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Swamp Fights Back: Mueller Hires Clinton Foundation Lawyer for Russia Probe
Breitbart ^ | 06/12/2017 | Ian Mason

Posted on 06/13/2017 9:29:09 AM PDT by ForYourChildren

Reputed Trump confidant and Newsmax CEO Chris Ruddy told PBS News’s Judy Woodruff Monday that President Donald Trump is considering dismissing Special Counsel Robert Mueller, according to a tweet by Woodruff.

".@ChrisRuddyNMX tells me Pres Trump is "considering perhaps terminating" Robert Mueller as special counsel @NewsHour "

— Judy Woodruff (@JudyWoodruff) June 12, 2017

The news comes on the eve of Attorney General Jeff Sessions testifying before the Senate Intelligence Committe on the Russia investigation. This follows a hearing featuring the testimony of fired FBI director James Comey before the same body.

Mueller — who, on his appointment by Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, took independent control of the investigation into Russian involvement in the 2016 elections — had a shadow cast on his impartiality when Comey, a one-time mentee of Mueller’s who suceeded him at the Bureau, revealed under oath that he deliberately leaked a potentially privileged memo to the press specifically to ensure the appointment of a special counsel.

The ploy worked. Rosenstein, who was handling the investigation because Sessions had already recused himself based on his involvement in the 2016 Trump presidential campaign, came under immense political pressure to appoint a special counsel. Mueller was quickly applauded as an impartial choice by voices across the political spectrum.

Since his appointment, he has made signals as to the criminal nature of his investigation, hiring Andrew Weissmann, the former head of the DOJ criminal division’s fraud section, and former Deputy Solicitor General Michael Dreeben.

A more controversial pick of Mueller’s was former prosecutor and WilmerHale partner Jeannie Rhee. In 2015, according to Politico, she performed work for the Clinton Foundation, defending it from FOIA requests related to Hillary Clinton’s private email server.

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


TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: corruption; investigation; russian; swamp
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1 posted on 06/13/2017 9:29:10 AM PDT by ForYourChildren
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To: ForYourChildren

You have got to be kidding.


2 posted on 06/13/2017 9:30:42 AM PDT by Ray76 (DRAIN THE SWAMP)
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To: ForYourChildren

More fake news. Gotta watch out people. I told you that BB is trending lefty for weeks, and Ruddy now comes out and backtracks, says he never even talked to Trump.

Be vewy, vewy caweful with fake news.


3 posted on 06/13/2017 9:32:00 AM PDT by LS ("Castles Made of Sand, Fall in the Sea . . . Eventually" (Hendrix))
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To: ForYourChildren

swamp creatures.


4 posted on 06/13/2017 9:32:29 AM PDT by 1Old Pro
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To: ForYourChildren

Direct conflict of interest if true. I guess only conservative lawyers care about such things. Muller is going to crater his reputation.


5 posted on 06/13/2017 9:36:20 AM PDT by VTenigma (The Democrat party is the party of the mathematically challenged)
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To: ForYourChildren

If true on it’s face, this is huge.

Either Mueller is in cahoots with the Trump usurpers, or he really found something bad on Trump and feels the need to dig in hard defensively


6 posted on 06/13/2017 9:38:02 AM PDT by z3n
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To: ForYourChildren
I really should refresh my memory, but this is what I recall from Arthur Miller's play "The Crucible" about the Salem Witch Trials (1692):

Young girls in Salem MA run around claiming to be bewitched and they accuse people of being witches. A number of woman (and at least one man) are put on trial and killed based on these accusations.

The judge figures that if the girl falls down screaming in court and point to someone, then that's all the evidence you need. The woman they point to must be a witch.

And then a girl names the Judge's wife as a witch.

It's all over in a flash: The judge announces it's a big hoax, the girls are faking it, there are no witches and the trials are over.

I think Trump should now feel free to announce: it's a big hoax, the Dems are faking it, there are no witches and the trials are over. He's done.

7 posted on 06/13/2017 9:38:10 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy (Islam: You have to just love a "religion" based on rape and sex slavery.)
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To: ForYourChildren

Wouldn’t this be one of those “good causes” Rosenstein was talking about? It’s obvious Mueller is stacking the deck against PRESIDENT Trump.


8 posted on 06/13/2017 9:38:30 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Illegal immigration is the first step in the voter fraud process.)
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To: ForYourChildren

Curiouser and curiouser


9 posted on 06/13/2017 9:39:37 AM PDT by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the cloudsl)
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To: LS

So...you mean Mueller hasn’t hired Jeannie Rhee? That would be a relief.


10 posted on 06/13/2017 9:40:12 AM PDT by SE Mom (Screaming Eagle mom)
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To: LS

Ruddy has been useless for years. He and Stone are two peas in a pod


11 posted on 06/13/2017 9:40:44 AM PDT by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the cloudsl)
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To: ForYourChildren

I am really starting to get worried.


12 posted on 06/13/2017 9:40:57 AM PDT by Mercat (Everytime an old man farts, a butterfly dies.)
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To: ForYourChildren

The racist Jeannie Rhee, ready to do the work that Kim Jong Un hasn't been able to accomplish: deposing Donald J. Trump.

Get Whitey, right Jeannie?!

13 posted on 06/13/2017 9:41:14 AM PDT by Regulator
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To: LS

Breitbart has been slowly going downhill since Andrew “died”...


14 posted on 06/13/2017 9:42:04 AM PDT by JBW1949 (I'm really PC....PATRIOTICALLY CORRECT!!!!)
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To: LS; Jim Robinson

Thanks for being the voice of sanity on these things, and for your insider views.

Maybe, Jim Robinson could make you the “Fake News” Moderator! ;-)


15 posted on 06/13/2017 9:42:40 AM PDT by SubMareener (Save us from Quarterly Freepathons! Become a MONTHLY DONOR)
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To: LS

“Ruddy fired back in a statement of his own that he sent to Politico.

‘Spicer issued a bizarre late night press release that a) doesn’t deny my claim the President is considering firing Mueller and b) says I didn’t speak to the President about the matter — when I never claimed to have done so.
‘Memo to Sean: focus your efforts on exposing the flim-flam Russian allegations against POTUS and highlighting his remarkable achievements! Don’t waste time trying to undermine one of your few allies.’

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4600388/White-House-distances-Trump-friend-s-Mueller-claim.html#ixzz4jtxThawv
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16 posted on 06/13/2017 9:43:55 AM PDT by RummyChick (can we switch Don,Jr for Prince Kush and his flak jacket. From Yacht Party to Warzone ready to wear.)
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17 posted on 06/13/2017 9:44:51 AM PDT by HokieMom (Pacepa : Can the U.S. afford a president who can't recognize anti-Americanism?)
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To: ForYourChildren

Hey, let’s hire a fox to guard the henhouse! Yea, that’s the ticket.


18 posted on 06/13/2017 9:45:22 AM PDT by AFreeBird
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To: RummyChick

Trump lawyer won’t rule out firing special counsel in Russia probe
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-lawyer-wont-rule-out-firing-special-counsel-in-russia-probe-mueller/


19 posted on 06/13/2017 9:46:14 AM PDT by RummyChick (can we switch Don,Jr for Prince Kush and his flak jacket. From Yacht Party to Warzone ready to wear.)
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To: ForYourChildren

Sessions needs to un-recuse himself and announce that it’s a direct result of Mueller’s failure to recuse since he’s so buddy buddy with the proven-corrupt Comey.

Mueller shouldn’t be anywhere near an investigation into this or any other administration.


20 posted on 06/13/2017 9:50:22 AM PDT by Two Kids' Dad (((( ))))
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