Wednesday, August 1, 2018

Mueller Probe Harming USA?

CNN Trump says Sessions should Stop Mueller Investigation
"This is a terrible situation and Attorney General Jeff Sessions should stop this Rigged Witch Hunt right now, before it continues to stain our country any further. Bob Mueller is totally conflicted, and his 17 Angry Democrats that are doing his dirty work are a disgrace to USA!"

What is funny about this of course is that most of us would not even know that a probe was on going except that Trump brings it up every chance he gets.  I mean Mueller has been keeping his head down, investigating and filing charges where appropriate.

CNN Lawyers Try to Walk Back Tweets
FOX News Stop the Investigation

All this and Trump now saying that Collusion is not a Crime makes me wonder how close Mueller is getting to Trump or his family members...

13 comments:

Anonymous said...

This is more a cry of anguish than any kind of reasoned statement. Trump is in very deep trouble, and he is terrified that there is no way out. He needs a lifeline, but he doesn't know how to get one or even who is capable of supplying one.

--Hiram

Laurie said...

Does Trump ever provide any evidence the Mueller is conflicted? I believe he is a republican.
Also, I agree with Hiram.

For me the main question is will there be enough evidence for Trump to resign or be impeached (including being found guilty by a super majority in the senate)

Laurie said...

Collusion Is Worse Than a Crime
To debate whether Trump acted criminally is to miss the greater point: He’s a national-security threat.

Anonymous said...

Trump is able to avoid any kind of questioning. Now even White House pressers are scarce. For someone who claims he is the choice of the American people, he is very good at avoiding them.

--Hiram

John said...

FYI, Jerry is still complaining about the investigation that is being led by a Trump appointee and Republican over here... And the lead investigator who is also a Republican...

John said...

Oops. This WAPO link was supposed to be in the previous comment.

John said...

Thank heavens Trump can not just stop talking about the probe

He may not even need to testify to get himself in trouble.

jerrye92002 said...

Take one tiny bit of nonsense first: "The campaign met with Russian agents."

Show me evidence that this woman was a Russian "agent," and not just a lobbyist. The whole thing is a deliberate and hyperbolic word-twisting exercise intended to create a pretext of some horrible crime. There is a much simpler explanation, but unfortunately entirely legal and innocent. The only reason for these complex fantasies is TDS.

Sean said...

"Show me evidence that this woman was a Russian "agent,""

This was shown in the Trump impeachment thread.

"If you're expecting to see their KGB employee badge, I think you'll be left wanting. But there are things like this:

Newsmax: Emails: Lawyer Who Met Trump Jr. Tied to Russian Officials

"The Moscow lawyer said to have promised Donald Trump's presidential campaign dirt on his Democratic opponent worked more closely with senior Russian government officials than she previously let on, according to documents reviewed by The Associated Press.

Scores of emails, transcripts and legal documents paint a portrait of Natalia Veselnitskaya as a well-connected attorney who served as a ghostwriter for top Russian government lawyers and received assistance from senior Interior Ministry personnel in a case involving a key client."

Or this:

The Hill: Russian from Trump Tower meeting: 'I am a lawyer, and I am an informant'

"And in an interview set to be broadcast Friday on "NBC Nightly News with Lester Holt” and on MSNBC's "On Assignment with Richard Engel," Veselnitskaya calls herself an "informant" for the Russian government, an admission that goes further than her previous claims of just being a private attorney.

“I am a lawyer, and I am an informant,” she says in the NBC interview. “Since 2013, I have been actively communicating with the office of the Russian prosecutor general.”"

Sean said...

And, of course, if you want to ignore the Trump Tower meeting, there are still literally dozens of Trump campaign contacts with Russians or folks aligned with Russia.

82+ CONTACTS WITH RUSSIA-LINKED OPERATIVES

John said...

Sean,
If you caught up on the Should we impeach Trump thread...

You will see that Jerry has swallowed Trump's Kool-Aid...

He indicated that he believes Russia is now our friend, and that Germany, Italy and Australia are now our enemies...

And if not so severe... He certainly equated Russia to the others even though we know unequivocally that Russia is manipulating social media for their own purposes. It is simply amazing how Trump talks and rational normal citizens seem to blindly believe...

Sean said...

As VOX's Matt Yglesias put it:

"The Trump Tower meeting was so innocent that they lied about it repeatedly during the campaign and again during the transition and then when they were caught lied about it then lied about who dictated the lie. "

John said...

That is why I find it humorous that “law and order” folks are so adamant that “it’s nothing”...