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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsAndrew Weissmann tweet:
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Now ask to whom does Trump owe the hundreds of millions of dollars coming due soon?
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Sneederbunk
(14,207 posts)the Mueller Team, of which Weissmann was a part, did not investigate Trump's finances?
dchill
(38,321 posts)Budi
(15,325 posts)lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)leftieNanner
(14,997 posts)He convinced both Mueller and the FBI that the other one was looking into the$$.
stillcool
(32,626 posts)Then-Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein limited the investigation to exclude those ties without telling the FBI, according to the Times. Andrew McCabe, who served as deputy FBI director at the time, told the newspaper that Rosenstein did not tell him that he was limiting the probe, leading McCabe to believe special counsel Robert Mueller would investigate the president's business connections. McCabe added that he would have tasked the FBI with that aspect of the inquiry had he known Mueller would not investigate it.
We opened this case in May 2017 because we had information that indicated a national security threat might exist, specifically a counterintelligence threat involving the president and Russia, McCabe told the Times. I expected that issue and issues related to it would be fully examined by the special counsel team. If a decision was made not to investigate those issues, I am surprised and disappointed. I was not aware of that.
When he installed Mueller as special counsel in May 2017, Rosenstein gave him the mandate of investigating any links and/or coordination between the Russian government and the Trump campaign. In private, however, Rosenstein directed Mueller to limit his investigation to any lawbreaking in connection with Russian election interference, the Times reported, citing former law enforcement officials
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/514371-doj-kept-investigators-from-completing-probe-of-trump-ties-to-russia
The Mueller investigation was high jacked mid stream.
They_Live
(3,222 posts)and I can't believe they did that and that it wasn't really mentioned until after the fact, It's a huge deal.
uponit7771
(90,225 posts)kacekwl
(6,993 posts)we all sadly learned.
Cha
(295,903 posts)Blue Owl
(49,913 posts)n/t
lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)skypilot
(8,848 posts)*
SKKY
(11,771 posts)CaptYossarian
(6,448 posts)elleng
(130,133 posts)volstork
(5,394 posts)of the family: tipping his hand all over the place. May he meet a similar end...
catbyte
(34,170 posts)triron
(21,915 posts)tinrobot
(10,848 posts)I suspect it is true...
calimary
(80,693 posts)My bet is still on Oleg Deripaska and Vladimir Putin. Or Vladimir Putin and Oleg Deripaska.
SleeplessinSoCal
(8,994 posts)Not Putin. Not Trump. Not Rosenstein. Not FOX News. Not the GOP. So many favors to repay. And we Progressives are being left to the wolves through no fault of our own. And we vastly outnumber the crooks.
May the swamp devour them all.
H2O Man
(73,321 posts)TrollBuster9090
(5,953 posts)(I have a steamy fantasy: That the FBI will reinstate Andrew McCabe, Peter Strzok, and Lisa Page after Biden is President, and that they'll specifically send Strzok and McCabe (and maybe Bruce Orr) to slap the cuffs on Trump when he's arrested, and frog march him out of Mar-a-Lago. And I'd especially like to see Strzok slap the cuffs on Hannity, and frog march him out of his mansion in a hammer lock, after the number of crooked, money laundering real estate deals he was involved in with Trump is revealed.)
TicketyBoo
(1,955 posts)Skittles
(152,964 posts)I'm not Russian to conclusions.