So, we read a headline, and I am talking about any headline, and we think we have all the necessary facts.

David Voreacos / Bloomberg:
Kushner Investors Said to Be Subpoenaed by U.S. Tax Authorities  

Editor:   So,  we read a headline, and I am talking about ANY AND ALL headlines,  and we think we have all the necessary facts.  

I have been blogging for nearly ten years, now,  almost every day  as a matter of fact.  Before that,  I was a retired builder with a college degree in psychology.  What I was not:  a writer.  In the beginning,  all I had was a decent instinct for what was between the lines  . . . .   better than most but not as profound as many.  

I actually knew nothing about the world of Presidential politics,  how its rules of engagement actually worked,  how those rules set the presidency apart from the other two branches of government,  making it,  the presidency,  the single most powerful position in the world   . . . . .  maybe in the history of the world.  

During the Obama years,  I came to realize that a president could function as a dictator and do so legally.  The Left often talks about Trump,  the dictator,  when,  in point of fact,  Barack was our first and only Rough/Dictator president.  One could put FDR in that category,  as well,  except for the fact that he held the office in highest respect and functioned within Constitutional guidelines. and Barack lied with impunity.  

"Impunity" means he could look the folks in the eye of the camera,  and say,  If you don't like what I am doing (words to that affect),  "sue me."  In fact,  The Hill carried this article within days of that crase remark:

Ten quotes: Obama's journey from 'yes we can' to 'so sue me' | TheHill

thehill.com/.../211296-ten-quotes-obamas-journey-from-yes-we-can-to-so-sue-me

Jul 4, 2014 - President Obama has gone from “yes we can” to “so sue me.” The president's standoffish remark this week about a Republican lawsuit was a reminder of how much Obama's rhetoric has changed since his 2008 campaign and its promise to deliver a new kind of politics. These ten Obama quotations ...

Out came his pen and his phone,  and away we went,  writing one regulation after another,  ignoring Supreme Court decisions (oh yes he did),  convinced, that his "transformation" of America could be realized apart from the Halls of Congress. 

The most disturbing aspect of my evolution from building to pundit,  was the realization that I really never understood what was actually going on.  I mean,  over the years, I had voted for one politician after another,  who promised transparency and a reduction in the size of government.  And with that protracted effort,  on my part,  I watched a federal government grow and grow without so much as a change in pace,  except for the Reagan Days,  and even that was not what was hoped for.   

Barack opened my eyes to the fact that he was only taking the existing rules of presidential engagement to their legal conclusion(s).   Before Barack,  I did not know that George H Bush was a progressive politician,  that the pejorative, "trickle down," was his phrase to describe much of what Reagan had done,  that he was not a Reagan Republican  . . . . .  not even close.  Hell,  his friendship with Bill Clinton, and the sad notion that Bill and GW were brothers with "different fathers,"  was always repulsive to me   . . . . .  until I realized what that actually entailed.  Affordable Housing was/is supported by the Bush clan.  It was under GW that the abortion pill, RU 486 was approved,  and it was Jeb Bush who stated that, if president,  he would not eliminate a single federal agency.  

Turns out that Trump is a big time businessman,  and, like most - if not all - world class businessmen,  played loose with the rules  . . . . .   no different than any other politician.  This does not mean that he actually violated any rules,  btw.  Which brings me to Kushner.  He is a a world class business type,  as well.  

I believe that Mueller realizes that bringing down Trump is an impossible task,  that there was no collusion,  and the only way to save his legacy as a persecutor,  is to take down someone like Kushner.   

One thing for certain,  NONE of us have a clue as to what is really going with this investigation.   

Now you know  . . . . . . . .  next to nothing.  

Cheers.