[Washington Examiner] Rudy Giuliani, Donald Trump's personal lawyer, has accused special counsel Robert Mueller's team of being so driven by "their zeal to get the president" that they are plotting to push witnesses in the Russia investigation to lie.
Former New York City Mayor Giuliani told the Washington Examiner that allegations that former Trump campaign manager met Wikileaks founder Julian Assange in his refuge inside the Ecuadorian embassy in London was "all part of a plan to pressure Manafort to lie."
He linked the Manafort claims, outlined in a report in The Guardian, to comments by controversial right-wing author Jerome Corsi that he recently testified to a Mueller grand jury that Roger Stone ‐ his friend and a longtime Trump ally ‐ asked him to contact Assange about releasing emails stolen from Hillary Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta.
"Is it conceivable that [Manafort] and Jerome Corsi, who is saying Mueller’s people are pressuring him to lie, are telling the truth and the special counsel in their zeal to get the president may be going too far," Giuliani said.
Giuliani said he spoke with Manafort’s lawyers Tuesday and intimated that he discussed the allegations about meetings with Assange. "What do you think?" Giuliani said when asked what they talked about.
Manafort’s troubles have deepened this week with prosecutors for Mueller’s team accusing him of breaching a plea agreement by lying to federal investigators. Then, The Guardian claimed that secretly met several times with Assange in 2013, 2015, and in March 2016, when he was appointed to the Trump campaign.
After the original article’s publication, the Guardian softened its direct language and WikiLeaks announced it was suing the news organization for making a false accusation. But it was then reported that Mueller’s team is investigating a meeting Manafort had with Ecuadorian President Lenin Moreno in Quito in 2017 and has specifically asked if WikiLeaks or Assange, were discussed in the meeting.
In a text message to the Washington Examiner, Stone said that if Manafort did meet with Assange "it would be news to me" and accused the former Trump campaign manager of turning against him. "I have no further comment on the news that his cooperation agreement with the special counsel appears to have broken down other than to say that last week’s Vanity Fair headline that said ’Manafort is dishing on Stone’ appears to be correct," he added.
The article he was referring to was published last month. It stated that Manafort visited the special counsel at least nine times since reaching the plea deal in mid-September. Stone did not respond when asked if had been contacted by Mueller's team.
Corsi said Monday he was refusing to sign a plea deal offered by Mueller. "I am not going to lie to avoid going to prison," he said.
The alleged breaking of Manafort's plea agreement puts the terms of his deal in jeopardy, and making it more likely he will spend the rest of his life behind bars. Prosecutors said Manafort "committed federal crimes by lying to the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Special Counsel’s Office on a variety of subject matters" after agreeing to the plea deal.
In August, Manafort was convicted of eight counts of bank and tax fraud based on his political consulting work in Ukraine, leading to a maximum of 80 years behind bars. Manafort has been in prison since June, when he was jailed after prosecutors accused him of tampering with potential witnesses.
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So where is the list of the whole Mueller Team and their relatives .. so when turn-around-becomes-fair-time point is reached they and their beloved can have a similar fun time with biased federal special counsels ruining their lives?
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Trump really should appoint several special counsels, one for hillary and her email, one for Mueller FBI buddies, one for FusionGPS, one for election, one for Feinstein and Kavanagh business. Make them completely open ended and then also start prosecuting reporters who release classified information for espionage. Shine some light on the roaches.
[TheVerge]‘Wikileaks is willing to bet the Guardian a million dollars and its editor’s head that Manafort never met Assange’
Moments after the report was released, the WikiLeaks Twitter account called out The Guardian, claiming that the report was false. “Remember this day when the Guardian permitted a serial fabricator to totally destroy the paper’s reputation,” the tweet read. “Wikileaks is willing to bet the Guardian a million dollars and its editor’s head that Manafort never met Assange.” Manafort’s defense team has yet to make a statement regarding the report.
I am really not sure how to categorize this so I set Seedy Pols, Lurid Crime Tales but nobody has been beheaded yet and it's media and rabble-rousers not pols but it is political... Maybe media needs to be reclassified as politicians?
We’ve been categorizing it as seedy politics, not just politicians, so yes, Page 6 is where this article belongs.
[FREEBEACON] Only weeks after securing a full fifth term, Democratic Sen. Dianne Feinstein ...Dem Senator-for-Life from Caliphornica. She has been a politician since about the time she was weaned. Feinstein was the author of the 1994 Federal Assault Weapons Ban, and tried it a second time in 2012. Feinstein has chaired the Select Committee on Intelligence since 2009. At age 80, Feinstein is the oldest currently serving United States Senator.... (Calif.) appears to be positioning herself to seek re-election in 2024, when she will be 91 years old.
On Monday, the senator changed the name of her political action committee to "Feinstein for Senate 2024," according to documents filed with the Federal Elections Commission.
While Feinstein's statement of organization is not an official declaration of candidacy, it does indicate the senator plans to raise campaign funds for a potential re-election effort.
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[Washington Examiner] Rudy Giuliani, Donald Trump's personal lawyer, has accused special counsel Robert Mueller's team of being so driven by "their zeal to get the president" that they are plotting to push witnesses in the Russia investigation to lie.
‘Wikileaks is willing to bet the Guardian a million dollars and its editor’s head that Manafort never met Assange’
