Coffee With Scott Adams — Knowledge Archive July 10, 2026
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Now you're wondering, will Trump fire Mueller now that he's got Whitaker in place? And here's my take on that. My take is that the president doesn't make decisions until it's time to make the decision. But he does walk right up to the line so that when it's the perfect time he can make the decision. So if you're asking yourself has the president already decided to fire Mueller or not, my best gues…

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Now here are some other points on the Mueller thing. I believe there is zero chance, zero chance, that we will never hear what Mueller has found out about the president specifically. All right, I want to say that very clearly. I think there's zero chance under any scenario that we won't find out any bad news about the president that came out of the Mueller indictment or the Mueller investigation. And the reason is that there are always leaks. There are leaks. There are legal things. There will be documents left in printers. There will be assistants who flip. There isn't the slightest chance, the slightest chance, that the public will be denied whatever it is that Mueller found.

Do you know who would leak it? Well somebody close to Mueller if not Mueller himself if it mattered. Imagine if it mattered. Imagine if Mueller had the goods. You imagine if Mueller had something that was like really good stuff. First of all we probably would know it by now because leaks, right? People would have seen the signs of it. You would have seen lawyers lawyering up in places you didn't expect and that would give you a tip-off, that sort of thing.

So although Mueller has been excellent in preventing leaks, and I gotta say you have to compliment the guy, whatever Mueller's group is doing to not have leaks is really impressive. It's very impressive. So you can't take that away from him. But my guess is this, that there is a real issue about how many of the small trails Mueller takes before he wraps it up. You know, is he bleeding out into fields that he shouldn't be, such as the president's taxes or other people who weren't involved with the campaign and that sort of thing. So I think that's a real question.

And here's how I suggest fixing it. They are ready for this. I don't believe in goals. I believe in systems. So what would be a system that would make the people on the left happy while also ending the Mueller investigation in a timely basis? And it would look like this. If one of the issues is budget and the critics of the president are saying, no you put Whitaker in that acting AG job because he's already said in articles before he was in this job, he said that maybe Mueller's budget should be shrunk to constrain him. And so people are worried, oh no, it's a backdoor way to control Mueller by his budget.

So I would suggest the following. Appoint a budget judge, a budget judge, an actual judge, a sitting judge, who is the only person outside of Mueller's team who is allowed to look at what Mueller's doing. And the budget judge would never talk, could not tell the president what he finds, can't tell Whitaker what he finds. But he can get into all the details and say, okay Mueller, what do you have? And Mueller says, okay we've got this and this and this and that part's done but we need this much more budget to look into these extra things. And then the budget judge says I judge that you should have more budget or half a budget or you should wrap it up. Just budget-wise. Just budget-wise. We'll get rid of all the people who say I'm blocking all the people who say that. Here we go. I'll block all the people who say that. And I know you don't mean well. People were telling me the topic is boring but I'm blocking you anyway because I don't need that kind of energy here.

And so a budget judge, because then the budget judge will be accountable for it later. Because later everybody will know what the situation was. Eventually we all know what the situation was.

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Let's talk about some other systems. I'm gonna think outside the box now. All right, I'm thinking outside the box on guns. You know that we've had obviously huge gun problems in this country and it doesn't seem like we're ever gonna get to the point where we ban all the guns and nobody's ever going to be happy with allowing guns the way they are. So we have two situations that can't last. We can't…

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