The news on the Republican crimes is coming out faster that I can keep track it, and Mueller’s possession of notes taken by Rancid Reince Priebus confirming how Trump harassed James Comey say he was not under investigation could be huge! Here’s Michael Schmidt’s report on it.
…The special counsel has received handwritten notes from Mr. Trump’s former chief of staff, Reince Priebus, showing that Mr. Trump talked to Mr. Priebus about how he had called Mr. Comey to urge him to say publicly that he was not under investigation. The president’s determination to fire Mr. Comey even led one White House lawyer to take the extraordinary step of misleading Mr. Trump about whether he had the authority to remove him.
The New York Times has also learned that four days before Mr. Comey was fired, one of Mr. Sessions’s aides asked a congressional staff member whether he had damaging information about Mr. Comey, part of an apparent effort to undermine the F.B.I. director. It was not clear whether Mr. Mueller’s investigators knew about this episode.
Mr. Mueller has also been examining a false statement that the president reportedly dictated on Air Force One in July in response to an article in The Times about a meeting that Trump campaign officials had with Russians in 2016. A new book, “Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House,” by Michael Wolff, says that the president’s lawyers believed that the statement was “an explicit attempt to throw sand into the investigation’s gears,” and that it led one of Mr. Trump’s spokesmen to quit because he believed it was obstruction of justice.
Ty Cobb, the White House lawyer dealing with the special counsel’s investigation, declined to comment….
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Trump also tried to order KKK Beauregard not to recuse himself, so he could "protect" Trump from the investigation. Rachel Maddow covered the story in detail in this interview with Michael Schmidt.
I hope this means that the Fuhrer will soon have a jump suit to match his face and hair.
RESIST THE PEPUBLICAN REICH!!
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Another thing Schmidt noted, as Kossack teacherken points out, is that before Rosenstein wrote his memo, he took a copy of the letter which Stephen Miller and Trump had drafted (and which other advisers considered unwise to send). That is something that lawyers do, and another thing lawyers do is KEEP documents.
Mr. Mueller is closing in on the fire! from the WH!!Orange jumpsuit for the Orange One, lol, TC !Great news !!
WOW! Rachel tells ALL! And Drumpfenfarten is getting on down that road! That is AMAZING! And tRump is the willing idiot in this WHOLE soap opera! He needs to be locked up in a psychiatric ward and let the people of the US watch him on cc tv as he unravels! MAN! How in the world did the most powerful nation on EARTH get swindled into this hot mess? How did people be SO dumb as to have believed this idiot and VOTE for him? Unfrigginbelievable!!!
I hope things start moving faster since we have confirmation that Mueller has proof that the Orange turd has and is breaking the law, 24/7!!!
Thanks for the heads up, TC! Great post!
Again: the dumbest thing the empty Orange ever did was run for president. His house of cards ought to be coming apart, soon. But, if/when it does, before the applause and “Hoorays” fade, watch out for what Koch’s man, Pence, will be doing!
When I say “dumbest,” I am referring to how all his previously hidden sickness, cruelty, and the like would never otherwise been grist for the public mill, like it will be now.
(Nixon) History has shown that Mueller’s best option to impeach/indict/have Drumpf fire himself is to get everything he can on Comey’s firing and substantiate beyond doubt that Drumpf was obstructing justice by firing Comey. Mueller probably won’t get Drumpf impeached on colluding with Russia; the GOP just will ignore it, it isn’t illegal as far as they’re concerned, and they’ll stick to that no matter what. For everyone’s sake, please let Mueller start handing out the subpoenas soon.
If there are any in the House and Senate that love their country, bone-spurs-in-chief will be gone.
AMEN!!!
Is that the sound of the other shoe falling with a thud? It could not have happened to a more deserving idiot!
I wonder if Priebus rolled over on Drumpf as well as letting his notes! Rats from a sinking ship . . .
Great piece from Rachel. She elucidates everything so well . . . even a brain dead Republican could understand her.
That picture . . .God, Drumpf is an ugly person! His inner ugliness seeps out through his pores and is an affront to descent people.
Thanks all. Sticky coughing hugs!