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NY Attorney General Hires Prosecutor To Target Trump: Report
The Huffington Post ^ | March 20, 2017 | Mary Papenfuss

Posted on 03/20/2017 2:36:35 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman has reportedly hired a prosecutor to examine the activities of the Trump administration.

Schneiderman has tapped public-corruption expert Howard McMaster from the office of former Manhattan U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara, The Wall Street Journal reported. Bharara was fired by Trump last week even though he was in the middle of a number of investigations, including one allegedly involving stock trades by Trump’s Health And Human Services Secretary Tom Price.

Schneiderman spokesman Eric Soufer confirmed McMaster’s hiring, and told the Journal that McMaster will work on a range of “civil and criminal investigations ... including public corruption,” and potentially litigation against the Trump administration.

Last month, at a meeting of the National Association of Attorneys General, Schneiderman revealed that his office was discussing strategies and doing research to determine what kind of action could be taken to address concerns about Trump’s potential conflicts of interest, and possible violations of the emoluments clause of the Constitution, which prohibits anyone holding a federal “office” from accepting payments from foreign entities....

(Excerpt) Read more at huffingtonpost.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Extended News; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: democrats; first100days; howardmcmaster; newyork; nyattorney; preet; preetbharara; schneiderman; taergetrump; targettrump; trump; trump45; witchhunt
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How would he have jurisdiction over a president?
1 posted on 03/20/2017 2:36:35 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Sessions should investigate Schneiderman and his abuse of power.


2 posted on 03/20/2017 2:37:31 PM PDT by TBP (0bama lies, Granny dies.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

The Democrats want war.


3 posted on 03/20/2017 2:38:34 PM PDT by MeganC (Democrat by birth, Republican by default, conservative by principle.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Maybe he will also investigate the Clinton Foundation....hahahaha


4 posted on 03/20/2017 2:38:43 PM PDT by antidemoncrat
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
This too will Backfire ! Bigtime !

Trump-Backfire-2
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5 posted on 03/20/2017 2:39:01 PM PDT by timestax (American Media = Domestic Enemy)
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To: antidemoncrat

Release the pizzagate pedophile arrests of Schumer and others.


6 posted on 03/20/2017 2:40:47 PM PDT by Chauncey Gardiner
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Gee, and I bet he was just as earnest about pursuing Presidential corruption during the Obama years (do I really need to indicate the sarc?).


7 posted on 03/20/2017 2:41:00 PM PDT by OttawaFreeper ("If I had to go to war again, I'd bring lacrosse players" Conn Smythe)
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To: TBP

Investigate Hamas and you’ll catch all guilty parties in this...including the leaking moles.


8 posted on 03/20/2017 2:41:01 PM PDT by piasa
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Preet Bahara was the US attorney who had to be fired by Sessions, he was in charge of the Clinton-Huma-Hillary investigations that he’d been slow-walking so naturally he had to be pushed. This is payback, no doubt. He’s dirty.


9 posted on 03/20/2017 2:41:16 PM PDT by bigbob
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To: TBP

NY AG selective, politicized prosecution and abuse of power has been a path to Democrat reputation-building in NY State Politics since forever.

Cuomo did it, Spitzer did it, Schneiderman is doing it in spades.


10 posted on 03/20/2017 2:41:18 PM PDT by PGR88 (The)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Kinda like they did to Governor Sarah Palin.


11 posted on 03/20/2017 2:41:27 PM PDT by ryderann
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To: piasa

You mean Ham-ass?


12 posted on 03/20/2017 2:42:19 PM PDT by TBP (0bama lies, Granny dies.)
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To: timestax
I guess the DemonCraps/trump haters want SCORCHED EARTH. The entire house of cards will collapse. OK
13 posted on 03/20/2017 2:42:55 PM PDT by timestax (American Media = Domestic Enemy)
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To: MeganC

The democrats are AT WAR, most people on our side and perhaps even in the administration have not figured that out yet. If they win the House at any point during Trump’s presidency he will be impeached. They play hardball, we play like sissies most of the time. Except Trump, but he can’t do it all.


14 posted on 03/20/2017 2:43:06 PM PDT by RightInTheMain
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Brian Frosh, the AG of Maryland hired five attorneys to prepare lawsuits against Trump.

Maryland WAS in the running to get the new FBI Headquarters and its 11000 jobs.

Key word: WAS


15 posted on 03/20/2017 2:45:15 PM PDT by cyclotic
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I wonder who’s money is being used here?


16 posted on 03/20/2017 2:45:51 PM PDT by honurider (no one is more indoctrinated then the indoctrinator)
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To: TBP; 2ndDivisionVet

Lets see...

Took a negative situation around 1990 of about $200 million in the hole
Turned it into between three and ten billion by 2016
Brings in his projects on time and under budget
It’s not that he doesn’t fail on some projects, but that he keeps on trying
He is dedicated to winning
His real estate firm is sought for management serves from around the world
He hired women for top management positions long before it was popular, in the 1980s...
Has a lovely wife
Has some of the best kids around...
Shares many of our ideals...
Appealed to the public to let him have a chance to change things in the U. S. A.
The public hired him

Yep, string him up...


17 posted on 03/20/2017 2:47:37 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (NeverTrump, a movement that was revealed to be a movement. Thank heaven we flushed!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

The Rats lost everywhere.

They are now reducced to resorting to lawfare using specious claims by State AG’s.


18 posted on 03/20/2017 2:47:47 PM PDT by Regulator
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To: RightInTheMain

“The democrats are AT WAR, most people on our side and perhaps even in the administration have not figured that out yet. If they win the House at any point during Trump’s presidency he will be impeached. They play hardball, we play like sissies most of the time. Except Trump, but he can’t do it all.”

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You are right. He needs help, but only he can nominate/appoint that help. I realize that he is working hard, but he needs to keep up the pressure. He needs to delegate trustworthy people to go out and recruit ideological matches for his policies. Then he needs to purge and replace the executive branch with his loyalists.


19 posted on 03/20/2017 2:48:03 PM PDT by Bishop_Malachi (Liberal Socialism - A philosophy which advocates spreading a low standard of living equally.)
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To: TBP
I think they are having a collective premature ejaculation. Totally nutso.
20 posted on 03/20/2017 2:48:28 PM PDT by samantha (keep up the fight..)
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