Posted on 08/01/2018 8:20:49 AM PDT by Red Badger
Trump calls on Attorney General Jeff Sessions to end Robert Mueller's Russia probe immediately, escalating his attacks on the inquiry.
"Attorney General Jeff Sessions should stop this Rigged Witch Hunt right now," the president tweets. "Bob Mueller is totally conflicted, and his 17 Angry Democrats that are doing his dirty work are a disgrace to USA!"
The president's attacks on the special counsel have escalated in recent weeks. Trump's attorney, former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani, made headlines on Monday saying that "collusion is not a crime."
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President Donald Trump on Wednesday called on Attorney General Jeff Sessions to end Robert Mueller's Russia probe immediately, escalating his attacks on the inquiry.
"Attorney General Jeff Sessions should stop this Rigged Witch Hunt right now," the president wrote in a post on Twitter. "Bob Mueller is totally conflicted, and his 17 Angry Democrats that are doing his dirty work are a disgrace to USA!"
Trump tweet
Trump's tweet came before the trial of ex-campaign chief Paul Manafort entered its second day in federal court in Virginia. Manafort is being tried by Mueller's team.
Sessions, who endorsed Trump's presidential bid during the 2016 campaign, recused himself from the Russia investigation last March, before Mueller was appointed. The investigation is being overseen by Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, who has defended Mueller against critics in Congress.
Trump has attacked Sessions several times for his recusal. In June, the president wrote in a post on Twitter that Mueller was continuing to investigate "all because Jeff Sessions didn't tell me he was going to recuse himself."
"I would have quickly picked someone else. So much time and money wasted, so many lives ruined...and Sessions knew better than most that there was No Collusion," Trump tweeted.
The office of the special counsel did not immediately respond to a CNBC request for comment Wednesday, and the White House did not immediately respond to a request to elaborate on the president's remarks.
The Department of Justice declined to comment.
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., called the president's tweet "just another attempt to make the American people look at his latest shiny object."
In a post on Twitter Wednesday, Schumer quoted the president's tweet and wrote: "The Mueller-Rosenstein investigation is making progress at record speed: 35 indictments, 5 guilty pleas & Trump's campaign chairman on trial."
California congressman Rep. Adam Schiff, the top Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee, called the president's tweet "an attempt to obstruct justice hiding in plain sight."
Schiff tweet
The special counsel is investigating the president's tweets criticizing Sessions as part of a wider inquiry into whether the president has obstructed justice, The New York Times reported last month.
Trump's attacks on the special counsel have escalated in recent weeks. Trump's attorney, former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani, made headlines on Monday saying that "collusion is not a crime."
The president doubled down on his attorney's comments, tweeting on Tuesday that "Collusion is not a crime, but that doesn't matter because there was No Collusion (except by Crooked Hillary and the Democrats)!"
It's true that "collusion" is not a word that appears in any criminal statute that Mueller is examining. Mueller, however, has pursued charges involving conspiracy, obstruction of justice and making false statements.
Trump could have had Sessions stop this anytime. He could also have fire Sessions but no... he has to tweet and not lead.
zaklee
“Inquiry” = perfect description/
You make it sound like Trump's battle with the Deep State is like a Tom and Jerry cartoon.
It's not.
It was just a allusion ...............
I didn’t say it wasn’t an allusion. I’m saying your “allusion” is cartoonish.
Definitely done for a reason, hopefully it's not because Mueller has something politically damaging.
You don’t know what the DOJ has done. Many of these same people are also involved in the fraudulent Trump investigation and FISA abuse. Those prosecutions will not be jeopardized by engaging in premature prosecutions.
What about Rosentein? Didn’t Trump also appoint him?
Democrats are saying the main findings of the Dossier have been proven true. I highly doubt there is any proof of Trump peeing on prostitutes, but whatever.
i ####UNG HATE SCHUMER AND HIS FAGGOT NIECE WHO THINKS SHE’S FUNNY
BUT MUELLER WILL GET PEOPLE TO LIE IN ORDER TO SAVE THEIR FORTUNES AND LIVES AND HE WILL BRING DOWN TRUMP IF NOT STOPPED.
FIRE SESSIONS AND PUT SOMEONE IN WHO WILL FIRE MUELLER
Yes..................
you are right. Yet many still see him as no threat. He WILL or already HAS gotten people prepared to lie against the President to save their families and fortunes.
this will end badly if not stopped.
could end in civil war of sorts.
Nope, never voted dem in my 66 years. I did vote for Trump, glad I did, but that doesn’t mean I agree with him on everything.
You see the same big game playing I see. No one had said this but President Trumps tweets are taking in the sand, if you haven’t seen it, you don’t know what’s happening, Brilliant
“Trump to Attorney General Jeff Sessions: Stop Mueller probe ‘right now’”
Jeff was instrumental in launching the mueller coup. Keep up the pressure Mr. President...Hopefully you’ll force that backstabbing rat bastard to commit seppuku
Just trying to get a firm handle on the chain of events. How long before it appeared Trump made a mistake with Rosentein?
Trump and Sessions have had dinner together after Sessions recused himself is all good.
From Wiki:
President Donald Trump nominated Rosenstein to serve as Deputy Attorney General for the United States Department of Justice on February 1, 2017. Rosenstein was confirmed by the U.S. Senate on April 25, 2017. In May 2017, he authored a memo which President Trump said was the basis of his decision to dismiss FBI Director James Comey.[7]
Later that month, Rosenstein appointed special counsel Robert Mueller to investigate alleged ties between the Trump campaign and Russia during the 2016 election and related matters based on the firing of Comey.[8] In July 2018, Republicans in the House of Representatives filed articles of impeachment against Rosenstein, accusing him of incompetence and failure to relinquish classified documents to Congress in connection to the special counsel investigation related to Russian interference in the 2016 United States elections.[9][10]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rod_Rosenstein
Because Jeff Sessions chose Rosenstein as his DAG...Which didn’t happen by chance.
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