Posted on 06/16/2018 2:15:25 PM PDT by Mariner
President Donald Trump's lawyers and special counsel Robert Mueller are hurtling toward a showdown over a yearlong investigation into the president's conduct, with Mueller pushing to write up his findings by summer's end and Trump's lawyers strategizing how to rebut a report that could spur impeachment hearings.
The confrontation is coming to a head as Trump and his allies ratchet up their attacks on the special counsel probe, seizing on a report released Thursday by the Justice Department's inspector general that castigated FBI officials for their conduct during the 2016 Hillary Clinton email investigation.
Rudy Giuliani, the president's personal attorney, said that he planned to use the inspector general's conclusions to undermine Mueller, suggesting he may ask Attorney General Jeff Sessions to appoint a second special counsel to examine the current probe.
"We want to see if we can have the investigation and special counsel declared illegal and unauthorized," Giuliani said in an interview Friday.
In the meantime, Trump must decide whether to do a face-to-face interview with Mueller's team - an answer the president's legal team expects to have in the next two weeks.
If the president agreed to a sit-down, the special counsel has told Trump's lawyers that he could finish within roughly 90 days a report on whether Trump sought to obstruct a probe into Russian interference in the 2016 campaign, according to two people familiar with the discussions. A separate report outlining Mueller's broader findings on Russian attempts to bolster Trump's candidacy is expected to take longer.
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Just Say No!
Name one Republican in the House that would publically vote for impeachment. No, Maxine Waters is not a Republican.
None.
And no Senator would vote to convict.
It would be political suicide for any and every Republican, for eternity...and could lead to real revolution.
A nice fantasy would see Mueller and the rest of the coup plotters hung for their treachery, but, alas, that will remain a fantasy.
It’s just the fake news Chicago Tribune and Washington ComPost still desperately trying to spread their Russia lie.
Mueller has found NOTHING against Trump, but he has found plenty against Trump’s enemies, and that’s the way it’s going to go.
After the IG report any assertion that Trump was wrong to remove Comey will make Muller look foolish. Count on his legal reasoning being torn apart by congress.
Notice that it’s the “obstruction” report, not the “collusion” report.
Since they couldn’t find a real crime, or even make their fabricated crime plausible, they had to make one up.
“Defending yourself against Bob Mueller and Jim Comey” — that’s what they think is a crime.
I would love to spend 5 minutes alone with Mueller.I’m 71 and it would b fun.
Carol D. Leonnig and Robert Costa
LOL
That is why Ryan and McConnell want to lose the majorities.
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