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First Charges Filed in Mueller Investigation

there's only one answer:

"I'm on Team America, Mr. President"

Pence quiet says "fuck yeah"
 
Yep, someone who can’t conceive of any purpose larger than his own self.

At this point, he’s completely conflated his self interest and the interests of the United States. No difference whatsoever.
 
Which we knew he would do and which Republicans endorse.
 
So this is interesting.

Strozk, the FBI agent Moonz and Republicans have been using as "evidence of bias" in the Mueller investigation because of secret text messages about an "insurance policy". (There's zero context to this conversation either)....

That same guy urged Comey to re-open the Clinton email investigation in October. He even wrote the first draft of the letter Comey sent to Congress.

Exclusive: Controversial FBI agent co-wrote initial draft of explosive Comey letter reopening Clinton email probe

Washington (CNN) - Emails obtained by CNN show the FBI agent at the center of a Capitol Hill storm played a key role in a controversial FBI decision that upended Hillary Clinton's campaign just days before the 2016 election: the letter to Congress by then-FBI Director James Comey announcing the bureau was investigating newly discovered Clinton emails.

The new revelation about FBI agent Peter Strzok comes as Republicans accuse him of being sympathetic to Clinton while seeking to undermine Donald Trump during the heat of the 2016 campaign season.
Strzok, who co-wrote what appears to be the first draft that formed the basis of the letter Comey sent to Congress, also supported reopening the Clinton investigation once the emails were discovered on disgraced former Rep. Anthony Weiner's laptop, according to a source familiar with Strzok's thinking. The day after Strzok sent his draft to his colleagues, Comey released the letter to Congress, reigniting the email controversy in the final days of the campaign.

https://www.cnn.com/2018/01/31/politics/strzok-fbi-comey-clinton-letter/index.html
 
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So I have heard, what we all expected, Trump doesn’t want to Talk with Mueller. He said he would, he said he couldn’t wait...I wonder what has changed. Lawyers, meh, he could do it if he wanted. He’s scared. He probably should be, it’s not only this Russia thing he can ask about but also any illegal activities (as discovered in investigation). We all know he is dirty, just look at his history. How dirty is he? What is he doing? What has he done?

I would tell him not to talk to Mueller, but will that even matter?
 
 
And this just broke:

 
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The president supervised the writing of the statement, according to three people familiar with the episode, with input from other White House aides. A fierce debate erupted over how much information the news release should include. Mr. Trump was insistent about including language that the meeting was about Russian adoptions, according to two people with knowledge of the discussion.

By early afternoon, The Times received a separate statement, from Jamie S. Gorelick, a lawyer at the time for Jared Kushner, the president’s son-in-law and senior adviser. The statement said little about the meeting, except that Mr. Kushner had “briefly attended at the request of his brother-in-law Donald Trump Jr.”

It left nearly all of the questions unanswered — and seemed to put the onus on Donald Trump Jr. to answer them. Nearly four hours later, the statement that had been cobbled together aboard Air Force One was sent to The Times. The statement was in Donald Trump Jr.’s name and was issued by Mr. Garten.

“It was a short introductory meeting,” it read. “I asked Jared and Paul to stop by. We primarily discussed a program about the adoption of Russian children that was active and popular with American families years ago and was since ended by the Russian government, but it was not a campaign issue at that time and there was no follow up.”
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White House Unease

The dueling statements, both of which withheld the true purpose of the meeting, created tension at the White House.

Accusations began flying that the botched response made an already bad situation worse. Ms. Hicks called Mr. Corallo from Air Force One, according to three people who relayed his version of events to The Times. She accused him of trafficking in conspiracy theories and drawing more attention to the story.

The conference call with the president, Mr. Corallo and Ms. Hicks took place the next morning, and what transpired on the call is a matter of dispute.

In Mr. Corallo’s account — which he provided contemporaneously to three colleagues who later gave it to The Times — he told both Mr. Trump and Ms. Hicks that the statement drafted aboard Air Force One would backfire because documents would eventually surface showing that the meeting had been set up for the Trump campaign to get political dirt about Mrs. Clinton from the Russians.

According to his account, Ms. Hicks responded that the emails “will never get out” because only a few people had access to them. Mr. Corallo, who worked as a Justice Department spokesman during the George W. Bush administration, told colleagues he was alarmed not only by what Ms. Hicks had said — either she was being naïve or was suggesting that the emails could be withheld from investigators — but also that she had said it in front of the president without a lawyer on the phone and that the conversation could not be protected by attorney-client privilege.

Contacted on Wednesday, Mr. Corallo said he did not dispute any of the account shared by his colleagues but declined to elaborate further.

Even if Mr. Corallo is correct and Ms. Hicks was hinting at an attempt to conceal the emails, doing so would have been nearly impossible. Congress had requested records from Paul Manafort, Mr. Trump’s campaign chairman; Mr. Kushner; and other Trump campaign officials about meetings with Russians. And lawyers had already copied and stamped the emails for delivery to Capitol Hill.

When the president began questioning Mr. Corallo about the nature of the documents, Mr. Corallo cut off the conversation and urged the president to continue the discussion with his lawyers.

Mr. Corallo told colleagues that he immediately notified the legal team of the conversation and jotted down notes to memorialize it. He also shared his concerns with Stephen K. Bannon, then the president’s chief strategist.

Mr. Corallo left the job shortly after the phone call. The recent book “Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House,” by Michael Wolff, which was met with angry denunciations by the president, linked Mr. Corallo’s resignation to concerns he had about obstruction, but provided no details.

In the days that followed the Air Force One statement, The Times revealed that the true purpose of the June 2016 meeting was to obtain damaging information about Mrs. Clinton, which was being offered as “part of Russia and its government’s support” for Mr. Trump. The younger Mr. Trump ultimately released the emails after being told The Times was about to publish them.

Within weeks, Mr. Mueller sent out grand jury subpoenas for documents and interviews about the June 2016 meeting.
 
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Remember when the entire Trump campaign flat out denied ever meeting with Russians?

From Nov 2016:

Trump spokeswoman Hope Hicks denied such contacts.

"It never happened," she said. "There was no communication between the campaign and any foreign entity during the campaign."


Source:
POLITICS NOV 11 2016, 7:46 AM ET
Kremlin Says Russian Experts Met Trump Staff; Campaign Denies It
by THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/20...ts-met-trump-staff-campaign-denies-it-n682406
 
palmab03 said:
y'all are arguing about whether or not Trump will get secret service protection in jail, when the better debate is whether Mt. Rushmore will get round the clock secret service protection when it's remodeled into Mt. Trumpmore.
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DeaconSig said:
Look everybody! Palma is trying to be witty! What a keen sense of humor he has.
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oh hi

Trump tells GOP retreat he's ready for Mount Rushmore

https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-tells-gop-retreat-hes-ready-mount-rushmore-202916278.html
 
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