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DonViejo

(60,536 posts)
Thu Aug 30, 2018, 05:38 PM Aug 2018

Rudy Giuliani Is Putting Together a 'Counter-Report' to Question Robert Mueller's 'Legitimacy'

Source: The Daily Beast



It’s being done with the explicit blessing of Trump who is ‘happy’ that this is part of his legal team’s ‘strategy,’ the president’s lawyer says.

Lachlan Markay,
Asawin Suebsaeng
08.30.18 3:50 PM ET

President Donald Trump’s legal team is crafting a “counter-report” that will seek to delegitimize Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into Russian election meddling and present countervailing arguments.

Trump’s personal attorney, former New York mayor Rudy Giuliani, told The Daily Beast in an interview on Thursday that part of his report would examine whether the “initiation of the investigation was…legitimate or not.”

According to Giuliani, the bulk of the report will be divided into two sections. One section will seek to question the legitimacy of the Mueller probe generally by alleging “possible conflicts” of interest by federal law enforcement authorities. The other section will respond to more substantive allegations of Trump campaign collusion with Russian government agents to sway the 2016 election, and obstruction of justice allegations stemming from, among other things, the president’s firing of former FBI director James Comey.

Though this latter section will focus on the meat of Mueller’s investigation, Giuliani acknowledged that he doesn’t actually know what Mueller’s findings will look like, making the act of putting a counter-report together a bit more challenging.

Read more: https://www.thedailybeast.com/rudy-giuliani-is-putting-together-a-counter-report-to-question-robert-muellers-legitimacy

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Rudy Giuliani Is Putting Together a 'Counter-Report' to Question Robert Mueller's 'Legitimacy' (Original Post) DonViejo Aug 2018 OP
Is that legal? Tiggeroshii Aug 2018 #1
Does It Matter? LandOfHopeAndDreams Aug 2018 #2
Why not? Trump smeared a Hispanic-American Judge and GOP'ers just giggled saying, "oh, he'll DonViejo Aug 2018 #3
Right but actively intervening in an ongoing criminal investigation Tiggeroshii Aug 2018 #4
Trump actively intervened in a case when he smeared that Judge (who ultimately sided with Trump's DonViejo Aug 2018 #10
Yeah.... winning congress will definitely be the first step to ending this madness Tiggeroshii Aug 2018 #13
1st Amendment allows anyone to write any report at140 Aug 2018 #14
Haha yeah I guess that's really all that is. Tiggeroshii Aug 2018 #15
Honestly, I know lots of Trump supporters and never once heard "He will change once he is in office" Midnight Writer Aug 2018 #21
It's legal. You can issue your own report, if you wish. . . . nt Bernardo de La Paz Aug 2018 #6
But with the expressed intent to interfere in the investigation? Tiggeroshii Aug 2018 #7
Anybody can issue a report. It will have no weight or bearing, except for propaganda. . . . nt Bernardo de La Paz Aug 2018 #5
So they're responding to the work of dozens of people interviewing hundreds of witnesses for how bettyellen Aug 2018 #8
Why is anyone surprised? Zoonart Aug 2018 #9
This is a Trump to Kavanaugh trial balloon bucolic_frolic Aug 2018 #11
Grifters gotta grift. BumRushDaShow Aug 2018 #12
He shouldn't bother The Liberal Lion Aug 2018 #16
Normal people see Rudy as a nut The Wizard Aug 2018 #17
Please file it with Rosenstein. He'll give it all the consideration it deserves. nt Xipe Totec Aug 2018 #18
Here's an idea. Do a counter-report on Giuliani. LiberalFighter Aug 2018 #19
I'm sure it will be BRILLIANT. kacekwl Aug 2018 #20

DonViejo

(60,536 posts)
3. Why not? Trump smeared a Hispanic-American Judge and GOP'ers just giggled saying, "oh, he'll
Thu Aug 30, 2018, 05:42 PM
Aug 2018

change once he's in the White House."

 

Tiggeroshii

(11,088 posts)
4. Right but actively intervening in an ongoing criminal investigation
Thu Aug 30, 2018, 05:47 PM
Aug 2018

Is definitely beginning to cross the line.

DonViejo

(60,536 posts)
10. Trump actively intervened in a case when he smeared that Judge (who ultimately sided with Trump's
Thu Aug 30, 2018, 05:54 PM
Aug 2018

side of the case).

at140

(6,110 posts)
14. 1st Amendment allows anyone to write any report
Thu Aug 30, 2018, 06:04 PM
Aug 2018

their heart desires, but it carries no weight in an official investigation. It can be called "noise".

Midnight Writer

(21,768 posts)
21. Honestly, I know lots of Trump supporters and never once heard "He will change once he is in office"
Fri Aug 31, 2018, 01:17 AM
Aug 2018

What I heard was "He will give those liberals hell!".

 

bettyellen

(47,209 posts)
8. So they're responding to the work of dozens of people interviewing hundreds of witnesses for how
Thu Aug 30, 2018, 05:51 PM
Aug 2018

long now?- and making up a counter report before they even read it. So they’ll guess how much criminality Mueller uncovers in order to get it out there I guess?

bucolic_frolic

(43,182 posts)
11. This is a Trump to Kavanaugh trial balloon
Thu Aug 30, 2018, 05:55 PM
Aug 2018

Once he has 5 Supreme Court members, Trump will fire Sessions, Rosenstein, Mueller in short order

BumRushDaShow

(129,096 posts)
12. Grifters gotta grift.
Thu Aug 30, 2018, 05:56 PM
Aug 2018

Guaranteed he is charging megabucks per hour for manufacturing this phony "counter-report" to the yet to be released "report".

The Liberal Lion

(1,414 posts)
16. He shouldn't bother
Thu Aug 30, 2018, 06:06 PM
Aug 2018

only the slobbering morons known as trumpist would believe any damn word produced by the orange idiot and his nincompoop minions.

LiberalFighter

(50,950 posts)
19. Here's an idea. Do a counter-report on Giuliani.
Thu Aug 30, 2018, 07:22 PM
Aug 2018

There should be plenty one can dredge up about him. Show how shady he was before 9/11 and continues now.

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