Mueller Plans to Wrap Up Obstruction Inquiry Into Trump by Sept. 1, Giuliani Says

[DonViejo]

Source: The New York Times



By Michael S. Schmidt and Maggie Haberman

May 20, 2018


WASHINGTON — The special counsel plans to finish by Sept. 1 its investigation into whether President Trump obstructed the Russia inquiry, according to the president’s lawyer Rudolph W. Giuliani, who said on Sunday that waiting any longer would risk improperly influencing voters in the midterm elections in November.

The office of the special counsel, Robert S. Mueller III, shared its timeline about two weeks ago amid negotiations over whether Mr. Trump will be questioned by investigators, Mr. Giuliani said in an interview. A spokesman for the special counsel’s office declined to comment.

Mr. Giuliani’s comments were an apparent attempt to publicly pressure Mr. Mueller amid their interview negotiations. He urged that the investigation be wrapped up as soon as possible, pointing as a cautionary tale to the revelation by the former F.B.I. director James B. Comey in the last days of the 2016 presidential race that he was reopening the investigation into Hillary Clinton’s use of a private email server. Mr. Comey’s announcement is widely blamed by Democrats for costing her the election. The F.B.I. found no wrongdoing.

“You don’t want another repeat of the 2016 election where you get contrary reports at the end and you don’t know how it affected the election,” Mr. Giuliani said.

Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/20/us/politics/mueller-trump-obstruction-september-giuliani.html

[RandySF]

1. Even if that's true.

That doesn't mean it's going to end well for Trump.

[Eliot Rosewater]

7. Let's not forget rule #1, no republican EVER tells the truth about anything.

[Doitnow]

41. Next he'll say God told him Mueller was going to end the investigation.

[madashelltoo]

2. I have never seen a person pray for an end

So fervently knowing there is no good for them in the end. He would be funny if he weren’t so pathetic. Karma is going to choke him to death.

[livetohike]

3. So sick og "Giuliani says". Like anyone should believe

anything Giuliani says.

[Rollo]

4. Sounds like wishful thinking from the Trump WH...

And I find it hard to believe that Mueller would tip his hand like that.

Probably just another Trump trick to try to pressure Mueller, and potentially give Trump an excuse to fire him if the investigation isn't closed by then.

And using Comey's late 2016 campaign remarks about the Hillary email investigation as an example of what to avoid... can't get much more hypocritical than that.

This administration is too squirrelly for words.

[paleotn]

5. You think Mueller isn't aware of that? You drunk has been.

Then again, given revelations, maybe the Mueller team doesn't care if it affects the elections. Maybe dragging Dumpster and the Rethuglican's dirty laundry all over the place from now until they're all politically dead as fucking door nails is is just what this country needs. Have drink, Rudy. Better yet, take the bottle. You look like you could use 20 or so.

I hate that worthless fucker with every fiber of my being.

[notdarkyet]

44. Which one?

[paleotn]

45. Yes

Both. All of them. Dumpster, Rudy, the soulless so-in-law, the Slovenian gold digger, the pathetic Uday and Qusay impersonating sons...the entire cast of clowns and half ass grifters.

[Freethinker65]

6. Yep. and Mueller told Rudy it was fine to go blab about it to the media....

Because if there is one thing Mueller likes, it is telegraphing every move the FBI/DOJ and his investigation makes.

Hahahahaha.

[ProudLib72]

8. STFU Rudy

That is obstruction right there.

[unblock]

9. Can you imagine if Hillary, or her lawyer, announced when the email inquiry would end?

[Midnight Writer]

10. And will Mueller announce he is re-opening the investigation a week before the election?

After all, Rudy wants Trump to get the same treatment as Hillary.

[mehrrh]

11. wishing?

Wishing doesn't make it so, Rudy.
The investigation needs to take as long as necessary.
This is complicated and complex. Less involved cases have taken longer than this -- and this is by far the most intricately interwoven global involvement.
This is going to hound Trump (and you) until it is over when Trump is indicted along with a few others (and probably including some politicians).

[NCjack]

14. Trump has likely broken money laundering laws in other countries, esp. Germany.

They may want to start investigations and prosecutions.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

12. Ghouliani said he would finish the whole thing in two weeks; two weeks ago. . . . nt

[Bernardo de La Paz]

13. The collusion inquiry will take longer than the obstruction inquiry because it is much bigger. . .nt

[jpak]

15. Lying Sack of Shite, Obstructionist Pig.

STFU

[keithbvadu2]

16. Guliani says::: meaningless claptrap

[Vinca]

17. Rudy's full of shit about 99% of the time.

For starters, the collusion case will still be going on and Dear Leader will no doubt attempt to obstruct it. Does that mean there would have to be a second obstruction case?

[IthinkThereforeIAM]

18. Since when does a perp's lawyer get to decide when things are finished?

... eom.

[True Blue American]

19. Wanna buy a bridge? :)

[47of74]

25. Yeah I have these for sale for anyone believing Ghouliani...

I do cash or paypal.

[StTimofEdenRoc]

28. I like the simplicity of the middle one.

[47of74]

33. The middle one is brand new

It was opened just a few months ago. It connects Sabula, Iowa and Savanna, Illinois. Or it will once the smaller bridge leading up to it on the Iowa side is replaced.

[Hekate]

20. Rudy is a funny little man. Mueller is gonna do what Mueller does, not what Rudy wishes. nt

[efhmc]

21. Wait.

What happened to two weeks prediction from three weeks ago?

[BigmanPigman]

22. I read the beginning of the OP and was glad,

then I read on and saw who said it and knew it is BS.

[iluvtennis]

23. Don't believe anything Giulani says as he is a LIAR. I'll believe when it comes from Team Mueller.

[flibbitygiblets]

24. I think this message was more meant for Rudy's client, to keep him from firing Mueller

His predecessors have employed the same tactic, temporarily placating the toddler-in-chief.

[DinahMoeHum]

26. Bull. Shit.

Wishful thinking, Rudy.

[TEB]

27. Says the guy who married his cousin

[Bleacher Creature]

29. That may or may not be true, but I GUARANTEE that Rudy has no clue. NT

[StTimofEdenRoc]

30. "Giuliani Says" I can not think of any better comment then that.

[PSPS]

31. The key phrase here is, "Giuliani Says." We know "Giuliani Says" a lot of weird things.

[cvoogt]

32. umm

if Mueller says it, then I'll believe it. Why should we believe Giuliani on this?

[Achilleaze]

34. the republican White House lies about everything. So I don't believe this.

the republicans have taught every honest person in the nation to regard every single republican pronouncement with profound, and well-justified, skepticism.

On that basis, one can only logically conclude that the shrew-faced republican spokesghoul is lying about the timeline of the investigation into the heinous & ignoble republican family-values role model, Comrade Casino*


* aka republican Draft-Dodger-in-Chief

[MiniMe]

35. I'll believe it when "Mueller says" is the wording of this subject

Giuliani says means nothing. Giuliani also said it would wrap up in 2 weeks, I think that was more than a month ago.

[tavernier]

36. Heh heh

I think it may end way before that *rubs hands together*
But certainly not when Rudy deams it.

[underpants]

37. I thought Rudi was only going to need 2 weeks to wrap this up?

What happened to that?

[StevieM]

38. We absolutely do know how the Comey intervention affected the election. It turned the entire

race upside down and handed it Trump. Without it he undoubtedly would have lost.

[Turbineguy]

39. It must be true.

He's always right.

[Blue Owl]

40. Now he's just the mayor of 9/1

n/t

[True Blue American]

42. And Rudy forgot about that.

No terrorist attacks before Obama became President, according to Rudy.

[TNNurse]

43. I am pretty sure the only time Mueller tells Rudy anything...

well, I am certain it is only one of the voices in Rudy's head.