And it Begins:Special Prosecutor To Investigate Trump And Russia
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Time to fire Mueller and end this horseshit witch hunt.
Conservative media amplifies the growing calls for Mueller to be fired, with Fox News going wall-to-wall with demands that the probe be shut down.
At a Wednesday press conference, Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) said that Republicans intend to investigate the “unprecedented bias against President Trump that exists when we allow people who hate the president to participate in the investigations against him.”
“A witch-hunt continues against the president with tremendous bias, no purpose and no end in sight,” Gaetz said.
Conservative media amplifies the growing calls for Mueller to be fired, with Fox News going wall-to-wall with demands that the probe be shut down.
At a Wednesday press conference, Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) said that Republicans intend to investigate the “unprecedented bias against President Trump that exists when we allow people who hate the president to participate in the investigations against him.”
“A witch-hunt continues against the president with tremendous bias, no purpose and no end in sight,” Gaetz said.
Conservatives ramp up attacks on Mueller
Conservative efforts to discredit the Justice Department special counsel are intensifying as Robert Mueller’s investigation into Russian election meddling moves steadily closer to the White House.
Republicans on Capitol Hill are increasingly frustrated by what they view as a partisan exercise that’s rife with conflicts of interest. A half-dozen GOP lawmakers held a press conference on Wednesday to demand new investigations into Mueller’s team.
Also on Wednesday, a conservative watchdog group filed a lawsuit to pry loose information about special counsel investigators, a day after it blasted out emails obtained through a Freedom of Information Act request that the group claimed indicated prosecutorial bias.
Conservative media amplified the growing calls for Mueller to be fired, with Fox News going wall-to-wall with demands that the probe be shut down.
The effort on the right to cast doubt on the special counsel is finding broad support among conservatives.
The right has seized on the revelation that the special counsel reassigned top FBI investigator Peter Strzok after discovering he had sent anti-Trump text messages during the presidential race to an FBI lawyer, who was also on Mueller’s team, while the two were having an affair.
Strzok is now at the center of several controversies. He was reportedly behind former FBI Director James Comey’s decision to describe former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s personal server arrangement as “extremely careless,” rather than “grossly negligent” — a designation that potentially could have triggered criminal charges against her.
Republicans are furious that Strzok had a hand in interviewing Clinton aides during the Clinton email investigation. They want to know the extent of his involvement with the prosecution of Trump’s former national security adviser Michael Flynn, as well as whether the FBI pursued allegations about Trump in the unconfirmed Fusion GPS opposition research dossier at Strozk’s behest.
“If Mueller was doing such a great job investigating collusion, why could he not have found the conflict of interest within his own agency?” House Freedom Caucus Chairman Mark Meadows (R-N.C.) said at a Wednesday press conference.
The House Intelligence Committee is seeking answers from the special counsel about the circumstances surrounding Strzok’s reassignment from high-profile investigator on the special counsel to the FBI’s human resources department.
Meanwhile, the conservative group Judicial Watch is suing to obtain Strzok’s text messages.
A day earlier, the group released hundreds of pages of emails it obtained through a FOIA request and touted an email exchange between special counsel prosecutor Andrew Weissmann and then-acting Attorney General Sally Yates.
In the email, sent months before the special counsel’s office was created, Weissmann said he was in “awe” of Yates for standing up to Trump by refusing to defend his controversial travel ban — a move that was viewed by Republicans as an unlawful abdication of duty. Trump fired Yates on the same day.
“How much more evidence do we need that the Mueller operation has been irredeemably compromised by anti-Trump partisans?” said Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton. “Shut it down.”
The notion that Mueller’s probe has been hopelessly compromised is starting to seep in even among Republican who once said they were supportive of the special counsel, like Rep. Chris Stewart (R-Utah), who once believed that an independent probe was necessary to insulate the investigation from politics.
“I was the first guy on our committee who said we should call for a special counsel,” Stewart told The Hill. “But I have to tell you, I have growing concerns about the special counsel. I think [Mueller’s] relationships, not just with the Comey there, but with others on the special counsel, are becoming more and more troublesome, and I think he’s expanding it beyond what our intentions were.”
Those concerns are being broadcast by conservative media giants like Fox News’s Sean Hannity, whose nightly show has become a sounding board for claims about Mueller’s alleged corruption.
“Robert Mueller’s corrupt and extremely biased team of liberal political crusaders … have one singular mission, and that is to destroy your elected president, Donald Trump, and unseat the commander in chief,” Hannity said Tuesday night. “They are trying to create a constitutional crisis that will threaten the rule of law in this country.”
Conservative efforts to discredit the Justice Department special counsel are intensifying as Robert Mueller’s investigation into Russian election meddling moves steadily closer to the White House.
Republicans on Capitol Hill are increasingly frustrated by what they view as a partisan exercise that’s rife with conflicts of interest. A half-dozen GOP lawmakers held a press conference on Wednesday to demand new investigations into Mueller’s team.
Also on Wednesday, a conservative watchdog group filed a lawsuit to pry loose information about special counsel investigators, a day after it blasted out emails obtained through a Freedom of Information Act request that the group claimed indicated prosecutorial bias.
Conservative media amplified the growing calls for Mueller to be fired, with Fox News going wall-to-wall with demands that the probe be shut down.
The effort on the right to cast doubt on the special counsel is finding broad support among conservatives.
The right has seized on the revelation that the special counsel reassigned top FBI investigator Peter Strzok after discovering he had sent anti-Trump text messages during the presidential race to an FBI lawyer, who was also on Mueller’s team, while the two were having an affair.
Strzok is now at the center of several controversies. He was reportedly behind former FBI Director James Comey’s decision to describe former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s personal server arrangement as “extremely careless,” rather than “grossly negligent” — a designation that potentially could have triggered criminal charges against her.
Republicans are furious that Strzok had a hand in interviewing Clinton aides during the Clinton email investigation. They want to know the extent of his involvement with the prosecution of Trump’s former national security adviser Michael Flynn, as well as whether the FBI pursued allegations about Trump in the unconfirmed Fusion GPS opposition research dossier at Strozk’s behest.
“If Mueller was doing such a great job investigating collusion, why could he not have found the conflict of interest within his own agency?” House Freedom Caucus Chairman Mark Meadows (R-N.C.) said at a Wednesday press conference.
The House Intelligence Committee is seeking answers from the special counsel about the circumstances surrounding Strzok’s reassignment from high-profile investigator on the special counsel to the FBI’s human resources department.
Meanwhile, the conservative group Judicial Watch is suing to obtain Strzok’s text messages.
A day earlier, the group released hundreds of pages of emails it obtained through a FOIA request and touted an email exchange between special counsel prosecutor Andrew Weissmann and then-acting Attorney General Sally Yates.
In the email, sent months before the special counsel’s office was created, Weissmann said he was in “awe” of Yates for standing up to Trump by refusing to defend his controversial travel ban — a move that was viewed by Republicans as an unlawful abdication of duty. Trump fired Yates on the same day.
“How much more evidence do we need that the Mueller operation has been irredeemably compromised by anti-Trump partisans?” said Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton. “Shut it down.”
The notion that Mueller’s probe has been hopelessly compromised is starting to seep in even among Republican who once said they were supportive of the special counsel, like Rep. Chris Stewart (R-Utah), who once believed that an independent probe was necessary to insulate the investigation from politics.
“I was the first guy on our committee who said we should call for a special counsel,” Stewart told The Hill. “But I have to tell you, I have growing concerns about the special counsel. I think [Mueller’s] relationships, not just with the Comey there, but with others on the special counsel, are becoming more and more troublesome, and I think he’s expanding it beyond what our intentions were.”
Those concerns are being broadcast by conservative media giants like Fox News’s Sean Hannity, whose nightly show has become a sounding board for claims about Mueller’s alleged corruption.
“Robert Mueller’s corrupt and extremely biased team of liberal political crusaders … have one singular mission, and that is to destroy your elected president, Donald Trump, and unseat the commander in chief,” Hannity said Tuesday night. “They are trying to create a constitutional crisis that will threaten the rule of law in this country.”
FINALLY!!!!!! PROOF OF TRUMP RUSSIAN COLLUSION!!!!!!
https://theintercept.com/2017/12/09...-refuses-all-transparency-over-what-happened/
CNN ON THE CASE!!!!!
https://theintercept.com/2017/12/09...-refuses-all-transparency-over-what-happened/
CNN ON THE CASE!!!!!
FINALLY!!!!!! PROOF OF TRUMP RUSSIAN COLLUSION!!!!!!
https://theintercept.com/2017/12/09/...what-happened/
ABC NEWS ON THE CASE!!!!!
https://theintercept.com/2017/12/09/...what-happened/
ABC NEWS ON THE CASE!!!!!
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7 Months, 109 pages ... still waiting.
The investigation actually started over a year ago counting the FBI one, but trolling expeditions take time...
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Hell, I'd be interested to see one guy, any guy at any level, brought in for collusion. Just one. The charges so far are so far outside the scope of an investigation into collusion, it is ridiculous. Not a fan of Trump, but this is bullshit. I mean if we are going to hire special prosecutors for one thing, and then allow them to charge people for stuff that is completely outside the scope of the investigation, every legislator in government should be worried. This is a dangerous precedent, and I am confident NO ONE in congress is clean. Whatcha gonna do, when the witch hunt runs wild on you?
That's what they do. Interview you umpteen times so they can catch you giving a different answer one time than you did the last time, and charge you with that (and not an actual crime), like Gen. Flynn, Scooter Libby, and Martha Stewart. This is why Hildebeast answers a lot of questions with "I don't recall".
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FBI collusion story gaining speed
‘We Can’t Take That Risk’ — FBI Officials Discussed ‘Insurance Policy’ Against Trump Presidency
Two FBI officials who worked on Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia investigation exchanged text messages last year in which they appear to have discussed ways to prevent Donald Trump from being elected president.
“I want to believe the path you threw out for consideration in Andy’s office — that there’s no way [Trump] gets elected — but I’m afraid we can’t take that risk,” FBI counterintelligence official Peter Strzok wrote in a cryptic text message to Lisa Page, an FBI lawyer and his mistress.
http://dailycaller.com/2017/12/13/fbi-officials-discussed-insurance-policy-against-trump-presidency/
FBI collusion story gaining speed
‘We Can’t Take That Risk’ — FBI Officials Discussed ‘Insurance Policy’ Against Trump Presidency
Two FBI officials who worked on Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia investigation exchanged text messages last year in which they appear to have discussed ways to prevent Donald Trump from being elected president.
“I want to believe the path you threw out for consideration in Andy’s office — that there’s no way [Trump] gets elected — but I’m afraid we can’t take that risk,” FBI counterintelligence official Peter Strzok wrote in a cryptic text message to Lisa Page, an FBI lawyer and his mistress.
http://dailycaller.com/2017/12/13/fbi-officials-discussed-insurance-policy-against-trump-presidency/
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By “It” I assume you mean Hillary. Yes She is a sickness.
I believe it had more to do with corruption in the FBI anf DOJ. For instance, getting a FISA warrant to spy on a political campaign, based on a phony dossier, that may be a result of actual Russian collusion. If true, it is a HUGE deal.
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BOOM!
another one bites the dust.....Franken resigns
Al Franken statement
"Tina Smith will make an excellent United States Senator,” said Sen. Franken. “She is a dedicated public servant who’s worked tirelessly on behalf of Minnesotans, and Governor Dayton couldn't have made a better choice for this job. Her record of accomplishment as Lieutenant Governor demonstrates that she’ll be an effective senator who knows how to work across party lines to get things done for Minnesota. I look forward to working with her on ensuring a speedy and seamless transition.”
https://www.franken.senate.gov/?p=press_release&id=3808
another one bites the dust.....Franken resigns
Al Franken statement
"Tina Smith will make an excellent United States Senator,” said Sen. Franken. “She is a dedicated public servant who’s worked tirelessly on behalf of Minnesotans, and Governor Dayton couldn't have made a better choice for this job. Her record of accomplishment as Lieutenant Governor demonstrates that she’ll be an effective senator who knows how to work across party lines to get things done for Minnesota. I look forward to working with her on ensuring a speedy and seamless transition.”
https://www.franken.senate.gov/?p=press_release&id=3808
This farce of an investigation is about to blow up! Ingraham details just how corrupt Mueller and everyone else involved with the collusion lie is. It's worth reading the entire article. Now it's time to investigate all of these lying ******** and throw their ***** (and kankles) in jail.
http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2017/12/15/laura-ingraham-irreparably-tainted-mueller-investigation-threat-representative-democracy/
I've gotta say Tibs, it's shocking how wrong you are about every issue and topic. I think your failure rate is right around 100%. But, it's funny as hell. Trump and Russia!! Trump and Russia!!
http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2017/12/15/laura-ingraham-irreparably-tainted-mueller-investigation-threat-representative-democracy/
I've gotta say Tibs, it's shocking how wrong you are about every issue and topic. I think your failure rate is right around 100%. But, it's funny as hell. Trump and Russia!! Trump and Russia!!
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Yes, this article on Breitbart gives us some much needed clarity. Whew, thank God. We can all agree from this point forward President Trump is exonerated. Breitbart has proclaimed as much. For a second there, I thought we had a special counsel investigation that was getting to the bottom of things. Clearly my bad, that's on me. If Trump - and now Steve Bannon - say Mueller is corrupt well than by golly Mueller must be corrupt. Let's sweep this whole investigation under the rug and put an end to this madness. If only I'd read Breitbart earlier I would have known from the get go this whole thing is a witchhunt. And that it's not Trump, but Obama and Hillary that need to be investigated. Things are starting to make sense now. I'm starting to understand the strange, myopic worldview of this board. All I need to do is read Breitbart. Everything will make much more sense and I'll do a better job fitting in around here. Thanks IndySteel for opening my eyes and showing me the path forward to raw and unfettered authoritarianism. I never realized how pleasant it can be. It's so much easier going with the flow and agreeing with the groupthink on the board. How sweet it is. Go Trump! Winning! All I need to do to complete my initiation is post a few sexy Melania Trump pics, or some Trump Xmas tree pics or a few shots of inauguration fireworks. I think I'm ready to become a full-fledged, card-carrying member of this board. Thanks to all for being so patient with me.
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I don’t read Breitbart but I am glad to hear you have come to your senses and are going to join us. Message me and for a small donation I will send you a membership card and a free copy of the Constitution. The Constitution is the only required reading and statement of belief required. You will have to attend regular meetings held at the strip club of the month.
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I understand your confusion, since you rely on Fake News as your main source of info. Ingraham stated the facts and Breitbart reported on it. Take some time, retreat to your safe space and regroup. Then you can come back and throw your ill-informed support behind some other stupid *** socialist conspiracy theory. It’s the circle of libtard life!
Google House Oversight Committee interviews Rosenstein. You can bypass Breitbart altogether. You can thank me later.
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Ranking Democrat raises alarm, House committee will end Russia investigation
The ranking Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee says that he is worried Republicans are planning to dissolve the committee's Russia probe at the end of the year
"I’m increasingly worried Republicans will shut down the House Intelligence Committee investigation at the end of the month," Schiff tweeted. "Republicans have scheduled no witnesses after next Friday and none in 2017 [sic]. We have dozens of outstanding witnesses on key aspects of our investigation that they refuse to contact and many document requests they continue to sit on."
http://thehill.com/homenews/house/3...gop-will-shut-down-house-russia-investigation
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The ranking Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee says that he is worried Republicans are planning to dissolve the committee's Russia probe at the end of the year
"I’m increasingly worried Republicans will shut down the House Intelligence Committee investigation at the end of the month," Schiff tweeted. "Republicans have scheduled no witnesses after next Friday and none in 2017 [sic]. We have dozens of outstanding witnesses on key aspects of our investigation that they refuse to contact and many document requests they continue to sit on."
http://thehill.com/homenews/house/3...gop-will-shut-down-house-russia-investigation
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Dems want to keep this Russia circus going on for the length of Trump's term, to obstruct his agenda. Nothing more. It is time to end this bullshit. Mueller too.
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