Matthew Miller, who served as the spokesman for the Department of Justice during the Obama administration, said on Friday that there was no reason to believe that special counsel Robert Mueller would go completely silent in the last 60 days before the 2018 midterm elections.
During a panel on MSNBC's "Morning Joe," Miller explained why Mueller may not feel bound by the so-called "60-day rule" that discourages federal investigators from releasing any new information on elected officials or their employees during the last two months before an election.
"I also think a lot of people have misinterpreted this '60-day rule,'" he said. "Even calling it a 'rule' misinterprets it, it's a norm, a kind of unwritten rule at the Justice Department that you don't do anything that would interfere in an election."
And given how many potentially indictable Trump associates don't work for the president or any politician right now, Miller argued, there would be no reason that Mueller couldn't slap them with indictments close to the election.
"Take someone like Roger Stone," he said. "Roger Stone's not on the ballot anywhere, Roger Stone doesn't work for anyone who's on the ballot. If Mueller has an indictment ready to go, say, October 1st against Roger Stone, he may decide to hold off because of the election, but there's no reason that he has to... I don't think by any sense he needs to go quiet after Labor Day."
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