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First Charges Filed in Mueller Investigation

It's even money that Sessions will not be able to recall his own name under oath or in an FBI interview.
 
As Moonz, Nunes and the rest of the anti-American clowns try to squash an investigation into an attack on our republic, the wheels of justice continue to grind.

Mueller seeks to question Trump about Flynn and Comey departures


By Carol D. Leonnig,, Sari Horwitz, Josh DawseyJanuary 23, 2018 at 7:24 PM
With indications that special counsel Robert Mueller is seeking an interview with President Trump, here are some burning questions his team will want to ask. (Jenny Starrs/The Washington Post)
Special counsel Robert S. Mueller III is seeking to question President Trump in the coming weeks about his decisions to oust national security adviser Michael Flynn and FBI Director James B. Comey, according to two people familiar with his plans.

Mueller's interest in the events that led Trump to push out Flynn and Comey indicates that his investigation is aggressively scrutinizing possible efforts by the president or others to hamper the special counsel's probe.

Discussions about a Trump interview come amid the broader inquiry into Russia's interference in the 2016 election, a wide-ranging investigation that has already led to charges against four former Trump advisers.

Mueller now appears to be turning his attention to Trump and key witnesses in his inner circle, raising the pressure on the White House as the administration enters its second year.

Last week, Attorney General Jeff Sessions was interviewed for several hours by special counsel investigators, according to Justice Department officials. He is the first member of Trump's Cabinet to be questioned in the probe.


President Trump has said privately that he is not worried about speaking to special counsel Robert S. Mueller III because he has done nothing wrong. (Jabin Botsford; Kevin Lamarque/The Washington Post; Reuters)
Months ago, the special counsel's office also briefly interviewed Comey, who at the time vouched for the contents of memos he wrote about private conversations he had with the president, according to people familiar with the matter. The Sessions and Comey interviews were first reported by the New York Times.

Related: [Mueller indicates he is likely to seek interview with Trump]

Trump's attorneys have crafted some negotiating terms for the president's interview with Mueller's team, and they could be presented to the special counsel as soon as next week, according to the two people.

The president's legal team hopes to provide Trump's testimony in a hybrid form — answering some questions in a face-to-face interview and others in a written statement.

A spokesman for the special counsel's office, Peter Carr, declined to comment. A White House spokesman referred questions to the president's legal team. Two attorneys for Trump, Jay Sekulow and John Dowd, declined to comment.

Sitting presidents have been interviewed by prosecutors in the past, though courts have urged government investigators to seek such interviews only when they cannot obtain relevant information another way. In 1998, President Bill Clinton testified for more than four hours before a grand jury via a video link after being subpoenaed by independent counsel Kenneth W. Starr.

Within the past two weeks, the special counsel's office has indicated to the White House that the central subjects investigators wish to discuss with the president are the departures of Flynn and Comey and the events surrounding their firings.

White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said on Jan. 23 that President Trump "is going to be fully cooperative with the special counsel." (Reuters)
Mueller has also expressed interest in Trump's efforts to remove Sessions as attorney general or pressure him into quitting, according to a person familiar with the probe. The person said the special counsel was seeking to determine whether there was a "pattern" of behavior by the president.

Flynn resigned last February after The Washington Post reported that he had misled Vice President Pence and other administration officials about his communications with Sergey Kislyak, then the Russian ambassador to the United States.

Late last year, Flynn pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI about his contacts with Kislyak. Trump then tweeted that "he had to fire General Flynn because he lied to the Vice President and the FBI." Previously, the White House had cited only the false statements to Pence as a rationale for dismissing Flynn.

Trump fired Comey in May, several days after the then-FBI director told Congress that he could not comment on whether there was evidence of collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia. At the time, Comey was overseeing the Russia probe. Comey later testified that the president had asked him several months earlier whether he could see a way to "letting Flynn go."

Earlier this month, Trump declined to say whether he would grant an interview to Mueller and his team, deflecting questions on the topic by saying there had been "no collusion" between his campaign and Russia during the 2016 presidential election.

"We'll see what happens," Trump said when asked directly about meeting with the special counsel.

Behind the scenes, the president has told his team of lawyers that he is not worried about being interviewed because he has done nothing wrong, according to people familiar with his views. His attorneys also support a sit-down, as long as there are clear parameters and topics.

However, some of Trump's close advisers and friends fear that a face-to-face interview with Mueller could put the president in legal jeopardy. A central worry, they say, is Trump's lack of precision in his speech and his penchant for hyperbole.

People close to Trump have tried to warn him for months that Mueller is a "killer," in the words of one associate, noting that the special counsel has shown interest in the president's actions.

Roger Stone, a longtime informal adviser to Trump, said he should try to avoid an interview at all costs, saying that agreeing to such a session would be a "suicide mission."

"I find it to be a death wish. Why would you walk into a perjury trap?" Stone said. "The president would be very poorly advised to give Mueller an interview."

Sessions, who has recused himself from oversight of the special counsel investigation, could be a key witness to the events under scrutiny. In 2016, he met at least twice with Kislyak. After Trump was elected, Sessions was one of a small number of administration officials involved in discussions with the president that led to the firing of Comey.

Sessions's lawyer, Chuck ­Cooper, who accompanied him to his special counsel interview last week, declined to comment.

The attorney general's role in the investigation and his supervision of the Justice Department have been marked by controversy. At times, he has struggled to explain what was said in private meetings that are now of interest to investigators.

During his confirmation hearing in early 2017, Sessions was asked what he would do if he learned that there had been contacts between Russians and the Trump campaign. He answered: "I did not have communications with the Russians.''

After The Washington Post reported that he met at least twice with Kislyak in 2016, Sessions announced that he was recusing himself from investigations involving the election, based on the advice of Justice Department ethics lawyers.

He has since maintained that he misunderstood the scope of the question at his confirmation hearing, and that his meetings with Kislyak were fleeting or strictly in his capacity as a U.S. senator. In announcing his recusal, Sessions said: "I never had meetings with Russian operatives or Russian intermediaries about the Trump campaign."

That assertion is contradicted by the accounts Kislyak provided to his superiors in Moscow, according to current and former U.S. officials.

Kislyak reported to his bosses that he discussed campaign-related matters, including policy issues important to Moscow, with Sessions during the 2016 presidential race.

At the time, Sessions was a top foreign policy adviser to candidate Trump. Kislyak's accounts of the conversations were intercepted by U.S. spy agencies, which regularly monitor the communications of senior Russian officials in the United States and Russia.

One U.S. official said Sessions has provided "misleading" statements that are "contradicted by other evidence." A former official said the intelligence indicates that Sessions and Kislyak had "substantive" discussions on matters including Trump's positions on Russia-related issues and prospects for U.S.-Russia relations in a Trump administration.

Sessions's recusal from the Russia probe has continued to rankle the president, according to administration officials, and the attorney general has become embroiled in other internal battles in recent months.

In December, Sessions pushed FBI Director Christopher A. Wray to remove and replace some of his top aides, particularly Deputy Director Andrew McCabe. Trump and others have argued that those top aides, who served at the FBI under Comey, are biased against the president.

Devlin Barrett and Ellen Nakashima contributed to this report.

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but what about Russia? you remember Russia, don't you?

there was a reason they opened up the investigation to other than Russia. try to keep up, that was just to get in the door. Trump is dirty, i don't think there is anyone that can disagree. it is a fact from his past felonious actives.

there does appear to be some sort of collaboration with Russia, and the Trump team has been caught in too many lies about those meetings, holdings, debt, etc..

we will see where it goes.
 
so, they arranged to have a special counsel appointed to investigate a crime that they knew did not exist, and then proceeded to hire people to investigate the aforementioned non-existent crime, who had helped to whitewash Hillary, hated Trump, had fraudulently arranged to bug Trump's campaign, and had themselves severe doubts that the aforementioned crime had existed, but needed to find something/anything on Trump before their misdeeds were discovered, nice

but it's all OK because, well, Trump

the republic is in good hands with TDS folks like these,
 
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so, they arranged to have a special counsel appointed to investigate a crime that they knew did not exist, and then proceeded to hire people to investigate the aforementioned non-existent crime, who had helped to whitewash Hillary, hated Trump, had fraudulently arranged to bug Trump's campaign, and had themselves severe doubts that the aforementioned crime had existed, but needed to find something/anything on Trump before their misdeeds were discovered, nice

but it's all OK because, well, Trump

the republic is in good hands with TDS folks like these,

well, we have Trump and his dirty cronies and we have the FBI.

it is a bad time in America for sure
 
so, they arranged to have a special counsel appointed to investigate a crime that they knew did not exist, and then proceeded to hire people to investigate the aforementioned non-existent crime, who had helped to whitewash Hillary, hated Trump, had fraudulently arranged to bug Trump's campaign, and had themselves severe doubts that the aforementioned crime had existed, but needed to find something/anything on Trump before their misdeeds were discovered, nice

but it's all OK because, well, Trump

the republic is in good hands with TDS folks like these,

Again. This is wrong.
 
but what about Russia? you remember Russia, don't you?

There were more people from Russia as VIPs at Trump's Inauguration party than from PA or TX or FL. But he had nothing to do with them.

Of course, Putin would never want anything back for giving Trump hundreds of millions of dollars for Trump Toronto AFTER it went bankrupt. Putin is just a philanthropist for rich white guys. Putin's KGB training is about helping others. A few hundred million is nothing to him.
 
There were more people from Russia as VIPs at Trump's Inauguration party than from PA or TX or FL. But he had nothing to do with them.

Of course, Putin would never want anything back for giving Trump hundreds of millions of dollars for Trump Toronto AFTER it went bankrupt. Putin is just a philanthropist for rich white guys. Putin's KGB training is about helping others. A few hundred million is nothing to him.

KARLLLLLL !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
 
i always think it is interesting that people create new accounts on this board, just to say the same bs. what are you hiding? are you mad that more people don't support your opinion? do you hate yourself so much that you feel that you need to keep giving good reps to yourself?

just toss your credibility out the window and let Jesus take the wheel...
 
so, they arranged to have a special counsel appointed to investigate a crime that they knew did not exist, and then proceeded to hire people to investigate the aforementioned non-existent crime, who had helped to whitewash Hillary, hated Trump, had fraudulently arranged to bug Trump's campaign, and had themselves severe doubts that the aforementioned crime had existed, but needed to find something/anything on Trump before their misdeeds were discovered, nice

but it's all OK because, well, Trump

the republic is in good hands with TDS folks like these,

you are one gullible man-child. go fishing or something
 
How do you know a crime doesn’t exact before an investigation

Keep in mind these are the same people who know Hillary committed all kinds of crimes after the investigations found she didn’t.
 
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