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| Mueller Now Investigating POTUS For Obstruction Of Justice |
| 2017-06-15 |
| [Daily Caller] The special counsel investigating Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election is investigating President Donald Trump for obstruction of justice, the Washington Post reports. Who could have possibly predicted this ? The Post, citing two unnamed sources, says special counsel Robert Mueller’s probe expanded to include the president just days after he dismissed former FBI Director James Comey. Obstruction issues emerged during a Feb. 14 meeting in the Oval Office, when the president told Comey he hoped his disgraced former National Security Advisor Michael Flynn would elude criminal prosecution. "I hope you can see your way clear to letting this go, to letting Flynn go," the president told Comey, according to testimony the former director gave before the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence last Thursday. The president cleared the room of senior administration officials, including Attorney General Jeff Sessions and senior advisor Jared Kushner. The sources, billed as familiar with Mueller’s thinking, say the special counsel currently views the matter as more than a simple "he said-he said" situation. |
| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #23 More the that, they were given a blank check to use and spend. DC crowd is an orgy of such spending without constraint. And a non-politician like Trump sent to close it down is going to be persecuted by the orgy. |
| Posted by: Elmoter Henbane5019 2017-06-15 23:26 |
| #22 so out of curiosity .. not malice .. what sort of restaurants do deep state people like those two stuff their faces in? How steep is the public's American Express bill for their fine food while investigating? Same for 500 or 1000$ a round golf? |
| Posted by: 3dc 2017-06-15 19:41 |
| #21 When you are a Special Prosecutor with revenge and political endgame on your mind, you gotta find a crime, and take a very long time to find it. Who didn't see this coming? |
| Posted by: NoMoreBS 2017-06-15 18:06 |
| #20 Don't fire Mueller. Just appoint a Special Prosecutor to investigate the Special Prosecutor. |
| Posted by: Matt 2017-06-15 13:02 |
| #19 The sources, billed as familiar with Mueller’s thinking So is the Post (spit) citing the Psychic Hotline now? Or is Mueller doing the Comey Cutout dance? It's still unclear to me how Trump can "obstruct justice" when there is no evidence of a crime (except for Comey's leaking) to obstruct.. |
| Posted by: PBMcL 2017-06-15 12:47 |
| #18 Witch hunt. Bring Trump down at any cost. And the Congressional GOP is in on it. |
| Posted by: Iblis 2017-06-15 12:32 |
| #17 Saturday night massacre. |
| Posted by: Abu Uluque 2017-06-15 10:52 |
| #16 Add money laundering, not by Clinton, either - A former senior official said Mr. Mueller’s investigation was looking at money laundering by Trump associates. The suspicion is that any cooperation with Russian officials would most likely have been in exchange for some kind of financial payoff, and that there would have been an effort to hide the payments, probably by routing them through offshore banking centers. HOT AIR, from NYT |
| Posted by: Bobby 2017-06-15 10:31 |
| #15 Pull the plug. This is a farce. They want to relive Watergate. The dirty tricks brigade in full regalia. Terminate this with extreme prejudice. Either way this goes just more huff and puff. |
| Posted by: Dale 2017-06-15 10:18 |
| #14 The Deep State doesn't like its corruption being revealed. As Steve Bannon said: . "If you think they're going to give you your country back without a fight, you are sadly mistaken. Every day, it is going to be a fight." |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2017-06-15 08:34 |
| #13 There's nothing wrong with your Gaz Volga's taillights, but you do need a new transmission. Look at this dipstick. We'll have to order it, it could takes months, even years. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2017-06-15 08:32 |
| #12 BTW - I believe the term 'prosecutor's discretion' is done daily by attorney generals and district attorneys across the country. Might want to add, Obama and the dropping of the 'pay for play' investigation of former governor Bill Richardson (D-NM) shortly after the election in which the gov supported Obama. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2017-06-15 08:18 |
| #11 The rumors say its so. Mr Mueller (Deep State) won't directly say whether he is or not. Where have I seen this before. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2017-06-15 08:14 |
| #10 what I would do if I were Mueller is do the investigation then after a few months announce - we did investigation beginning .. and ending ... - the parameters were thus and so - there is no obstruction |
| Posted by: lord garth 2017-06-15 07:42 |
| #9 Backfire coming. Cover your ears. |
| Posted by: Vernal Thromoling1790 2017-06-15 05:39 |
| #8 Invent Bullshit. Ignore lots of evidence of other causes. Call for sacking when other evidence mentioned. Go deranged trying to find a shred of bullshit. Get sacked for being deranged. Say sacking was an obstruction. |
| Posted by: Bright Pebbles 2017-06-15 05:31 |
| #7 Back Trump Now. |
| Posted by: newc 2017-06-15 02:40 |
| #6 Notice anything about President Trumps adversaries, either democrat or republican? Yes, they are nearly all beltway lawyers, members of the Washington political class and the 'deep state.' "Government is not the solution to our problem government IS the problem" ~ Ronald Reagan |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2017-06-15 02:39 |
| #5 Awesome you mention that, Jeger Smith - Cutting cable gives you the real house of cards. Trump stays out of all of this. There is no reason for them to treat him with such hostility. He is Executive Branch, but if there is a fishing expedition that lead to a special whatever, This is a very bigly thing to me. It means, from the commo I see, these two FBI butt buddies also want a ten year investigation and a retirement plan. I have news that will shake you and quake you.... We are in bed... nevermind. We have spineless Republicans willing to back MY President in order to earn their Primary seat because I want to have the hobbit carry them off to be tied off to the rail. |
| Posted by: newc 2017-06-15 02:39 |
| #4 Question 1) to Mueller: Do You Intend To Investigate Bill Clinton and Lorretta Lynch for that meeting on a plane on the airport tarmac in Phoenix, Mr. Mueller, as requested 4 days ago by Diane Feinstein (who may be getting cold feet on the Trump coup effort)? Question 2) to Mueller: Do You Intend To Investigate Barack Obama and Jeh Johnson for attempting to interfere with the election which we have far more evidence on than some so called Russian conspiracy. (By the way, Jeh will now testify supporting a Russian conspiracy in the coming days. Time to put him and Obama under scrutiny instead). If you, Mueller, do not do one, the other or all, Trump fires your ass immediately. |
| Posted by: Jeger Smith7676 2017-06-15 01:43 |
| #3 BTW On Russian hacking |
| Posted by: newc 2017-06-15 01:24 |
| #2 You are fishing with commie friends for anything but the evidence that is not there and the fact you investigate it tells me you are not here at all to show a flaw in governance but rather a partisan hunt. Both you and comey have Four Months to get your sorry piece of shit fucking asses out of this shit before I drop anvils from the sky on you. You are both sorry cover artists and drama queens and it seeps through you. I can see your hearts. So you are closing because if I find you tried to criminalize a CI Investigation, I have your ass. If you try to criminalize a recusal.. If you interfere with Justice with no evidence... if you interfere with the Executive branch with no evidence... tying up other branches to falsify a reason for investigation... using 16 of those agencies for what? a fake lead? I have your ASSES. |
| Posted by: newc 2017-06-15 01:07 |
| #1 Wow - expressing hope is Obstruction of Justice now? |
| Posted by: CrazyFool 2017-06-15 00:32 |