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Checkmate. How President Trump’s legal team outfoxed Mueller
Human Events ^ | May 1, 2019 | Will Chamberlain

Posted on 05/01/2019 5:39:47 PM PDT by dontreadthis

When the Mueller Report was released on April 18th, most commentators focused on the “explosive” factual allegations. But other than the shocking revelation that the President once used an expletive in private, very few of those facts were novel; most were leaked long ago.

At the end of Volume II of the Mueller Report, however, there were 20 pages of genuinely new material.

There, the former FBI director turned Special Counsel Robert Mueller defended his “Application of Obstruction-Of-Justice Statutes To The President.” These overlooked 20 pages were dedicated to defending Mueller’s interpretation of a single subsection of a single obstruction-of-justice statute: 18 U.S.C. § 1512(c)(2).

That’s quite strange, but you know what’s stranger still?

In June 2018, Bill Barr, then in private practice at Kirkland & Ellis, wrote a detailed legal memorandum to Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein. This memo came to light in December, when Barr was nominated for Attorney General.

The subject was Mueller’s interpretation of the aforementioned 18 U.S.C. § 1512(c)(2).

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


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 201806; 20190418; barr; didyousearch; obstruction; searchfirst
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long, but fascinating if you like this kind of thing
1 posted on 05/01/2019 5:39:47 PM PDT by dontreadthis
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To: dontreadthis

Watching Weasel Mueller being a weasel is not interesting?

Say it ain’t so....


2 posted on 05/01/2019 5:41:47 PM PDT by Paladin2
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To: dontreadthis

Active thread:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3746191/posts


3 posted on 05/01/2019 5:42:15 PM PDT by TexasGator (Z1z)
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Checkmate. How President Trump’s legal team outfoxed Mueller

But Trump and everyone who works for him is too stupid to breathe, I thought.

4 posted on 05/01/2019 5:44:56 PM PDT by Steely Tom ([Seth Rich] == [the Democrat's John Dean])
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To: dontreadthis

IN before some dummy says, “TRUST Sessions’ plan..!”


5 posted on 05/01/2019 5:46:26 PM PDT by gaijin
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Remember Rosemary Lehmberg !

Arrested for being 3x over the limit.

She was the DA for Austin and prosecuted corrupt politicians in Texas.

She abused her influence.

When Gov Perry tried to get her to resign...

Her friends tagged Gov Perry with criminal charges that dogged him for 2 years.

https://youtu.be/s7y7oJ266qI


6 posted on 05/01/2019 5:46:57 PM PDT by Pikachu_Dad ("the media are selling you a line of soap)
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To: dontreadthis

By being innocent?


7 posted on 05/01/2019 5:47:57 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (Capitalism produces EVERYTHING Socialists/Communists/Democratic-Socialists wish to "redistribute.")
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If not for you, no one may have said it.


8 posted on 05/01/2019 5:48:31 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (Capitalism produces EVERYTHING Socialists/Communists/Democratic-Socialists wish to "redistribute.")
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the simple facts are that president can (and imho should have) fire(d) Mueller and that entire cabal....long ago

anyway, he could come up with NOTHING so... who cares what else he wants to say?


9 posted on 05/01/2019 5:57:44 PM PDT by faithhopecharity ( “Politicians are not born; they are excreted.” Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 to 43 BCE))
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Jeff Sessions will go down as one the most pathetic figures in human history.


10 posted on 05/01/2019 5:59:15 PM PDT by Eddie01
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IN before some dummy says, “TRUST Sessions’ plan..!”

Actually, it's Trump's plan. He's the President, you know.

And it's working out spectacularly so far, wouldn't you say?

#MuchMoreToCome


11 posted on 05/01/2019 5:59:22 PM PDT by bagster ("Even bad men love their mamas".)
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Very interesting read. A bit speculative, but if true, just genius maneuvering. Silently cutting off Mueller below the knees.

Barr was untouchable today. They couldn't put a dent in him.


12 posted on 05/01/2019 5:59:55 PM PDT by dead (Our next president is going to be sooooo boring.)
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Jeff Sessions will go down as one the most pathetic figures in human history.

To people like you, maybe.

Us smart people know better.


13 posted on 05/01/2019 6:00:35 PM PDT by bagster ("Even bad men love their mamas".)
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To: dontreadthis

They didn’t “outfox” Mueller, they just didn’t allow for Mueller to outfox them.


14 posted on 05/01/2019 6:01:17 PM PDT by Innovative
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Your argument is compelling... /s


15 posted on 05/01/2019 6:02:44 PM PDT by Eddie01
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Not an argument. Fact. /not s.


16 posted on 05/01/2019 6:03:56 PM PDT by bagster ("Even bad men love their mamas".)
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A good article. Several consequential items are cemented in my mind

Mueller is a deep-state war horse brought out pasture for a kamikaze mission against Trump. He knew very early on there was no collusion. His whole game was finding “obstruction.” That’s not justice. That abuse of process.

Sessions is either very stupid, or very treacherous. His nonsense “recusal” immediately after becoming AG left Trump’s flanks open to an absolutely corrupt DOJ bureaucracy. He had to know this.

The DOJ/FBI should never, ever be called “professionals” or “objective.” Its a bullshit slogan and lie they tell the public. Any conservative President should fire the entire HQ of both organizations on his first day in office.


17 posted on 05/01/2019 6:11:34 PM PDT by PGR88
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Present!


18 posted on 05/01/2019 6:14:33 PM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist (Trust the plan of the 17th letter of the English alphabet!!)
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To: dontreadthis

That was an informative article - thanks for posting. My respect for Trump’s legal team went up a notch, as did my confidence that Barr will do what’s right in this whole lousy spitstorm.


19 posted on 05/01/2019 6:18:36 PM PDT by Stosh
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To: bagster

20 posted on 05/01/2019 6:20:52 PM PDT by gaijin
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