The Investigation of Donald Trump

[Seshmeister]

The US economy was generating 200 000 new jobs a month under the last guy.

You will notice the japs haven't said where the factory will be yet. That's so you will now have 50 States in competition to bend the knee using taxpayers money to subsidize it - socialism!

[Nickdfresh]

Et tut, Mueller?

Mueller Is ‘Going for the Kill’ on Trump-Russia Investigation, Republicans Believe: Report
Newsweek Jason Le Miere,Newsweek 1 hour 50 minutes ago

Republicans with close links to the White House increasingly believe that special counsel Robert Mueller is “going for the kill” in his investigation into links between President Donald Trump and Russia, according to a report from Axios Tuesday.

Members of the GOP are said to have come to that stark conclusion based on Mueller’s hiring of lawyers experienced in dealing with money laundering crimes and the Mafia, as well as the intensity of his pursuit of both witnesses and evidence.

Trump has previously warned that investigation of his financial dealings is a red line that Mueller should not cross. But that is thought to be exactly what Mueller is doing, including looking into a proposal made during the 2016 campaign to build a Trump Tower in Moscow.

The new report comes just days after Trump’s former chief strategist, Steve Bannon, told CBS’s 60 Minutes that Trump’s firing of former FBI Director James Comey, which he called the worst mistake in “modern political history,” led directly to the appointment of Mueller to oversee the investigation.

Mueller’s probe appears to have stepped up in recent weeks. It was reported last month that he had impaneled a federal grand jury in Washington and has issued subpoenas related to a meeting Donald Trump Jr. held with a Russian-government-linked lawyer in June 2016. Trump’s son-in-law and senior adviser, Jared Kushner, as well as his then-campaign chairman, Paul Manafort, were also at the meeting. Last week, Trump Jr. was interviewed behind closed doors by the Senate Judiciary Committee.

Robert Mueller Special counsel Robert Mueller arrives at the U.S. Capitol for a closed meeting with members of the Senate Judiciary Committee on June 21. Alex Wong/Getty Images

Such is the scale of Mueller’s investigation that legal fees for those coming under the probe’s focus are mounting sharply, to the extent that outside legal defense funds could soon be necessary, Axios reports. More Trump aides are said to have lawyered up in response to a draft letter from Trump explaining his reasons for firing Comey, which was never sent and has not been published but has been obtained by Mueller. The letter was handed out to several White House officials, including Vice President Mike Pence, according to The New York Times.

Despite Trump’s repeated insistence that he has been told he is not personally under investigation, the president is possibly facing very real personal consequences. Based on conversations with White House aides, Axios says that Mueller is narrowing in on a possible charge of obstruction of justice against the president.

While the details of the original letter have yet to be disclosed, Trump undermined his legally refined reasons for dismissing Comey when he told NBC News that he did so with the Russia investigation in mind.

Despite all of this, Trump is not thought to be considering firing Mueller, according to Axios. Doing so, Trump associates said, would be as bad as “firing the pope.”

[Terry]

Well, I'd imagine the problem Trump faces is one of his corporation in the last twenty years having done business with all sorts of shady, unsavory foreign characters when most US financial institutions became unwilling to do business with Trump.

I'd tend to doubt Trump himself even knows the particulars of what sorts of transactions have transpired, and the idea that Trump has any control over what Mueller's probe investigates...nope.

Why would Trump be so insistent that any investigation of his financial dealings is a red line unless Trump thought there was something untoward - or illegal - to find? Trump sounds and acts like a guilty man.

I'd be surprised if Trump didn't end up firing Mueller, although perhaps even that won't save his skin if "the goods" are there to find.

Who knows?

[Nickdfresh]

Mueller indicts 12 Russian intel officers for hacking Democrats

Mueller indicts 12 Russian intel officers for hacking Democrats originally appeared on abcnews.go.com

A federal grand jury on Friday returned a new indictment against a dozen Russians as part of special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation into alleged Russian meddling during the 2016 presidential campaign.

The charges come just days before President Donald Trump is set to meet with Russia's President Vladimir Putin and on the same day that Trump, on a trip to the United Kingdom, again called the investigation a "witch hunt."

The indictment targets 12 Russian intelligence officers for engaging in a sustained effort to hack networks of Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, the Democratic National Committee, and Hillary Clinton’s campaign. All 12 are members of the GRU, Russia's intelligence service, according to the court filing.

In announcing the indictment Friday, Deputy Attorney General described how the Russian GRU officials began a “spearphishing” campaign in 2016 against volunteers and employees of Clinton’s campaign, including her campaign chairman. Russians’ spearphishing techniques also earned them access to networks of the DCCC and DNC, where they were able to steal emails and documents, covertly monitor the computer activity of dozens of employees, and implant hundreds of malicious files to steal passwords and maintain access to the networks.
Rosenstein described how "One GRU unit worked to steal information, while another unit worked to disseminate stolen information."

"Free and fair elections are hard-fought and contentious. There will always be adversaries who work to exacerbate domestic differences and try to confuse, divide, and conquer us," Rosenstein said. "The blame for election interference belongs to the criminals who committed election interference."
PHOTO: John Podesta, chair of the Hillary Clinton presidential campaign, walks off stage after delivering a speech on the first day of the Democratic National Convention at the Wells Fargo Center, July 25, 2016 in Philadelphia. (Drew Angerer/Getty Images, FILE)

Hillary Clinton campaign chairman, John Podesta, whose email account was hacked during the campaign, told ABC News he was heartened to see the Mueller action.

“Donald Trump calls this a witch hunt? Well, we’ve just found some witches,” Podesta said. “And they’ve been indicted.”

The new indictment raises the stakes as President Trump is preparing for a Monday summit with Putin in Helsinki, Finland. Already, Trump has fielded questions about whether he will raise the matter of Russian interference in the 2016 campaign, saying he expects Putin will continue to deny any involvement. “All I can do is say, ‘Did you?’ And, ‘Don’t do it again,’” Trump told reporters during the recent NATO summit.

Rosenstein on Friday said he briefed President Trump on these allegations earlier this week, adding that although Americans corresponded with the indicted Russians, no Americans knowingly conspired with Russian intelligence officers.

Former Gov. Chris Christie, a one-time Trump adviser and now an ABC News consultant, said Mueller wanted Trump to enter his meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin with this indictment in front of him.

“The unmistakable conclusion is that Bob Mueller wanted to show that this is not a debatable point,” Christie said. “There is no debate that the Russians meddled in the election.”

In just over a year since his appointment as special counsel, Mueller and his hand-picked team of prosecutors have now filed ten indictments covering 32 individuals and three businesses, earned five guilty pleas, have two criminal cases headed to trial, and sentenced one person to prison.

President Donald Trump and his supporters have repeatedly called Mueller’s investigation a “Witch Hunt”.

Friday’s indictment comes as Rosenstein faces increased scrutiny from President Trump’s backers on Capitol Hill. House Republicans have threatened to hold Rosenstein in contempt of Congress for what they say is the Justice Department's failure to comply in a timely manner with a subpoena for documents related to the Clinton email and Trump-Russia investigations.

The Department of Justice last Friday sent a letter to two House committees insisting it had fully complied.

Good Morning America LUCIEN BRUGGEMAN and MIKE LEVINE,Good Morning America 48 seconds ago

[Nitro Express]

Oh goody. !2 ham sandwiches from Russia got indicted. Just another excuse to waste our tax money on an investigation that has found nothing. Why would the Russians want to keep Hillary Clinton out of the presidency? She will sell anything for the right price.

[FORD]

Oh goody. !2 ham sandwiches from Russia got indicted. Just another excuse to waste our tax money on an investigation that has found nothing. Why would the Russians want to keep Hillary Clinton out of the presidency? She will sell anything for the right price.

Cheeto owes them a lot of favors because they were the only ones left on the planet who would "loan" him money..... though it was really less a loan and more a laundromat for the Commie Mob.

As stupid as Trump is, even he couldn't possibly bankrupt a casino..... unless it was built to fail in the first place.

[Nitro Express]

Cheeto owes them a lot of favors because they were the only ones left on the planet who would "loan" him money..... though it was really less a loan and more a laundromat for the Commie Mob.

As stupid as Trump is, even he couldn't possibly bankrupt a casino..... unless it was built to fail in the first place.

Ok. Got any proof any of this was going on? The last Russians that were indicted actually showed up for their court case and Mueller had to stall. This whole thing is an ongoing joke. Let's see how long has it been going on? Two years? How much has this whole nonsense cost the taxpayer? At this point I'm wonder if we even need an FBI since it's seems to be ran by bumbling idiots. We have Homeland Security now so just get rid of the FBI and the Justice Department is ran by bumbling idiots too. As far as any kind of hacking goes; especially, overseas hacking the NSA would have the records on that. Has anyone there come forth? Only the former director saying the whole thing is nonsense.

Meanwhile we have gotten wonder stories of Russian hookers pissing up beds and Russian mobsters laundering their money through failed Atlantic casinos. Where's the video or any kind of real proof here other than a bunch of bobble heads at the Department of Just-Us? Has anyone actually come up with any real documents, photos, video, witness testimony other than some porn star who claims Trump paid her hush money? Then what in the hell does that have to do with Russian collusion in the first place?

[FORD]

Here's the most obvious episode of collusion......

[Seshmeister]

Why would the Russians want to keep Hillary Clinton out of the presidency? She will sell anything for the right price.

The Russians want to weaken the power of NATO, that seems to be going well.

They want the EU weakened as well which is why they helped the Brexit campaign.

The final thing they want is a repeal of the Magnitsky Act which is a real pain in ass for them when they are trying to spend their stolen corruption money.

So 2 out of 3 projects going very well so far under Trump watch out for #3 because it's coming.

It's nonsense to say that just because Clinton likes money that any of these three objectives would have been achieved with her as president.

See http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-05-2...lained/9783076 for background.

[Nickdfresh]

Oh goody. !2 ham sandwiches from Russia got indicted. Just another excuse to waste our tax money on an investigation that has found nothing. Why would the Russians want to keep Hillary Clinton out of the presidency? She will sell anything for the right price.

Obviously, idiot, if they hadn't found anything they wouldn't have indicted 13 GRU Soviet military intelligence agents.

[Nickdfresh]

Ok. Got any proof any of this was going on?...

Oh for fucking fuck sake, when have you ever given a shit about "proof" with your Bilderberger and Trilateral Commission crap?

[Nitro Express]

Oh for fucking fuck sake, when have you ever given a shit about "proof" with your Bilderberger and Trilateral Commission crap?

Actually The Trilateral Commission was a real organization as is Bilderberg. The first organized by David Rockefeller and Zibignew Brzenski when the Bilderberg Group refused to admit Japanese friends of Mr. Rockefeller so Rockefeller founded his own group which he hoped would be less prejudice than the Europeans in Bilderberg. That being said. What in the hell does this have to do with the Mueller investigation? You know the investigation that started off looking into Russian meddling in the presidential election and then got off track looking at other things such as porn stars getting paid off. It's a joke.

The thing is the Trilateral Commission is old news as is Bilderberg and the Mueller Investigation will soon be forgotten having accomplished nothing more than wasting millions of our tax dollars.

[Seshmeister]

You just found another $180 BILLION for 'defence' spending so what the fuck difference does a million here or there make to anything?

It's funny to think that Saunders was considered a complete fucking commie spending lunatic for proposing free college education because it was a ludicrous amount of money - $47 billion.