Posted on 07/20/2017 6:59:02 PM PDT by monkapotamus
Some of President Trump’s lawyers are exploring ways to limit or undercut special counsel Robert S. Mueller III’s Russia investigation, building a case against what they allege are his conflicts of interest and discussing the president’s authority to grant pardons, according to people familiar with the effort.
Trump has asked his advisers about his power to pardon aides, family members and even himself in connection with the probe, according to one of those people. A second person said Trump’s lawyers have been discussing the president’s pardoning powers among themselves.
Trump’s legal team declined to comment on the issue. But one adviser said the president has simply expressed a curiosity in understanding the reach of his pardoning authority, as well as the limits of Mueller’s investigation.
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FOUR writers for this one.
Quadruple the bull squat
I wonder who has all those NSA phone call print outs of Sessions, Roberts, just to name a few?
Fake news.
Oh whatever compost of fake news.
Trump is trying to limit Mueller _to_ the Russia investigation .... and to the exclusion of everything else.
I’ll tell you this...the establishment has no idea the hell they’re unleashing.
We have a fighter in PDJT and we will sure as hell fight for him.
I do believe the have miscalculated badly as a result of living in the establishment bubble.
Wow! You weren’t kidding lol
Right - Mueller needs limits, that’s the story.
Dirty Mueller got squat about Russia so he’s expanding his BS investigations,
If President Trump wants to fire him then he should and be done with it. Give the public a good excuse like dirty politics or they have gone too far with his family.
But who knows maybe this is all just for show.
Just string them along for as long as possible and then close down the operation just before they finish. Rub their noses in it.
Right. Everyone is going to gobble down anything “Tom Hamburger” writes
does President Trump have any legal requirement to hand over business documents mueller asks for??? can’t he tell mueller to go F himself should mueller demand certain business docs?
Mueller already has limits specified in his letter from the DOJ. He is restricted to Trump and Russia.
Mueller needs to G O
He’s conflicted, and should be O U T
A S A P
You're right. With all he has given up, for them to F with his business and family, that is the final straw. This will make his spat with CNN look like child's play.
Back in Salem, Massachusetts hundreds of years ago they used to do the same thing these reporters are doing now.
But they didn’t call it journalism, they called it a witch hunt.
NY has no such limits and there are plenty of NY people on that team..including the guy who took down a 20+ year mob boss by getting people to flip.
Trump cant pardon State crimes
I think Trump will see this as an opportunity to drain the swamp. What does he have to loose? He also needs to start cleaning house starting with Sessions and his deputy, who actually started all this.
Tell me again; WHY the Washington Compost is a reliable source for ANYTHING?
True, but they need to be enforced.
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