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Fast forward to May 16, President Trump is now in the White House and meets with Robert Mueller. CNN reported that Trump interviewed him as a potential replacement for fired FBI Director James Comey. As Trump would say, “wrong!” It’s not possible that Mueller could’ve been interviewing for the FBI director position because he already served in that capacity – under Presidents George W. Bush and briefly Barack Obama – and he exceeded the term limit allowed to work in that role. The term limit is ten years and Mueller served as FBI director for 12 years. Mueller got a special additional two-year extension from Obama that the Senate approved. The fake news totally got this wrong — to no one’s surprise.

The source of the story, that Mueller met with Trump is unnamed from CNN, so it's most likely Fake News.

And even if it's real, it doesn't mean that Mueller was there for a Special Prosecutor job. It could have been for the FBI job. After all as even the article points out, the Senate does approve extensions beyond the 10 year limit for the position of FBI director.

And even if they did meet, it doesn't mean that Trump and Mueller were going to work together. After all, Trump also met with Al Gore, Rahm Emanual, Mitt Romney and other enemies.

23 posted on 11/08/2017 6:44:52 AM PST by FreeReign
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To: FreeReign

Even if Mueller did meet with President Trump in that time frame, it does not mean it was any kind of “job interview” — it might have been some sort of consultation, discussion etc. Every POTUS gets advice from a variety of former officials. The alleged timing does seem remarkable, though, if it really did come just before Mueller was appointed as Special Counsel. BUT, I also have doubts that Deputy AG Rosenstein would have consulted or accepted input from the WH on appointing a Special Counsel. Career DOJ types consider themselves very independent (except for the obvious Demoncrap hacks), and Rosenstein would think that he shouldn’t have any discussion with the WH about appointing an Independent Counsel. Another reason I have a lot of trouble believing that Mueller is there because Trump wanted it so.

My hope (possibly desperate) is that even though Mueller came to do the bidding of Demoncrats and RINOs he may actually pursue evidence and leads that he can’t ignore. Thus, if he has any integrity at all (big ???) he may end up going after Democrats. BUT I can’t yet share the view that he was brought in with that in view.


44 posted on 11/08/2017 7:11:01 AM PST by Enchante (Bill, Anthony, Harvey .... how does lesbo Hillary manage to surround herself with male predators???)
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To: FreeReign

‘The source of the story, that Mueller met with Trump is unnamed from CNN, so it’s most likely Fake News.’

The original source was Christopher Ruddy, who runs Newsmax. He is a friend of Trump’s, which is what leant the report credence


142 posted on 11/08/2017 8:35:01 AM PST by Fantasywriter (Any attempt to do forensic work using Inernet artifacts is fraught with pitfalls. JoeProbono)
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