Wrong About Franken, Right About Trump in 2018
Before I make my predictions for next year, I like to see how this year's worked out.
Congratulations, but was anyone watching?
Photographer: David Ramos/Getty Images AsiaPacAs has been my habit, before I get to my predictions for the coming year, I offer a scorecard for how I did on my predictions for the past year. This seems to me an obligation for any commentator who purports to speculate about what the future will bring. We should be honest about the stubborn refusal of real events to comport with our expectations. And even though a few of my predictions for 2018 were intended as tongue-in-cheek — I said so at the time — I will evaluate them, too:
1. I predicted that Special Counsel Robert Mueller would complete his investigation in the fall of 2018, and that although there would be further indictments, no one would be charged with a substantive offense related to the reason Mueller was appointed. I also predicted that, following the midterms, Mueller would issue a scathing report about Donald Trump’s presidential campaign and its links to Russia but find no evidence of criminal violations.