many versions of the same theme were on display last week. Let's take a look at a few.
I realize everyone knows that Donald Trump will never get a break from the mainstream media, but every once in a while it helps to be specific about the obvious. Let's take my favorite rag, The New York Times.
It's easy to chalk up the Green New Deal as a naïve wish list put out to get headlines and Twitter attention by a 29-year-old who should be demanding a tuition refund and a senator who seems to be decades past his sell-by date, but other Democrats are chiming in with cautions, including many of the 2020 presidential wannabes.
My football coach used to say that if you are up by two touchdowns on a team that's playing badly, the last thing you should do is sit back and hope they continue to self-destruct.
I am trying to make heads or tails out of the early Democrat 2020 effort. It is not easy, but there are implications for the GOP response.
Virginia borrowed a page from New York and proposed legislation that would remove certain restrictions on third-trimester abortions. The opinion of only one, not three, doctors would be needed to authorize women to decide to have a third-trimester abortion.
I watched with interest the last week or so as the media botched two big stories.
And the Oscar award for the most significant and least covered blockbuster in the Donald Trump/Russia/Robert Mueller/FBI probe goes to ... the Bruce Ohr testimony before Congress in August.
The teleprompter is not Donald Trump's best friend, so the edge was off on style points during his Tuesday night speech. But I would still give him high single-digit ratings.