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More at the link.

I have been very impressed with Turley before - he is terrific at distilling legalese and issues with many moving parts into clear statements. This is the best discussion of Mueller's attempts to frame Trump as guilty that I've read.

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Sorry - I said “more at the link” before I moved over the rest of the article contents. No more at the link!

[milagro]

Thanks for posting this!

[ETL]

Mueller also needs to be asked about the Obama-Hillary Uranium-One deal...

Gohmert: Mueller “Covering” Involvement In Clinton-Uranium Deal While Trying To Have A “Coup” Against Trump

Posted By Ian Schwartz
June 9, 2018

Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-Texas) said Saturday special counsel Robert Mueller is trying to cover up his involvement with the Uranium One deal that benefited the Clintons while “trying to have a coup against the president.”

REP. LOUIE GOHMERT (R-TX): Robert Mueller has done more damage during his 12 years as FBI director than any other — probably all directors put together...

He has wasted money right and left.

Amazingly, he’s hired people like [Andrew] Weissmann that worked with him and [Rod] Rosenstein in investigating the Russian illegal efforts to obtain our uranium which they quashed information in order to allow the sale to go through so that Hillary could get the $145 million for her foundation.

So it is really outrageous. He’s covering for himself at the same time he’s trying to have a coup against the president.

https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2018/06/09/gohmert_mueller_covering_involvement_in_clinton-uranium_deal_while_trying_to_have_a_coup_against_trump.html

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"...he’s [Mueller] hired people like [Andrew] Weissmann that worked with him and [Rod] Rosenstein in investigating the Russian illegal efforts to obtain our uranium which they quashed information in order to allow the sale to go through so that Hillary could get the $145 million for her foundation.

So it is really outrageous. He’s covering for himself at the same time he’s trying to have a coup against the president.

https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2018/06/09/gohmert_mueller_covering_involvement_in_clinton-uranium_deal_while_trying_to_have_a_coup_against_trump.html

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Andrew Weissmann

Andrew Weissmann headed the Obama administration’s Department of Justice Criminal Fraud Section. Weissman was knowledgeable of Deputy Assistant Attorney General Bruce Ohr’s collusion with Christopher Steele and Glenn Simpson and did not report the illegal activity to his superiors as departmental regulations require.[1] Weissman is now lead prosecutor in the Mueller investigation.[2] Weissmann is suspected in illegal leaks from the Mueller probe.[3]

Weissmann donated $2,300 to the Obama Victory Fund in 2008, $2,000 to the DNC in 2006 and at least $2,300 to the Clinton campaign in 2007. He was at Hillary Clinton headquarters on election night and is part of the anti-Trump Resistance.

Uranium One

Main article: Uranium One bribery scandal

Vadim Mikerin, director of Tenex, plea agreement shows that the Obama DOJ’s Fraud Section was then run by Andrew Weissmann.

The Justice Department instructs prosecutors that when Congress has given a federal offense its own conspiracy provision with a heightened punishment (as it has for money laundering, racketeering, narcotics trafficking, and other serious crimes), they may not charge a section 371 conspiracy. Section 371 is for less serious conspiracy cases. Using it for money laundering — which caps the sentence below Congress’s intent for that behavior — subverts federal law and signals to the court that the prosecutor does not regard the offense as major.

Yet, that is exactly what Rod Rosenstein’s office did, in a plea agreement his prosecutors co-signed with attorneys from the Justice Department’s Fraud Section. (See in The Hill’s report, the third document embedded at the bottom, titled “Mikerin Plea Deal.”) No RICO, no extortion, no fraud — and the plea agreement does not mention any of the extortions in 2009 and 2010, before Committee on Foreign Investment in the US approved Rosatom’s acquisition of Uranium One. Mikerin just plead guilty to a nominal “money laundering” conspiracy charge, insulating him from a longer sentence. Thus, he got a term of only four years’ for a major national security crime.

https://www.conservapedia.com/Andrew_Weissmann

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[Steely Tom]

I have been very impressed with Turley before - he is terrific at distilling legalese and issues with many moving parts into clear statements. This is the best discussion of Mueller's attempts to frame Trump as guilty that I've read.

Which is why it will be ignored by the MSM-Democrats.

[Maris Crane]

Thanks, Jonathan, for some HONESTY.

[Erik Latranyi]

If anyone had doubts about Mueller’s intentions, there are none now. He is clearly working to undermine Trump and Barr.

Why?

Mueller’s own involvement in numerous political activities where he gave legal cover. Like Uranium One.

Is Mueller being threatened to be exposed if he does not continue spreading innuendoes about Trump and Barr or is Mueller doing this out of his own hatred for Trump?

It really does not matter. Mueller cannot be trusted.

[Trumpnado2016]

Robert Mueller’s name should be forever synonymous with the words fraud and deception. He should be placed under oath and made to testify publicly on his handling of the entire investigation. He needs to justify all of the time and money wasted on this whole scam.

[be-baw]

“This is the best discussion of Mueller’s attempts to frame Trump as guilty that I’ve read. “

I agree. Mueller’s reputation has tanked, for anyone paying attention. Now it’s time to get him disgraced...to destroy his fantasized legacy.

[JoSixChip]

I hope to see Trump tweet this article out.

[Widget Jr]

Any other lawyer who acted this way would have to answer these questions at a bar hearing.

[boycott]

The man just spent $30+ million of taxpayer’s dollars and now says he won’t take questions? He thinks more of himself than he should.

[thoughtomator]

failure to even look at the DNC server, that’s another good thing to ask about

[kiryandil]

Thus, Barr and Rosenstein reportedly were dumbfounded to receive a report that did not contain these markings. It meant the public report would be delayed by weeks as the Justice Department waited for Mueller to perform this basic task. Mueller knew it would cause such a delay as many commentators were predicting Barr would postpone the release of the report or even bury it. It left Barr and the Justice Department in the worst possible position and created the false impression of a coverup.

Looks like the ex-Marine should have the brains clubbed out his ears for seditious malfeasance.

[BigEdLB]

When pressed I hope there is absorbent material under the chair where he is sitting, or he will be as the actor portraying Alan Shepherd in , “The Right Stuff”, said, “I have to urinate”

[kiryandil]

Sanctimonious Bob is gonna look good on a DC cherry tree.

[spokeshave]

As Mueller himself declared, we are to ask him no questions or expect any answers beyond his report.

So he's taking the 5th.

[bitt]

p

[onyx]

I hope this mighty fine summation by Professor Johnathon Turley, describing Mueller’s clear intent to frame President Trump as guilty, means that Johnathon Turley will no longer view Robert Swan Mueller III and his “investigation” through rose colored glasses.

[silverleaf]

There still are people claiming Mueller is/was a “white hat”

[Paleo Pete]

The day Mueller was appointed I was sure he was dirty, all it took was watching the democrats almost pee themselves blithering about how great he was. They knew he would protect Hillary.

A couple of weeks later after watching him hire a platoon of Hillary donors, I knew how this would turn out.

I agree he should be questioned, in public would be good but in a classified hearing is more important. In public we’ll just hear “that’s classified” all day. “I can’t discuss that in a public setting”, “...national security...” ad nauseum...all of Comey’s favorite dodges.

In public he’ll never say much, then again in a classified setting he’ll probably clam up too. If Jordan ever gets his hands on this guy he’s toast and he knows it. A couple of others would grill him pretty good too. Graham sounds like he actually grew a pair now and then.

If anyone wants to read it, Louie Gohmert did a pretty good write up of Mueller’s past here -

https://gohmert.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=398634

I’d like to see a public questioning, but I doubt we would get much. If he answers at all, I would expect nonstop lies. This is the ring leader of the Comey, Clapper, Brennan gang, and they have all lied repeatedly in sworn testimony, probably at least partially to protect Mueller’s hide in addition to their own. He was FBI director while Hillary was involved in the worst of her offenses, knew about her and protected her. Mueller is the one who took a uranium sample to Russia. Comey worked for him, Clapper and Brennan were co-conspirators. Then the rest were all feeding from the same trough...Weissman, Rosenstein, McCabe, Ohr, Stzrok etc, all up to their eyeballs in at least 20 years of dirty deeds and the revolving door between government and big business.

Comey was working with Lockheed and brought them contracts worth hundreds of millions, (and about 6 million for himself) just to mention one of their connections, while his best buddy Mueller was running the FBI. Then he went back to the FBI himself...cash in, go back and feed at the government trough and cover it up...cash in, go back...

Business—> government—> lobbyist groups—> business—> government—> lobbyist groups...final stop, CNN/MSNBC post, millions for life...guess where Clapper and Brennan wound up...still corrupt, using their security clearances for profit. I read an article a few days ago saying Brennan still has his, a year after Trump ordered it yanked.

We’ll never get to the bottom of all this, especially when dealing with the top level bosses in the intelligence community, they’ve been working for years on how to hide their dirty deeds and they know exactly how to pressure the lower level guys who can rat them out. It will take getting a lower level peon under some serious charges with 300 years jail time staring him in the face, then maybe someone will start to squeal.

In Mueller’s case, all of them actually, we need both public and classified hearings. But don’t expect to get a lot out of either, they are good at answering with non answers.

But I’d sure like to see someone try it...

On the positive side, they are beginning to throw each other under the bus...Lynch and Comey are pointing fingers at each other, it’s beginning to look like some of them are worried.