Posted on 06/16/2018 2:16:35 PM PDT by Magnatron
President Donald Trump's lawyers and special counsel Robert Mueller are hurtling toward a showdown over a yearlong investigation into the president's conduct, with Mueller pushing to write up his findings by summer's end and Trump's lawyers strategizing how to rebut a report that could spur impeachment hearings.
The confrontation is coming to a head as Trump and his allies ratchet up their attacks on the special counsel probe, seizing on a report released Thursday by the Justice Department's inspector general that castigated FBI officials for their conduct during the 2016 Hillary Clinton email investigation.
Rudy Giuliani, the president's personal attorney, said that he planned to use the inspector general's conclusions to undermine Mueller, suggesting he may ask Attorney General Jeff Sessions to appoint a second special counsel to examine the current probe.
"We want to see if we can have the investigation and special counsel declared illegal and unauthorized," Giuliani said in an interview Friday.
In the meantime, Trump must decide whether to do a face-to-face interview with Mueller's team - an answer the president's legal team expects to have in the next two weeks.
If the president agreed to a sit-down, the special counsel has told Trump's lawyers that he could finish within roughly 90 days a report on whether Trump sought to obstruct a probe into Russian interference in the 2016 campaign, according to two people familiar with the discussions. A separate report outlining Mueller's broader findings on Russian attempts to bolster Trump's candidacy is expected to take longer
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Whatever...
Since there is no crime, the President should not sit down for an ambush.
Since there is no crime, the President should not sit down for an ambush.
[the President should not sit down for an ambush]
And that’s all it is and all it will ever be.
The Demoncrats want a Constitutional Crisis for the midterms.
You can bank on it.
What can we do in this situation?
I’m serious, FReepers.
Complacent hope and passivity is not a choice.
...”He wants to give the president an opportunity to explain any ambiguity and any impression that he was favoring a foreign adversary...
BS.
Conveniently timed to influence the November election to the maximum extent possible.
It’s the Washington Post...Fake News.
This has been a wonderful week. Mule faves case was totally destroyed. The Noko discussions started. Our wonderful president had a birthday!! It just gets better and better.
If djt hasn’t terminated this farce/witch hunt by now, I figure he wants to be removed from office. Maybe he ran to just get his ideas into the discussion or as an ego thing and never wanted the job
I thought it was a collusion report.
How can We Deplorables publicly express our support for President Trump and revulsion for crooked Mueller and his crooked Liberal henchmen??
And I'm sure if it results in no indictment of Trump the tribalism on the other side will take it as well as they took the defeat of Hillary C.
There's a better argument that by firing Mueller, Trump would be impeached. Instead he has properly focussed on MAGA.
Maybe he ran to just get his ideas into the discussion or as an ego thing and never wanted the job
Or maybe he wanted to MAGA since that is what he is actually doing.
IMHO.....wait.
That is just silly.
Since the IG report proved Comey, et al, were violating FBI rules, and federal laws how could firing him be construed as obstruction? Regardless, the President cannot be charged with anything for performing his duties as Chief Executive.
Obstruction? Who and what?
Mueller’s got squat.
5.56mm
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