Posted on 06/04/2019 9:41:48 AM PDT by Red Badger
Former Trump lawyer John Dowd predicted multiple instances of special counsel Robert Mueller misleading the public in his report will be revealed.
During an interview on Fox News, Dowd said he was glad a federal judge released the transcript of a voicemail he left for retired Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn's lawyer Rob Kelner shortly after he agreed to cooperate with Mueller.
"We now know the truth," he told host Sean Hannity.
Mueller referenced parts of the Nov. 22, 2017, voicemail in his final report about how Dowd asked for a "heads up" if Flynn knew information that "implicates" Trump after Flynn dropped from a joint defense agreement with the president.
Defenders of the president, including Rep. Devin Nunes, R-Calif., have highlighted how parts of the transcript were left out, including Dowd saying his request was "not only for the president, but for the country," he was not asking for confidential information, and he did not appear to be certain that Flynn had decided to cooperate with Mueller's team.
"We also know this entire report by Mueller is a fraud. And we're going to find more of these things," Dowd said. He resigned as Trump's lead counsel for the Mueller investigation in March 2018.
Mueller completed his 22-month investigation into Russia interference in the 2016 election in March after roughly 2,800 subpoenas, 500 search warrants, and 500 witness interviews. His report, released by the Justice Department with redactions in April, shows Mueller's team was unable to find criminal conspiracy between the Trump campaign and the Kremlin.
"Isn't it ironic that this man who kept indicting and prosecuting people for process crimes committed a false statement in his own report?" Dowd said. "By taking out half my words," he added that they changed the "tenor and the contents" of his conversation with Flynn's lawyer.
"It's an outrage. And there's probably more of it," he said.
Mueller also declined to make a determination on whether the president attempted to obstruct justice. But Mueller laid out 10 areas of possible obstruction in his report, including some related to Flynn, which Democrats argue gives them a road map to continue to investigate and possibly seek impeachment. Attorney General William Barr said he and former Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein determined there was not sufficient evidence to establish a crime had occurred.
I’m sure that Attorney General Barr is considering this, but the entire Mueller investigation might have constituted obstruction of justice.
The missrepresentation of information is how these deep staters roll. We have also seen that many times in their Climate Change dialect.
Don’t forget that Flynn’s attorneys work for a Democratic connected law firm. They did nothing to help Flynn.
Too bad PDJT didn’t hire Joe and Vikki to defend Flynn.
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