Trump vs. Mueller investigation?

[mr6666]

Trump Goes to War With Mueller

The president has repeatedly said he intends to intervene in the Justice Department, and leaks and changes to his legal team telegraph a strategy of escalation......

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2018/05/trump-goes-to-war-with-mueller/559460/

[mr6666]

What You Need To Know About A Mueller Subpoena, Trump And The Russia Imbroglio

 

Can the Justice Department subpoena the president?

 

Could Trump resist a subpoena?

 

Could Trump invoke his Fifth Amendment rights?

 

What do Trump's lawyers say?

The president's advisers appear to be split on a Mueller interview. Some of them, and some outside advisers, including Roger Stone, say Trump must not talk with Mueller.

Others, including one of Trump's newest lawyers, former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani, appear to want to keep the door open to an interview. That would enable Trump to placate the special counsel short of a subpoena and also permit the White House to continue touting its cooperation with the investigation. These two camps are now warring in the press.....

Could Trump solve his problems by firing Mueller? or Rosenstein?

https://www.npr.org/2018/05/02/607717946/what-you-need-to-know-about-a-mueller-subpoena-trump-and-the-russia-imbroglio

[mr6666]

John Dean‏Verified account @JohnWDean 5h5 hours ago

 

 

Mueller is treating Trump like a Mafia boss because Donald acts like a Mafia boss!

[mr6666]

Donald J. Trump‏Verified account @realDonaldTrump

 

The 13 Angry Democrats in charge of the Russian Witch Hunt

are starting to find out that there is a Court System in place that actually protects people from injustice...and just wait ‘till the Courts get to see your unrevealed Conflicts of Interest!

4:39 AM - 7 May 2018

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Ted Lieu‏Verified account @tedlieu 6h6 hours ago

 

Today is Monday. That means @realDonaldTrump is lying again.

The 3 people in charge of the Special Counsel investigation are: -Deputy AG Rosenstein, a Republican

-FBI Director Wray, a Republican

-Mueller, a war hero & a Republican

Also, House & Senate controlled by Republicans

[mr6666]

Mueller's Probe Is Even More Expansive Than It Seems

The special counsel’s team has interviewed a number of big names. But their interest in more obscure players tells a story, too.

....also highlights Mueller’s interest in answering one of the probe’s biggest outstanding questions: whether the campaign knew in advance that Russia planned to interfere in the election. .....

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2018/05/muellers-probe-is-more-expansive-than-it-seems/560255/

[mr6666]

 

Jim Sciutto‏Verified account @jimsciutto 10h10 hours ago

 

This is a judge Trump will not be quoting at rallies:

“The Special Counsel would have been remiss to ignore such an obvious potential link between the Trump campaign and the Russian government”

 

- Federal Judge Berman dismissing Manafort’s motion to dismiss.

[mr6666]

The Associated Press‏Verified account @AP 3h3 hours ago

 

 

BREAKING: Senate intelligence panel agrees with US intel agencies

that Russia intervened in 2016 election to help Trump.

[mr6666]

MSNBC‏Verified account @MSNBC 1h1 hour ago

 

JUST IN: Robert Muller issues grand jury subpoenas to Trump adviser's social media consultant.

"This suggests that Robert Mueller is honing in on Roger Stone and whether he had advanced knowledge that the Russian's had hacked Democratic emails."

[mr6666]

Trump’s New Strategy for Responding to Robert Mueller

The president’s message focuses on undermining the investigators and investigation, rather than insisting that no crimes were committed.

 

:.............. The new strategy, particularly as demonstrated by Giuliani on CNN, follows three prongs. First, impugn the investigators themselves. Second, argue that the investigation was tainted from the start. Third, argue that Mueller cannot indict Trump anyway.

The Cobb-Dowd strategy began with the assumption that Trump had nothing to hide. The new strategy, however, seems to take as its premise that Trump is guilty of at least something. ....

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2018/05/trumps-new-strategy-for-responding-to-robert-mueller/560723/

[jamesjazzguitar]

I still don't understand why Trump Jr. hasn't been charged.    He isn't going to 'flip' on his pa, so charge him already!

   

[mr6666]

MSNBC‏Verified account @MSNBC 1h1 hour ago

 

JUST IN: Michael Cohen's former business partner, Evgeny A. Freidman, has plead guilty to a count of $50,000 of tax evasion.

"The development raises pressure on Michael Cohen... and whether he will also flip." - @AriMelber #TheBeat

[Bogie56]

 

[mr6666]

MSNBC‏Verified account @MSNBC 1h1 hour ago

 

 

Robert Mueller is reportedly examining an undisclosed encounter between President Trump and Attorney General Jeff Sessions in March 2017, where the president urged Sessions not to recuse himself from the Russia investigation. From the New York Times.

https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/mueller-investigating-another-trump-sessions-encounter-report-1244202563643?cid=sm_npd_ms_tw_ma

[mr6666]

Laurence Tribe‏Verified account @tribelaw 9h9 hours ago

 

 

Trump’s Dinesh D’Souza pardon today, on top of his pardons of Scooter Libby and Joe Arpaio, make sense only as an elephant-whistle to Michael Cohen & all who know damning things about Trump:

protect me & I’ll have your back. Turn on me & your goose is cooked.

More obstruction!

[mr6666]

The Trump Lawyers’ Confidential
Memo to Mueller, Explained

By THE NEW YORK TIMES JUNE 2, 2018

The Times obtained copies of a confidential letter sent by President Trump’s lawyers to
the special counsel, Robert S. Mueller III. Reporters added context in annotations.

Below
it is another letter from the president’s lawyers sent last summer. Read the related article.

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/06/02/us/politics/trump-legal-documents.html

Trump’s Lawyers, in Confidential Memo, Argue to Head Off a Historic Subpoena

[mr6666]

Marshall Cohen‏Verified account @MarshallCohen

 

 

In a letter to Mueller, Trump's lawyers said he "dictated a short but accurate response to the New York Times" about the infamous Trump Tower meeting with Russians.

But here are FIVE TIMES @JaySekulow and @PressSec previously denied Trump's role in the misleading statement.

[NipkowDisc]

6 hours ago, mr6666 said:

Marshall Cohen‏Verified account @MarshallCohen

 

 

In a letter to Mueller, Trump's lawyers said he "dictated a short but accurate response to the New York Times" about the infamous Trump Tower meeting with Russians.

But here are FIVE TIMES @JaySekulow and @PressSec previously denied Trump's role in the misleading statement.

I can't figure out all that.

I ain't no stinkin' lawyer.

[mr6666]

3 hours ago, NipkowDisc said:

I can't figure out all that.

I ain't no stinkin' lawyer.

Brian Klaas‏Verified account @brianklaas 7h7 hours ago

 

 

The President of the United States dictated a letter trying to cover-up a meeting that his son, son-in-law, and campaign manager eagerly took,

which offered “high-level,” sensitive information about his opponent as part of the Kremlin’s support for him

—and then lied about it.

[mr6666]

Rogue WH Snr Advisor‏ @RogueSNRadvisor 5h5 hours ago

 

 

My favorite part of the “no collusion!” defense is when Trump pretends people like his campaign manager are nobodies.

Just look at the job title! Campaign Manager . They *manage* the *campaign*.

Manafort’s indictment is a smoking gun. Don’t let anyone tell you otherwise.

[Bogie56]

A good article in the WP ...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-line/wp/2018/06/04/secret-memo-to-mueller-actually-reveals-weakness-of-trumps-position/?utm_term=.74e6bf2fe205&wpisrc=nl_most&wpmm=1

The Plum Line Opinion 

Secret memo to Mueller actually reveals weakness of Trump’s position

 

 

 

 

By Greg SargentJune 4 at 10:21 AM

Regarding Trump's Donny Junior dictated memo ...

In political terms, the fact that Trump’s lawyers had to concede to such an important episode — one in which the president misled the country to cover up his son’s effort to conspire with a foreign power’s corruption of our democracy on his behalf — shows what a perilous position he’s in.

[NipkowDisc]

than what are mueller and the democrats waiting for now that they got everybody's attention?

"let's get it over with!" -paul newman, somebody up there likes me

[mr6666]

NBC Nightly News with Lester Holt‏Verified account @NBCNightlyNews 1h1 hour ago

 

 

BREAKING: Special Counsel Mueller asks judge to revoke bail for Paul Manafort,

accusing him in court filing of attempting to tamper with potential witnesses.

[Princess of Tap]

49 minutes ago, jakeem said:

CNN‏Verified account@CNN

JUST IN: Special counsel Robert Mueller's office has accused former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort of attempting to shape potential witnesses' testimony and has asked to send him to jail as he awaits his trial, according to a court filing https://cnn.it/2J8QGJH 

 

29 minutes ago, jakeem said:

Jed Shugerman‏ @jedshug

Jed Shugerman Retweeted Connor Lynch

Mueller has filed to revoke Manafort's bail because he "suborned perjury" and tampered with witnesses.

1) The final error that forces Manafort to flip?

2) Or proof that Manafort has flipped out mentally?

3) But this is not the conduct of someone who thinks he has a pardon.

The plot thickens.......

[Vautrin]

Mueller is running an investigation. Donny is running a three-ring circus

with himself as the main clown. They run on different timelines. 

[mr6666]

1 hour ago, mr6666 said:

NBC Nightly News with Lester Holt‏Verified account @NBCNightlyNews 1h1 hour ago

 

 

BREAKING: Special Counsel Mueller asks judge to revoke bail for Paul Manafort,

accusing him in court filing of attempting to tamper with potential witnesses.

"...Manafort and one of his associates “repeatedly” contacted two witnesses in an effort to influence their testimony. The contacts occurred while Manafort was under house arrest.

The two witnesses are not named in court filings. But prosecutors say they worked with Manafort in organizing a group of former European officials who lobbied within the U.S. without registering...

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/muellers-team-accuses-paul-manafort-of-witness-tampering