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Mueller probes Ukrainian who pitched peace plan to White House
Politico ^ | 18 May 2018 | David Stern

Posted on 05/19/2018 6:17:50 PM PDT by Meet the New Boss

KIEV — Special counsel Robert Mueller’s team has been meeting over the last year with a Ukrainian lawmaker at the center of a controversial plan to end his country’s conflict with Russia, pressing him for details about interactions with Trump administration officials.

Andrii Artemenko told POLITICO that FBI agents had peppered him with “assorted questions” over “at least” two interviews about his “meetings, dealings and the questions discussed with various levels of the American political establishment.”

“These included congressmen, senators and representatives of the White House administration,” he added in a telephone conversation on Friday, after a meeting with members of the Mueller team.


TOPICS: Politics
KEYWORDS: andriiartemenko; artemenko; cohen; felixsater; house; michaelcohen; mueller; muellerinvestigation; politics; sater; senate; ukraine
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It's interesting to consider from this Politico piece the kind of information the Mueller investigation is collecting.

One way of looking at the Mueller investigation is that it is an extremely useful tool for Democrat lawyer partisans to amass an enormous trove of political intelligence that is invaluable to the Democrat Party.

They have gathered all of the communications of the Trump campaign, all of the communications of the Trump transition and an enormous mountain of other documents and information on team Trump.

Poring over this information for month after month allows them to piece together everything about the winning Republican presidential campaign of 2016. They have been able to collect info on everything about every participant.

By reading team Trump's mail, so to speak, they know everyone's role in the Trump movement and can identify the strengths and weaknesses of the various players. They know which issues are important to which people and where the chinks in the armor are. The know how all the Trump players connect to the GOP Establishment and where the fissures and feuds are.

They can identify those who might be susceptible to a future Democrat smear campaign or be blackmailed by embarrassing information.

There would be no way for the Democrats to acquire all of this information through conventional political information tools. It's a dream come true for Democrat political hacks and dirty tricksters.

1 posted on 05/19/2018 6:17:50 PM PDT by Meet the New Boss
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And who’s to say that the same people who orchestrated the crap we now know about, aren’t in the beginning process of trying to do the same thing again in the next Presidential campaign cycle. The next Trump campaign team needs to hold things very close to the vest, and not trust outsiders of any kind.


2 posted on 05/19/2018 6:25:32 PM PDT by mass55th (Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway...John Wayne)
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Does this mean their high strategy will no longer be activists in duck costumes?


3 posted on 05/19/2018 6:26:24 PM PDT by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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Good observations.

They really are trying to outlaw or make second-class citizens of any opposition.


4 posted on 05/19/2018 6:26:46 PM PDT by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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Mueller is investigating the president as he carries out his constitutional, lawful duties? Nonsense! This guy has exceeded his power—as if he ever lawfully had any. This bastard swamp RAT must go.


5 posted on 05/19/2018 6:29:55 PM PDT by Fungi
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Mueller is running amuck and investigating the World ,LOL


6 posted on 05/19/2018 6:32:08 PM PDT by butlerweave
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They are absolutely flailing.

All pretense of the original investigation is gone.


7 posted on 05/19/2018 6:32:42 PM PDT by struggle
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But the media puts the Russia thing in every story even if there’s no ‘Russia’ to be found.


8 posted on 05/19/2018 6:33:56 PM PDT by Luke21
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What does this have to do with anything? Sick of the witch hunt.


9 posted on 05/19/2018 6:41:11 PM PDT by KC_Conspirator
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So, Mueller’s been probing a Ukrainian. Interesting what comes out in the news these days, isn’t it?

Do people actually get paid for writing these retarded headlines?


10 posted on 05/19/2018 6:42:55 PM PDT by Ancesthntr ("The right to buy weapons is the right to be free." A. E. van Vogt)
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Also, it’s reminiscent of the way the Obama DOJ approached the trumped-up investigations of local police forces.

One of the first things they would do is get the database file of all the emails sent by police employees.

They would go through all the messages, from the serious to banter to rumors to jokes that one normally finds in the employee emails of a large organization.

If they found, say, someone telling an Obama joke, they could add that to evidence of “racism” to support a “consent decree” allowing them to federalize to a certain extent these local government units.


11 posted on 05/19/2018 6:43:42 PM PDT by Meet the New Boss
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The Deep State/NeoCons don’t want peace in the Ukraine. They are willing to fight Russia to the last Ukrainian.


12 posted on 05/19/2018 6:47:01 PM PDT by Trumpisourlastchance
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Mueller reduced to picking corn out of a manure pile.


13 posted on 05/19/2018 6:54:19 PM PDT by odawg
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Exactly.


14 posted on 05/19/2018 7:11:24 PM PDT by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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Ukrainian ping


15 posted on 05/19/2018 7:12:46 PM PDT by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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Felix Sater’s been an FBI informant before.


16 posted on 05/19/2018 7:17:23 PM PDT by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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Indicts a company not in existence, naming suspects who never worked there.

Mueller is a POS and he’s going down.


17 posted on 05/19/2018 7:24:48 PM PDT by Eddie01
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Who knew Ukrainians would conspire with Russians to come to a peaceful resolution to make Trump look good in 2018 to help him win the election in 2016. Very devious!


18 posted on 05/19/2018 9:15:42 PM PDT by Flick Lives (Suddenly someone'll say, like, plate, or shrimp, or plate o' shrimp out of the blue, no explanation.)
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Mueller is trying to BANKRUPT and RUIN EVERYONE that ever MET Trump.....except for the Clintons!!


19 posted on 05/19/2018 9:39:24 PM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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Mueller is trying to BANKRUPT and RUIN EVERYONE that ever MET Trump.....except for the Clintons!!

That's the very reason you don't go out and hire an attorney when you are a target. Take some online classes about criminal procedure and the case law related to the alleged crime; and you can shortly become very proficient in stalling. That and record all your phone calls with everyone; especially the FBI and the DOJ because they will lie about what you said and twist it around. If you have it recorded, you can catch them in lies.

20 posted on 05/19/2018 9:52:03 PM PDT by WASCWatch
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