Posted on 06/26/2017 12:53:52 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Robert Mueller is continuing to fill his presidential hunting expedition with liberal lawyers.
On Monday, the National Law Review reported that Elizabeth Prelogar has joined Mueller's team to investigate Russian influence in the 2016 election. Prelogar is an attorney in the Office of the Solicitor General who, campaign records show, has given a combined $750 to campaigns or supporting organizations for Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama.
But Prelogar's donations pale in comparison to rest of the team Mueller is assembling. Mueller has only revealed seven of the 13 attorneys, but those named include four partisan lawyers who have collectively donated nearly $50,000 to Democratic candidates since 2004, while only giving $2,750 to Republicans.
Last week, I wrote that this pattern of partisan political giving by the investigative team shows the entire inquiry into supposed Russian influence is a thinly veiled offensive against the Trump presidency.
But it's much bigger than that. A new set of numbers I found this week show Mueller's wide-ranging, untethered investigation represents a broader coordinated effort by two staunchly anti-Trump factions: the Left and the fourth branch of government -- in this case the entrenched bureaucrats working at the Department of Justice.
The first set of numbers is one that I have referenced before: $286,797, the overwhelming dollar amount that Department of Justice employees gave to Hillary Clinton during the 2016 election and $8,756, the amount they gave to Donald Trump. This represents a 97 percent bias toward Clinton.
The second set of numbers is even more interesting. It represents the dollar amounts of campaign donations made by employees at WilmerHale, the law firm where Mueller served as a partner prior to being appointed special counsel and a firm from which he has already recruited several members of his investigative team. Employees of the firm gave an astounding $326,798 to the Clinton campaign in 2016, while giving a paltry $628 to the Trump campaign. For every $1 this group gave to Trump, it gave $520.37 to Clinton.
Consider the culture of these two institutions. How could any reasonable person say that a group of attorneys from either the Department of Justice or WilmerHale will be honest, objective truth-seekers, when it is clear that so many gave overwhelmingly to Hillary Clinton? No reasonable person could. This is a political hit squad, plain and simple.
From what we know of these seven attorneys whose identities have been made public, three -- Aaron Zebley, James Quarles and Jeannie Rhee -– have worked for both the Department of Justice and WilmerHale, just like Mueller.
The remaining four publicly acknowledged attorneys – Michael Dreeben, Andrew Weissmann, Lisa Page and Prelogar – all come from the federal ranks.
I expect the remaining, anonymous lawyers to follow the same pattern.
Mueller's team is a fusion of two branches of what I call the permanent opposition. They will stop at nothing to damage and oppose President Trump and his agenda. As I explain in my new book, Understanding Trump, these people are not seeking truth in their investigations, they're attempting an establishment coup d'état to destroy members of the Trump administration.
This type of destruction is the singular mission of the investigators on Mueller's team, and they unfortunately have wide latitude to achieve their goal. Mueller's instructions from the Justice Department, not only ordered him to investigate potential ties between President Trump and Russia – which fired FBI Director James Comey has already testified under oath that none existed – but they also give Mueller the authority to investigate any other matter which he deems appropriate.
That final clause is what will allow him to run amok –- to dig into every aspect of the administration until he find something vaguely prosecutable. This is why President Trump and his entire staff should be worried.
This is the most wide-open hunting license I've ever seen. And this will be dragged out by the investigators, the Left and their friends in the media for as long as the American people will put up with it. All the while, the manufactured drama around the investigation will slow the White House's agenda by taking up its time and resources. Ultimately, this will be terrible for the country.
The investigators are not going to get President Trump, but they will not stop until they get someone. This aggressive team of litigious hunters is not going to quit until it claims a trophy.
Little in your face like Obama continually did to conservatives
This all started out as something Hillary pulled out of her a$$ to blame for her loss. There is no "there" there.
Thanks to Newt for doing the job that all the Republicans should be doing.
The people elected Trump; so where are their representatives?
(They ought to be told, that if they don’t stand up now, they will be out of a job in a couple of years.)
This is a very wild-ass theory, but I have to wonder if appointing Mueller, knowing that he would immediately start a hunting expedition was purposeful. This will show the Democrats for what they are, caring nothing for the truth, merely attempting to delegitimize the President by whatever means possible. IF they are able to fabricate a charge, because the “investigation” is so skewed, it would be easily overturned. We’ve seen how far the media and the Democrats have overreached and the tide is beginning to turn. This may be the same tactic. Just a thought...
I think Trump is up to something. He always plays with the endgame in mind-like he did with the Travel Ban. He could have used his Presidential power to enact his ban, but he didn’t. He let it wind it’s way thru the frustrating court system.
So I’m sure he knows what Mueller is doing and who he’s choosing for his ‘team’; I just wonder what Trump’s plan is...
That is my thought, too. Rarely are they able to outflank Trump. And even when it seems like they do, it just emboldens them and they overreach.
I like your thinking.
Copious application of tar and feathers to Mr. Mueller, followed with the application of a hemp necktie, should eliminate the problem.
“I think Trump is up to something. He always plays with the endgame in mind-like he did with the Travel Ban. “
Well Trump had better start playing the endgame quickly because as we speak there is an army of lawyers making plans to destroy Trump and someone in his administration. Time is awastin’! Fire them all now and replace the special counselor/prosecutor with a republican or just end the investigation.
Kick this POS in the butt, defund his operation and stop this farcical kangaroo court. What is wrong with the DEMENTED GOP Leadership?????????
Where did the GOP delegations store their testicles??
Somebody else out there might have a better use for them since they haven’t used them much at all recently.
Hildabeast will be their trophy, in an effort to ressurect the Democrats.
We just watched a Cspan program where Newt was being interviewed about his newest book. This Mueller investigation and the whole Special Prosecutor concept was part of the discussion. Good show; glad we recorded it. It’s scheduled to be on a couple more times. “Understanding Trump.”
Cut this guy’s budget and make all of the lefty lawyers work for a buck a year.
Trump can fire the Azzhat or have him investigated for his ties to Comey.
All they’ll find is the democrat voter fraud.
Sessions needs to un-recuse himself and reassert control over his department. He had no duty to recuse himself just because Democrats cooked up a baseless allegation against him and other Republicans.
When I started reading about this army of lawyers Mueller is assembling I came to the opposite conclusion from Gingrich. These people already know they've aren't going to find anything, and this is nothing more than an opportunity for a bunch of high-priced lawyers to gorge themselves at the taxpayers' expense for as long as possible.
I think that trump has laid a trap. most of trumps enemies make with in government continue to make the same mistake over and over again, that is over playing there hand. it is very evident to even the most brain dead liberal what he is doing and because of that Muller will be completely ineffective and when Muller does try and use the courts it will be thrown out and then another investigation will start into how Muller and Hillary ended up colluding with Comey to have a special council appointed and how they used it to try and cover up the crimes that Hillary had committed.
I personally think all this special prosecution is doing is digging a bigger hole for all the Democrat bureaucratic operative hiden in government.
This entire saga is crashing down of the democrats...
“It appears that the Democratic Party has successfully corrupted the FBI as well as the CIA.”
DEMOCRATS, FBI COLLABORATED ON TRUMP SMEAR
http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2017/06/democrats-fbi-collaborated-on-trump-smear.php
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