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DonViejo

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Fri May 4, 2018, 11:07 AM May 2018

Giuliani and the White House fear Congress more than criminal charges.

Trump's Russia strategy: Bash Mueller to beat impeachment

Giuliani and the White House fear Congress more than criminal charges.

By DARREN SAMUELSOHN 05/03/2018 07:34 PM EDT

President Donald Trump and his lawyers have made a strategic calculation that their fight against special counsel Robert Mueller is more political than it is legal.

They’re banking that the lead Russia investigator will follow long-standing Justice Department practice that a sitting president can’t be indicted, and that the only real threat to Trump’s survival is impeachment.

So long as that theory holds, Trump’s plan is to forcefully challenge Mueller in the arena he knows best — not the courtroom but the media, with a public campaign aimed at the special counsel’s credibility, especially among Republican voters and GOP members of Congress.

“The public strategy has now subsumed the legal strategy,” said a source who has worked with the president’s lawyers. “The public stance is fight, fight, fight. So the legal strategy is now fight, fight, fight.”

Trump’s legal team — now led by a talkative Rudy Giuliani — increasingly sees its goal as fighting potential impeachment proceedings by a Democratic-controlled Congress next year, according to multiple sources close to the White House.

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https://www.politico.com/story/2018/05/03/trump-lawyers-mueller-russia-probe-strategy-568481
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Giuliani and the White House fear Congress more than criminal charges. (Original Post) DonViejo May 2018 OP
Kick and Rec. Typical Republican smear campaign. emulatorloo May 2018 #1
They shouldn't. dawg May 2018 #2
The stupid runs deep GeorgeGist May 2018 #3
We shall see rock May 2018 #4
And congress fears its constituents. Therefore, by the transitive property.. Mc Mike May 2018 #5
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