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NYT: Mueller Zooms In on Trump Tower Cover Story

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[h=1]Mueller Zooms In on Trump Tower Cover Story[/h]
WASHINGTON — Aboard Air Force One on a flight home from Europe last July, President Trump and his advisers raced to cobble together a news release about a mysterious meeting at Trump Tower the previous summer between Russians and top Trump campaign officials. Rather than acknowledge the meeting’s intended purpose — to obtain political dirt about Hillary Clinton from the Russian government — the statement instead described the meeting as being about an obscure Russian adoption policy.
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Mr. Corallo is planning to tell Mr. Mueller about a previously undisclosed conference call with Mr. Trump and Hope Hicks, the White House communications director, according to the three people. Mr. Corallo planned to tell investigators that Ms. Hicks said during the call that emails written by Donald Trump Jr. before the Trump Tower meeting — in which the younger Mr. Trump said he was eager to receive political dirt about Mrs. Clinton from the Russians — “will never get out.” That left Mr. Corallo with concerns that Ms. Hicks could be contemplating obstructing justice, the people said.
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This is obstruction of justice territory, folks.

Can't wait how this plays out.
 
Mueller Zooms In on Trump Tower Cover Story

It's amazing how bad these people are at being criminals. So long as the investigation isn't sabotaged by replacing Rosenstein or by firing Mueller altogether, the idea that Mueller wouldn't conclude some combination of conspiracy to defraud the United States and obstruction of justice seems unthinkable to me at this point.

WASHINGTON — Aboard Air Force One on a flight home from Europe last July, President Trump and his advisers raced to cobble together a news release about a mysterious meeting at Trump Tower the previous summer between Russians and top Trump campaign officials. Rather than acknowledge the meeting’s intended purpose — to obtain political dirt about Hillary Clinton from the Russian government — the statement instead described the meeting as being about an obscure Russian adoption policy.

The statement, released in response to questions from The New York Times about the meeting, has become a focus of the inquiry by Robert S. Mueller III, the special counsel investigating Russian interference in the 2016 election. Prosecutors working for Mr. Mueller in recent months have questioned numerous White House officials about how the release came together — and about how directly Mr. Trump oversaw the process. Mr. Mueller’s team recently notified Mr. Trump’s lawyers that the Air Force One statement is one of about a dozen subjects that prosecutors want to discuss in a face-to-face interview of Mr. Trump that is still being negotiated.
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What is already clear is that, as Mr. Trump’s aides and family members tried over 48 hours to manage one of most consequential crises of the young administration, the situation quickly degenerated into something of a circular firing squad. They protected their own interests, shifted blame and potentially left themselves — and the president — legally vulnerable.

The latest witness to be called for an interview about the episode was Mark Corallo, who served as a spokesman for Mr. Trump’s legal team before resigning in July. Mr. Corallo received an interview request last week from the special counsel and has agreed to the interview, according to three people with knowledge of the request.

Mr. Corallo is planning to tell Mr. Mueller about a previously undisclosed conference call with Mr. Trump and Hope Hicks, the White House communications director, according to the three people. Mr. Corallo planned to tell investigators that Ms. Hicks said during the call that emails written by Donald Trump Jr. before the Trump Tower meeting — in which the younger Mr. Trump said he was eager to receive political dirt about Mrs. Clinton from the Russians — “will never get out.” That left Mr. Corallo with concerns that Ms. Hicks could be contemplating obstructing justice, the people said.
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https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/31/us/politics/trump-russia-hope-hicks-mueller.html
 
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Scooped you by two minutes.
 
Why would Hicks take a hit for 45 and risk spending some serious prison time? This was a question my question and I discussed earlier today after the Corallo (sp?) story broke.
 
NeverTrumpGOP said:
These people are really bad at being politicians. This reads like a trashy version of house of cards.
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"Like Watergate, but with stupid people."
 
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Anagram said:
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Was going to request that... but I get 51% of the stock in the merger.
 
Cardinal said:
"Like Watergate, but with stupid people."
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The amount of times that I've seen the same exact stuff being done by Trump as was done in Watergate is shocking, and I wasn't even alive back then. So I don't know all the ins and outs of it as it plays on national TV for everyone to watch. It's crazy how people have completely ignored most of that.
 
NeverTrumpGOP said:
The amount of times that I've seen the same exact stuff being done by Trump as was done in Watergate is shocking, and I wasn't even alive back then. So I don't know all the ins and outs of it as it plays on national TV for everyone to watch. It's crazy how people have completely ignored most of that.
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The differences between then and now are the scale and the fact that all the crimes and scandals seem to be happening out in the open. As a society, we only know how to react to scandals when a secret, nefarious letter is uncovered. The country is confused and bewildered by public acts of corruption, which is why his infinite violations of the Emoluments Clause isn't the #1 scandal, even though it arguably should be.
 
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Cardinal said:
So long as the investigation isn't sabotaged by replacing Rosenstein or by firing Mueller altogether
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Hence the Nunes-abetted attempt to discredit the ENTIRE INTELLIGENCE COMMUNITY -- making the dismissal of Mueller (via getting rid of Rosenstein, the only person who can legally fire Mueller) palatable to the American people.

The attempts to stifle the investigation into the administration's ties with Russia and to hide such ties are so blatantly obvious to anyone with two brain cells to rub together that it really doesn't surprise me that our willfully-in-denial wingnuts here are so desperate to deny them that they will repeat many-times-debunked conspiracy theories to allow themselves to live in delusion.

Donald Trump and his administration have repeatedly obstructed justice in order to cover up collusion with Russian entities. At this point, this is incontrovertible fact.
 
Cardinal said:
The differences between then and now are the scale and the fact that all the crimes and scandals seem to be happening out in the open. As a society, we only know how to react to scandals when a secret, nefarious letter is uncovered. The country is confused and bewildered by public acts of corruption, which is why his infinite violations of the Emoluments Clause isn't the #1 scandal, even though it arguably should be.
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I actually posted something about the "stay at Mar-A-Lago and get face time with the president" thing the other day on Facebook, and I had like 10 people asking me "but what about Russia"?

These liars want to claim "pay-for-play" with Clinton while Trump gets personally reimbursed for meetings at his resorts? Republicans, conservatives ... I don't care what you label them. They are all, to a distinct individual, liars and hypocrites. To hell with all of them. This is war.
 
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Kobie said:
Hence the Nunes-abetted attempt to discredit the ENTIRE INTELLIGENCE COMMUNITY -- making the dismissal of Mueller (via getting rid of Rosenstein, the only person who can legally fire Mueller) palatable to the American people.

The attempts to stifle the investigation into the administration's ties with Russia and to hide such ties are so blatantly obvious to anyone with two brain cells to rub together that it really doesn't surprise me that our willfully-in-denial wingnuts here are so desperate to deny them that they will repeat many-times-debunked conspiracy theories to allow themselves to live in delusion.

Donald Trump and his administration have repeatedly obstructed justice in order to cover up collusion with Russian entities. At this point, this is incontrovertible fact.
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What helps me sleep at night is momentarily forgetting that Rosenstein is the sole firewall between Trump and an actual coup.

Years from now, Rosenstein is going to write a book, and it's going to be a bigger best seller than The Bible.
 
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*obligatory shade cast at mystery sources and the NYT being fake news*
 
Cardinal said:
"Like Watergate, but with stupid people."
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Don Jr. may be the #1 stupid too.

They're going to crack Don Jr. like an egg on national televison...
 
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Winston said:
*obligatory shade cast at mystery sources and the NYT being fake news*
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I've long since decided to ignore those posts altogether, and I can't help but notice that I'm not the only one. Just post solid sources and you're good to go.
 
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Cardinal said:
What helps me sleep at night is momentarily forgetting that Rosenstein is the sole firewall between Trump and an actual coup.

Years from now, Rosenstein is going to write a book, and it's going to be a bigger best seller than The Bible.
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THAT GUY KNOWS WHERE THE BODIES ARE BURIED.

Years from now, books will be burned. I don't trust years from now.
 
Cardinal said:
"Like Watergate, but with stupid people."
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At this point in the Watergate investigation there was little inkling of Nixon's obstruction. In this case its glaring, and this is what we know for public consumption. Mueller and his team probably got lots more on Trump than we know. Only a partisan idiot would refuse to connect the dots.
 
MTAtech said:
[h=1]Mueller Zooms In on Trump Tower Cover Story[/h]
This is obstruction of justice territory, folks.

Can't wait how this plays out.
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Yes, I saw this one. It's Richard Nixon all over again.



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Kobie said:
Hence the Nunes-abetted attempt to discredit the ENTIRE INTELLIGENCE COMMUNITY -- making the dismissal of Mueller (via getting rid of Rosenstein, the only person who can legally fire Mueller) palatable to the American people.

The attempts to stifle the investigation into the administration's ties with Russia and to hide such ties are so blatantly obvious to anyone with two brain cells to rub together that it really doesn't surprise me that our willfully-in-denial wingnuts here are so desperate to deny them that they will repeat many-times-debunked conspiracy theories to allow themselves to live in delusion.

Donald Trump and his administration have repeatedly obstructed justice in order to cover up collusion with Russian entities. At this point, this is incontrovertible fact.
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Entire??? Are you ****ing serious? No where have I read this from a single Republican; they are looking at specific investigations and specific people. Also, no where have I seen talking of firing Mueller, except for the allegation that 8 months ago Trump thought about it. No other person, including Rosenstein is being talked about for firing, except from leftwingers. Do I like Rosenstein? No, he's a ****tard for recommending Comey be fired and then turning around to name Mueller to investigate the Russian stuff. He didn't even bother to have Mueller investigate the Hillary email server scandal; the very item in his letter to Trump that he said Comey had ****ed up. The Russian business was already being investigated. But regardless of that, I think most have accepted the Mueller investigation, and said it should continue.

Rod Rosenstein's letter recommending Comey be fired - BBC News
 
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Imagine how much more sane the national conversation would be today if Rosenstein had picked a widely-respected Republican former FBI Director as special counsel rather than some left-wing activist. Oh wait...
 
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