Monday
Former federal prosecutor Ken White channeled Sherlock Holmes while explaining the latest revelations concerning Trump and his associates. The expression memorably associated with the great detective first appeared in “The Adventure of Abbey Grange”:
All three briefs show the special counsel and the Southern District closing in on President Trump and his administration. They’re looking into campaign contact with Russia, campaign-finance fraud in connection with paying off an adult actress, and participation in lying to Congress. A Democratic House of Representatives, just days away, strains at the leash to help. The game’s afoot.
The original Doyle passage captures all the drama we’re currently experiencing:
It was on a bitterly cold and frosty morning during the winter of ’97 that I was awakened by a tugging at my shoulder. It was Holmes. The candle in his hand shone upon his eager, stooping face and told me at a glance that something was amiss.
“Come, Watson, come!” he cried. “The game is afoot. Not a word! Into your clothes and come!”
Ten minutes later we were both in a cab and rattling through the silent streets on our way to Charing Cross Station.
With Trump now specifically named in an indictment (as Individual-1 in the Stormy Daniels/Karen McDougal hush money case), we have entered new territory. I therefore look back at this blog’s posts about the various investigations, providing links and starting with the most recent:
Henry Fielding Explains Witness Flipping
On Mac the Knife and Presidential Pardons
Robert Mueller as Peter Wimsey
Trump Drama as Sherlock Mystery
Robert Mueller, the Eye of Sauron
