Weasel Mueller runs RosenWeasel.
I find it very easy to conclude that RosenWeasel has given the go-ahead to expand the “investigation”.
If the investigation truly has no limits then I can’t see any reason why, for example, it couldn’t investigate the lifelong background and finances of any individual donating to the trump campaign. After all, they might be a russian...
If this investigation get’s Trump, that number 2 (ironically it’s #2 as in $h#$hole) will be the one that gets Trump.
I have to imagine that after 35 - 40 years running the Trump Corporation with all of it’s international ties and billion dollar industry, there are some illegalities there. If a team of lawyers dug into any of our lives they would be able to come up with illegalities. These would be the same lawyers that can’t find the obvious illegal practices of Uranium One, the Clinton Foundation or Hillary’s e-mails...
Mueller was apparently a failure as leader of the FBI and now he’s attempting to clean up the mess he left behind. I used to admire this guy, now I have nothing but contempt for him.
Mueller has been in touch with Andrew Cuomo’s lackeys to file parallel charges against Manafort in NY State. This violates the spirit if not the letter of double-jeopardy, and sets a very dangerous precedent. Future prosecutors who can’t get traction on a Federal case will just farm it out to blue state hacks.
Wouldn't that be an ex-post-facto justification, and still be fruit of the poisoned tree?
As I pointed out at the time, Rosenstein "authorized" Mueller to investigate anything.
As long as Rosenstein remains in his position, the swamp isn't going to be drained.
Rosenstein wrote the authorization so that Mueller can hound every single person who had any association with the Trump campaign, for anything they might have done or not done during their entire lives. Using Manafort as an example, Mueller can easily claim that he had to investigate Manafort’s entire career and finances to see if he had buried, long-term connections to the Russian government. While doing so, Manafort’s failure to register as a foreign agent, and report foreign bank accounts “arose from the investigation.”
Manafort can argue 1) that Rosenstein’s authorization requires the charges to be related to the time and activities of the Trump campaign, and 2) that the charges are unrelated to actual connections to the Russian government. I wish him the best with that, and hope he at least gets to a discovery phase. But Rosenstein is aware of the charges against Manafort. Has he rushed out to say — wait, wait, that exceeds my authorization?
Who are we kidding? This is not going to end until someone puts a shovel into Mueller’s head.