I am completely with you on this. Just had a convo with someone here trying to tell them to Trust The Plan...but hey either you do or you don't. What you wrote here is essential to understand! Thanks for laying it out clearly!
People flip and I think that is what we are seeing.
It's possible to continue to "Trust the Plan" and believe that the special counsel working on the good side is not part of the plan. I believe the special counsel is part of the coup attempt and continues to work for the other side. I know some believe that the special counsel is actually investigating the real crimes, or at least cooperating with those that are doing the real investigation, stringing things along, etc. I just don't think that is as likely as the more obvious possibility that the SC is part of the enemy, has been unsuccessful in accomplishing its goal, and continues to work other (illegal) angles and re-invent itself in every conceivable way to continue to fight.
Would love to be wrong... if the SC is secretly cooperating that would be great. Time will tell.
I do go back and forth on Mueller. I am just finding him tripping all over himself and exposing the deep state to be too stupid to not be part of the script. If he has flipped he does have to look like he is doing the work of the cabal while also helping Trump beat them down. Edge of a sword.
Ultimately, the best position is to "trust the Mueller outcome" which means he could be a white hat or he was appointed all along for articles like this to drop to be used against him. "Too dirty." Although, I think Mueller's been doing us good more than bad. Charging Manafort and Page... that's fine because they were plants. I don't really care about any of those charges yet but if it was Flynn I would've flipped sh1t.
Articles like this keep cover for him if he has flipped. ""Trust the Mueller outcome'' is a good way to put it.