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DonViejo

(60,536 posts) Sat Jun 16, 2018, 05:18 PM Jun 2018

'Prepared for war': As Mueller moves to finalize obstruction report, Trump's allies ready for ...

‘Prepared for war’: As Mueller moves to finalize obstruction report, Trump’s allies ready for political battle

By Carol D. Leonnig and Robert Costa
June 16 at 2:06 PM

President Trump’s lawyers and special counsel Robert S. Mueller III are hurtling toward a showdown over a year-long investigation into the president’s conduct, with Mueller pushing to write up his findings by summer’s end and Trump’s lawyers strategizing how to rebut a report that could spur impeachment hearings.

The confrontation is coming to a head as Trump and his allies ratchet up their attacks on the special counsel probe, seizing on a report released Thursday by the Justice Department’s inspector general that castigated FBI officials for their conduct during the 2016 Hillary Clinton email investigation.

Rudolph W. Giuliani, the president’s personal attorney, said that he planned to use the inspector general’s conclusions to undermine Mueller, suggesting he may ask Attorney General Jeff Sessions to appoint a second special counsel to examine the current probe.

“We want to see if we can have the investigation and special counsel declared illegal and unauthorized,” Giuliani said in an interview Friday.

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'Prepared for war': As Mueller moves to finalize obstruction report, Trump's allies ready for ... (Original Post) DonViejo Jun 2018 OP

I wonder if the March For Truth rally organizers will BigmanPigman Jun 2018 #1

Wait a second... What the heck is a president's personal attorney doing asking the AG for special... Hugin Jun 2018 #2

Sowing doubt and obstructing justice ProudLib72 Jun 2018 #3

Kick Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Jun 2018 #4

Am I spelling this right? O b s t r u t i o n of J u s t i c e. shraby Jun 2018 #5

Rudy: "Lets appoint special counsels until we get the report we dictate" ooky Jun 2018 #6

BigmanPigman

(55,527 posts)

1. I wonder if the March For Truth rally organizers will

Reply to DonViejo (Original post)

Sat Jun 16, 2018, 05:24 PM

Jun 2018

have rallies if something like this occurs. We are read, over 800 cities, to protest at a moment's notice if he fires Mueller or Rosenstein but what if he pulls this crap?

Hugin

(37,994 posts)

2. Wait a second... What the heck is a president's personal attorney doing asking the AG for special...

Reply to DonViejo (Original post)

Sat Jun 16, 2018, 05:28 PM

Jun 2018

counsels to probe probes?

Is this how it works?

ProudLib72

(17,984 posts)

3. Sowing doubt and obstructing justice

Reply to Hugin (Reply #2)

Sat Jun 16, 2018, 05:35 PM

Jun 2018

It's the one and only thing these assholes are good at.

Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(137,429 posts)

4. Kick

Reply to DonViejo (Original post)

Sat Jun 16, 2018, 08:09 PM

Jun 2018

shraby

(21,946 posts)

5. Am I spelling this right? O b s t r u t i o n of J u s t i c e.

Reply to DonViejo (Original post)

Sat Jun 16, 2018, 08:14 PM

Jun 2018

ooky

(11,057 posts)

6. Rudy: "Lets appoint special counsels until we get the report we dictate"

Reply to shraby (Reply #5)

Sat Jun 16, 2018, 08:23 PM

Jun 2018

Its hard to fathom there are living breathing people stupid enough to provide an audience for his horseshit.

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