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Buckle up’: As Mueller probe enters second year, Trump and allies go on war footing
Seattle Times ^ | 13 May 2018 | Matt Zapotosky and Ashley Parker, Philip Rucker, Tom Hamburger, Robert Costa

Posted on 05/14/2018 4:06:33 AM PDT by Magnatron

The grand jury witnesses arrive one by one at the windowless room in the federal courthouse on Constitution Avenue in downtown Washington. They are struck first by how commonplace the setting feels – more classroom than courtroom, two witnesses said.

One of special counsel Robert Mueller III’s prosecutors stands at a lectern. The jurors, diverse by age and ethnicity, are attentive and take notes. The questioning is polite yet aggressive, surprising witnesses with its precision and often accompanied by evidence – including text messages and emails – displayed on a large old-fashioned overhead projector.

The investigation of Russian interference in the 2016 election, which hits its one-year mark Thursday, has formed the cloudy backdrop of Donald Trump’s presidency – a rolling fog of controversy, much of it self-inflicted, that is a near-constant distraction for the commander in chief.

The Mueller operation, like the former Marine Corps platoon commander who leads it, is secretive and methodical. Ten blocks west in the White House, President Trump combats the probe with bluster, disarray and defiance as he scrambles for survival.

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


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Year two...

Where is Sessions and the GOP?

What a complete, disgusting embarrassment...

1 posted on 05/14/2018 4:06:33 AM PDT by Magnatron
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To: Magnatron

You mean, “Ex-Marine”!


2 posted on 05/14/2018 4:09:33 AM PDT by Redleg Duke (The Democrats in California want another civil war over cheap labor!)
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To: Magnatron
I have found that, as a rule, the more authors to a piece, the more leftwardly biased the article.

Example:


3 posted on 05/14/2018 4:10:09 AM PDT by Lazamataz (What America needs is more Hogg control.)
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To: Magnatron

President Trump combats the probe with bluster, disarray and defiance as he scrambles for survival.
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LOL — “scrambles for survival”? These leftist writers live in a world of fantasy — taxpayer funded fantasy, of course.


4 posted on 05/14/2018 4:12:05 AM PDT by House Atreides (BOYCOTT the NFL, its products and players 100% - PERMANENTLY)
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To: Lazamataz

at some level the left does acknowledge their lies-and alone they are unwilling to stand for them


5 posted on 05/14/2018 4:13:58 AM PDT by mo (If you understand, no explanation is needed. If you don't understand, no explanation is possible.)
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To: Magnatron

6 posted on 05/14/2018 4:16:44 AM PDT by Vaquero (Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you)
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To: Magnatron

Um,isn’t this the TWO YEAR mark of the ‘russian investigation’? We are into the THIRD year now.

They began investigating DURING the 2016 Clinton scampaign under the Obama administration. Things did NOT begin in the middle of 2017.

That story and timeline is a LIE.


7 posted on 05/14/2018 4:19:44 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (Ads for Chappaquiddick warn of scenes of tobacco use. What about the hazards of drunk driving?)
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To: House Atreides

Well, if “scrambling for survival” means getting tax cuts passed, Iran deals negated, Stupid climate agreements withdrawn from, Jobless rates reduced to historically low levels, economic growth at 3% for the first time in years, Embassies moved to Jerusalem, Ending the Korean War, and sticking fingers in the eye of nearly every left wing moonbat in and out of government, well...

Screw “scrambling for survival”! Let go full tilt for active meltdown! We might get Obamacare crushed once and for all!


8 posted on 05/14/2018 4:19:54 AM PDT by rlmorel (Leftists: They believe in the "Invisible Hand" only when it is guided by government.)
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To: House Atreides

Mueller is scrambling for survival.

So many other Democrat loving government officials have already quit or been fired, it’s only a matter of time that Mulehead goes too.


9 posted on 05/14/2018 4:21:29 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (Ads for Chappaquiddick warn of scenes of tobacco use. What about the hazards of drunk driving?)
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To: a fool in paradise

That is what liberal Lars do. They lie. You act surprised.


10 posted on 05/14/2018 4:24:08 AM PDT by eartick (Have been to the line in the sand and liked it. Ready to go again)
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To: Magnatron

An ethnically diverse grand jury in DC. BS. It’s packed with lifetime rats from the Democrat plantation.


11 posted on 05/14/2018 4:24:55 AM PDT by King Moonracer (Bad lighting and cheap fabric, that's how you sell clothing.)
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To: a fool in paradise

Mueller is an embarrassment


12 posted on 05/14/2018 4:28:22 AM PDT by yldstrk (My heroes have always been cowboys)
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To: Magnatron

Sessions is AWOL from everything.


13 posted on 05/14/2018 4:31:00 AM PDT by tennmountainman ("Prophet Mountainman" Predicter Of All Things RINO...for a small fee.)
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I loved fairy tales as a child....I’m so pleased that Dems love them, too (smirk).

As long as Mueller is making headlines, dumbo Dems can entertain voters, that “the Mueller act” is going to knock Trump out of the park. The Dems “just know” that when Mueller drops the hammer, the UN will step in and make Hillary POTUS....and they’ll all live happily ever after.


14 posted on 05/14/2018 4:32:10 AM PDT by Liz
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America views Trump as a victim. Isn’t that laughable. They want the underdog to win against the bully. Trump is winning and Mueller can do nothing because there is nothing


15 posted on 05/14/2018 4:40:02 AM PDT by Kozy (new age haruspex; "Everyone has a plan 'till they get punched in the mouth.")
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To: yldstrk
Mueller is an embarrassment

More importantly, Mueller is a FELON. The scumbag BLOCKED the information that would have stopped the Hillary/Uranium ONE scam. Suitcases full of cash and an FBI information, all hidden by Mueller's FBI.

When the Russian witch hunt stops, the RAT arrests begin. The RATS know that the trail will lead to Hussein Obama, the criminal at the top of the conspiracies run during Hussein's reign.

16 posted on 05/14/2018 4:40:47 AM PDT by politicianslie (Lying to Americans is easy-Presstitutes repeat what they are told to say!-and they say it 24/7)
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To: Lazamataz

I have found that, as a rule, the more authors to a piece, the more leftwardly biased the article.

Bingo. My supposition is with multiple writers, they then can use each other as an “anonymous source”.


17 posted on 05/14/2018 4:41:47 AM PDT by Flick Lives (The FBI is the Mob)
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To: Magnatron
Where is Sessions and the GOP?

What a complete, disgusting embarrassment...

Sessions is a deep state fool. Biggest mistake Trump has made was making the traitor Sessions AG.

18 posted on 05/14/2018 4:46:42 AM PDT by jpsb
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To: mo

It happened yesterday, with Sen Warner. All of a sudden it went from Russian Collusion to there’s a chance that all of this is just coincidence.

However, I’m still baffled by some things:

1. What exactly is collusion in this respect? Did Russian agents go into voting booths with voters?

2. If it all started with the DNC info, step 1 in an investigation is looking at the servers, is it not? Never happened.

3. What is the federal statute for collusion? I’ve never heard of one.

4. After 2 years and, what one would think is a rather detailed investigation, have there only been a couple of pleas on unrelated issues and it’s looking like Mueller is about to go, 0-3, with Manafort, 13 Russians, and Flynn.

I’m hoping that when it’s over, these writers and the rest of the MSM/Left/National Review staff/Red State writers/Most Townhall writers, all meet up and drink some Jim Jones Kool Aid. The world will be a better place


19 posted on 05/14/2018 4:48:23 AM PDT by qaz123
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To: Magnatron

I am waiting with anticipation to see how the Left handles the soon to be released IG report.

The Mueller witch hunt is melting. The courts will be its downfall. The Flynn case is the canary in the coal mine. Flynn was framed by Mueller and Comey. The case against the indicted Russian bloggers will fall apart thru discovery. The prosecution of Manafort will founder on the rocks of the legal authority of the Special Counsel, which Mueller has exceeded. And the plot of Comey, Brennan, and Clapper to take down Trump will be exposed.

Time is on Trump’s side. The more the public learns about the greatest scandal in US history, the worse it will be for the Dems. Tick tock.


20 posted on 05/14/2018 4:49:38 AM PDT by kabar
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