#robert-mueller

[foreverlogical]

Ken Starr Argues There Are Too Many Impeachments These Days

In short, this was one of the baldest displays of legal chutzpah in the history of our nation.

[sentinelleblr]

Prepare for Mueller to Ghost

It has always been up to everyone else do something with what he finds.

“too many people have been waiting for Robert Mueller to formally say what we already know to be true: The levels of corruption, conflict of interest, and untruth in this administration are without parallel. What we saw at Helsinki was without parallel, what was done to Jamal Khashoggi and the refusal to address it is without parallel, threats of “retaliation” against the press are without parallel. We don’t need to read this in a report. We live it every day.”

[spinelessdemsandwhinyrepublicans]

Trump: Rosenstein Should Be Jailed Because “He Should Have Never Picked a Special Counsel”

When asked if he intended to fire Rosenstein, Trump declined to answer.

What has happened to my country? I don’t recognize it anymore.

[quakerjoe]

This Was the Week the Mueller Probe Switched From “What If” to “What Else”

Real-world conspiracies don’t unravel neatly. But this is a week we’ll look back on.

At some point in the future, we will perhaps look back at this week as the week that brought a time switch in the Mueller probe. This was the week in which we learned that a lot of what had been reported as speculative, or reported but not taken seriously, or reported but forgotten, now maps onto real facts. This was the week that Trump confederates were shown to be liars or admitted to being liars. The president’s former lawyer has now established that he was lying to Congress to protect the president. The president, or “Individual 1” as he’s now described in legal filings, himself is now certainly a subject of great interest to federal investigators.

There are many things we do not know. But it is worth recognizing that we have gone from a state of being in which Trump and his campaign were lying about Russia if certain things were shown to be true, to a state of being in which the president and his campaign were simply lying about Russia. Is that in and of itself illegal? No. But whatever it is, this is not a witch hunt.

[gwydionmisha]

We Don’t Need an Investigation to Know Trump Betrayed His Country. All the Evidence Is Right Here.

No kompromat needed.

[spinelessdemsandwhinyrepublicans]

Mueller Asks FBI to Investigate Claim Women Were Offered Money to Accuse Him of Sexual Misconduct

Journalists received an email two weeks ago from a woman claiming she was offered money to make a false accusation.

These bastards will stop at nothing!

[spinelessdemsandwhinyrepublicans]

Did Donald Trump Just Get the Green Light to Fire Jeff Sessions?

It’s unclear whether Republicans would support such a blatant assault on the rule of law. Two key senators signaled that they would.

“He’s executing his job, rather than choosing to act as a partisan hack.” - - Nebraska Senator Ben Sasse (R)

[cogitoergofun]

Barr Still Sides With Trump’s FBI Conspiracy Claims, Despite Independent Probe Indicating Otherwise

The claim that everyone is biased against Trump, and therefore nothing is valid, is a foundational idea of the Trump presidency.

“It was not clear what Mr. Barr based his uncertainty on. The threshold to open the Russia investigation was not particularly high,” the New York Times notes. “The F.B.I. can open a preliminary inquiry based on ‘information or an allegation’ that a crime or threat to national security may have occurred or will occur, according to bureau policy. Typically, agents open counterintelligence investigations with a small amount of evidence, Lisa Page, a former F.B.I. lawyer who has also been a target of Mr. Trump’s ire, testified privately to congressional investigators last year.”

What we do know is that since taking over at the DOJ, Barr has taken an expansive and permissive view of the president’s executive authority to do just about whatever he pleases, and has also voiced skepticism of the rationale behind the FBI’s decision to open a probe into Russian approaches to the Trump campaign that ultimately led to the Mueller investigation and report. “Part of Barr’s reluctance to accept that finding is related to another investigation, one being conducted by the U.S. attorney in Connecticut, John Durham, into how intelligence agencies pursued allegations of Russian election tampering in 2016,” the Post notes. “Barr has traveled abroad to personally ask foreign officials to assist Durham in that work. Even as the inspector general’s review is ending, Durham’s investigation continues.”

It’s important to remember that the Trump World claim that everyone is biased against the president, and therefore nothing said against him is ever valid, is a foundational idea of the Trump presidency—and, more importantly, the Trump 2020 campaign. If there was no conspiracy, there is no justification to continue Barr’s personal push to investigate the investigators that has manifested itself in the simultaneous Durham investigation. The inspector general report, according to the Times, is “expected to sharply criticize the F.B.I.’s top leaders” but ultimately conclude that “the F.B.I. violated no rules.” That, however, is an unacceptable conclusion to Trump, who, more than ever, needs the Durham investigation to continue to make the FBI seem nefarious and all investigations unserious and untrustworthy.