Posted on 06/16/2018 2:16:35 PM PDT by Magnatron
President Donald Trump's lawyers and special counsel Robert Mueller are hurtling toward a showdown over a yearlong investigation into the president's conduct, with Mueller pushing to write up his findings by summer's end and Trump's lawyers strategizing how to rebut a report that could spur impeachment hearings.
The confrontation is coming to a head as Trump and his allies ratchet up their attacks on the special counsel probe, seizing on a report released Thursday by the Justice Department's inspector general that castigated FBI officials for their conduct during the 2016 Hillary Clinton email investigation.
Rudy Giuliani, the president's personal attorney, said that he planned to use the inspector general's conclusions to undermine Mueller, suggesting he may ask Attorney General Jeff Sessions to appoint a second special counsel to examine the current probe.
"We want to see if we can have the investigation and special counsel declared illegal and unauthorized," Giuliani said in an interview Friday.
In the meantime, Trump must decide whether to do a face-to-face interview with Mueller's team - an answer the president's legal team expects to have in the next two weeks.
If the president agreed to a sit-down, the special counsel has told Trump's lawyers that he could finish within roughly 90 days a report on whether Trump sought to obstruct a probe into Russian interference in the 2016 campaign, according to two people familiar with the discussions. A separate report outlining Mueller's broader findings on Russian attempts to bolster Trump's candidacy is expected to take longer
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You should tell Q to get this cleaned up next week.
I am waiting for the report by Ratface Mueller and his rabid 14 Clinton contributor lawyers on Hillary’s sale of 20 percent of US uranium, her destruction of her laptop to hide subpoenaed evidence, her husband’s payment for $ 500,000 for a half hour “speech” from some Russians, the FBI’s ignoring of clear evidence of criminality while its top personnel debated how to screw an opposition (Trump) candidate using their governmental powers, the investigation of Tony Podesta, who supposedly did about the same as Manafort. Where is it all, Ratface??
Such as, for the present title you could search on “finalize obstruction” or “Mueller moves”
I think I was usually trying significant but relatively rare words, not necessarily in order.
That strategery seems to work well with Google
Wait now it’s an obstruction report?? I thought Mueller’s investigation was about Russian collusion. If there is no Russian collusion how can there possibly be an obstruction?
how much more of this scam and charade go on? TWO effing years and nothing to show for it.
BS article. The IG’s report cannot spur “impeachment hearings”. Trump would have to be “impeached” by a vote of the House and nobody is going to “hold” any hearings. There is a process by which all of this is set up. You just don’t “hold” a hearing into impeachment.
How do they know what Mueller is doing? Is he leaking again or are they just making things up?
You have no idea who or what Donald J Trump.
If you wish to post intelligent knowledgeable comments on FR, you would NOT have posted the leftist Alinsky talking points you did.
Study up and learn.
Or you will continue to be seen as a concern troll.
Why do you think PDJT is allowing the mueller investigation of him to keep going on ( and on and on), then? Has any other elected president ever let such a thing happen ( and especially right from the inauguration - before he had even any opportubity to do anything wrong even if he were to have wanted to)?
3D chess.
Hard to understand with a 2 dimensional mind.
Straws are weak, they bend when you grasp them.
let’s hope you’re correct about that
very much hope he knows what he’s doing...
this WashingtonDC politics is filthier than anything he’s encountered anywhere, even NYC if we may imagine that
he’s very bright but this IS his first experience in WashDC political office.....
we just hope you’re right that he knows how to out-play the Swamp Alligators in DC-3D-chess
It’s a “Git Rid of Trump Any Way We Can” report.
So they are going to prepare a report about “obstructing” investigators about finding out about something that never happened, apparently.
Winning the upcoming election. Losing provides momentum not only to Democrats but to Republicans who want Trump gone with the cover that "the people have spoken." That narrative is much more difficult if Trump's own party wins the elections big time. Flake will no doubt be working to help Sinema win in Arizona behind the scenes - people like Flake want vindication for their position more than anything that the GOP is headed for destruction because of Trump. A huge win sort of ruins that narrative. Kasich is not even backing DeWine in Ohio for governor - and DeWine is as establishment as you can get - because DeWine losing would be better for the narrative to remove Trump from office.
Good post.
Do you know this guy?
[Hoosier-Daddy]
Nope
Let them flush themselves down the toilet, NO MEETING. When this is over It is time to play their game
More wet dreams being shared between the WaaaaaaPo and Chicago Trib(ute to socialism)....
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