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Schumer: Trump 'floating trial balloons about derailing' Mueller probe
The Hill ^ | 3/18/18 | LUIS SANCHEZ

Posted on 03/18/2018 10:00:44 AM PDT by Libloather

Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) said on Sunday that President Trump is "floating trial balloons about derailing" special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation.

Schumer added in a statement that Republicans have an obligation to ensure that the special counsel can continue his investigation into Russia's election interference and any ties between Trump's campaign and Moscow after the president questioned the makeup of Mueller’s team.

"Our Republican colleagues, particularly the leadership, have an obligation to our country to stand up now and make it clear that firing Mueller is a red line for our democracy that cannot be crossed," the New York Democrat said.

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


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Extended News; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: chuckschumer; coup; fisa; mueller; robertmueller; russia; schumer; trump
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Schumer’s comments came shortly after Trump tweeted that Mueller’s team is made up of a large number of Democrats and no Republicans.

And yet, they've got nothing.

1 posted on 03/18/2018 10:00:45 AM PDT by Libloather
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To: Libloather

If Trump had a real AG, that person would have never recused himself. He would have taken personal control over the process, and he would have said regularly from the beginning any investigation will be brief, focused in scope, and not political. That person would have pulled the plug on this farce 8 months ago.


2 posted on 03/18/2018 10:04:41 AM PDT by PGR88
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To: Libloather

Give them a break. They have only been at it for a year and a half. Conducting a fake but accurate investigation into a non existent crime takes time.


3 posted on 03/18/2018 10:05:46 AM PDT by shelterguy
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To: Libloather

I like the trial balloons. So far, the only Republican that I know of who’s squealed is Linda. The Dems will have a tough time impeaching Trump if all they have are a handful of Republicans led by Linda.


4 posted on 03/18/2018 10:07:17 AM PDT by BobL (I shop at Walmart and eat at McDonald's...I just don't tell anyone)
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To: Libloather

schumer has no business threatening Trump! What mueller is doing was started with false and lying charges... brought on by a crime infested FBI and those who tried to undo an election ... what they did is treasonous and schumer best not push a man who has no intentions of being stripped of his office.


5 posted on 03/18/2018 10:07:56 AM PDT by frnewsjunkie
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Everyone has said the same thing about the composition of Mueller's little helpers.

So one can see that only the President's tweets brings it to the fore.

Mueller's camp picks and chooses.

6 posted on 03/18/2018 10:09:23 AM PDT by Sacajaweau
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And what was Schumer saying when Ken Starr was investigating a real crime?

Stop! Stop! He didn’t do it! Stop! Stop!


7 posted on 03/18/2018 10:11:37 AM PDT by Regulator
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To: frnewsjunkie

I sincerely hope next week the shit really hits the fan on several fronts, and the Dems collectively hide under their desks.


8 posted on 03/18/2018 10:12:04 AM PDT by Col Frank Slade
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To: Libloather

Not that I am counting on this happening, but IF Mueller were to say “I hired a bunch of Democrats to investigate Trump and they found nothing”, just imagine the whiplash Democrats would have as they switched to “Mueller is a Republican partisan hack”!!!


9 posted on 03/18/2018 10:15:28 AM PDT by jdsteel (Americans are Dreamers too!!!)
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To: Libloather

Someone remind Schumer he and his globalist in the D.C. swamp crossed that line long ago.


10 posted on 03/18/2018 10:16:16 AM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: Col Frank Slade

Mueller is there to protect his friends who are in trouble for lying.


11 posted on 03/18/2018 10:16:21 AM PDT by FreedBird (C)
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To: Libloather

Should there now be a permanent independent department of investigation of future Presidents: well funded with no oversight and no accountability and no limit of the scope of its investigation? Of course not. This kind of treatment is only for outsiders, not for swamp creatures.


12 posted on 03/18/2018 10:18:00 AM PDT by AndyTheBear
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To: Libloather

Schumer is floating trial balloons about making all illegal aliens exempt from all of our laws. All’s fair, hey Chuckie?


13 posted on 03/18/2018 10:22:02 AM PDT by VideoPaul
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To: Libloather

We elected President Trump to be a force of nature, bold and self-assured in his leadership. It’s time to pull the plug on the Mueller investigation. Mueller has already interviewed everyone who might be even remotely involved with the original scope of the investigation. Besides that, the FBI is now so totally compromised by the bad behavior of anti-Trump zealots that nothing they say or do can be trusted.


14 posted on 03/18/2018 10:24:48 AM PDT by grania (Deplorable and Proud of It!)
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To: Libloather

I haven’t seen any “trial balloons” on twitter this morning. I saw very direct criticism.


15 posted on 03/18/2018 10:24:57 AM PDT by Not A Snowbird (Formerly SandyInSeattle cuz I moved!)
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I want to know what Mule-face is investigating president Trump for? What specific crime is he being accused of? Is he allowed to search through president Trump's entire life hoping to find something he can charge him with? That would be an unconstitutional witch hunt and a violation of president Trump's rights. If the Mule hasn't found any Russian collusion by now he should end his charade.
16 posted on 03/18/2018 10:27:16 AM PDT by Peeps47 (Democrats are as corrupt as they are incompetent)
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To: Libloather

Schumer, gets his orders from his boss George Soros and then passes on to the democrats..More than likely Soros chose the democrats that are on Mueller’s team of fools..


17 posted on 03/18/2018 10:27:23 AM PDT by PLD
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To: Col Frank Slade

I do, too. It’s going to hit the fan and the sooner the better.


18 posted on 03/18/2018 10:44:43 AM PDT by laplata (Liberals/Progressives have diseased minds.)
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To: Libloather

I’d like to see President Trump tie a few of those trial balloons to Chucky’s @$$ and float him off the planet.


19 posted on 03/18/2018 10:48:42 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (#NotARussianBot)
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To: Libloather

The investigation was never on the rails, it is a coup.


20 posted on 03/18/2018 10:55:59 AM PDT by Vision (Obama corrupted, sought to weaken and fundamentally change America; he didn't plan on being stopped)
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