Special counsel Robert S. Mueller III is seeking to question President Trump in the coming weeks about his decisions to oust national security adviser Michael Flynn and FBI Director James B. Comey, according to two people familiar with his plans.
Mueller’s interest in the events that led Trump to push out Flynn and Comey indicates that his investigation is intensifying its focus on possible efforts by the president or others to obstruct or blunt the special counsel’s probe.
Trump’s attorneys have crafted some negotiating terms for the president’s interview with Mueller’s team, one that could be presented to the special counsel as soon as next week, according to the two people.
The president’s legal team hopes to provide Trump’s testimony in a hybrid form — answering some questions in a face-to-face interview and others in a written statement.
Screw the idea of written statements.
Mueller and his investigators need to interview Trump face to face, because THAT is when Trump will choke like the little bitch we know him to be.
(Remember the Lester Holt interview?)
Besides, written responses will come from his attorneys, NOT from Trump himself.
We also learned today that Mueller has ALREADY questioned Jeff Sessions.
Courtesy of the New York Times:
Attorney General Jeff Sessions was questioned for several hours last week by the special counsel’s office as part of the investigation into Russia’s meddling in the election and whether the president obstructed justice since taking office, according to a Justice Department spokeswoman.
The meeting marked the first time that investigators for the special counsel, Robert S. Mueller III, are known to have interviewed a member of Mr. Trump’s cabinet.
The spokeswoman, Sarah Isgur Flores, confirmed that the interview occurred in response to questions from The New York Times.
Every day Mueller just keeps getting closer and closer to his main target.
Kind of like a shark circling a wounded swimmer.
And now it appears he is stretching out his jaws to take a big bite out of Trump's tangerine tinged nether regions.
https://newrepublic.com/minutes/146671/donald-trump-crippling-fear-sharks
ReplyDelete"“The strangest thing about that night – this was the best thing ever,” Clifford said, describing the businessman’s fasciation with a special about a shipwreck. “It was like the worst shark attack in history. He is obsessed with sharks. Terrified of sharks.
“He was like, “I donate to all these charities and I would never donate to any charity that helps sharks. I hope all the sharks die.’ He was like riveted. He was like obsessed. It’s so strange, I know.”"
"In fact, before he decided to run for president, he almost played the president in Syfy’s Sharknado 3: Oh Hell No! Perhaps instead of pretend-killing a shark, Trump, a climate change denier, became president so he could actually kill sharks by allowing the oceans to boil. But the sharks aren’t going anywhere, as Trump himself once admitted:"tinydjt>
"Sorry folks, I'm just not a fan of sharks - and don't worry, they will be around long after we are gone.
5:26 AM - Jul 4, 2013"
"Tony Perkins makes clear, American evangelicalism is no longer about doctrine, at least not as much as it’s about politics. Perkins knows all about President Donald Trump’s moral failings—including the alleged Stormy Daniels affair—and his response is to shrug. “We kind of gave him—‘All right, you get a mulligan. You get a do-over here,’” Perkins told reporter Edward-Isaac Dovere:
Evangelical Christians, says Perkins, “were tired of being kicked around by Barack Obama and his leftists. And I think they are finally glad that there’s somebody on the playground that is willing to punch the bully.”"
https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2018/01/23/tony-perkins-evangelicals-donald-trump-stormy-daniels-216498
Evangelicals are fucking hypocrites!
DeleteThey talk out out both sides of their pie hole!
FU stupid faux Christian wannabes!!!!
From the beginning of mankind man has used religion to enslave his fellow man.
DeleteIf Donald trump continues the tax exempt status all of his sins will be forgiven. Yep.
I believe a person's basic character is determined at a young age.
What did trump do to send him to juvenile military camp at 12 yrs old?
lie cheat steal bully?
Evangelicals are basically amoral to the core. They are frauds.
Deletehttps://www.rawstory.com/2018/01/dont-ever-preach-ex-gop-chair-tells-evangelicals-still-support-trump-shut-hell/
DeleteHELLp
@4:37 THIS:"Dennis Burnham, who lived next door, was a toddler when his mother briefly put him in a playpen in their garden. She returned a few minutes later to find the current U.S. president, then aged five or six, standing at his fence throwing rocks at the little boy.
DeleteHis mother warned Dennis to ‘stay away from the Trumps’ as they didn’t want him ‘beaten up’ by the family bully.
Another local child, Steven Nachtigall, now a 66-year-old doctor, said he never forgot Trump, a ‘loudmouth bully’, once jumping off his bike and pummelling another boy.
The disturbing image remained in his brain decades later, he said, because ‘it was so unusual and terrifying at that age’.
"The future property tycoon later liked to boast how he once stole Robert’s building blocks and, so pleased with what he built, glued them together so his brother could never use them again.
". ‘It wasn’t malicious so much as it was aggressive.’ Trump bragged for a long time that, aged eight, he almost got expelled for giving his music teacher a black eye ‘because I didn’t think he knew anything about music’. " Donny had been a ‘little s**t’."The children were banned from having pets or calling each other nicknames at home, and were urged to earn pocket money by collecting empty bottles for their deposits. Donald and his brothers needed to be ‘killers’ in everything they did" "by sneaking into Manhattan on Saturday mornings and mooching around the big city.
West Side Story, the musical about warring gangs, was a Broadway hit at the time and the two boys emulated the hoodlums by buying flick knives in a shop where they normally bought stink bombs and fake vomit. Trump hardly seemed that serious a rebel, but when his authoritarian father discovered his knife collection and the secret Saturday trips, he decided drastic action was needed.
In 1959, 13-year-old Donald was packed off to New York Military Academy, a strict Army-style boarding school 70 miles outside the city. Some have speculated that Trump never got over such a harsh banishment by the father he tried so hard to emulate. drill sergeant, Theodore Dobias, recalled how Trump ‘just wanted to be first in everything — and he wanted people to know he was first’. Ted Levine, recalls hitting Trump with a broom, whereupon furious Donald tried to push him out of a second-floor window before they were separated by other cadets. Trump, Mr Levine recalls, would threaten to ‘break’ anyone who defied him. ‘When I look at myself in first grade [aged six] and I look at myself now, I’m basically the same,’ Trump told a biographer.
‘The temperament is not that different.’
"From most other adults, such an observation would sound endearing. Now, as he stands with his finger on the nuclear trigger, as President of the United States, it’s more than a little terrifying.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4539784/Even-child-Donald-Trump-horror.html#ixzz554ZJIpu4
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How many mulligans are you allowed in a game of golf? 18? More? As many as you want?
Deleteconsider entitlement benefits from any government agency.
ReplyDeletefrom russia with love. eye roll.
you all are not that bright eh?
FB>""No man is above the law and no man is below it; nor do we ask any man's permission when we require him to obey it. Obedience to the law is demanded as a right; not asked as a favor." - Theodore Roosevelt
ReplyDeleteThese sage words from an American President who understood that our democratic foundations are rooted in fair and independent law enforcement ring within me as I watch in disbelief and shock the coordinated and destructive attacks on this core value by President Trump and his accomplices.
There once was a time when the GOP proudly boasted that it was the party of law and order. They may continue to do so, but those assertions are now tainted with the stain of hypocrisy. Encouraged by President Trump's reckless Twitter finger, we see daily public attacks on law enforcement with evidence-free mudslinging by people who you would have thought would have known better.
But like a looming iceberg threatening our ship of state, the biggest danger may be what we don't see. Recent reporting suggests that Attorney General Jeff Sessions has sought complicity rather than justice from his subordinates in the Department of Justice. This kind of behavior is anathema to our national principles. The stench of authoritarianism grows more pungent.
I do not believe the majority of the American people will abide this. History will not be kind to those who seek to undermine the rule of law. And it's this type of behavior that quickly gets the attention of Special Counsel Robert Mueller - who we now know interviewed Sessions.
I have found that cover ups, especially of the brazenness and consequence hinted at by recent reporting, do not stay hidden for very long. And the truth will not be pretty in the verdict of posterity." <Dan the man Rather
Written comments? WTF?? Can you imagine if any other president requested this? Insane.
ReplyDeleteWell, What-About-Bill-Clinton? Oh yeah, he answered everything asked, without a subpoena.
DeleteAnd Clinton could actually could write!
DeleteWritten answers is absurd. Trump will surely perjure himself.
DeleteCut the crap, both Clintons were set up. Bill and Pizza blue dress monicka was a set up. And Hilary by the same filthy nasty dirty swamp.
DeleteNo I cant imagine at all. I think about what my father or grandfather would say today what we are facing. That SOB would be thrown out by his ass and tarred and feathered if not worse. This shit would not be happening at all. Imagine that!!!!
DeleteClinton lied and was impeached lol.
DeleteInstead of a "wounded swimmer", I liken drumph and his ragtag anti-american band of thieves to chum bait ..
ReplyDeletehttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chumming
"is the practice of luring various animals, usually fish such as sharks, by throwing "chum" into the water. Chum is bait consisting of fish parts, bone and blood, which attract fish, particularly sharks owing to their keen sense of smell."
Delete1 Chum
CHəm/Submit
informal
noun
1. a close friend.
synonyms: friend; companion, intimate; playmate, classmate, schoolmate, workmate; informalpal, sidekick, crony, main man, mate, buddy, bud, amigo, compadre, homeboy, homegirl, homie, dawg; informal peeps
verb: chum; 3rd PERSON PRESENT: chums; past tense: chummed; past participle: chummed; gerund or present participle: chumming
1. be friendly to or form a friendship with someone.
"they started chumming around in high school""
?Who eats Who 1st?
I'm wondering who is doing the work of second-guessing which dirty tricks the Republicans will come up with next to try and stop Mueller.
ReplyDeleteHe sure has horrible facial skin in close-up photos. Such an ugly man - inside and out!
ReplyDelete2:19 PM - so do I and I have been battling cancer. Do not believe the medical report.
Delete"WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions has ordered an investigation into texts exchanged between two officials of the Federal Bureau of Investigation who are accused of expressing views against President Donald Trump, the Republican lawmaker who chiefly oversees the FBI and Justice Department said on Tuesday.
ReplyDelete“I am pleased to hear that Attorney General Jeff Sessions is going to launch an investigation into what happened to those texts, and I hope they are uncovered … They illustrate a conspiracy on the part of some people and we want to know a lot more about that,” said Republican Representative Bob Goodlatte in an interview with Fox News Channel."
http://www.politicususa.com/2018/01/23/trump-tries-pretend-like-everything-fine-robert-mueller-closes.html
"No, I didn’t. I’m not at all concerned. Thank you very much. No, he didn’t at all. He did not even a little bit. Nope. He’s going to do a good job.
Trump: Thanks, everyone.
Trump: We are looking at it. We’re looking at a lot of things."
" reality is that this president and his administration are scared." "They are doing everything that they can think of to obstruct or shut down the Russia investigations. The Trump administration has been calling for a purge of the FBI for months, and is in the middle of hot war with the Bureau."
https://www.axios.com/scoop-sessions-fbi-trump-christopher-wray-877adb3e-5f8d-44a1-8a2f-d4f0894ca6a7.html
can already hear the big letdown.... then the conspiracy that the russians got to mueller too.
ReplyDeleteLow IQ RWingers are the ones who constantly are fumbling about with absurd conspiracies. Folks like you.
DeleteGee I don't hear that, I hear that the shithole is coming down. Infact the shit is so deep all will need waders.
Delete2:30 PM Is a sick, unwanted troll.
DeleteWe will see if Mueller does anything. I will have to see it to believe it because the WH corruption is very deep and powerful.
ReplyDeleteit took 2 years for Muller to prosecute the Enron guys. It will take at least as long to prosecute these idiots
DeleteVIETNAM is here!
ReplyDeleteNobodies Fucking Business>EVER.
ReplyDelete"Who did you vote for?"
https://www.rawstory.com/2018/01/donald-trump-asked-acting-fbi-director-disturbing-question-comey-firing-vote/
Why is Trump still putting his dick in places it just doesn't belong?
ReplyDeleteWill the Evil Elf continue to do the Orange Anuss bidding? Or has he been rattled by Mueller and will turn Trump down when Trump throws his hissy fit?
ReplyDeleteDepends on if Sessions considers keeping his job worth perjury. When Trump goes, Sessions could easily be replaced. I suppose it depends on if Sessions thinks Pence will keep him on. Worth lying and keeping Trump as his boss or telling the truth and getting Pence as his boss. I imagine as Trump continues to go batshithole crazy and turn on those “loyal” to him without being loyal to them in return, Sessions is going to drift more and more towards “this is not worth it.”
Delete“Hybrid form “ ... does that mean some statements are lies, and the rest are untruths?
ReplyDeleteIs this why Sessons and Trump have backed off pressuring the new head of the FBI into firing his deputy? Wray refused saying if he would resign first, which wouldn’t look very good for Trump. Kinda worse considering Trump is going before Mueller soon.
ReplyDeletetinydjt>"Where are the 50,000 important text messages between FBI LOVERS Lisa Page and Peter Strzok? Blaming Samsung!"
ReplyDeletehttps://www.rawstory.com/2018/01/internet-mocks-trumps-executive-time-says-hes-blaming-samsung-lost-fbi-text-messages/
Pillow talk Voyeur
'Some 22 million official White House e-mails, the majority of which were sent and received via private, non-government servers, were reported as lost or missing during the George W. Bush administration.'
Delete'Roughly 22 million White House e-mails exchanged via private servers during the G.W. Bush administration were deleted instead of being archived in accordance with the
Presidential Records Act.
' an undetermined number of the e-mails were subsequently recovered (though they have not yet been released to the public)."
pillow talk?
I would love to be a fly on the wall in that meeting when trump tries to walk out and Mueller tells him to sit down and answer the questions.
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