Robert Mueller will finally break his silence on Russia investigation Wednesday morning

[Vidal]

The Department of Justice has announced that special counsel Robert Mueller will finally break his silence on the two-year investigation he led into Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election.

source:
https://www.rawstory.com/2019/05/robert-mueller-will-finally-break-his-silence-on-russia-investigation-wednesday-morning/?utm_source=push_notifications

Let's hope this is true. We need to hear from him.

[Shell_Seas]

1. WHAT will he say!!??

[spanone]

2. m$nbc reporting he will take no questions from reporters

[RKP5637]

4. FFS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! n/t

[RKP5637]

3. That, will prove very interesting! n/t

[OliverQ]

5. Don't get excited. Barr probably ordered him to defend Trump.

[Vidal]

7. I hope not

nt

[RKP5637]

9. Yeah, could be a total whitewash. I don't trust any of these guys, Mueller included. n/t

[mazzarro]

21. B-I-N-G-O!

I have been saying this for a while now. He is a reThuglican and IMO, made the determination to fudge the report in such a way that it is litigous and inconclusive. He is not rabidly political but he knows how to set things up for reThuglicans to take advantage of.

[Locrian]

30. he's a dino...

fighting a no holds barred street fight by Queensburry rules.

[RKP5637]

44. It's a master operation, a cult/coup! Lead by Boss tRump! n/t

[Celerity]

34. I HIGHLY doubt he will do that, but IF he does, Rump's re-election chances fucking SKYROCKET

Again, I see almost no chance Mueller does that.

[shirleye]

6. probably to refute Wolf's book

[Vidal]

8. You may be right

That would make sense.

[RKP5637]

12. Yep!!! Very likely. He knows he now has to say something. n/t

[herding cats]

10. He's going to make a statement about Wolff's new book.

That's all, folks. Let's not get too excited.

[spanone]

11. did trump order him to deny what's in the book?

wouldn't be surprised

[herding cats]

16. The statement was announced by the DOJ

The venue is the DOJ. It seems obvious Barr is behind this statement.

[spanone]

35. trump orders barr, barr orders Mueller....we'll see.

trump pretty much runs the DOJ.

[herding cats]

37. Oh, definitely.

I consider Barr to be an extension of the administrations agenda. I should have been more clear on that part.

[spanone]

38. it's just a daily nightmare...

[Vidal]

13. you are right, but

whatever he has to say will be interesting. but probably nothing to get excited about.

[herding cats]

17. I suspect he'll refute the obstruction indictment claim.

Since he's taking no questions I expect little else.

[katmondoo]

14. My hopes have been dashed so many times, I will be cautious this time and wait.

[herding cats]

18. As have mine.

This isn't a moment to rest hopes on, though. This is some action endorsed by Barr.

[samnsara]

29. im not getting excited about it...if he was a private citizen i would be more inclined to...

[herding cats]

31. Maybe he's announcing he's ending his term as special counsel.

That's always a possibility.

[RedParrot]

15. Three possible outcomes, none good

Three possible outcomes:

1. Mueller shows up wearing a MAGA hat.
2. Mueller pulls a Rod Rosenstein impression.
3. Mueller says “no collusion, no obstruction “ and takes no questions.

The fact that Mueller told Jerry Nadler that he didn’t want to testify in public leads me to believe that he won’t say anything damaging to Trump or Barr.

Congress must hold an Impeachment inquiry.

[Vidal]

23. Totally correct, LOL -- We do need an impeachment inquiry

Hope you are wrong about your three choices, but I'm sure he won't say anything damaging.

We do need an impeachment inquiry for sure.

[Celerity]

39. pondering putting it on?

I think he is nowhere near that.

[MontanaMama]

19. I suspect Barr is typing out Mueller's statement

right now.

[StarfishSaver]

20. I'm not expecting anything groundbreaking

He still works for DOJ and they announced the statement, so I'm not terribly hopeful he's going to say anything they don't want to hear.

But maybe I'll be pleasantly surprised...

[Bonhomme Richard]

22. We are going to find out what Barr is really...

worried about by what Mueller is told to deny.

[Vidal]

25. Interesting Point

This could give us some big clues.

[Sugar Smack]

24. This had better be good.

[Thomas Hurt]

26. Worthless, this is just Mueller reading what Barr tells him to.

[Sunsky]

27. He doesn't want to testify publicly

Yet he's giving a press conference signed off by Barr's DOJ. Hmmm

[Vidal]

28. He won't answer questions

Which means he has a prepared statement, which has probably been vetted by Barr. This could be a letdown but will still be interesting.

[Sunsky]

32. Very interesting indeed nt

[Vidal]

33. Has anybody heard anything more?

about what he will talk about? There is a lot of speculation, but haven't seen any reporting from the news sources on this.

[spanone]

41. No one knows.

[Vidal]

36. The Guardian has viewed documents concerning Mueller's shelved obstruction of justice indictment

This is from another DU post:

The Guardian obtained a copy of Siege and viewed the documents concerned.

According to a document seen by the Guardian, the first count, under Title 18, United States code, Section 1505, charged the president with corruptly – or by threats of force or threatening communication – influencing, obstructing or impeding a pending proceeding before a department or agency of the United States.

The second count, under section 1512, charged the president with tampering with a witness, victim or informant.

The third count, under section 1513, charged the president with retaliating against a witness, victim or informant.

Wolff writes that the draft indictment he examines says Trump’s attempts to obstruct justice “began on the seventh day of his administration, tracing the line of obstruction from National Security Advisor Michael Flynn’s lies to the FBI about his contacts with Russian representative[s], to the president’s efforts to have [FBI director] James Comey protect Flynn, to Comey’s firing, to the president’s efforts to interfere with the special counsel’s investigation, to his attempt to cover up his son and son-in-law’s meeting with Russian governmental agents, to his moves to interfere with Deputy Director of the FBI Andrew McCabe’s testimony …”

Link: https://www.democraticunderground.com/100212136809

[Vidal]

40. Robert Mueller's statement will be 'substantial' and not a response to Michael Wolff's book: WaPo

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/special-counsel-robert-mueller-to-make-statement-on-russia-investigation/2019/05/29/f14fd226-8217-11e9-933d-7501070ee669_story.html

The Washington Post is reporting that special counsel Robert Mueller is expected to make a “substantial” statement at the Department of Justice on Wednesday and that it won’t just be a refutation of reporter Michael Wolff’s controversial new book claiming that Mueller had drawn up an indictment against President Donald Trump for obstructing justice.

Additionally, the Post reports that “the White House was notified Tuesday night that Mueller planned to make a statement on Wednesday, according to a senior White House official.”

[Vidal]

42. Per Palmer, there are 3 things that could happen.

According to Bill Palmer:

Michael Wolff claimed that Special Counsel Robert Mueller went so far as to write up a criminal indictment against Donald Trump for obstruction of justice, before changing his mind and scrapping the whole thing. Mueller’s office is claiming that no such indictment document exists. This means we have a real problem on our hands.


The trouble is, we don’t have any good way of finding out what really happened here. You can each decide who you want to believe or disbelieve, but there are only a few possibilities here. The first is that Mueller wrote up the indictment, changed his mind, and is now lying about it in the hope of preventing the public from knowing that he pulled his punches. The second is that Michael Wolff made this whole thing up to sell books. The third is that some third party has gone to great lengths to deceive Wolff.


Palmer is right, but maybe we'll find out soon.

https://www.palmerreport.com/analysis/who-are-we-supposed-to-believe-now/18267/

[GeorgeGist]

43. I Expect ...

He'll do Barr's bidding.