Mueller's Russian Interference investigation

**Dragonfly** · 07-09-2017, 09:32 PM

Originally Posted by longway

You are the idiot who believes trump colluded with the russians and he is a nazi. wake up.

don't argue with stupid women, above all if they are American

**tomcat** · 07-09-2017, 09:32 PM

Originally Posted by longway

You are the idiot

Originally Posted by longway

you are lost

Originally Posted by longway

you are besieged

Originally Posted by longway

you guys are so fcuked up.

would Polly care for a cracker?...

**misskit** · 08-09-2017, 07:42 AM

Trump Jr. took meeting with Russian lawyer to judge Clinton's 'fitness': statement

Donald Trump Jr. on Thursday morning told Senate investigators that he accepted a meeting with a Russian lawyer promising dirt on Hillary Clinton to determine the Democratic presidential nominee's "fitness" for office, according to an opening statement reported by The New York Times.

“To the extent they had information concerning the fitness, character or qualifications of a presidential candidate, I believed that I should at least hear them out,” he said. “Depending on what, if any, information they had, I could then consult with counsel to make an informed decision as to whether to give it further consideration.”

Trump Jr.'s acknowledgement that he always intended to seek advice from his lawyers before he used any of the information he got from the Russian lawyer is the first clear indication that the president's son was aware that accepting damaging information on a political rival from a foreign source could run afoul of U.S. law.

Trump Jr. and the White House have offered evolving explanations of the 2016 meeting, which first came to public light in July.

More. Trump Jr. took meeting with Russian lawyer to judge Clinton's 'fitness': statement | TheHill

Jr. was just checking to make sure it was true Clinton had a brain tumor, a seizure, stroke, dementia, Parkinson's, colostomy, was involved in a child sex ring, or has a dead body buried under her back porch.

**AntRobertson** · 08-09-2017, 07:47 AM

Originally Posted by longway

longway seems to find himself inordinately amusing.

That's good. Nobody else seems to.

**bsnub** · 08-09-2017, 07:51 AM

Drip, drip, drip...

Special Counsel Robert Mueller's team has approached the White House about interviewing staffers who were aboard Air Force One when the initial misleading statement about Donald Trump Jr.'s meeting with a Russian lawyer at Trump Tower was crafted, three sources familiar with the conversations said.The special counsel's discussions with the White House are the latest indication that Mueller's investigators are interested in the response to the Trump Tower meeting. Mueller wants to know how the statement aboard Air Force One was put together, whether information was intentionally left out and who was involved, two of the sources said.

Mueller's questions could go to the issue of intent and possible efforts to conceal information during an obstruction of justice investigation. The answers to Mueller's questions also could illuminate the level of anxiety surrounding the meeting and the decision-making that followed. The interviews with White House staffers who were aboard Air Force One have not begun, the sources said. They currently involve only a small number of people, but the sources cautioned that number could increase. At this time, Mueller has not asked to interview President Trump. Trump Jr. was on the Hill Thursday for an interview with the Senate Judiciary Committee.

In his first response to a report this summer about his meeting at Trump Tower, the President's son claimed in a statement that he "primarily discussed a program about the adoption of Russian children" during his meeting with a Russian lawyer he believed to be connected to the Russian government. That claim was later debunked by multiple accounts of the meeting. Emails later released by Trump Jr. revealed that he believed the lawyer would provide him with incriminating information about his father's campaign rival, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, on behalf of the Russian government. The Trump Tower meeting also included Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner and then-campaign chairman Paul Manafort.

"Out of respect for the special counsel process, the White House doesn't comment on any individual special counsel request," White House special counsel Ty Cobb told CNN.
Mueller's office declined to comment for this story.

Sources previously told CNN that Trump was involved in the crafting of the statement aboard Air Force One and that he involved some of his closest aides.

White House press secretary Sarah Sanders -- then the deputy press secretary -- confirmed in August that Trump "weighed in as any father would" during the drafting of the statement but declined to characterize his involvement further. Mueller considers some of the aides aboard Air Force One who helped craft the statement to be witnesses. The White House is trying to figure out legal defense funding for some of the staffers who have needed to hire lawyers as a result of the Russia probe, two of the sources told CNN.

CNN previously reported that Mueller sent a notice asking that White House staff save "any subjects discussed in the course of the June 2016 meeting" and also "any decisions made regarding the recent disclosures about the June 2016 meeting," according to a source, who read portions of the letter to CNN. The conversations aboard Air Force One about how to respond to reports of Trump Jr.'s meeting with a Russian lawyer may have exposed those White House aides to the special counsel's scrutiny. Some of the President's closest aides who had joined Trump for the return flight from diplomatic summits in Europe, helped strategize Trump Jr.'s response to the statement, people briefed on the matter told CNN in July.

Mueller seeks interviews with WH staff over Trump Tower meeting statement - CNNPolitics

**raycarey** · 08-09-2017, 02:30 PM

^ it does seem like an obstruction of justice charge for trump is coming.

**raycarey** · 08-09-2017, 03:20 PM

news and analysis of jr's testimony....

**Dragonfly** · 08-09-2017, 03:29 PM

they are just rattling his cage,

once he behaves per the deep state rules, see how all those investigations disappear by magic

**bsnub** · 08-09-2017, 03:29 PM

Originally Posted by raycarey

it does seem like an obstruction of justice charge for trump is coming.

It is pick'em at this point. I think multiple people are going down here.

**raycarey** · 09-09-2017, 01:32 PM

hope hicks, white house communications director (and alleged vampire) has retained a personal attorney for the special counsel's investigation into the trump campaign's ties to russia.

White House communications director Hope Hicks retains lawyer in Russia probe - POLITICO

**Dragonfly** · 09-09-2017, 03:33 PM

what a complete waste of time,

**harrybarracuda** · 09-09-2017, 03:56 PM

Originally Posted by Dragonfly

what a complete waste of time,

Yes, you are.

**tomcat** · 09-09-2017, 04:31 PM

Originally Posted by Dragonfly

what a complete waste of time, *sob*

trembling lower lip noted...

**Dragonfly** · 09-09-2017, 04:33 PM

Harry, this is the grown-up room, no Indian allowed

**Cujo** · 10-09-2017, 11:05 AM

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/...-investigation

**raycarey** · 12-09-2017, 11:45 AM

uh-oh.

Members of President Trump's outside legal team believed Jared Kushner should step down, due to the scrutiny he was under from the Russia probe, and went so far as to draft a statement explaining his departure, the Wall Street Journal reports.

Members of the legal team took that advice to Trump in June, per the Journal, including in a White House meeting. Trump wasn't convinced, with one source saying the president thought his son-in-law had done nothing wrong.

https://www.wsj.com/amp/articles/som...out-1505175772

maybe jared will spend time in federeal prison just ike his father.

**bsnub** · 12-09-2017, 12:53 PM

Originally Posted by raycarey

maybe jared will spend time in federeal prison just ike his father.

Hope so!

**misskit** · 12-09-2017, 02:14 PM

Republican attempt to deflect Trump-Russia probes could backfire: sources

(Reuters) - Republican lawmaker Devin Nunes’ investigation into whether Obama administration officials used classified intelligence reports to discredit Donald Trump’s 2016 campaign team could backfire on the congressman - and the president, sources familiar with the reports said.

The reports contain no evidence that any aides to former Democratic President Barack Obama acted improperly, the sources said, but they do indicate some Trump associates may have violated an obscure 1799 law, the Logan Act, which prohibits unauthorized U.S. citizens from negotiating with a foreign government that has a dispute with the United States.

The spying reports also are relevant to the investigation by special counsel Robert Mueller into conclusions by U.S. intelligence agencies that Russia worked to tilt last November’s election in Republican Trump’s favor, said the sources, who spoke on the condition of anonymity.

More. https://www.reuters.com/article/us-u...-idUSKCN1BM25G

**Slick** · 12-09-2017, 02:25 PM

Originally Posted by misskit

sources

**misskit** · 12-09-2017, 02:58 PM

^Reuters.

Not that Reuters has never made a mistake but they are reliable.

The Essentials of Reuters sourcing - Handbook of Journalism

**AntRobertson** · 12-09-2017, 03:01 PM

Devin Nunes’

Can't believe that douchebag is still douchebagging after his blatant diddling around on the House Russian investigation.

**Slick** · 12-09-2017, 03:02 PM

Originally Posted by misskit

Not that Reuters has never made a mistake but they are reliable.

I know.

But the sources may not be. Nor their intention.

The source may be a reliable name and in the know, but the info? The spin? The agenda?

Fuck knows.

**tomcat** · 12-09-2017, 03:12 PM

Originally Posted by Slick

The source may be a reliable name and in the know, but the info? The spin? The agenda?

that's why Reuters has editors who follow story development...

**Slick** · 12-09-2017, 03:41 PM

Originally Posted by tomcat

that's why Reuters has editors who follow story development...

Again, Im sure Reuters and their people may be "reliable" but the source?

I'm quoting the "source" part, not attacking Reuters. You 2 have women boners over me not immediately drinking the anonymous source Kool-Aid.

Sources leak information to create headlines and its entirely self-serving, to them.

Im skeptical.

**tomcat** · 12-09-2017, 03:50 PM

Originally Posted by Slick

Im skeptical

maybe Breitbart will refute the story...just for the sake of balance, I mean...not because they have sources...probably good people in both those organizations...

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