Special counsel Robert Mueller

[incoming]

Originally Posted by _______

So Trump tweets that he has no White House tapes of Comey conversation.

Which begs the question of why he raised the subject in the first place. Was he attempting to mislead the public? Silence Comey?

Did he take any similar steps to discourage other witnesses from coming forward?

The reason there is a special prosecutor is because Donald Trump cannot shut up. At this point, I am changing my position that this is an unnecessary distraction to a possible risk to his presidency.

I remain firm in my belief that no one on his campaign coordinated with the Russian's interference. But the President continues to do everything he can to appear like he has something to hide.

I think clocker is right...he is using the tools he is familiar with to fight the Establishment in both parties and the MSM. Who is more popular...generic
politicians, MSM or President Trump? It has worked for over two years why change. It won the election for him and his "coattails" have won every election since.....

[OntheRail]

Originally Posted by _______

The reason there is a special prosecutor is because Donald Trump cannot shut up..

No the only reasons... are the Dem's and Rhino's are ass chapped raw. And so the witch hunt into anything and everything.

Just further showing their red asses and blaming the Russians instead of reflecting on the truth... Clinton and the Dem's visions for America sucked.

[Clocker]

In the closest thing to real journalism I have seen from them in some time, the Washington Post has a long article investigating the US response to Russian hacking.

The CIA knew last summer that the Russians were hacking both political parties in an attempt to discredit the election and, as much as possible, defeat Hillary. They also had strong evidence that Putin was personally directing the effort.

The CIA informed the President and a very few advisers in August of 2016. While the article does not directly blame Obama for inaction, it shows that the administration efforts were weak and ineffective. The implication is that Obama assumed that Hillary had a lock on the election.

Obama’s approach often seemed reducible to a single imperative: Don’t make things worse. As brazen as the Russian attacks on the election seemed, Obama and his top advisers feared that things could get far worse.

Obama took action, in the form of some weak sanctions, only after the election.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/graph...=.efd9c9ad54f2

[MargieRose]

To me this whole "tape" issue is really pretty simple. The President never said that he had tapes. He said:

Twitter

What he did was plant the idea of the possibility of tapes existing just to insure that Comey would FINALLY reveal the TRUTH, if asked. Apparently, there were no witnesses to their three exchanges about Trump not being under investigation, so Comey really could have said anything...'he said, he said.' With Comey thinking that just maybe there were tapes, he had NO CHOICE but to tell the truth about the status of any investigation into Trump, at the time, which is all that Trump ever wanted. Trump, being as smart as he is, clearly outsmarted Comey, with this issue.

[woodtoo]

Trump is ALWAYS two or three steps ahead, that why he is President and the 18 others are also-ran's.

[dartman51]

Originally Posted by Clocker

In the closest thing to real journalism I have seen from them in some time, the Washington Post has a long article investigating the US response to Russian hacking.

The CIA knew last summer that the Russians were hacking both political parties in an attempt to discredit the election and, as much as possible, defeat Hillary. They also had strong evidence that Putin was personally directing the effort.

The CIA informed the President and a very few advisers in August of 2016. While the article does not directly blame Obama for inaction, it shows that the administration efforts were weak and ineffective. The implication is that Obama assumed that Hillary had a lock on the election.

Obama took action, in the form of some weak sanctions, only after the election.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/graph...=.efd9c9ad54f2

Yeah, he told Putin to "cut it out".

[JustRalph]

Margie is right on.

It was brilliant!

[Tom]

Yes, well played by The Donald.

People think Trump just rambles on when he speak.
Hint - he does not.

But the simpletons on the left will never believe that.
And they will continue to lose.

[incoming]

Originally Posted by Clocker

In the closest thing to real journalism I have seen from them in some time, the Washington Post has a long article investigating the US response to Russian hacking.

The CIA knew last summer that the Russians were hacking both political parties in an attempt to discredit the election and, as much as possible, defeat Hillary. They also had strong evidence that Putin was personally directing the effort.

The CIA informed the President and a very few advisers in August of 2016. While the article does not directly blame Obama for inaction, it shows that the administration efforts were weak and ineffective. The implication is that Obama assumed that Hillary had a lock on the election.

Obama took action, in the form of some weak sanctions, only after the election.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/graph...=.efd9c9ad54f2

Clocker makes another excellent point.....Obama knew about the Russian hacking in advance of the election, what else is new. The Russian's have tried to disrupt elections in countries before just like the USA. What is so depressing is that the Democrats waited until after the election to make political hay with the information. Then they try to use this old info to derail an election and the new President. A great example of the Democrat Party"s moral character.

[reckless]

Originally Posted by Tom

Yes, well played by The Donald.

People think Trump just rambles on when he speak.
Hint - he does not.

But the simpletons on the left will never believe that.
And they will continue to lose.

The Donald, aka the President of the United States of America, has been playing it very well since taking that famous escalator ride into history two years ago.

It is the Trump haters in the media and alt-left websites who ramble on and on in banal criticism that bring smiles to the faces of all sound minded people world wide.

[Tom]

No none on the left has stepped up to the plate to actually try to do anything good for the country. when they were in power, they would not consider ever trying to work with the right for those things. Scumbag Dingy Harry wold not even let votes happen.

Democrats are alt.americans.

[MargieRose]

Maybe President Trump is correct in allowing Robert Mueller to go on with his appointed job, but this special-counsel, DC swamp-dwelling bunk, to me, is absurd and may just be teetering on the brink of being illegal, to begin with.

What was Rod Rosenstein thinking, when he hired Mueller? What was/is HIS real agenda, here? This has all gotten way too weird!:

"Why on earth does a prosecutor, brought in to investigate a case in which there is no apparent crime, need a staff of 14 [and counting] lawyers?"

"Oh, and about those three Justice Department appointees: One of them, Attorney General Jeff Sessions, has already recused himself from the investigation in question—the department’s most high profile undertaking. Another, Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, is reportedly weighing whether he, too, should bow out. Perhaps he figures he has already done quite enough, having sicced a special-counsel investigation on the Trump Administration by flouting both the regulation that requires a basis for a criminal investigation before a special counsel is appointed, and the regulation that requires limiting the special counsel’s jurisdiction to the specific factual matter that triggers this criminal investigation."

"The way this is supposed to work is:"

https://amgreatness.com/2017/06/21/m...-jurisdiction/

[woodtoo]

Mueller yanks Comey's immunity deal. From collusion to obstruction to......

[davew]

Originally Posted by Clocker

In the closest thing to real journalism I have seen from them in some time, the Washington Post has a long article investigating the US response to Russian hacking.

The CIA knew last summer that the Russians were hacking both political parties in an attempt to discredit the election and, as much as possible, defeat Hillary. They also had strong evidence that Putin was personally directing the effort.

The CIA informed the President and a very few advisers in August of 2016. While the article does not directly blame Obama for inaction, it shows that the administration efforts were weak and ineffective. The implication is that Obama assumed that Hillary had a lock on the election.

Obama took action, in the form of some weak sanctions, only after the election.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/graph...=.efd9c9ad54f2

why would the Russians want to defeat Hillary? they already knew she could be bought.

[elysiantraveller]

I do find it interesting people on here support, fanatically, the same guy Putin tried to rig the election for.