The Mueller Russia collusion investigation just won't go away

The name Mueller keeps on coming up. In fact it will never go away. Robert Mueller, former long-time FBI director and then appointed special counsel to examine the allegations that the Trump campaign team colluded with Moscow to win the 2016 election, delivered his findings in March 2019. No evidence of collusion and no judgment either way on whether Trump had obstructed justice. Trump gets acquitted by the Republican-controlled Senate in the impeachment trial. But here we are, more than a year later and the Mueller name keeps on cropping up. First it was over Mike Flynn, Trump's first national security adviser, charged with lying to the FBI over what he said or didn't say to the Russian ambassador during the election campaign. Flynn is a free man today. He initially pleaded guilty, then changed his mind and his case has yet to be resolved. But no one expects him to serve a day in prison. Now Roger Stone, key associate of Trump, facing more than three years in jail for lying to the FBI re Russia/collusion and other charges remains convicted but the president has commuted his sentence. Two of the big names in the Mueller investigation to come out as villains walking free. Trump justified his commutation of Stone's sentence by saying he had been unfairly treated and that the whole case was based on a hoax. I expect Mueller by now is wishing he hadn't been asked by the US Justice Department to take over the Russia collusion investigation from the FBI. For ever after his name will be linked to this episode in America's history. If Trump is reelected in November it will be the final nail in the Mueller/Russia/collusion/impeachment coffin.