Posted on 06/23/2018 10:52:06 AM PDT by yesthatjallen
Robert Mueller may be preparing to wind down the special counsel investigation into possible ties between the Trump campaign and Russia and hand off at least one prosecution following the probe's conclusion.
The Washington Post reports that Mueller has added several prosecutors to his team, specifically assigned to the case against several Russian nationals charged in the alleged effort to spread disinformation using stolen identities during the 2016 election.
Mueller's new additions will likely take over that case, which is expected to last longer than the probe into Russian collusion in the election. The Post reports the new hires are first indication of Mueller preparing for the end of his investigation.
Mueller's indictment of 13 Russian nationals and organizations earlier this year is one of several that have been spawned by the ongoing special counsel investigation, including indictments of former Trump campaign chair Paul Manafort for bank fraud and lobbying violations as well as several other former Trump associates.
Trump's longtime attorney, Michael Cohen, also came under investigation this year following a referral from Mueller's office, and now faces an investigation into possible campaign finance law violations and bank fraud.
The president and his allies have for months criticized the Mueller investigation, accusing the former FBI director of exceeding the scope of the intended investigation into contacts between the Trump campaign and Russia. None of the charges filed yet by Mueller's prosecutors relate to election interference by U.S. citizens.
Manafort headed back to jail this month after a judge ruled that he had violated the terms of his bail agreement by allegedly attempting to tamper with a witness.
Adding attorneys from the local US Attorney’s office as counsel of record is probably to prepare a fall-back defense if Mueller loses the legal argument over whether he was properly appointed and authorized.
If one steps back and looks at the broad scope of his mandate and the totality of his operation, Mueller really is running a de facto US Attorney operation. Which he can’t do under the statute or constitution without senate confirmation.
So if the judges find against him, Mueller is going to argue as a fall back that the cases he brought should not be dismissed but rather that by adding real, legally authorized attorneys to the prosecution the cases should be allowed to continue on even if Mueller is illegal.
Laughable, he actually thinks the prosecution’s will continue after he shuts down his operation? There will be Pardons and every one of those process cases. You think you’d be bright enough to know that.
Even if ds pick up house, they need 2/3 vote in senate
Most of mine are...that’s the fun part.
Yea, enough is enough. Unfortunately, the left seems to be in charge of that. Has POTUS Trump picked an AG yet? I have heard of this guy named Sessions.
Mueller sees his job as destroying Trump, politically and personally, by any means necessary, legal or not.
Remember, Mueller and Weissman knowingly kept four innocent men in prison to protect Whitey Bulger.
It all depends on how much it pays him, of course.
Mueller wants the freedom to get on the talk show circuit before November, so he can cry how Trump prevented him from doing his job, and that’s why he has an incomplete. Just my guess. I wonder of Ken Starr would have done that and how the Lib media would have received him?
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