Remember James Comey and Hillary Clinton?
He gets NO respect form anybody for releasing his comments about Clinton that a lot of people think could have cost her the election…
While Rudy Giuliani is trying to leverage Mueller in the media for limits on the terms of questionings?
It’s up to Robert Mueller…..
Donald Trump SAYS he wants to sit-down ….
In the end?
Donald Trump WILL have to talk to Mueller’s people…
He’s not gonna end his investigation anytime soon…
The Department of Justice explicitly forbids its employees from using their government authority to influence or interfere with elections, and it discourages officials from taking overt steps that could appear to be politically motivated.
“We must be particularly sensitive to safeguarding the Department’s reputation for fairness, neutrality, and nonpartisanship,” then-Attorney General Eric Holder wrote in 2012. “Simply put, politics must play no role in the decisions of federal investigators or prosecutors regarding any investigations or criminal charges.”
U.S. attorneys general have occasionally issued memos reminding law enforcement officers and prosecutors to be mindful of timing major investigative actions so that they don’t affect an election. Those memos have encouraged Justice Department employees to consult with the Public Integrity Section of the agency’s Criminal Division when faced with questions about overt actions close to Election Day.
There’s also the question of whether inaction could also influence an election.
“The problem is either action has the ability to impact the election,” said Randall Eliason, a George Washington University law professor and former assistant U.S. attorney. “Either choice has an impact, and it’s not necessarily clear where the public interest is going to best be served.”
Comey has been heavily criticized for declining to publicly disclose the FBI’s probe into Russian interference before the 2016 election, particularly because he took the opposite approach with the agency’s investigation of Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton’s private email server from when she was secretary of State….
No surprise….
Rudy says his client the President, Donald Trump won’t sit down to answer random questions…
I doubt that many of Robert Mueller’s questions will be purely “random”.
Trump will agree to sit down with Bravo’s Andy Cohen, and answer five random questions, if he can Plead the Fifth to one of them.
…he, he, he…or ALL?
Heck , he’d probably get the question about his name wrong….
Does he REALLYb think he can sitdown and bullshit his way with the Fed’s ‘A” team?
Me either….
But Rudy and company want prequalified ones ones….
Mueller is is NOT gonna go for that…
Will he be able to Ask an Expert or Call a Friend?
Does he really want to be a Millionaire ?
This Judge in the Manafort Trial is a real hoot.
It’s remarkable what federal judges ,who have lifetime tenure ,get away with.
I’ve seen State judges in SC faced with public reprimands for uttering things in court a lot less provocative than he has.
I believe a judge somewhere in Ohio or Wisconsin lost his spot after a controversial ruling…..
They shouldn’t be political…
But they shoukdn’t Be knuckleheads either…
Props to the Mueller atty who went back at the judge and the Mueller team for pushing back….
The case does appear to be a ‘slam dunk’
And Mueller needs the win…
Manafort case Update….
The Procession rests….
We’ll see if the Defense calls anyone….
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Special counsel Robert S. Mueller III’s prosecution team on Monday rested its case against former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort, wrapping up its evidence and witness testimony in just 10 days.
The defense will decide whether it will call any witnesses Tuesday morning. If it does not, both sides are expected to deliver closing arguments. Then the jury will decide Manafort’s fate.
The former political consulting titan is being tried on 18 counts of tax evasion and bank fraud and faces a maximum 305-year prison sentence if the Eastern Virginia jury finds him guilty….
More…
(The case has exposed a liability for the CEO of a bank that was promised a job in exchange for approving a $11.8 Million loan that Manafort has failed to repay…)
Manafort trial update….
Manafort trial Day 12: ‘He is not above the law,’ prosecution argues in closing statement
Prosecutors laid out the most damning interpretation of the evidence against former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort on Wednesday….
More…
Mueller Update…
This is the guy who started the whole ball rolling on Trump….
George Papadopoulos is looking to break the bargain he struck with federal prosecutors after pleading guilty to lying to the FBI.
On Wednesday evening, the former Trump advisor’s wife—Simona Mangiante Papadopoulos—took to Twitter to crowdsource an attorney willing to represent her husband pro-bono.
“Attorney wanted for George Papadopoulo, Pro Bono!” wrote Simona, while misspelling their last name….
More…
Update….
Jim Sciutto
@jimsciutto
Breaking: Special Counsel #RobertMueller recommends judge sentence George Papadopoulos serve six months in prison for lying to investigators in Russia probe – court documents
With Devin Nunes admitting at that fundraiser that the GOP needs to keep it’s majority to “protect” Trump I have to ask…
Why would the Republican majority want to protect a secret Democrat?
Dumb, eh?
Like Nunes……
Update….
There are new rumors floating around that Mueller’s people are looking to tie Julian Assange to Roger Stone and Wikileaks…
Anybody who thinks Mueller is gonna be finished anytime soon is dreaming….
Post coming on Nunes…