Thread: Mueller's Russian Interference investigation

the hearing is just to rattle his Twitter cage, it's going to be fun

Originally Posted by Dragonfly

o judge can exonerate someone if they didn't commit a crime in the first place,

You moron you clearly do not read well. I already pointed out that over 600 former federal prosecutors from both parties have already signed a letter saying that the contents of the Mueller report have enough evidence to charge your orange god with several felony charges.

Originally Posted by bsnub

You moron you clearly do not read well. I already pointed out that over 600 former federal prosecutors from both parties have already signed a letter saying that the contents of the Mueller report have enough evidence to charge your orange god with several felony charges.

and thank god we have a judicial process, because it's not like some judges do not have a political agenda or political bias

god, you really need a formal education, you little twat

Originally Posted by Dragonfly

god, you really need a formal education, you little twat

After I just basically explained to you in the last two pages how the US legal system works. What a moron.

Trump wagging a finger at Putin (Трамп погрозил Путину пальцем)

28 June 2019



US President Donald Trump asked Russian President Vladimir Putin to refrain from interfering in the American elections. Reports about it "Interfax" .

The American leader, following a question from journalists, whether he would raise the question of Russia's interference in the elections, answered "of course." After that, he turned to Putin and with a smile said twice, “Please, do not interfere in the elections,” while wagging his finger.

It became known earlier that negotiations between the two leaders will include issues such as trade, disarmament and protectionism.

The G-20 Summit is held in Osaka from June 28 to 29, 2019. It is attended by the 20 largest national economies in the world.

On April 18, the full text of the report by Special Prosecutor Muller on Russia's interference in the 2016 US presidential election was published . According to his conclusions, Russia really influenced them - in particular, the Russian GRU (GU) transferred materials from the US Democratic Party to WikiLeaks , but it was not possible to prove the fact of the agreement between Trump and Russia.

https://lenta.ru/news/2019/06/28/nenadoo/

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here's what actually happened....



notice who trump is making eye contact with and who he's pointing at.....it's not putin.....he's afraid of putin.

Originally Posted by bsnub

After I just basically explained to you in the last two pages how the US legal system works. What a moron.

on what planet are you on, you failed Telsa fantasist

Originally Posted by raycarey

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here's what actually happened....



notice who trump is making eye contact with and who he's pointing at.....it's not putin.....he's afraid of putin.

look at how Putin is laughing at the whole situation, "what a fucking circus" he must think

^And how he will laugh in case Theresa May will:
....demand Putin turns over Salisbury poisoning suspects at face-to-face G20 meeting

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/u...-a8977951.html

He already said that the case is not worse 5 Kopeek...

You can see how Trump and Putin are laughing at the whole stupid situation, Trump acting is awesome, natural born actor

best POTUS ever !!!

Originally Posted by Klondyke

^And how he will laugh in case Theresa May will:
....demand Putin turns over Salisbury poisoning suspects at face-to-face G20 meeting

Did she demand him?

Originally Posted by raycarey

^
here's what actually happened....



notice who trump is making eye contact with and who he's pointing at.....it's not putin.....he's afraid of putin.

Just another nothing burger.

The nice picture of the warm greeting was here already yesterday but hasn't held. Not clear whether she demanded as she announced before...

Photo reveals awkward first meeting between Theresa May and Vladimir Putin since Salisbury poisoning



The meeting, on the sidelines of the G20 summit in Japan, appeared awkward.

(CNN)UK Prime Minister Theresa May and Russian President Vladimir Putin had a frosty meeting in Japan on Friday, when May asked for the Russian men that Britain blames for a high-profile poisoning to be brought to justice.

The leaders' strained relationship appeared to be on display in photographs of their handshake at the start of the meeting, which took place on the sidelines of the annual two-day G20 summit in Osaka.

It is the first time both May and Putin have met since the poisoning incident in March 2018, when former Russian spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter were found slumped on a bench in the English city of Salisbury after being exposed to Novichok, a military-grade nerve agent.

https://edition.cnn.com/2019/06/28/a...ntl/index.html

she looks miserable, and Putin looks like he is sorry for her miserable state of affair

Originally Posted by RPETER65

Just another nothing burger.

Fucking A you are a moron.

Looks like President Fuckwits DoJ stooge Billy Barr is STILL trying to interfere with the investigation. You'd think he'd be busy trying to stop Epstein revealing how baldy orange cunto raped kids.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Justice Department is trying to prevent two former members of Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s team from testifying behind closed doors in Congress next week, when Mueller will testify before lawmakers, according to people familiar with the matter.


The department is opposing testimony by Aaron Zebley and James Quarles before the Democratic-led Judiciary and Intelligence committees in the House of Representatives, two sources said.

The men were expected to testify on July 17, the same day that Mueller is due as a witness before the two panels.

Democrats said they still expect Zebley and Quarles to appear, arguing that the Justice Department has no authority over the behavior of former employees. But a third source told Reuters that the former Mueller team members were still negotiating with the committees.

“We expect them to appear,” Representative Zoe Lofgren, a Democratic member of the Judiciary Committee, told reporters. “We’ve got two hours with the Judiciary and Mr. Mueller, and two hours for the Intel committee with Mr. Mueller, and then some time afterwards with his staff.”

Justice Department officials had no immediate comment and Zebley and Quarles could not be reached for comment.

The episode is the latest example of Trump administration efforts to stymie congressional investigations by directing current and former officials not to cooperate with investigators who are seeking evidence of corruption, obstruction of justice and abuse of power in the Trump presidency.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-u...rce=reddit.com

https://twitter.com/MMFlint/status/1...rc=twsrc%5Etfw

Originally Posted by bsnub

(CNN)Robert Mueller's long-awaited public testiomony next month will give Democrats their best and perhaps last chance to seize on the Russia scandal to try to inflict a decisive political wound on President Donald Trump.

The former special counsel's appearance on Capitol Hill on July 17, announced late Tuesday, represents a serious blow to a President who has spent weeks misrepresenting Mueller's final report.

Democrats hope the spectacle of the respected former FBI director testifying on television will move Americans against Trump in a way Mueller's dense, 448-page report did not.

The appearance also has the potential to significantly reshape the debate among Democrats over whether to open impeachment hearings, a step so far opposed by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, who fears a political backlash.

"Our interest is for the American people to hear it from him," House Judiciary Chairman Jerry Nadler, a New York Democrat, said on "Cuomo Prime Time."

"There has been a campaign of misrepresentation by Attorney General Barr ... by the President, who keeps saying the report found no collusion, no obstruction. That's not true either way."

Trump quickly responded to news of Mueller's looming appearance with a two-word tweet: "Presidential Harassment!"

The twin hearings, in the House Judiciary and Intelligence committees, have the potential to become one of the most riveting days of political television and congressional dramas in years.

"He commands such credibility in a town where sometimes it feels like the truth doesn't matter anymore," Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi, an Illinois Democrat who's a member of the Intelligence Committee, told CNN's Don Lemon.

"This is Mueller unplugged. I think there is going to be a Super Bowl-sized audience for it."

Should the appearance not live up to expectations of political pyrotechnics, however, it could further help Trump's aggressive bid to shift the political narrative away from the Russia storm as he campaigns for reelection.

Democratic struggles

The breakthrough, after Mueller reluctantly signaled that he will not resist a subpoena, comes with House Democrats struggling to effectively build a public case against Trump.

Days of private hearings, transcripts of interviews of the President's associates and Democratic outrage have failed to manifestly alter baked-in public perceptions of Trump and the Russia probe -- which broadly follow partisan lines. Most polls show a majority of Americans still oppose what would be the traumatic national experience of impeachment.

But it is unclear whether the former special counsel will reveal any new information: Mueller has said he would not go beyond what he already included in his report in any testimony.

After a stellar career in law enforcement, Mueller is loath to be drawn into the kind of partisan circus that unfolds in House hearings with blockbuster witnesses facing the cameras.

"The report is my testimony," Mueller said in May.

But Democrats hope that his appearance will be a powerful moment in itself and they will seek to draw out the former special counsel -- a deeply experienced witness after decades in Washington.

They are likely to pepper him with questions like: What was the most compelling evidence of obstruction of justice on the part of the President? They will be sure to ask Mueller why he did not make a formal recommendation on whether Trump is guilty of obstruction. He will also likely to be asked to explain a letter he sent to Attorney General William Barr faulting his new superior's initial characterization of the special counsel report.

In March, Barr wrote to Congress to inform lawmakers that Mueller had not found a criminal conspiracy between the Trump campaign and Russia and that Barr and then-Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein had determined there was not sufficient evidence to bring an obstruction case against the President.

The move was condemned by critics as presenting a cherry-picked case and the best possible interpretation of the report for the President, which allowed Trump to set a misleading political narrative that he had been cleared by Mueller.

And Mueller may be questioned on whether he meant to hint in the report that it is up to Congress to decide whether the evidence merits impeachment hearings.

Mueller wrote in the report that his team was obliged to follow Justice Department guidance that says a sitting President cannot be indicted for a crime.

"There is no limitation on confining his testimony to the four corners of the report -- that may be his desire, but Congress has questions that go beyond the report," House Intelligence Chairman Adam Schiff, a California Democrat, told CNN's Manu Raju.

Mueller chose not to clear Trump

Mueller's only public appearance of his two-year probe -- a short press statement on May 29 -- comprehensively contradicted Trump's claims of "no collusion" with Russia or obstruction of justice.

Mueller said instead that there was "insufficient evidence" to charge a conspiracy after writing in his report that the Trump campaign "expected to benefit" electorally from Russian interference.

On the question of obstruction of justice, Mueller added that "if we had had confidence that the President clearly did not commit a crime, we would have said so."

Republicans are certain to use the hearing to run interference for the President, as they have during other Democratic-led hearings seeking to highlight the Russia scandal.

They are likely to point out that Mueller did not recommend prosecution of the President or members of his campaign team over their mysterious meetings with Russians during the campaign, which were detailed in the report.

Republicans will enter the hearing armed with Trump's talking points, including his claim that the special counsel's team of prosecutors was packed with Democrats who were biased against the President.

"I hope the special counsel's testimony marks an end to the political gamesmanship that Judiciary Democrats have pursued at great cost to taxpayers," said Rep. Doug Collins of Georgia, the top Republican on the Judiciary Committee.

It was not clear whether the White House or the Justice Department can do anything to curtail Mueller's testimony. He is no longer employed by the Justice Department.

Pelosi, who must control a growing minority of around 80 House members who want Trump impeached, suggested the hearings would require members of Congress to honor their oath and "patriotic duty to follow the facts, so we can protect our democracy."

In the absence of impeachment hearings, which would not likely be followed by a conviction of Trump in the Republican-led Senate, Pelosi hopes to use public cross-examinations of key witnesses in the Russia saga to convince Americans that Trump is unfit to serve a second term.

https://www.cnn.com/2019/06/26/polit...ess/index.html

Not quite the blockbuster hearing you thought it would be eh.

Originally Posted by CSFFan

I would expect there would be questions like:

Do you feel that trump would have been indicted for obstruction of justice if he wasn't the president?

Why did you choose not to exonerate the president of criminal acts?

What is the statue of limitations on possible crimes the president committed?



At the end of the day, trump/fox is winning the info war. My guess is Mueller agreed to testify because his message isn't being heard clearly.

Except he he said before the session he would not comment on anything beyond what was in the report. Pay attention please.

Mueller Report: Russians interfered in the election; Trumps a liar and potentially committed criminal act(s); Trump tried to obstruct the investigation.
Trumptards: ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Mueller Hearing: Like I said, Russians interfered in the election; Trumps a liar and potentially committed criminal act(s); Trump tried to obstruct the investigation.
Trumptards: ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Originally Posted by bsnub

Sadly it is how a large percentage of Americans take in information. They need to be led by the nose to the facts.

If what you say about Americans in ability to adsorb information from reading what makes you think they would find enough interest to sit through a three hour segment of Congress.

Originally Posted by rickschoppers

he is tryng to reform health care

How is he doing that you idiot?

Originally Posted by bsnub

After I just basically explained to you in the last two pages how the US legal system works. What a moron.

Do do you really think someone would take your explanation without question?

No exoneration. No witch hunt. Plenty of evidence of high crimes and misdemeanors. Whether the Dems will pursue impeachment is still an open question.