Posted on 06/06/2018 11:27:53 AM PDT by detective
$16.7 million. That’s the bill for the Mueller investigation.
The last spending phase, from October to March, included $2.7 million in salaries with another $532,340 in travel expenses. And there’s no sign that this hideously expensive circus is ever going to end.
The latest high-wire act in the circus is yet another accusation aimed at Paul Manafort. This time, Mueller’s favorite target is being accused of witness tampering. Like most of Mueller’s favorite charges, such as making false statements, this isn’t a crime being uncovered, but arises from the investigation.
The accusation is also obviously a means to an end. Mueller had bet everything on pressuring Paul. The pre-dawn no-knock raid of Manafort’s home was unnecessary, but intimidating. And Mueller’s people were grousing ever since Manafort had been released from house arrest.
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Mueller's main tactic, and only hope, is to break Manafort and have him turn against President Trump.
No wonder Bill Clinton mentions $16 million of white house debt when he left office. Coincidence?
Having an investigation in order to accuse people of crimes only arising out of the investigation itself, how they interacted with it, and not from what was claimed to be investigated, should be seen as the definition of a witch hunt.
Maybe, but $16M would barely cover a night out for Muchelle and her pals.
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THIS is the time when Trump should de-classsify and release the sure-to-be-damning communications between FBI Dir Mueller, DHS and CIA regarding the Boston Bombers. Remember, as Louis Goemert has revealed, Mueller was warned by Russian and Israeli intel of an IMMINENT threat by Tamerlan Tsarnaev...which Mueller laughed off and denied surveillance. Months later Tsarnaev and his brother killed and maimed dozens. RELEASE IT ALL. As the angry public turns against him, Mueller will become enraged and overract...leading to the destruction of his reputation and a collapse of his jihad against Trump.
He’s in a race against the clock.
The IG report and whatever other non-public investigations are going on against his buddies in the Obama-Clinton Gang will come to light soon and he must deliver a coup de grâce against Trump before that happens....................
But, what if there is nothing for Manafort to reveal? Suppose he is forced into perjury... how convincing a case could be built out of such thin, made-up gruel?
Mueller is in heap big trouble if he can’t come up with some reason to lynch President Trump. The Nazis and commies in the “democrat” party will not tolerate failure.
Don’t they need evidence as justification for an investigation? Over a year now and still no evidence. Where did the 4th amendment go? Where are the checks and balances against abuse of power?
Mueller, Weissmann, Rhee and the FBI are very corrupt.
They want bail revoked for the 69-year-old Manafort to get him thrown into the local DC lockup with gang-bangers and drug dealers.
Probably hoping he gets roughed up and will change his tune to help Mueller frame Trump.
It’s how Putin’s government operated in the Sergei Magnitsky case. They prosecuted him for white collar crimes and wanted him to change his story to the government version. They threw him in jail pending trial, where he was beaten up and denied medical care and died.
Manafort and Gates did not do this lobbying activity alone. They worked with the Podesta group and had prominent European former politicians fly to the US and do the lobbying.
But far from charging the others, Mueller actually redacted their names from the court documents!
“what if there is nothing for Manafort to reveal? Suppose he is forced into perjury... how convincing a case could be built out of such thin, made-up gruel?”
Mueller’s whole investigation is based on nothing but lies.
This will be to create a false narrative for lies by the media, reducing Trump’s approval and providing an excuse for impeachment.
The only person intimidating witnesses is Robert Mueller, who is also conspiring to suborn perjury by all the people his has indicted.
It is wishful thinking that Mueller is getting desperate. He has an unlimited budget and unlimited scope. He can investigate anyone or anything ad infinitum. The press is rabidly supporting him, ditto DC. His career MO reflects a definite sadistic streak; he drove one innocent person to suicide. He may be hoping for similar with Manafort or his wife.
In any case, Mueller is not desperate. He is simply destroying Trump supporters in a broad swath and most likely enjoying—and profiting from—every minute of it.
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WH press secretary should start every press conference by stating that......every single time.
A few questions for Special Counsel Mueller. S/C Investigations normally pursue a crime.
<><> What crime are you investigating?
<><> Your job description centered on Russian collusion, what statute in the US code would you use to prosecute collusion?
<><> Your investigative team is composed of highly partisan supporters of Hillary Clinton? Did you seek out independent, non-partisan lawyers?
<><> Russia expert, Fanny Ohr, wife of demoted DOJ official Bruce Ohr, who worked for Fusion GPS on the Steele dossier acquired a short-wave radio license about that time? Did the FBI monitor any of Ohr’s electronic communications?
<><> 2016 candidate Hillary Clinton as Secy of State, removed boxes of official documents and destroyed more than 30,000 official emails. Did you know about this?
<><> What was the Loretta Lynch and Bill Clinton meeting about, aside from the usual pleasantries?
<><> The FBI sought to identify and discipline the agent who made the Lynch-Clinton meeting public. Is that offiial FBI policy.
<><> Former CIA boss John Brennan is making angry statements about Pres Donald Trump. Would you have hired him at the FBI? If so, in what capacity?
<><> When reporters asked you if the FBI had dropped the ball by failing to act, you said, “No. I think, given the context of the discussions and the situation that the agents and the analysts were looking at, they took appropriate steps.”
<><> Any second thoughts on that?
<><> Given the time and money you have put in, does the the absence of any crime or collusion trouble you?
<><> Are Democrats disappointed in you?
<><> If so, how have they acted against you?
<><> Did you resent it when Cong Schiff who based has his political career on your finding Russian collision called you a little ****?
<><> Can you account for every penny of the $17 million taxpayers were forced to pay for this phony investigation?
Tell him he’s got to pay out-of-pocket every, single penny this whole boondoggle has cost, and then let him do whatever the h*ll he wants.
He’ll shut up and quit scamming the US real quick.
Memo to Manafort: for the Mule to put on a trial. And don’t agree to any speedy trial waivers.
Meant “force” the Mule to put on a trial.
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