Posted on 07/20/2017 7:36:49 PM PDT by LesbianThespianGymnasticMidget
WASHINGTON President Trumps lawyers and aides are scouring the professional and political backgrounds of investigators hired by the special counsel Robert S. Mueller III, looking for conflicts of interest they could use to discredit the investigation or even build a case to fire Mr. Mueller or get some members of his team recused, according to three people with knowledge of the research effort.
The search for potential conflicts is wide-ranging. It includes scrutinizing donations to Democratic candidates, investigators past clients and Mr. Muellers relationship with James B. Comey, whose firing as F.B.I. director is part of the special counsels investigation.
The effort to investigate the investigators is another sign of a looming showdown between Mr. Trump and Mr. Mueller, who has assembled a team of high-powered prosecutors and agents to examine whether any of Mr. Trumps advisers aided Russias campaign to disrupt last years presidential election.
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PING!!!
Article and comments, esp #23 & #27 & #44 & #47 among others
Thanks LesbianThespianGymnasticMidget & Fedora
You think like a gov emp. Whatever leverage. That is the way of biz. Welcome to a new world.
supposedly only on matters of russia.
IIRC..lowell works at the same firm. Kushner needs a heavy hitter criminal lawyer..lowell is that..gorelick isnt
Not a one!
And I'm more than confident D.C. will rue the day if they ever succeed in undermining Trump.
Nixon should have never resigned. Same crap. Same methods.
Yes, they had a plan to railroad him right into impeachment before he knew what hit him.
We’ll see.
“Nonsense... ...Even assuming youre as pure as the wind driven snow”
It’s along the lines of people saying “nobody should mind the gov recording all electronic communications if they’ve got nothing to hide.” No principles.
Giving the Left the benefit of doubt is NEVER prudent especially when the mass media are in bed with the Left. IF there are conflicts of interest to be exposed then expose them yourself because the mass media will never do it.
Well I think it is a match made in heaven. I am a big fat hairy man into dainty women with ironic hats. I think WhenIflow (The menstruation fairy) set us up. How about a comedy show?
Please tip the wait staff before you leave. ;-)
Hat tip Fedora.
(Sorry Wen, it is just what I saw at first. I had to reread)
I hope and pray your info is correct!
Mueller and Comey already have the appearance of impropriety based on ther collusion with each other and the ‘Rats.
That’s enough that they should resign.
You mean the Old Gray Bitch will not have to retract?
Oh my.... I feel the vapors.
It's coming. Mueller gonna get fired. Lock down Mueller and his partisan hacks government issued laptops cuz they are about to get fired.
SOOO Nice to have somebody that fights back, isn’t it???
The main purpose of these investigations against Trump is not only to bring him down but to stymie his agenda....he can’t function 100% as president with a fishing expedition going on....he needs to clear this up by going at it full speed ahead first and then he can have a chance to work more effectively
Trump adminstration now controls the CIA and FBI throttles. Mueller will wilt in the face of what’s about to happen.
It helps if you are guilty, but with our criminal justice system guilt is not required for conviction.
It certainly is helpful that Trump can fund a very good defense and maybe even an offense. Mueller seems dirty to me, entirely to close to Comey. I've been a defender of Session but his decision to recuse was horrible. Just horribly stupid, he better get control over his Justice Department.
Maybe kushner Should fire Gorelick given she worked at same firm as mueller
My son nderstanding is that they have parted ways already.
“...Trump adminstration now controls the CIA and FBI throttles....”
Once - or rather if - he cleans out all the OBunghole moles, plants, sleeper cells and leave-behinds, then yes, I agree.
If he doesn’t, then nothing will change.
Firing that feckless Democrat puke Comey was good start, but it should have been done on Day +1.
Along with the immediate firing of every single OBunghole appointee and affirmative action hire.
And he should have gone after the Hillary/Podesta/Lynch Crime syndicate immediately as well.
Instead, he let the Dems go on the offensive with this Russia bullsh*t. Luckily for him, it’s making them look like even more assholish than they already do.
Love the guy, just wish he he’d have shoved all their treachery up their collective immediately.
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