Today’s Impeach-O-Meter: Is Robert Mueller Investigating Robert Mueller’s FBI?

In the tradition of the Clintonometer and the Trump Apocalypse Watch, the Impeach-O-Meter is a wildly subjective and speculative daily estimate of the likelihood that Donald Trump leaves office before his term ends, whether by being impeached (and convicted) or by resigning under threat of same.

I’m going to make this short because I’ve already gone too far down the rabbit hole tonight:

• As this Bloomberg story details, a former Trump business partner named Felix Sater has been accused in a lawsuit of laundering Russian money into Trump development projects between 2002 and 2007.
• Felix Sater, during that time, was also an informant for the FBI in unrelated cases. Informants, generally speaking, aren’t supposed to be perpetrating crimes on the side while they’re cooperating with authorities, because it creates the appearance that the authorities are condoning said crimes.
• The FBI director while Felix Sater was 1) working as an FBI informant and 2) allegedly helping launder money for Trump projects … was Robert Mueller, who is now the Department of Justice special counsel in charge of investigating Trump and Russia.

So Mueller, who is investigating Trump’s associates under the authority of the Trump administration’s Department of Justice, may now be specifically investigating whether one of Trump’s associates was committing crimes with Trump while said associate was a federal informant protected by Mueller’s FBI.

It’s a mess! And the more Mueller’s investigation can be portrayed as messy and conflicted, the lower Trump’s chances of being impeached get (I think). Lower the meter!