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Special counsel is investigating Trump for possible obstruction of justice, officials say
Wahington Post ^ | 6/14/17 | Devlin Barrett, Adam Entous, Ellen Nakashima and Sari Horwitz

Posted on 06/14/2017 3:46:37 PM PDT by Jolla

The special counsel overseeing the investigation into Russia’s role in the 2016 election is interviewing senior intelligence officials as part of a widening probe that now includes an examination of whether President Trump attempted to obstruct justice, officials said.

The move by Special Counsel Robert S. Mueller III to investigate Trump’s own conduct marks a major turning point in the nearly year-old FBI investigation, which until recently focused on Russian meddling during the presidential campaign and on whether there was any coordination between the Trump campaign and the Kremlin. Investigators have also been looking for any evidence of possible financial crimes among Trump associates, officials said.


TOPICS: Breaking News; Constitution/Conservatism; Government
KEYWORDS: 2; bullschiff; greggjarrett; mueller; muellerconflict; muellerobstruction; robertmueller; russia; slowmotioncoup; trump
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To: Hostage; TigerClaws; LucyT
Red Alert! Red Alert!

George Webb is alive claiming that the special prosecutor has granted blanket immunity to Comey, McCabe, and 22 people from State. 650,00 email will not have to be released. Criminals set free!

Clear and Present Danger

61 posted on 06/14/2017 4:06:32 PM PDT by Fractal Trader
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To: MNDude
-- ... here we are with an investigation on Trump for doing nothing but winning the election. --

Yep. If all the imaginary collusion happened, and Trump interefered with the Flynn investigation somehow, and Clinton had won the election, the amount of disscuussion relating to election security, election legitimacy, hacking the DNC, "active mesures," and Russians, would be ZERO. The jJanuary IC memo would not have been produced. The piss dossier would never made news.

"Russia" is a McGuffin. The plot line is "remove Trump from office."

62 posted on 06/14/2017 4:06:49 PM PDT by Cboldt
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To: Jolla

Boy oh boy, the acceptance of Mueller may be one of the biggest unforced errors ever committed. I hope not. But he walks in with same kind of endorsement/reputation that Comey did in the beginning.

Remember? Comey was admired by both sides up until the moment he begged off prosecuting HRC. As time went on, he was revealed to be a consummate insider in addition to his actual crime of leaking.


63 posted on 06/14/2017 4:07:09 PM PDT by Attention Surplus Disorder (Apoplectic is where we want them!)
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To: RummyChick

it’s because he fired comey... “obstructing the justice comey lied about in promising the left he’d deliver”.


64 posted on 06/14/2017 4:08:17 PM PDT by frnewsjunkie
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To: Jolla

Trump should terminate the Special Counsel.

He should tell Congress it’s your job under the Constitution to decide if I have committed high crimes and misdemeanors, not an unaccountable swamp rat who manipulated weak Jeff Sessions into creating a shadow executive branch.

Trump should say I am on solid legal and constitutional ground in firing Comey and hoping for good treatment for Flynn.

If you in Congress feel differntly, then put up or shut up.


65 posted on 06/14/2017 4:08:25 PM PDT by Meet the New Boss
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To: onyx

Not true. The man who wrote the law said trump can fire mueller..he can also order rosenstein to do it.


66 posted on 06/14/2017 4:08:29 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: mewzilla
-- FWIW, for about the last 20 years or so I've thought Germany a far greater threat than Russia. --

Good historical reason to be so, E-Germany was "true believer" communist. Combining E & W doesn;t divest their country of communists, and it appears the E eventually took over the whole country.

67 posted on 06/14/2017 4:09:47 PM PDT by Cboldt
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To: nfldgirl

Why Sessions fault?

1# Session admits he had decided before accept the post that he would recuse himself from the ‘Russian’ investigation, and he did this without telling the President.
2# Session’s choice for his second in command was a Obama hack, Rosenstein.
3# Rosentsein decides to appoint Mueller, a known Comey friend, ans Sessions did Nothing.


68 posted on 06/14/2017 4:10:03 PM PDT by heights
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To: Jolla

“Fake News Factory — Another Disastrous Week For ‘The Washington Post’”
May 19, 2017
http://www.dailywire.com/news/16646/fake-news-factory-another-disastrous-week-john-nolte

If anyone had told me that any news outlet was capable of spewing more Fake News than CNN, I would have laughed in their face. I was wrong. Over the past week, the left-wing Washington Post has published an astonishing amount of Fake News, a torrent of lies, and all of it aimed directly at President Trump.

1. BOMBSHELL Confession That Was … a Joke
Beyond pathetic.

2. BOMBSHELL: Deputy Attorney General Threatened to Quit
Never happened.

3. BOMBSHELL: FBI Director Comey Fired After Asking For More Investigative Funds
Total lie.

4. BOMBSHELL: Trump Revealed Classified Information To Russians
Yeah, no.

5. BOMBSHELL: Republicans Treat Rape As Pre-Existing Condition
Nope.
..

And let us never forget The Post’s whopper of all Fake News whoppers — the BOMBSHELL that Russia had hacked into Vermont’s power grid. Man alive.

I haven’t even gotten started on the serial-liar who poses as a fact-checker for The Washington Post.


69 posted on 06/14/2017 4:10:24 PM PDT by ForYourChildren (Christian Education [ RomanRoadsMedia.com - Classical Christian Approach to Homeschool ])
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To: Jolla
Past time for some firings ...


70 posted on 06/14/2017 4:11:01 PM PDT by plain talk
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To: Jolla

They need to put this out there so Trump won’t shut down the investigation.


71 posted on 06/14/2017 4:11:11 PM PDT by luv2ndamend (Same party, different letter. When the shtf, hug a politician.)
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To: nfldgirl

He’s been asleep at the wheel for months and inspires no confidence. Does he do anything? Seriously, what has he done to like? Employ the rope-a-dope strategy and get knocked senseless by Rob Rosenstein is all I’m seeing. Milquetoast old southern gentlemen imho.


72 posted on 06/14/2017 4:12:03 PM PDT by JerseyDvl ("If you're going through hell, keep going.")
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To: Jolla
who in the hell nominated this FPOS for the job???
73 posted on 06/14/2017 4:12:14 PM PDT by Chode (My job is not to represent the world. My job is to represent the United States of America-#45 DJT)
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To: Lexington Green

Hillary is behind ALL this, there is no doubt, no guessing, no conspiracy thinking whatsoever, it is FACT. I have people I know who work in DC telling me this She is using all her connections in DC and the media to push this hoax as far as it can go and she is never going to stop. If this hoax goes away, she will create a new one and another and another. Hillary OWNS Washington, they are all terrified of her. Why? I don’t know, but that’s why she’s never been prosecuted and why nobody from BOTH parties ever mentions her criminal acts. That’s why I said last year that once Trump took office, his first order of business should have been to see to it that Hillary was PROPERLY investigated and indicted. He really messed up not doing that because right now she is making his life hell. Trump HAS to cut the head off the snake if he ever hopes to even begin to drain the swamp.


74 posted on 06/14/2017 4:12:32 PM PDT by GrandJediMasterYoda (Hillary Clinton IS a felon)
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To: Jolla

This is the switch over of the narrative - the deep state refused to say Trump was not under investigation for Russian collusion, and now they can’t say that, because Comey had to admit it under oath.

Now they can hang this on Trump for the rest of his presidency.


75 posted on 06/14/2017 4:13:08 PM PDT by Rob the Ugly Dude
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To: Jolla

“The Anonymous Sources of Washington Post and CNN Fake News”
How fake news gets made.
May 18, 2017
http://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/266714/anonymous-sources-washington-post-and-cnn-fake-daniel-greenfield

1.
Its latest hit piece runs a quote from, “a former senior U.S. official who is close to current administration officials.” That’s an anonymous source quoting hearsay from other anonymous sources.

2.
Last week, the Washington Post unveiled a story based on “the private accounts of more than 30 officials at the White House.” The fake news story falsely claimed that Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein threatened to resign.

Rod had a simple answer when asked about that piece of fake news. “No.”

3.
The Washington Post’s “Trump fired Comey because he’s taller”


76 posted on 06/14/2017 4:14:21 PM PDT by ForYourChildren (Christian Education [ RomanRoadsMedia.com - Classical Christian Approach to Homeschool ])
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To: Jolla

YOu can basically call anything obstruction. Fire this hack.


77 posted on 06/14/2017 4:14:24 PM PDT by bray (Pray for President Trump)
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To: luv2ndamend

Good guess. Makes sense


78 posted on 06/14/2017 4:15:38 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: Jolla

An investigation in search of a crime -poor babies.


79 posted on 06/14/2017 4:15:59 PM PDT by jacknhoo (Luke 12:51; Think ye, that I am come to give peace on earth? I tell you, no; but separation.)
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To: Jolla

Well, so much for no leaks from the Special Council. Who could have seen this coming? LOL.


80 posted on 06/14/2017 4:16:12 PM PDT by lodi90
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