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Trump Aides, Seeking Leverage, Investigate Mueller’s Investigators
The Old Gray [bleep] (NYT) ^ | JULY 20, 2017 | MICHAEL S. SCHMIDT, MAGGIE HABERMAN and MATT APUZZO

Posted on 07/20/2017 7:36:49 PM PDT by LesbianThespianGymnasticMidget

WASHINGTON — President Trump’s lawyers and aides are scouring the professional and political backgrounds of investigators hired by the special counsel Robert S. Mueller III, looking for conflicts of interest they could use to discredit the investigation — or even build a case to fire Mr. Mueller or get some members of his team recused, according to three people with knowledge of the research effort.

The search for potential conflicts is wide-ranging. It includes scrutinizing donations to Democratic candidates, investigators’ past clients and Mr. Mueller’s relationship with James B. Comey, whose firing as F.B.I. director is part of the special counsel’s investigation.

The effort to investigate the investigators is another sign of a looming showdown between Mr. Trump and Mr. Mueller, who has assembled a team of high-powered prosecutors and agents to examine whether any of Mr. Trump’s advisers aided Russia’s campaign to disrupt last year’s presidential election.

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


TOPICS: Breaking News; Crime/Corruption; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: mueller; muellerinvestigation; muellerlawyers; russia; trump; trumprussia; trumpworld; witchhunt
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To: LesbianThespianGymnasticMidget; Fedora; LucyT; GregNH; LS; 2ndDivisionVet; appalachian_dweller; ...

PING!!!

Article and comments, esp #23 & #27 & #44 & #47 among others

Thanks LesbianThespianGymnasticMidget & Fedora


61 posted on 07/20/2017 8:42:56 PM PDT by Whenifhow (when, if and how will Obama be gone?)
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To: plain talk

You think like a gov emp. Whatever leverage. That is the way of biz. Welcome to a new world.


62 posted on 07/20/2017 8:45:14 PM PDT by LesbianThespianGymnasticMidget (God punishes Conservatives by making them argue with fools. Go Trump!)
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To: tinamina

supposedly only on matters of russia.


63 posted on 07/20/2017 8:46:43 PM PDT by stylin19a
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To: stylin19a

IIRC..lowell works at the same firm. Kushner needs a heavy hitter criminal lawyer..lowell is that..gorelick isnt


64 posted on 07/20/2017 8:49:36 PM 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: Trumpnado2016
No other Republican official who have the guts to fight back like this.

Not a one!

And I'm more than confident D.C. will rue the day if they ever succeed in undermining Trump.

65 posted on 07/20/2017 8:50:08 PM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: Disestablishmentarian

Nixon should have never resigned. Same crap. Same methods.


66 posted on 07/20/2017 8:51:41 PM PDT by blackberry1
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To: Hotlanta Mike

Yes, they had a plan to railroad him right into impeachment before he knew what hit him.
We’ll see.


67 posted on 07/20/2017 8:52:30 PM PDT by GnuThere
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To: A_Former_Democrat

“Nonsense... ...Even assuming you’re as pure as the wind driven snow”

It’s along the lines of people saying “nobody should mind the gov recording all electronic communications if they’ve got nothing to hide.” No principles.


68 posted on 07/20/2017 8:52:34 PM PDT by Carthego delenda est
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To: LesbianThespianGymnasticMidget

Giving the Left the benefit of doubt is NEVER prudent especially when the mass media are in bed with the Left. IF there are conflicts of interest to be exposed then expose them yourself because the mass media will never do it.


69 posted on 07/20/2017 8:53:28 PM PDT by DBeers (The concept of peace in Islam requires not co-existence but submission.)
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To: Whenifhow; Fedora

Well I think it is a match made in heaven. I am a big fat hairy man into dainty women with ironic hats. I think WhenIflow (The menstruation fairy) set us up. How about a comedy show?

Please tip the wait staff before you leave. ;-)

Hat tip Fedora.

(Sorry Wen, it is just what I saw at first. I had to reread)


70 posted on 07/20/2017 8:54:30 PM PDT by LesbianThespianGymnasticMidget (God punishes Conservatives by making them argue with fools. Go Trump!)
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To: LesbianThespianGymnasticMidget

I hope and pray your info is correct!


71 posted on 07/20/2017 8:57:11 PM PDT by Carthego delenda est
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To: comebacknewt

Mueller and Comey already have the appearance of impropriety based on ther collusion with each other and the ‘Rats.

That’s enough that they should resign.


72 posted on 07/20/2017 8:57:16 PM PDT by Paladin2 (No spelchk nor wrong word auto substition on mobile dev. Please be intelligent and deal with it....)
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To: Carthego delenda est

You mean the Old Gray Bitch will not have to retract?

Oh my.... I feel the vapors.


73 posted on 07/20/2017 8:58:56 PM PDT by LesbianThespianGymnasticMidget (God punishes Conservatives by making them argue with fools. Go Trump!)
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To: LesbianThespianGymnasticMidget

It's coming. Mueller gonna get fired. Lock down Mueller and his partisan hacks government issued laptops cuz they are about to get fired.

74 posted on 07/20/2017 9:00:13 PM PDT by andmy_
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To: Parley Baer

SOOO Nice to have somebody that fights back, isn’t it???


75 posted on 07/20/2017 9:04:25 PM PDT by NFHale (The Second Amendment - By Any Means Necessary.)
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To: Engraved-on-His-hands

The main purpose of these investigations against Trump is not only to bring him down but to stymie his agenda....he can’t function 100% as president with a fishing expedition going on....he needs to clear this up by going at it full speed ahead first and then he can have a chance to work more effectively


76 posted on 07/20/2017 9:10:29 PM PDT by Bigtigermike (D)
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To: NFHale

Trump adminstration now controls the CIA and FBI throttles. Mueller will wilt in the face of what’s about to happen.


77 posted on 07/20/2017 9:12:37 PM PDT by blackberry1
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To: CaptainK
"There was no “there” there for Scotter Libby and yet he was found guilty."

It helps if you are guilty, but with our criminal justice system guilt is not required for conviction.

It certainly is helpful that Trump can fund a very good defense and maybe even an offense. Mueller seems dirty to me, entirely to close to Comey. I've been a defender of Session but his decision to recuse was horrible. Just horribly stupid, he better get control over his Justice Department.

78 posted on 07/20/2017 9:16:47 PM PDT by jpsb (Never believe anything in politics until it has been officially denied. Otto von Bismark)
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To: RummyChick

Maybe kushner Should fire Gorelick given she worked at same firm as mueller

My son nderstanding is that they have parted ways already.


79 posted on 07/20/2017 9:17:08 PM PDT by georgiarat (The most expensive thing in the world is a cheap Army and Navy. - Carl Vinson)
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To: blackberry1

“...Trump adminstration now controls the CIA and FBI throttles....”

Once - or rather if - he cleans out all the OBunghole moles, plants, sleeper cells and leave-behinds, then yes, I agree.

If he doesn’t, then nothing will change.

Firing that feckless Democrat puke Comey was good start, but it should have been done on Day +1.

Along with the immediate firing of every single OBunghole appointee and affirmative action hire.

And he should have gone after the Hillary/Podesta/Lynch Crime syndicate immediately as well.

Instead, he let the Dems go on the offensive with this Russia bullsh*t. Luckily for him, it’s making them look like even more assholish than they already do.

Love the guy, just wish he he’d have shoved all their treachery up their collective immediately.


80 posted on 07/20/2017 9:19:48 PM PDT by NFHale (The Second Amendment - By Any Means Necessary.)
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