Posted on 10/27/2017 5:47:01 PM PDT by Drew68
Washington (CNN) — A federal grand jury in Washington, DC, on Friday approved the first charges in the investigation led by special counsel Robert Mueller, according to sources briefed on the matter. The charges are still sealed under orders from a federal judge.
Plans were prepared Friday for anyone charged to be taken into custody as soon as Monday, the sources said.
It is unclear what the charges are. A spokesman for the special counsel's office declined to comment.
Mueller was appointed in May to lead the investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 election. Under the regulations governing special counsel investigations, Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, who has oversight over the Russia investigation, would have been made aware of any charges before they were taken before the grand jury for approval, according to people familiar with the matter.
On Friday, top lawyers who are helping to lead the Mueller probe, including veteran prosecutor Andrew Weissmann, were seen entering the court room at the DC federal court where the grand jury meets to hear testimony in the Russia investigation.
Reporters present saw a flurry of activity at the grand jury room, but officials made no announcements.
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Mueller is authorized to investigate "any matters that arose or may arise directly from the investigation," according to Rosenstein's order.
The special counsel's investigation has focused on potential collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia, as well as obstruction of justice by the President, who might have tried to impede the investigation.
CNN reported that investigators are scrutinizing Trump and his associates' financial ties to Russia. Mueller's team has also examined foreign lobbying conducted by former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort, former national security adviser Michael Flynn, and others. His team has issued subpoenas for documents and testimony to a handful of figures...
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“I disagree in Sean’s case. He has been sworn to secrecy and so far he has been proven to be right.”
WHAT’S THIS about him being sworn to secrecy??????
The realtor who helped former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort buy the Virginia condo that was recently raided by the FBI testified last week before the federal grand jury hearing testimony in Robert Mueller’s Russia probe, POLITICO has learned.
The real estate agent, Wayne Holland of Alexandria, Virginia-based McEnearney Associates, appeared before the Washington-based grand jury after a federal judge rejected the firm’s lawyer’s bid to quash subpoenas for testimony and records about various real estate transactions.
The broker’s appearance before the grand jury is one of few concrete indications of the leads Mueller’s prosecutors are pursuing as they investigate Russian meddling in last year’s presidential election. The investigation encompasses lobbying work done by Manafort as well as possible collusion between the Trump campaign and Russian officials.
Obviously, a ham sandwich.
CNN don’t know who is getting indicted. The indictment is sealed. They are assuming it is a Trump person because they are all so caught up in their own BS that they’ve lost touch with reality.
I remember another night almost one year ago when CNN were all giddy too because they believed their own BS. Turns out they deluded themselves. Bigly.
Do you know the Judge who coined that phrase got taken down by an indictment when he went nuts
Except that why would Comey be charged?
Why would CNN be happy about it?
Look at the scene, not how you want to see it.
This is someone in the admin who is big, and who the media is HAPPY is getting charged. That means someone close to Trump.
My bet is still Manafort..all arrows point to him
The libs were giddy early on election night too...until reality slapped them in the face.
We shall see.
Well, Manafort only worked for the Trump campaign for a very short time. But it was just long enough to set in motion a bunch of tapping and unmaskings.
Yeah. You would never see the DEMs or the deep state use a willing press to their advantage to skew public opinion. All of them are on the up and up.
Except he is a pretty small fish for all the bother.
My dollar is on one of the Trump family. Notice the phrases “Collusion” and “treason” that hit the talking points over the week in regards to the Trump boys meeting with Russians.
If you look at the board, there are patterns. This was known before hand.
Honestly, I bet the leak is to try to get someone to run.
Why do you think they know who the person is? The indictment is sealed.
If you are correct, then we won't have to wait until Monday, because there is no way in hell that an entire TV network has this information and it doesn't get leaked right away. As they say, only two people at most can keep a secret, assuming one of them is dead.
Interesting take. Don Junior has a meeting with the honeypot, nothing happens, but yup, it's treasonous, or some such, Just to Get Trump to Blow Up, have a hissy fit tweet storm so they can pull the 25th Amendment crap again. And if they somehow get on Ivanka's case, watch out.
This is all so corrupt it just makes you sick.
So, we have Hillary going all "End Justifies the Means" out during the campaign and comes up with the Dossier which is immediately widely circulated to her cronies, the MSM and the IC. She tells the FBI to start a special counsel to get Trump. Trump gets wind of it and fires Comey. They use the Dossier, after Buzzfeed breaks it, as an "Oh My, this is big, we need to weaponize the IC, do unmasking, do a Special Counsel, anything, to get Trump." Never mind the dossier is a totally made up fairy tail.
On top of it, the FBI is weaponized to work with Fusion GPS, pays them and Steele to get more dirt on Trump. What happened to our FBI? When did the CIA and NSA become tools of the President and Secretary of State to destroy the opposition party and candidates? This is getting to sound like a Clancy novel.
The biggest 'hit' on our country so to speak is not the illegalities, sedition and treason of Hillary, Obama, Comey, Podesta and all the senior Hillary and Obama players too numerous to name. . the biggest 'hit' we're all taking is witnessing the FBI, the CIA and the NSA be totally weaponized and used to betray and destroy political opponents. This is the stuff of third rate banana republics, not the USA.
So many investigations needed. So many Special Counsels needed. So many Congressional investigations needed. The Federal Government, our government, is wounded and sick with sepsis. It may not survive. God help us if there are no real investigations, if congress just goes through the motions, if no charges are forthcoming, no indictments and no one goes to prison. If that happens then we're back to:
"That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security."
I don't think Washington D.C. realizes that American Patriots all across this land are watching very closely how the Beltway handles all of this. They better follow the laws, follow the Constitution, do what is right and just.
This is a national emergency like none other in our history. It's very serious with many laws broken by multiple people. The events of the last two weeks have been like a lightning bolt. Trump needs to weed out the FBI, CIA and the NSA. They have to be rebuilt from the ground up. The Obama holdovers need to go. I hope Jeff Sessions is up to the task. I know President Trump is, but he can't do it all by himself.
We Are the Last Line of Defense. Pray for America and Prepare.
That Palmer guy is a far lefty.
That night a year ago, the script was for Hillary to win.
The fact that she didn’t caused a lot of heart ache, even in Fox news. They new she would win. They had the data. But she didn’t.
They had plenty of leaks then too. But someone else was playing the game.
Now, the leaks are coming from the only player IN the game who COULD leak. A bit different.
So according to Mueller, its illegal for Trump Jr to talk to Russian lawyer(Who works for Fusion GPS) but its A OK For Hillary Clinton and her team to make up a fake Dossier about Trump and PAY FOR IT
Yep, Trump is done for and so are we. Hand in your guns and bend over without lube because it’s coming.
That is one way to look at it.. and the other is that mueller is so sure of himself and his position that he is not afraid of anything anyone else says or thinks... that he lives in that washington bubble and thinks he is beyond touching by anyone. That is always a dangerous way to think, but so far he’s been secure.
I am so sick of the unfairness of all this... that without ANYTHING they can pin on Trump, they still regard it as most important, when all the evidence in front of them on hillary, the dems and obama is hard and sure/provable. Makes for a round of rebellion and showing them the conservatives out here are not weak nor do we sit and let them destroy the Trump family.
If they charge one of his sons, they will have taken this too far...too far... it would be going after what they consider the weaker one to get at the President.
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