Posted on 03/12/2018 3:51:12 PM PDT by PJ-Comix
Special counsel Robert Mueller and his prosecutors have invoked an unusual “conspiracy to defraud the government” charge to ensnare a Russian cyber network and could use the same legal strategy to go after President Trump and his associates, even if the conspiracy is not linked to a criminal act.
Although the president constantly denies any wrongdoing, Mr. Mueller’s 10-month long investigation has become the heart of the Trump-Russian election meddling saga, dominating headlines and leaving the White House tangled in conflict and controversy as additional charges have also been filed against four of his close associates — with further indictments likely.
Last month, Mr. Mueller, a Republican and former FBI director indicted 13 Russian nationals connected to the Internet Research Agency (IRA) Russian “troll farm,” accusing the IRA of interfering in the 2016 U.S. presidential election by spreading fake news stories through U.S. social media. The same approach was employed in securing a plea deal last month with Rick Gates, the aide for former Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort.
What has attracted attention in legal circles is the underlying legal theory behind the indictments, accusing the Russians of essentially committing a crime by preventing agencies of the U.S. government from carrying out the duties. Mr. Mueller appears to be leveraging the theory “into a powerful instrument with respect to both foreign and domestic actors,” according to a recent article on Lawfare, a national security blog by the Lawfare Institute and Brookings Institution.
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Sheesh! Talk about a streeeeeeetch by the desperate Uranium Bob.
10 long months and if he doesn’t have anything by now, he has NOTHING.
They’ve got to make up shite in order to have something.
The time has come to end this BS....once and for all.
Trump is bad
Trump Trump Trump
Congress could easily deal with this decades-long habit of lawfare against Republicans . . . but won’t.
Mueller is evil.
Mueller is bad.
That covers two people filling up their gas tank fraudulently with a govt issued credit card intended for official business only.
Last month, Mr. Mueller, a Republican and former FBI director
A Republican yeah. Mueller is a Rat Traitor period.
I could see how this could be applied to, say, other individuals of potential interest, just saying.
Of course, that's probably going the way of Clapper lying to a Senate committee, delayed so long the statute of limitations makes it impossible to try the liar for it.
The House GOP Intel Committee majority just concluded there was no collusion.
And Mueller is still far from proving the existence of a conspiracy between a foreign power and the Trump campaign to elect Trump President.
He has to prove there was a conspiracy. Now the crime doesn’t need to effect its object to be prosecutable; just that there was agreement among the principals to carry it out.
Wake me up when its found.
This is about smearing Trump with acquisitions and slowing him down until the midterms. In DC if you are against the Dems your are automatically guilty of something. It was always about this. Mueller will never stop on his own.
That sounds like what Mueller, the dems and the MSM are doing.
Time for Bobby to go. His 15 minutes are up. Time for the boy to find a REAL job before HIS ass ends up in prison for defrauding the taxpayers.
Is there no way to shut this evil prick down without relying on Congress?
Sessions can fire Mueller. He knows its over, but just will not do it.
Exactly.
There is NOTHING unusual about “conspiracy to defraud the U.S. government” charges!
Shows up frequently in welfare fraud, securities violations, and all kinds of other stuff.
“if you are against the Dems”
The Dems aren’t the movers behind this witch hunt. The GOP establishment is.
For president Trump to accomplish all he’s done in the past year with so many against him is truly amazing....
The legal stratagems become ever more weird, but Mueller will not stop until he destroys Trump and his Administration or until Mueller and his fellow coup plotters are stopped. He has endless resources and time and he hobbles many by forcing them to look over their shoulders and spend money and personal resources preparing legal defenses. If only he were shut down and spent his last days on trial for something like espionage and acting like an enemy agent. Oh well.
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