"Robert Mueller Is Treating Russia Like a Gang, and It's Working"

[orangecrush]

"But the real importance of the indictment is two-fold. First, it strongly reminds everyone that the point of the Mueller investigation is not to see whether the Russians are aggressively meddling in other countries’ politics—spoiler alert: of course they are. Instead, it’s to uncover whether actual crimes were committed along the way. On that point, it’s now clear Mueller thinks they were.

Secondly, the indictment suggests that even if, as some claim, Mueller is “after” Trump—whether for obstruction of justice or some other crime—he may try to get to him through Putin. In other words, this is an investigation into Russian meddling, wherever it leads. After all, the Russians were allegedly promiscuous in their support, backing everyone from Bernie Sanders to the NRA when they thought it might help open divisions and stoke up conflicts.

So how is this playing in Russia? Prigozhin, for his part, shrugged off the charges, saying that the Americans were “impressionable people, they see what they want to see… if they want to see the devil, let them.” Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov also dismissed the whole thing, saying that “until we see the facts, everything else is just blather.” (Of course, if Moscow wanted to see the facts, it might actually welcome a real trial for the accused.) The official government newspaper Rossiiskaya gazeta ran a single, three-paragraph news item under the headline “Trump believes the Mueller investigation proves no ‘collusion with the Russian Federation.’”




But much of the Russian media is paying more attention to the case than you might expect. Even if they wisely lead with the Kremlin’s or Prigozhin’s denials, outlets from the business paper Kommersant to the sensationalist Moskovskii komsomolets are running lengthy accounts of the indictment, with names, numbers and accusations.

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/evmamk/robert-mueller-is-treating-russia-like-a-gang-and-its-working

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

1. Didn't Mueller also investigate John Gotti?

He has experience dealing with criminal enterprises.

[orangecrush]

2. Yes

And Enron.

Among others.

[orangecrush]

3. also this...

"Probably the strangest incident that Robert Mueller was part of during his tenure as FBI director occurred on the night of March 4, 2004.

That night Mueller and James Comey, then a deputy to Attorney General John D. Ashcoft, raced, sirens blaring, to the hospital intensive care unit where Ashcroft lay ill.

They had been tipped off that White House Counsel Albert Gonzales and President George W. Bush’s chief of staff, Andrew Card, were on their way to the hospital in an attempt to persuade Ashcroft to reauthorize Bush’s domestic surveillance program, which the Justice Department had just determined was illegal.


Mueller and Comey won the race. Ashcroft, who was able to lift his head and speak, refused to sign the papers that Gonzales and Card brought with them."


https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.usatoday.com/amp/101811990

[marylandblue]

4. He's got an all star staff

Of attorneys who have taken down mob bosses, international criminal rings and corporate crimes.

[orangecrush]

7. League of Justice!

[highmindedhavi]

5. Frustrating

Over a year and just this, come on.

[Cha]

6. Hillary is the answer!

Mahalo for this, orangecrush.. very interesting!

[orangecrush]

8. Thanks!

I thought it was interesting to see how this is playing in Russia!

[Cha]

9. Yes, and Mueller is after those

who illegally colluded with Russia.. if that includes trump and whomever.. then so be it.

[Scurrilous]

10. K&R

[orangecrush]

15. Thanks!

[Iggo]

11. Great meme.

EDIT: That was a good read, by the way.

[orangecrush]

13. Thanks!

I love memes.

[spanone]

12. they've got a stranglehold on donald trump...

[orangecrush]

14. Mueller just kicked the Russian mob

right in the nuts with a combat boot.

[spanone]

16. yes he did!