Instead he would have gotten sealed indictments and then tried to lure them out of Russia on some pretense or other to a country where they could be arrested. Even better if Mueller were really serious about the threat these hackers pose to American elections he'd have lured them to a country where they could be kidnapped and brought to the US for trial.
It's not uncommon to hear on the evening news how this sort of thing plays out with other sorts of crimes. The media will announce the sudden arrest of a whole slew of defendants who had all been indicted in secret. The mass arrests only work if the defendants don't know they've been indicted because that means that they don't have time to flee the country or go into hiding.
That Mueller didn't even bother to follow the standard procedure for this sort of case shows he really doesn't care.
What's even more frightening though is that it's not unlikely that if Mueller managed to get these Russians into court he couldn't prove that they're guilty.
Remember Mueller's previous indictments of Russians? When one of the Russian entities hired American lawyers and demanded a speedy trial Mueller said he couldn't actually try the Russians. Further when the defendants asked for the evidence that Mueller had against them, a standard part of any criminal case, Mueller produced terabytes of social media content most of it in Russian.
Given that the average American jury isn't fluent in Russian that meant that Mueller hadn't even gotten ready for a case against the people he indicted. Not to mention the fact that it's unlikely that his crack team of Hillary donors are all fluent in Russian so that it's unlikely that the lawyers Mueller would use to try the case could read the "evidence" that they would be using in court to prove the Russians guilt.
The fact that these most recent indictments were released right before Trump met Putin tells us that the purpose wasn't to defend US elections but to hurt Trump. If Mueller had an ounce of patriotism in him he'd have told the President the indictments were coming but either made them public long before the summit or some time after the summit. Instead he basically tried to shape US foreign policy by implicitly saying "Look the Russians are evil don't do anything to normalize relations with them even though they have enough nukes to destroy America."
Mueller is once again demonstrating that he's not really interested in protecting the integrity of the American electoral process but in trying to get rid of a President he doesn't like.
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I agree with everything you said about Trump not saying there was no meddling but one. He did say why would they? That was the kicker.. not a admission but not needed to add. He could of phrase it all a lot better.. example.
Putin denies Russia’s alleged involvement in trying to influence our election. There are many who disagree with that opinion. Moving forward, I just want to make it clear that the United States will not tolerate any involvement from ANY nation in our election process.. The US & Russia MUST work together. The stakes are too high. The 7 billion people on Earth need our leaders to work together.”
The why would they is suboptimal but think about it. The Russians had no ability to significantly impact the election so they'd be risking major issues with the US if they were caught for no benefit.
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