We get to see even more efforts by Donald Trump and others actions kept from Mueller’s investigators…
There also appears to have been a leak from Congress of what Mueller was doing reporting to Trump team…
Responding last night to a motion filed by The Washington Post, U.S. District Judge Emmet Sullivan ordered the Justice Department to make public the still-redacted portions of Bob Mueller’s report relating to Michael Flynn.
Sullivan also directed the government to publish the transcripts of two conversations by May 31: The first is from Flynn’s December 2016 phone call with Sergey Kislyak during which President-elect Donald Trump’s incoming national security adviser urged the then-Russian ambassador to go easy in response to the sanctions that Barack Obama had just announced so that the incoming administration would have breathing room. Flynn later lied to FBI agents about this call, which had been intercepted by U.S. intelligence, a felony for which he has pleaded guilty and still awaits sentencing.
The second transcript might be more politically explosive: Trump’s then-private attorney John Dowd left a voice mail for Flynn’s lawyer Robert Kelner on Nov. 22, 2017, a few hours after being informed that the former general had withdrawn from a joint defense agreement. It was a clear sign that he was planning to cooperate with the special counsel. Dowd wanted to convey that Trump felt fondly about Kelner’s client, though he had forced him out of the White House earlier that year, and he also demanded to know whether Flynn was going to turn over “information that implicates the president.”
This voice mail was mentioned as part of one of the 10 episodes of potential obstruction of justice that Mueller explored in the second volume of his report, but it hasn’t drawn nearly as much public attention as the chapters involving former White House counsel Don McGahn. That could change if the public gets to hear the audio of Dowd’s message. Sullivan, the judge, directed the Justice Department yesterday to provide him with a DVD of the original recordings, along with any other calls Flynn made to the Russians, so he can consider whether to release them….
Note…
Most Americans aren’t really paying attention to this story anymore…
Even Republicans KNOW the guy has, and continues to try to obstruct any effort to prosecute his, and other’s evident illegalities…
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