And it Begins:Special Prosecutor To Investigate Trump And Russia

[Tibs]

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">It's really clever how the Deep State got Rudy Giuliani to show the world that Trump and Cohen lied about the payment to Stormy Daniels. And it used <a href="https://twitter.com/seanhannity?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@seanhannity</a> for this operation. Fiendishly smart!</p>— David Corn (@DavidCornDC) <a href="https://twitter.com/DavidCornDC/status/991873983158128640?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 3, 2018</a></blockquote>
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Congrats to Rudy Giuliani on accidentally setting his desk on fire on the first day of work</p>— Jess Dweck (@TheDweck) <a href="https://twitter.com/TheDweck/status/991902640907808768?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 3, 2018</a></blockquote>
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Hannity: has Trump got you on retainer?<br><br>Rudy Giuliani: Nah, we both have dentures.<br><br>Hannity: I mean retainer as in retainer for a lawyer.<br><br>Rudy: Who's a lawyer?<br><br>Hannity: You're Trump's lawyer.<br><br>Rudy: That's crazy, that dude is guilty af.<br><br>Hannity: you're not suppo<br><br>Rudy: <a href="https://t.co/p8iQ11ImYo">pic.twitter.com/p8iQ11ImYo</a></p>— m i t h (@ManInTheHoody) <a href="https://twitter.com/ManInTheHoody/status/991905700287676417?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 3, 2018</a></blockquote>
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Never would I have guessed that the President’s mortal enemies would be Rudy Giuliani, Sean Hannity, Fox News, his own personal physicians, and himself.</p>— Eugene Gu, MD (@eugenegu) <a href="https://twitter.com/eugenegu/status/991893070437322754?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 3, 2018</a></blockquote>
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">With friends like Rudy Giuliani and Sean Hannity, who needs special prosecutors?</p>— Edan Clay &#55356;&#57098; (@EdanClay) <a href="https://twitter.com/EdanClay/status/991886366064574464?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 3, 2018</a></blockquote>
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Michael Cohen: “I’m arguably the dumbest lawyer in America.”<br>Rudy Giuliani: “Hold my beer.”</p>— R. Chase Brindisi (@RBrindisi12) <a href="https://twitter.com/RBrindisi12/status/991921650240278528?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 3, 2018</a></blockquote>
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Rudy watching the replay of the <a href="https://twitter.com/seanhannity?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@seanhannity</a> interview&#55358;&#56611; <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Giuliani?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Giuliani</a> <a href="https://t.co/j9FvBgHDIF">pic.twitter.com/j9FvBgHDIF</a></p>— SparKrikorian (@MessianicX_777) <a href="https://twitter.com/MessianicX_777/status/991934267872526337?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 3, 2018</a></blockquote>
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[hamster]

What crime has Trump committed? If we don't have one, why is he being investigated? Hilary had classified info on a private server, which is a felony. Fact. Why isn'she in prison? That is all you need to know about this swamp, and this legal system. The corruption in Washington is epic at the highest levels. And it just isn't the Democrats. As a matter of fact, having a D or R behind your name is a mere formality, kind of like Jr or Sr. The government bureaucrat only cares about their career. This is where Comey, Mueller, and Rosenstein exist.

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[Tibs]

The significance of Ty Cobb throwing in the towel and letting Trump blow in the wind.

Cobb’s exit seems likely to escalate tensions between Trump allies and the DOJ and could increase the likelihood that Trump will attempt to reign in the Russia probe or oust Rosenstein or Mueller.

Cobb had encouraged Trump to cooperate with the inquiry, reportedly urging the president not to attack Mueller publicly—advice Trump has increasingly ignored. Cobb asserted in March that Trump had not entertained the possibility of firing Mueller, but Trump recently suggested that he is indeed considering doing so. Cobb also reportedly assured Trump that Mueller’s probe would conclude in 2017, a prediction that proved incorrect.

Earlier Wednesday, Trump made perhaps his most direct public threats yet aimed at the Justice Department and its oversight of Mueller’s probe. Trump said on Twitter that he might “have no choice but to use the powers granted to the Presidency and get involved” to assist conservatives in the House of Representatives who are threatening to try to impeach Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein for refusing to turn over documents related to Rosenstein’s appointment of Mueller last year. Trump’s tweet can be read as a threat to fire Rosenstein, who pushed back against House Republicans on Tuesday.

The DOJ's response:

“There have been people who have been making threats privately and publicly against me for quite some time,” Rosenstein said. “And I think they should understand by now the Department of Justice is not going to be extorted. We’re going to do what is required by the rule of law and any kind of threats that anybody makes are not going to affect the way we do our jobs.”

 

[Tibs]

What crime has Trump committed? If we don't have one, why is he being investigated?

The answer to that will be perfectly clear once Mueller releases his findings and/or brings charges against Trump and those in his orbit.

 

[Tibs]

Funny how Trump supporters wanted to 'wish away' Russian collusion with a magic wand, just pretend it doesn't exist or make it disappear. How wrong you all were is spellbinding. The fact Mueller is also going hard on other charges such as obstruction of justice, money laundering & financial crimes just adds to the seriousness and complexity of the case. And that's not even bringing the Michael Cohen NY attorney investigation into it. To try to sprinkle pixie dust on the investigation and say the Russian collusion aspect is fake news is a serious miscalculation.

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[Yinzerlyn]

Funny how most people in this thread actually work for a living and don't have time to dig **** up and post hysteria. Guess I should move to Europe where working a real job is a thing of the past. I would LOVE to have all that free time!

 

[Iron95]

Anyone that uses CNN as a news source is a moron.

 

[SCSteeler4life]

Show me statements or leaks that came out of Mueller's office since this investigation began. I thought so.

Here is the whole story reported on NPR. The questions have been leaked.


Leaked List Of Questions Indicates What Mueller Wants To Ask Trump
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May 1, 20188:17 AM ET
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Carrie Johnson
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The New York Times has published a list of questions that the special counsel Robert Mueller wants to ask President Trump in relation to the Russia investigation.

DAVID GREENE, HOST:

The special counsel, Robert Mueller, has questions for President Trump. We have known that fact for quite some time, but we are learning this morning exactly what Mueller wants to know. The New York Times obtained a list of questions that the special counsel wants to ask the president as part of its investigation into attempted Russian meddling in the 2016 election. Now, Mueller's team has been pretty secretive as this investigation has gone on, and this list is giving us some rare insight into the focus of the inquiry. Let's bring in NPR justice correspondent Carrie Johnson to talk about this.

Good morning, Carrie.

CARRIE JOHNSON, BYLINE: Good morning, David.

GREENE: So what are we learning here about what Mueller is interested in?

JOHNSON: Well, The New York Times says it's obtained a list of questions that came out of a meeting between the special counsel's office - Robert Mueller's office - and attorneys for President Trump, who are going back and forth about whether President Trump is actually going to sit for a voluntary interview with these prosecutors. And these questions The Times obtained fall into multiple buckets. A lot of them have to do with possible obstruction of justice - what President Trump knew when he fired that FBI director, James Comey, last year, what he knew about what Mike Flynn did or did not say to the Russian ambassador, Sergey Kislyak, in late 2016 - and a number of other buckets of questions about Trump's involvement and relationships in Russia, a visit to Moscow that Trump made and some of his other dealings along the campaign with people like Paul Manafort. Paul Manafort, you'll remember, was the - for a short time, the campaign chairman of the Trump campaign. He's now facing a lot of charges, including bank fraud, tax fraud and conspiracy.

GREENE: Well, I just want to read one of the questions on this list, Carrie. According to The New York Times, Mueller wants to ask the president, what knowledge did you have of any outreach by your campaign, including by Paul Manafort, to Russia about potential assistance to the campaign? I mean, that sounds like at least Mueller remains very interested in the question of potential collusion and the question of how, if at all, the president was involved in that.

JOHNSON: Yeah. It sounds as if prosecutors may know something, either from documents or from cooperation from one of their witnesses who's pleaded guilty, maybe somebody like Richard Gates, who was Manafort right-hand man and wound up pleading guilty and agreeing to cooperate against Manafort and others. The reason that question is so interesting, David, is that Manafort is charged with a lot of things related to his personal financial dealings. He denies wrongdoing, but he had a number of financial dealings with the pro-Russian government in Ukraine over the years. But he is not charged explicitly with any conspiracy with Russians in the course of the campaign, and so that question from the Mueller team that The Times has obtained offers us a window into whether there may be more there. We don't yet know in the public.

GREENE: Do we know if the president is ever going to be actually asked these questions by Mueller in a sit-down?

JOHNSON: (Laughter) That is such a good question. We've been going back and forth for weeks, if not months, about this. What lawyers have been telling me who are in the know, who have been in these kinds of situations before is that the special counsel could issue a subpoena to the president if he does not appear voluntarily. There are reasons to appear for a voluntary interview, like, you can somewhat control the questions, you can have your lawyer in the room. If you get a subpoena, you can't necessarily bring your lawyer into the grand jury room with you. So it may be in the president's interest to agree to a voluntary interview. I got to wonder, though, why this list of questions is leaking now and whether somebody may be trying to send the White House or the president himself a message here about whether he really wants to sit down and talk with the special counsel.

GREENE: Well, and that's really an interesting question is - and I was actually talking to Michael Schmidt, the reporter - one of the reporters who broke this story. You know, and he - I asked him, you know, if the leak of this could be benefiting one side or the other. You know, he didn't reveal much. He just said this - he - you know, that The Times feels like this is solid reporting; they wanted to get these facts out there. But do you get a sense for who might gain by these questions being out here in public now?

JOHNSON: This is such a tangled mix of motives, this entire investigation. What we do know is the special counsel and the agents and lawyers working with him tend not to leak. In fact, Robert Mueller is a stickler about those kinds of things, so it seems as if this may be coming from the defense side. What motive we can subscribe to it, I don't think we yet know.

GREENE: OK. NPR justice correspondent Carrie Johnson speaking to us this morning about a New York Times story. The Times has obtained a list of questions that special counsel Robert Mueller wants to ask President Trump. Carrie, we appreciate it. Thanks.

JOHNSON: My pleasure.

 

[oneforthebus]

The fact that Trump repaid the $130,000 was going to come out eventually. I suspect Rudy made this revelation because he knows there's no legal jeopardy. Get it out there, get past it.

The case that this is a campaign finance violation is awfully thin. There are any number of reasons Cohen could have made that payment having nothing to do with the election. Trump not wanting his wife to find out perhaps? I'm sure he's made similar payments in the past.

 

[Troglodyte]

Funny how most people in this thread actually work for a living and don't have time to dig **** up and post hysteria.

Tim has a job and it doesn’t stop him.

 

[Sarge]

Watch Giuliani come out and say Trump reimbursed Cohen the $130k or something crazy...

I don't know why anyone would even be surprised to find this out. I said in another thread that there is NO WAY Trump didn't know. He banged that porn star. He paid for her silence through his attorney. Why he would lie about it makes no sense. Now after denying it, his attorney admits it. Always looks worse that way. Yet he keeps doing **** like that.

Someone needs to have a spray bottle handy and spray him in the face and tell him "No" or "Bad Trump" every time he does this ****.

 

[Troglodyte]

I don't know why anyone would even be surprised to find this out. I said in another thread that there is NO WAY Trump didn't know. He banged that porn star. He paid for her silence through his attorney. Why he would lie about it makes no sense.

Because it’s a campaign finance violation.

 

[IndySteel]

Rudy! Rudy! Rudy!

Giuliani: Basis of Mueller Case ‘Dead’ — ‘Sessions Should Step in and Close It’
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#RudyGiuliani: "The basis of the case is dead. Sessions should step in and close it, and say, 'Enough's enough.'" pic.twitter.com/9IUmftjZCO

— Fox News (@FoxNews) May 3, 2018
by JEFF POOR3 May 20181,894

Thursday on Fox News Channel’s “Fox & Friends,” Trump attorney Rudy Giuliani called on Attorney General Jeff Sessions to step in with special counsel Robert Mueller’s probe into Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election and end it.

According to the former New York City mayor, the original basis of the case is dead and is expanding into other things.

“Everybody forgets, the basis of the case is dead,” he said. “Sessions should step in and close it. And say, ‘Enough is enough.'”


Giuliani reiterated his claim that the probe was setting President Donald Trump up for a process crime.

“What they’re really trying to do is trap him in perjury,” Giuliani added. “And we’re not suckers.”

 

[oneforthebus]

Funny how Trump supporters wanted to 'wish away' Russian collusion with a magic wand, just pretend it doesn't exist or make it disappear. How wrong you all were is spellbinding. The fact Mueller is also going hard on other charges such as obstruction of justice, money laundering & financial crimes just adds to the seriousness and complexity of the case. And that's not even bringing the Michael Cohen NY attorney investigation into it. To try to sprinkle pixie dust on the investigation and say the Russian collusion aspect is fake news is a serious miscalculation.

What I get from the clip you posted is that they are poking into every imaginable nook and cranny desperately searching for something, anything that would justify the amount of time and money that has been spent on this investigation. The definition of a witchhunt.

For some reason you seem to think that the fact they're still searching for Russian collusion is proof that it must exist. Don't you think if it was there they would have found it by now?

 

[Sarge]

Because it’s a campaign finance violation.

That is certainly what it looks like. Since it came in the course of the campaign, especially so close to the election itself, Trump and Rudy are gonna have a hard time proving it wasn't campaign related. Should be interesting to see how this plays out.

 

[IndySteel]

Because it’s a campaign finance violation.

No, it's not. Just another big nothingburger.

Mr. Cohen, an attorney, received a monthly retainer, not from the campaign and having nothing to do with the campaign, from which he entered into, through reimbursement, a private contract between two parties, known as a non-disclosure agreement, or NDA. These agreements are.....

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) May 3, 2018


...very common among celebrities and people of wealth. In this case it is in full force and effect and will be used in Arbitration for damages against Ms. Clifford (Daniels). The agreement was used to stop the false and extortionist accusations made by her about an affair,......

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) May 3, 2018


...despite already having signed a detailed letter admitting that there was no affair. Prior to its violation by Ms. Clifford and her attorney, this was a private agreement. Money from the campaign, or campaign contributions, played no roll in this transaction.

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) May 3, 2018

The president was referring to a letter written and signed by Daniels in January, stating “with complete clarity” that allegations of an affair with Trump were “absolutely false.” Daniels also wrote, at the time, that rumors that she received “hush money” from Trump were “completely false.”

 

[Superman]

this has been going on almost a year - per the initial post.

either:
1) something very nefarious is going on, or
2) nothing is going on
3) Trump has these idiots chasing their tails intentionally

 

[Tim Steelersfan]

Tim has a job and it doesn’t stop him.

I use the site less than you do. And yep, I work AND I contribute to the site. You? Like Tibs and Tard and 21 and Roll, ya'll just along for the free ride.

Funny that.

 

[Tibs]

Tim has a job and it doesn’t stop him.

Yeah I love it when people question why and how often I post here. Like I sit around researching **** to post on this board. I follow the news constantly, everything I post here is at my fingertips and takes me no more than a few minutes.

Like I'm doing right now, taking a minute or two to type this up. But since the things I post tends to get under people's skin and they can't argue on the content of my posts, it's always the diversionary attacks on me personally, that I'm in Hungary, questioning how I have time to post here, that I'm paid by Soros, etc. It's fall-down-laughing funny to read these comments, really is.

 

[Tibs]

this has been going on almost a year - per the initial post.

either:
1) something very nefarious is going on, or
2) nothing is going on
3) Trump has these idiots chasing their tails intentionally

 

[Troglodyte]

this has been going on almost a year - per the initial post.

either:
1) something very nefarious is going on, or
2) nothing is going on
3) Trump has these idiots chasing their tails intentionally

And continues to piss his own self off in the process. Yeah, that’s who you want to be the POTUS.

 

[Troglodyte]

I use the site less than you do.

Sure, but I never post 1,500 word dissertations.

 

[Superman]

so you're saying this is now a Cold Case file? because, afterall, this has been going on for more than a year, and absolutely nothing substantial has been "discovered".

copy of Mueller's To Do List:

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[Tibs]

so you're saying this is now a Cold Case file? because, afterall, this has been going on for more than a year, and absolutely nothing substantial has been "discovered". copy of Mueller's To Do List:

No, the ‘nefarious things going on’ Is the behavior and possible criminal activity of the President.

If it helps smooth your nerves to believe nothing substantial has been found and that Mueller is on a wild goose chase, feel free to think that. You’re only fooling yourself but ignorance is bliss. Believe what you want.

 

[Superman]

I sleep well at night, no matter whom the POTUS is. His daily actions do not effect me one bit.
I understand he causes you to sleep more irritable than usual, though.
maybe see a doctor.