When did Mueller know there was no collusion?
Washington Examiner,
by
Byron York
Original Article
Posted By: abuela10,
4/26/2019 12:44:00 PM
Trump-Russia special counsel Robert Mueller was appointed May 17, 2017. Twenty-two months later, on March 22, 2019, Mueller sent his report to the Justice Department. Some special counsel investigations have taken longer; it is the nature of such probes to drag on and on. But why did Mueller need nearly two years to determine whether the Trump campaign and Russia conspired or coordinated to fix the 2016 election?
Reply 1 - Posted by:
italianlooks 4/26/2019 12:48:59 PM (No. 69200)
Why wasn’t Biden and Jarret Interviewed
Pence and Hicks where. And two at the seat of power not.. douses the creditability on many levels!
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
ByteGuru 4/26/2019 1:13:18 PM (No. 69195)
When ... ?
I´m going with June 7 2016 ...
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
DVC 4/26/2019 1:13:58 PM (No. 69202)
Still, however close he gets, Mr. York misses the mark, somehow unwilling or unable to unwind the final layer.
He says:´"Mueller never talked to the mysterious Joseph Mifsud, the Maltese professor who may have had ties to Russia and/or U.S. intelligence and who tried to feed Papadopoulos information on supposed Russian activities."
But the last part SHOULD READ, ´who tried to feed Papadopoulos information on supposed Russian activities under orders from Brennan to set up the Trump campaign for the frame."
But Mr. York either can´t quite grasp that last bit, or knows it and fears for his job if he unwraps any of this too quickly, gets ´ahead of the narrative´ as it unfolds.
Is Mr. York afraid of being branded ´one of those Trump nutballs"? Or is he just not the sharpest pencil in the box? I wonder. Time will tell.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
joew9 4/26/2019 1:36:50 PM (No. 69196)
What did Mueller know and when did he know it?
We already know Patrick Fitzgerald knew from day one of his investigation into the Bush administration that no crime had been committed. Isn´t there a law against prosecuting someone that you know is innocent?
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Robert Jones 4/26/2019 1:39:11 PM (No. 69197)
Had to make it last through the 2018 elections.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
Dino Sayer 4/26/2019 3:47:47 PM (No. 69198)
The only reason that Mueller took so long to wrap up the investigation was the 2018 midterm elections.
The plan was to slander Trump continuously thru leaks and the continued public persecution of his associates and flip Congress to the Democratic side, to allow the impeachment of Trump.
Unfortunately for Mueller, the Senate remained in Republican hands, making impeachment and conviction impossible.
Since Rosenstein is one of the original conspirators in the attempt to prevent and then reverse Trumps election, the appointment of Mueller and his gang of Democratic prosecutors was just a seamless continuation of the original conspiracy.
Mueller and his gang of leakers belong in the dock with Hillary, Comey, Brennan, and the rest.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
Rumblehog 4/26/2019 8:02:51 PM (No. 69201)
It´s because Herr Mueller and his horde of Demonrat partisan hack lawyers were busy using the "Special Counsel" artifice to dig up dirt on Trump, his associates, and a bunch of Republican donors. This information will be helpful in the 2020 campaign, and yes, they´ll use it via "rumor has it..." in the MSM.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
EQKimball 4/27/2019 1:05:00 PM (No. 69199)
It appears to me that Mueller and company were dragging out the investigation while escalating provocations (e.g. pre-dawn raids, egregious invasion of the attorney-client privilege, pretrial solitary confinements) that might cause the President to do something impulsive. Liberals salivated at the thought of Trump pardoning Manafort or Cohen, thereby arming Mueller with the argument that Trump had stripped the prosecution and the courts of the ability to squeeze "the facts of collusion" out of key players. Also the longer the investigation, presumably the more voluminous and angry would become the President´s daily tweets about the witch hunt, possibly going over the line with implicit threats of retaliation against Mueller and his team.
In sum, Mueller continued to provide the President rope to hang himself, because no one else would be able to do it based on the known evidence. In succeeding generations, this will become an historic example of the worst possible abuse of prosecutorial discretion. The notion of obstruction is the final sordid remnant of a bad faith investigation. What chutzpah. What treachery.
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