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mueller doesnt choose what he's assigned to investigate
doj assigns the scope
how does that equate to a mueller personal agenda?
As Mueller Closes In, Trump Kills The White House Press Briefing
Donald J. Trump
✔@realDonaldTrump
The reason Sarah Sanders does not go to the “podium” much anymore is that the press covers her so rudely & inaccurately, in particular certain members of the press.
I told her not to bother, the word gets out anyway!
Most will never cover us fairly & hence, the term, Fake News!
9:28 AM - Jan 22, 2019
The White House Correspondents Association responded:
By fairness, Trump means the press should repeat his propaganda
Trump has made it very clear that he expects the press to repeat his false lies and statements while never questioning him.,
Kellyanne Conway suggested that what she and Trump want is to have the ability to control what the American people see, hear, and read in their news.
This isn’t a question of fairness.
Trump doesn’t believe in press freedom.
This administration can’t answer questions from objective journalists,
so they retreat to Fox News and other conservative outlets.
Mueller is closing in, and Trump is trying to dodge questions
It is not a coincidence that as Mueller is preparing his final report this White House makes it official
that they will not be holding briefings and taking questions from the press.
Trump is running scared.
The president doesn’t understand that he can’t control the press narrative by talking to his friends at Fox News.
Mueller is coming and now Trump decides that his administration won’t be holding press briefings.
https://www.politicususa.com/2019/01...-briefing.html
mueller doesnt choose what he's assigned to investigate
doj assigns the scope
how does that equate to a mueller personal agenda?
still obsessed with Hillary, desperate to create a "both sides", a Hillary side to offset Trash side.
Mueller just a puppet for "Deep State" DOJ; got it
its Trump's DOJ that hired mueller, and it's trump's DOJ that has decided not to investigate clinton's ties to planned parenthood and all the other ooga booga bull you want them to look atMueller just a puppet for "Deep State" DOJ; got it
Trump's digital campaign and Russia's Internet Research Agency: a fully integrated operation.
Manafort’s actions in support of the Trump campaign included
traveling to Europe,
meeting with Russian operative Konstantin Kilimnik, and
providing him with internal polling data from the Trump campaign.
The Russians clearly placed a high value on this information, or Manafort would not have offered it to them.
It seems very likely that Russia used information collected by the digital operations team at the Trump campaign to feed and refine its models for social media operations—data that could easily include stolen information used by Cambridge Analytica.
there’s one section that suggests, not for the first time, that the flow of information between the Trump campaign and Russia’s Internet Research Agency wasn’t simply a matter of Manafort dropping off some data in Madrid.
Or even the occasional meeting in Trump Tower. It suggests that the Trump campaign’s digital operations and Russia’s efforts on behalf of the Republican candidate were combined in a closely integrated operation.
enough to suggest that Manafort might not have been simply passing along polling data requested by the Russians.
He may have been bringing back questions from the Russians to run through the digital operations assembled between the campaign’s digital operations under Brad Parscale and the data-crunching engines of Cambridge Analytica, created by Steve Bannon and Republican mega-donors Robert and Rebekah Mercer.
just one of several items showing that Russia’s Internet Research Agency and Trump’s digital operations weren’t ships that passed in the night.
They were massive psychological-warfare engines that got together in the dark and aimed directly at the American public.
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/201...ated-operation
ORANGE FAN MAD!
“no puppet!”
” You’re the puppet!”
Michael Cohen won’t testify until Trump is held accountable for witness tampering or obstruction of justice
Longtime Donald Trump “fixer” Michael Cohen has conditions that must be met before he will cooperate with Congress
“What Cohen is basically doing now is he is saying to Congress,
‘I am not going to come and
if you subpoena me
I won’t necessarily answer all your questions
unless you take action to make sure that these kinds of threats will not be permitted.’
Not only to protect his family,
which is always something that he has stressed is incredibly important to him,
but as a larger message that this is wrong, that the president is doing it,”
https://www.rawstory.com/2019/01/mic...e+Raw+Story%29
How Clinton operatives pushed now-debunked Trump-Russia server conspiracy
Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton checks her phone after attending a U.S.-Russia meeting in Hanoi, Vietnam on July 23, 2010. The revelation that Mrs. Clinton used an off-the-books email account during her time as secretary of state has raised fresh questions about her credibility heading into 2016. (Associated Press)
The Clinton campaign’s operation to spread a now-debunked story on a Russian bank-Donald Trump computer linkage went further than previously known, according to new congressional testimony.
It turns out that at least two Clinton operatives went inside the Justice Department to sell the allegation.
The Democrat-pitched narrative went like this: The Trump Organization maintained a secret computer server at Trump Tower directly tied to Moscow’s Alfa Bank, whose partners are linked to Russian President Vladimir Putin.
But cybersleuths traced the server’s IP address not to Moscow, but to a spam operation outside Philadelphia that spit out hotel marketing pitches, including the Trump Organization‘s.
It is known that Fusion GPS co-founder Glenn Simpson, the Clinton campaign’s opposition researcher who hired dossier writer Christopher Steele, pushed the server plot to then-Associate Deputy Attorney General Bruce Ohr. His wife, Nellie, worked for Mr. Simpson at Fusion GPS as an anti-Trump Russia investigator.
According to Mr. Ohr’s meeting notes, Mr. Simpson told him the server was a direct communication link to Alfa and proof of Trump-Russia collusion. Mr. Simpson also said an October 2016 article in The New York Times was wrong for discounting the server story, according to Mr. Ohr.
As a go-between, Mr. Ohr sent Fusion’s information directly to the FBI, including to agent Peter Strzok, who led the Russia probe. Mr. Strzok was fired for sending a series of anti-Trump text messages to his lover, FBI attorney Lisa Page.
Now, newly revealed testimony from James Baker, the former FBI general counsel and close adviser to fired FBI Director James B. Comey, shows that Fusion tried another avenue inside the Obama administration.
In closed-door testimony in October, Mr. Baker told lawmakers on a special House task force that he met with Michael Sussmann, a partner in the Perkins Coie law firm, on Sept. 16, 2016.
Perkins Coie had represented the Clinton campaign and the Democratic National Committee, and funneled more than $1 million of their cash to Fusion, which paid Mr. Steele about $160,000 for his anti-Trump dossier.
Rep. Jim Jordan, Ohio Republican, asked Mr. Baker if Mr. Sussmann, a cybertechnology expert and former Justice Department attorney, pitched the Alfa server connection.
“Oh yes, I mean, that is what he told me about. Yeah, absolutely,” he answered, according to a transcript first reported by The Epoch Times.
After conferring with bureau attorneys, Mr. Baker added: “He was describing a — what appeared to be a surrep ious channel of communications — communication between some part of President Trump‘s, I’ll say organization but it could be his businesses. I don’t mean like The Trump Organization, per se. I mean his enterprises with which he was associated. Some part of that and a — an organization associated with — a Russian organization associated with the Russian Government.”
With his testimony, the public now knows that two Fusion-connected Clinton supporters — Mr. Simpson and Mr. Sussmann — gained access to the inner sanctums of the Obama law enforcement establishment to pitch a theory that proved bogus.
When Mr. Simpson appeared months later before the Senate Judiciary Committee, he testified that he had no opinion on the function of the supposed Trump-Alfa server.
September 2016 was a busy time for Clinton allies trying to sell Russia-Trump stories.
Mr. Steele, a former British intelligence officer, arrived in Washington from London to meet with reporters from The Washington Post, The New York Times, Yahoo News and other news sites. Yahoo News produced the first story on the dossier quoting Mr. Steele, but not by name, about supposed nefarious meetings in Moscow by Trump campaign volunteer Carter Page.
The next month, The New York Times published a story that deeply disappointed Mr. Simpson. The Times knocked down the collusion theme as well as the Alfa server conspiracy.
That same day, Oct. 31, the liberal website Slate did what Mr. Simpson wanted. It published a story supporting the Alfa-Trump server conspiracy.
The Clinton campaign, which had ballyhooed the Yahoo story, also tried to exploit the Slate piece as another example of Trump-Russia ties.
The Republican majority’s final report from the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence last year noted the Sussmann maneuvers in a footnote. It said Mr. Sussmann (his name redacted) had a one-on-one meeting with Mr. Baker and also shared Alfa server information with Slate, whose story “Was a Trump Server Communicating with Russia?” was written by Franklin Foer.
Mr. Jordan disclosed in a letter to the U.S. attorney in Connecticut that Mr. Baker is under criminal investigation for leaking national security information to reporters. Mr. Baker’s attorney revealed the probe as grounds for refusing to let his client answer questions on that subject.
Mr. Baker was reassigned after Mr. Comey’s firing and then left the FBI.
Former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe was criticized by the Justice Department inspector general for allegedly lying to his investigators about leaks to the press. He, too, is under U.S. attorney investigation.
The owners of Alfa Bank sued Fusion GPS for defamation in Washington for a dossier memo that said they paid bribes to Mr. Putin. They also are suing Mr. Steele in a London court.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news...-debunked-tru/
Trump Allies Want Julie Annie Sidelined Because They Think He Drinks Before TV Hits
https://www.mediaite.com/print/repor...e-going-on-tv/
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Rudy Giuliani:
Why Can't We Threaten Michael Cohen's Father-In-Law,
Is This America Or What?
he dispatched Rudy Giuliani to smear Cohen's father-in-law Fima Shusterman on Jake Tapper's show, which is o, totally fine because HE'S UKRAINIAN!
TAPPER: So, it's OK to go after the father-in-law?
GIULIANI: Now -- now, of course it is, if the father-in-law is a criminal.
And the Southern District of New York, in the plea, wanted him to go to jail and said he's lying.
They don't buy the special counsel's approach.
They say he's lying because he's holding back information that is far more damaging than the lies that he is sharing with them now.
Now, what is that information about?
Now, let's be clear here. Giuliani may well be right that Cohen refused to testify to SDNY about tax fraud in his family's taxi medallion business.
Or he may be wrong-- he's guessing, same as everyone else.
But even if Cohen had refused to testify against his father-in-law,
it would still be wildly inappropriate for the chief law enforcement officer in the land to threaten the family of a witness against him with criminal prosecution.
GIULIANI: It's about his father-in-law. We talked about Ukrainians. His father-in-law is a Ukrainian.
TAPPER: That's not a crime.
GIULIANI: His father-in-law has millions and millions -- of course it's not. I'm telling you, he comes from the Ukraine.
This reason that is important is, he may have ties to something called organized crime.
TAPPER: Because he's Ukrainian?
GIULIANI: Michael Cohen is refusing -- well, there's an organized crime group in Ukraine, organized crime group in Russia.
TAPPER: Organized crime everywhere, organized crime in Brooklyn, organized crime in the Bronx. I mean, you know, that -- that -- I think that's making the leap.
GIULIANI: Oh, well, that's OK.
He can have ties to organized crime.
They can have bank fraud.
That's just fine.
When somebody testifies against your client, you go out, and you look at what's wrong with them.
Why are they doing it, if they're not telling the truth?
TAPPER: I'm just questioning whether it's appropriate for the president to single out a private citizen whose son-in-law...
GIULIANI: It is to defend him...
TAPPER: OK. Well, you...
GIULIANI: He's not a private citizen.
He's a private citizen lying about him, trying to get him impeached.
TAPPER: No, the father -- I'm talking about the father-in-law.
GIULIANI: And I'm defending him.
https://www.wonkette.com/michael-coh...-schiff-is-not
There’s a ‘big clue’ Robert Mueller will drop new indictments on Friday
On Thursday, the grand jury convened by special counsel Robert Mueller heard testimony from the stepson of Rober Stone associate Jerome Corsi.
This is notable, CNN reporter Shimon Prokupecz told host Don Lemon on Thursday, because
Mueller’s grand jury usually has Thursdays off.
“Honestly, I think we’re all on edge, thinking that perhaps something may be coming tomorrow.”
Other reporters who cover the Mueller investigation “are on edge,” Prokupecz said, and that
Corsi’s stepson testifying “may have something to do with Wikileaks.”
“The Mueller grand jury normally does not meet on Thursdays,” he said.
“The last time they met on a Thursday, the following day, on a Friday,
is when a bunch of Russians were indicted for the hacking and the dissemination of the fake news on social media.”
Corsi’s association Roger Stone has been “hiding” on Fridays
because that’s when indictments from Mueller typically from, Prokupecz said.
“He has been living in limbo,” Prokupecz said.
“He has been avoiding Friday nights,
sort of hiding at home,
thinking that this is going to be the day that he’s going to be arrested.”
https://www.rawstory.com/2019/01/the...e+Raw+Story%29
LOL Roger was right
indicted on 7 counts
The rat er is ed
indicted on 7 counts
The rat er is ed
And CNN crew were already there to film it.
Stone and CNN, "both sides" guilty
you stupid s
Stone and CNN, "both sides" guilty
you stupid s
Not what I said, dimwit. CNN got tipped. I don't believe that's standard procedure.
‘Good morning, Donald Trump!’ Internet rejoices as FBI agents haul Roger Stone out of bed
Twitter users exploded in joy at the news.
Hailed by some as “Felony Friday,” the news of Stone’s arrest — to be followed by seven indictments — was greeted as evidence that the investigation by special counsel Robert Mueller just took a giant leap forward towards potential Trump involvement.
“Once you’ve had your special vitamins,
your first Egg McMuffin, and
your fourth piss since midnight,
enjoy the knowledge that Roger Stone is going to rat you out.”
https://www.rawstory.com/2019/01/goo...e+Raw+Story%29
Mmmm
i love the smell of indictments in the morning!!
”butter emails!”
crofl
Factbox: 'Prepare to die' - Trump associate Stone accused of witness tampering
Roger Stone, a long-time ally of U.S. President Donald Trump,
allegedly called an associate “a rat,”
threatened his dog and
invoked the “Godfather” mafia movies
in a bid to stop him from testifying to an investigation run by Special Counselor Robert Mueller’s office, according to court papers unsealed on Friday.
Stone was arrested in Florida and accused of lying to congressional investigators and tampering with a witness.
The 24-page indictment is peppered with alleged threats from Stone to the unnamed associate:
* “You are a rat.
A stoolie.
You backstab your friends-
run your mouth my lawyers are dying Rip you to shreds,” Stone told the person in an April 9 email.
He also threatened to
“take that dog away from you,” and said,
“I am so ready. Let’s get it on. Prepare to die [expletive].”
* “If you testify you’re a fool.
Because of tromp
I could never get away with a certain [sic] my Fifth Amendment rights but you can.
I guarantee you you are the one who gets indicted for perjury if you’re stupid enough to testify,”
Stone told the person in a Dec. 1, 2017, text message.
* “You are so full of [expletive].
You got nothing.
Keep running your mouth and I’ll file a bar complaint against your friend,” Stone wrote in a May 21 email.
* Another Dec. 1 2017 message
referred to a character in the mob movie “The Godfather: Part II” who declines to testify to Congress after mobsters bring his brother from Italy to the hearing in an apparent threat to the man’s safety.
Court papers said that Stone told the person to “do a ‘Frank Pentangeli.’”
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-u...2F+Top+News%29
Trash, like a big turd, attracts ALL really classy The Maggot People
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"After the hearing, Corleone family consigliere Tom Hagen (Robert Duvall) visits Pentangeli in custody.
Hagen tells Pentangeli, a history buff, a story about how traitors in ancient Rome could spare their families if they committed suicide;
the implication being that Michael will take care of Pentangeli's family if he kills himself.
Pentangeli thanks Hagen, returns to his assigned quarters, and
slits his wrists while taking a bath.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Pentangeli
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