Special Counsel Robert Mueller's team investigating whether President Donald Trump sought to obstruct a federal inquiry into connections between his presidential campaign and Russian operatives has now directed the Justice Department to turn over a broad array of documents, ABC News has learned.
In particular, Mueller's investigators are keen to obtain emails related to the firing of FBI Director James Comey and the earlier decision of Attorney General Jeff Sessions to recuse himself from the entire matter, according to a source who has not seen the specific request but was told about it.
Issued within the past month, the directive marks the special counsel's first records request to the Justice Department, and it means Mueller is now demanding documents from the department overseeing his investigation.
Mueller's investigators now seek not only communications between Justice Department officials themselves, but also any communications with White House counterparts, the source said. Before this request, investigators asked former senior Justice Department officials for information from their time at the department, ABC News was told.
The latest move suggests the Special Counsel is still actively digging into, among other matters, whether Trump or any other administration official improperly tried to influence an ongoing investigation.
Robert Mueller seems to be cutting pretty close to the bone here.
I would be very surprised if there were not incriminating emails somewhere in the Justice Department that Jeff Sessions and Donald Trump are desperate to keep out of Robert Mueller's hands.
I can almost guarantee that there will be a lack of cooperation which will tip Mueller off as to where to focus next.
Popcorn anyone?
Poor Ivanka and her hero hubby. Mueller is a grinch. All they want is a little hands on 24/7 family time at the White House and around the world.
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http://www.newsweek.com/ivanka-trump-thanksgiving-table-centerpiece-wtf-716052
DeleteThank you for that; Hands on, yep.
DeleteEwwww, I've seen that pic many times and it still completely creeps me out!!
OT? NeXT > $ara Kkklan?
Deletehttps://www.thedailybeast.com/meet-the-trump-officials-making-government-a-family-business
Jared can be a hero if he helps his wife deal with the photos with her father and what went on off camera.
DeleteIvanka said Donald was not a father when his children were growing up. He did support them but he did not have much quality time with them. Ivana was the one to raise them.
Donald did seem to favor his daughter. They posed for many photos the times they were together. He also helped her with plastic surgery and to be a model. As she grew older he bragged about how he thought his work paid off and how attractive she is to him.
Jared keeps many family secrets. He needs to stop this family poisoning. He must help Ivanka stop her complicity. Be a hero Jared.
Katy Tur reveals Trump kissed her w/out her consent
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#MeToo!
Jared, help.
@11:19 UNbeLIEvable
Deletehttps://www.amazon.com/Unbelievable-Front-Row-Craziest-Campaign-American/dp/0062684922
https://www.salon.com/2017/11/20/is-ivanka-trump-a-target-of-investigation-now-it-seems-likely/
Delete"When you look into the rest of Ivanka Trump's history in business, the story repeats itself over and over again. The company has licensed the Trump name in places known for networks of money launderers. As the anti-corruption watchdog Global Witness reported, "the result is that Trump’s current wealth has depended in part on securing significant infusions of untraceable foreign funds.”
It's very difficult to believe that the Trumps didn't know that they were involved in these massive corruption schemes. The evidence was right in front of their eyes. Now that evidence is right in front of an investigative team that has a mandate to go wherever the evidence takes them, Ivanka Trump is as legally vulnerable as her husband and the rest of her family."
"In 2015 Trump boasted: “My massive net worth is in excess of $10 billion.”
DeleteONE TENTH if THAT
Net worth is a subjective “feeling,” Trump said in a 2006 deposition when he sued author Timothy O’Brien, who wrote Trump Nation, a book that was critical of him. “My net worth fluctuates, and it goes up and down with markets and with attitudes and with feelings, even my own feelings,”"
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/trump-organization-one-tenth-value_us_5a10ea53e4b045cf4371dfde
@Anonymous12:27 PM
DeleteI bet he does not even posess enough actual real wealth to really buy the cheapest valued NFL team. Not this shell trunp scion bullshit. Hence the utter disdain for the NFL or sports period, because he wants so bad to be an owner of a team.
Answer for Anon @2:05
Delete"Trump is widely considered to be the guy who lead the USFL to its demise. He "destroyed" the league, screams the headline of a piece published by Esquire."
"In 2014, the sports world buzzed when Trump put in a bid to buy the Buffalo Bills -- and he lost.
"I bid a billion dollars, all cash on the table. [business magnate Terrence Pegula] bought it for a billion-two, I believe, although they say it was a billion-four. I think he got it for a billion‑two,"
"I would have produced a winner. Now that won't happen."In criticizing a rule change aimed at making the game safer for players, Trump declared in a 2013 post that it was "the beginning of the end" for the NFL.
"The NFL has just barred ball carriers from using helmet as contact. What is happening to the sport?"
http://money.cnn.com/2017/09/23/news/trump-nfl-history/index.html
https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/2017/11/08/bob-costas-future-football-nfl-this-game-destroys-peoples-brains/842904001/
"Wilbon said football also lacks the international appeal of sports such as basketball and soccer, in part because it has sought to control its personalities."
Thank God America has Mueller!!! Trump needs to go - be impeached.
ReplyDeleteThe sooner Mueller wraps this up the better, so Trump can continue a successful two term Presidency without this baggage in the way.
Delete939 Control freaks can't control themselves. Shrug.
Delete@Anonymous9:39 AM
DeleteYeah right.
WHO is in fantasy land 10:40?
DeleteHey it's you.
How's that tax deal working for ya 1040? Irony much?
DeleteThat was probably snark that Anonymous9:39 AM said. I think.........
DeleteMeanwhile...
ReplyDeleteFCC Votes for Massive Corporate Giveaway at Expense of Consumers
Today, the Federal Communications Commission voted to eliminate four decades of protections against rampant media consolidation, despite already low numbers of local and diverse voices. In addition to removing limitations on the cross-ownership of newspapers, radio and TV stations in the same market, the FCC also voted for changes that would prevent millions from accessing the Lifeline program, the nation's only program to bring phone and Internet services within reach for millions of low income Americans. By barring non-facilities based providers from offering Lifeline, nearly 70 percent of families in need are in jeopardy of losing service.
http://krwg.org/post/fcc-votes-massive-corporate-giveaway-expense-consumers
Well, then, ATT should be able to keep CNN.
DeleteRight?
BTW, they'll be destroying Net Neutrality next.
An Indelible Stain
ReplyDeleteNo matter what happens from here on out, it feels the damage is done. We are witness to an era in which our nation has elected a man so totally unqualified to be president that it boggles the mind. Part of me feels bad for Donald Trump. It is clear that he is in so far over his head that he doesn’t know which way to turn. The man can’t put two sentences together. One wonders if there isn’t something seriously wrong that is impacting his intellect. Watching old footage of The Donald from 30 years ago, it instantly becomes clear that he was once much more articulate and coherent than he is now. Whatever the case, it’s become a national embarrassment whenever he speaks into a microphone or, God help us, takes to his Twitter account. It’s been great fodder for comedians and late night talk shows but, comedy relief aside, it’s anything but funny. Everything has changed. Mr. Trump has left an indelible stain on our national image, the world is watching and history will judge us harshly for our sins.
Read more at
http://www.patheos.com/blogs/shanephipps/2017/11/02/an-indelible-stain/
http://www.politicususa.com/2017/11/20/watch-trump-barely-read-cabinet-meeting-script-tax-cuts.html
DeleteWhat’s Behind Donald Trump’s Impulse to Sabotage Himself?
ReplyDeletehttps://www.thedailybeast.com/whats-behind-donald-trumps-impulse-to-sabotage-himself
Make Nepotism Great Again: 20 Families Got Jobs in Trump Administration
ReplyDeleteRudy Giuliani’s son, Seb Gorka’s wife, Eric Trump’s brother-in-law. Multiple members of the same families hold positions of power.
Most people have heard of Ivanka and Jared, but the first family is far from the only group of relatives staffing the Trump administration.
A Daily Beast examination of public records reveals that there are at least 20 families, joined by either blood or marriage, in which multiple members hold some federal post or appointment. They include the families of some of Trump’s most prominent campaign supporters and agency officials, including one cabinet officer. The posts range from senior White House staff to more ceremonial and advisory positions.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/meet-the-trump-officials-making-government-a-family-business
https://www.rawstory.com/2017/11/rudy-giuliani-turns-up-in-ukraine-with-pro-russia-official-linked-to-paul-manaforts-clients/
Delete"Trump Motorboating Rudy Giuliani In Drag —
Look At It, Dammit!"
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/remember-donald-trump-motorboating-rudy-giuliani-in-drag-remember-it_us_57bcb196e4b00d9c3a1a8a02
That's how dictatorships work.
DeleteWhy don't they have pussytittyships?
DeleteI mean come on. Snark.
Sources: McMaster Mocked Trump’s Intelligence At A Private Dinner
ReplyDeleteAt dinner at a lobbying hotspot with a powerful tech CEO, the national security adviser said the president has the intelligence of a “kindergartner,” according to sources. Oracle and the Trump administration deny the comments.
...But these new details reveal that the subject matter of McMaster’s dinner with Catz, which sources tell BuzzFeed News took place on July 18 at the Washington, DC, restaurant Tosca, ranged far from geopolitics. Indeed, three of the sources said that McMaster disparaged multiple members of the administration to Catz, including Tillerson, Secretary of Defense James Mattis, former White House chief strategist Steve Bannon, and President Trump’s son-in-law and senior adviser Jared Kushner. Of Kushner, one source told BuzzFeed News, McMaster said he had no business being in the White House and should not be involved in national security issues.
“[Catz] said the conversation was so inappropriate that it was jaw-dropping,” another source told BuzzFeed News.
https://www.buzzfeed.com/josephbernstein/sources-mcmaster-mocked-trumps-intelligence-in-a-private
A CNN panel led by host John King on Monday laid out all the evidence that Trump son-in-law Jared Kushner is in deep trouble when it comes to the probe into Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election.
ReplyDelete“Jared Kushner is like an octopus in the sense that his tentacles seem to be everywhere,” King began. “He was at the so-called June 2016 meeting, he had a meeting with Ambassador Kislyak, there’s this alleged contact with WikiLeaks. His tentacles are everywhere, his lawyer says it’s much ado about nothing.
King went on to make the case that the continued new revelations about what Kushner did during the 2016 presidential campaign are particularly troubling because Kushner has had ample time to fully explain his actions.
“He keeps popping up and we keep learning about things that, if he wanted to, months ago, Jared Kushner could have had a news conference, could have had a so-called Friday night document dump,” King said. “But yet, we keep learning about things drip, drip, drip.”
Later in the panel, King laid out all of the misstatements and omissions that Kushner has made since being appointed a White House adviser.
https://www.rawstory.com/2017/11/his-tentacles-are-everywhere-cnn-panel-lays-out-damning-case-against-jared-kushner-in-russia-probe/
If Mueller is investigating the Justice Department, then Trump and/or Sessions are in his crosshairs for obstruction.
ReplyDeleteAnd like a woman, they will whine or hump their way out of it. Or try to anyways.
Deletehttps://www.rawstory.com/2017/11/rudy-giuliani-turns-up-in-ukraine-with-pro-russia-official-linked-to-paul-manaforts-clients/
ReplyDelete"According to reporter Matthew Kupfer, Giuliani is visiting the Ukraine to attend a security conference." CRIMEa!
OT?"“I have worked with the Justice Department undercover for several years, and documentation relating to Uranium One and political influence does exist and I have it," the informant said last week."FBI agents and Campbell made secret recordings, gathered records and intercepted emails dating back to 2009 that showed that Russian officials had compromised an American uranium trucking firm with bribes and kickbacks, but the Justice Department waited until 2014 to bring charges."
ReplyDeletehttps://www.rawstory.com/2017/11/hillary-clinton-extorted-nuclear-official-says-breitbart-editor/
"to Rosatom, the Russian atomic energy company, in 2010. Campbell has suggested he can prove that approval of the sale was a quid pro quo for donations by Russian-connected parties to the Clinton Foundation. there are mounting questions about Campbell’s credibility in light of his track record as an informant in a separate FBI investigation into a Russian businessman named Vadim Mikerin, who was in charge of U.S. operations for Tenex — a separate unit of Rosatom that was not involved in the Uranium One purchase."Rep. Ron DeSantis, chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform National Security Subcommittee, said he had “explosive” information from a “confidential informant” who he said “would be able to link” the Obama administration’s approval of the sale of Uranium One to Russia to “millions of dollars” in donations to the Clinton Foundation."
DeleteDOUBT
https://www.yahoo.com/news/doubts-surface-key-witness-uranium-one-probe-clinton-203614558.html
Trump Hasn’t Fired Mueller Yet Because His Lawyer Is Blowing Sunshine
ReplyDelete...A source close to the administration tells the Post that Mueller is running “a classic Gambino-style roll-up” that “will reach everyone in this administration.” When you read histories of the more successful presidential administrations in American history, a phrase you don’t usually come across is “Gambino-style roll-up.”
However, in the face of this mounting evidence and the warnings of some allies, Trump has remained — by Trump’s standards — fairly calm. Obviously, by the standards of a normal president, he is acting like a complete lunatic. But given Trump’s patterns of spewing indiscriminate rage and abuse and lashing out at his enemies in wildly counterproductive fashion, he has conducted himself with notable restraint. Despite his barely concealed impulses, Trump has refrained from mass pardons or attempting to fire Mueller.
The apparent reason for his serenity is that his lawyer, Ty Cobb, has placated Trump with promises that Mueller’s probe would be over soon. “The president himself, however, has warmed to Cobb’s optimistic message on Mueller’s probe. Cobb had initially said he hoped the focus on the White House would conclude by Thanksgiving,” the Post reports.
Thanksgiving. It will all be over by Thanksgiving.
By this point, three days before Thanksgiving, it should be relatively clear Mueller’s work is not going to be completed before the turkey is served. The Post notes that Cobb “adjusted the timeline slightly in an interview last week, saying he remains optimistic that it will wrap up by the end of the year, if not shortly thereafter.”
http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2017/11/trump-hasnt-fired-mueller-yet-lawyer-is-blowing-sunshine.html
I think Bob Mueller is well aware that he could be fired at almost any time, especially given the recent speculation that Jeff Sessions may be called upon to run as a write-in for his old senate seat. Mindful of the sudden and reckless firing of Comey, I think Mueller has known this might also happen to him right from the beginning. I wouldn't be at all surprised if, as a result, Mueller went straight for the top from day one and already has obtained a sealed indictment of Trump. Anyone with half a brain can see that Trump has been engaged in money laundering, fraud, racketeering, and various sex crimes up to and possibly including rape for many years, long before he was elected. When he falls, and he IS going to fall, it will be one of the sweetest days in American history.
ReplyDeleteThoughtful post. ++++++++
Deletehttp://www.cnn.com/videos/politics/2016/01/23/donald-trump-iowa-rally-shooting-sot.cnn
Delete'LIKE' Murder for the Russian Mafia> ' he could Stand &
"shoot somebody and not lose any voters."
Kellyanne Conway Tells Fox News Viewers To Vote For Pedophile Roy Moore So Taxes Can Be Cut For The Rich
ReplyDeletehttp://www.politicususa.com/2017/11/20/kellyanne-conway-tells-fox-news-viewers-vote-pedophile-roy-moore-taxes-cut-rich.html
On thursday Thursday, when she told Fox & Friends that “no Senate seat worth more than a child.” NOW>
Delete"I'm telling you that we want the votes in the Senate to get this tax bill through."As Business Insider noted, there’s a reason for this. “Trump has been adamant that the bill will be on his desk ‘by Christmas,'” Business Insider’s Bob Bryan wrote.
“Republicans are following a pace that meets that self-imposed deadline.”
"Certainly, electing someone as steeped in controversy as Roy Moore, against all odds, would follow that pattern."
https://thinkprogress.org/kellyanne-conway-tells-alabamans-to-vote-roy-moore-so-republicans-can-pass-tax-reform-676ce631d018/
Let's see, the orange idiot, Sessions, Kushner, Ivanka, Tillerson, Flynn, Manafort. What about Pence? Do you think Mueller may be going after him, too?
ReplyDeletePence said he didn't know anything about Flynn and Russia but it turns out he did. That's perjury. There was something else, too. So I'd say yeah. Pence isn't out of the woods either.
Delete"Kaveladze told Congressional investigators that when he was first invited to participate, he was under the impression that he would just be there as a translator and that the meeting would involve discussion of Magnitsky Act sanctions."
ReplyDelete"Scott Balber, Kaveladze’s attorney, told The Daily Beast that before Kaveladze headed from Los Angeles to New York for the meeting, he saw an email noting that Kushner, Manafort, and Trump Jr. would all be involved. He thought it would be odd for them to attend the meeting, so he called Beniaminov before heading to New York. Both Beniaminov and Kaveladze have worked with the Agalarov’s real estate development company, the Crocus Group.
Balber said that Beniaminov told Kaveladze that he heard Rob Goldstone— Emin Agalarov’s music manager— discuss “dirt” on Hillary Clinton. It’s never become completely clear what kind of “dirt” the Russians were talking about."
https://www.thedailybeast.com/roman-beniaminov-a-low-profile-real-estate-exec-turned-pop-star-manager-knew-about-russias-dirt-on-hillary
http://crooksandliars.com/2017/11/mueller-machine-moves-ever-closer-oval
ReplyDelete"Note that Mueller is looking for documents not only within the DoJ, but between the DoJ and the White House. That doesn't bode well for the Keebler elf at the top of the department, who has his own problems with the Russians, and it doesn't bode well for Putin's orange puppet."
http://crooksandliars.com/cltv/2017/11/jeff-sessions-jokes-about-his-own
NOT FUNNY^
Awe, Trumpty Dumpty loses his Russkies money that is not theirs. Block that AT&T sale boo.
ReplyDeleteOh chit. That's illegal boo. Oh well. It's worked so well for a century. Awe, not anymore. Boohoo
Turns out, Tiny Hands got recruited/groomed by the Russians since at least the late 1970s! (Through his first wife Ivana amongst others!)
ReplyDeletehttps://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/11/19/trump-first-moscow-trip-215842?cid=apn
How's 1977 working for yas?
DeleteBeginning of the Russia end. It's going to cost...
When your worth a lot of money...people will say and do ANYTHING to keep it. ;)