{"id":180026,"date":"2017-08-03T19:53:00","date_gmt":"2017-08-04T00:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2017\/08\/03\/a-big-deal-but-not-a-huge-deal\/"},"modified":"2017-08-03T19:53:00","modified_gmt":"2017-08-04T00:53:00","slug":"a-big-deal-but-not-a-huge-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2017\/08\/03\/a-big-deal-but-not-a-huge-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"A Big Deal, but Not a Huge Deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Robert Mueller has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/08\/03\/us\/politics\/robert-mueller-russia-investigation-grand-jury.html\">empaneled a grand jury as a part of his investigation of the Trump campaign<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>There have been a lot of people implying that an indictment is imminent, but it&#8217;s not.<\/p>\n<p>I would be surprised if to see any indictments before year&#8217;s end.<\/p>\n<p>What it <b>does<\/b> mean, however, is that Muller can now issue subpoenas to compel testimony and turn over evidence.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s serious, but not, &#8220;Oh my God,&#8221; serious.<\/p>\n<p>Needless to say, for anyone contacted by Mueller&#8217;s team, it&#8217;s time to lawyer up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Robert Mueller has empaneled a grand jury as a part of his investigation of the Trump campaign. There have been a lot of people implying that an indictment is imminent, but it&#8217;s not. I would be surprised if to see any indictments before year&#8217;s end. What it does mean, however, is that Muller can now &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[368,573,407,405],"class_list":["post-180026","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-corruption","tag-donald-trump","tag-justice","tag-presidential-campaign"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180026"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=180026"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180026\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}