Need an example of a “nothing-burger”? This is it.
One point on the freakout: Mueller is getting closer to taking more flesh, and orchestrated outrage is what the right wing spin machine does best and is what they’re doing now.
I read Josh’s ED blog today and was immediately concerned that all Cheetolini has to do is remove racist elf. That kills the two birds (sessions and Rosenstien) with the one stone.
Although probably tough to get new AG confirmed, it would be a shrewd and easy move for the orange idiot…food for thought.
“When we have obtained emails in the course of our ongoing criminal investigation, we have secured either the account owner’s consent or appropriate criminal process,” Carr said.
Interesting choice of words, there. And not a random choice.
These Trump guys are a bit slow on the uptake. Mueller has had these e-mails and devices since Sept 1 and the defense finally figures that out in December? Probably when someone on that 9-person e-mail got caught in the narrative lie that Flynn was rogue and acting independently of anyone’s knowledge or guidance.
Weird how the GOP scum, Trump cultists and Trump himself have had no issue with—nor were they screaming bloody murder about—private text messages between two FBI agents who are not accused of any wrongdoing what-so-ever and were in a relationship… and making those public.
I thought the GOP loved to investigate e-mails.
“Something, something, emails…Lock her up!”
Or so I recall.
I am sure that team Mueller was deliberate to a point there. Awkward, coming off the other article about tRUMP thinking he’ll be exonerated soon.
Again, “The dead guy told us he’d give us a head’s up” is not a valid legal defense.
I also find it really odd that Trump keeps vomiting up to the media that this is all “witch hunt” and “hoax” that was undertaken “because Democrats lost the election” and nobody in the media pushes back at him when he says it, but pointing out that the FBI started this investigation nearly 6 months before the election occurred, which everyone assumed Clinton would win.
But it is an example of sand that Fox and Breitbart can kick up to distract Trump’s base, and to some extent the mainstream media gets distracted by it, too.
It’s like Benghazi or emails or Fast & Furious — except this time as part of a defensive campaign, rather than offensive. Breathlessly report the lie; never really correct it; move on to a fresh lie; and so on.
For people who don’t have the critical faculties to see through them, the quantity of “information” matters, not the quality. These members of the base get tangled in this pile of lies, never again to find their way back to the reality,
Thankfully, most other Americans aren’t getting trapped by these deceits – at least for now.
“You go to the judge and complain,” Eliason told the Post. “You don’t issue a press release or go to Congress. It appears from the outside that this is part of a pattern of trying to undermine Mueller’s investigation.”
Well DUH! This is all for the consumption of ONE PERSON: Donald J. Trump.
They must display their loyalty daily or the Uberfuhrer gets antsy and starts Tweeting about them…
Ironically (I think), the public is now conditioned to hear “emails, oh god, again, I don’t care”. Whether or not there were any actual legal merit to this complaint (it seems clear there isn’t), it would be much more powerful politically had Clinton’s emailghazi not been run into the ground, through the ground, through the center of the earth, and popped back up somewhere in the Indian ocean.
The fact that Mueller got the Transition Team emails and that they are either damning in themselves or Trump Team members lied about things before knowing Mueller had them, just goes to prove that Hillary’s emails were used to send every piece of top secret information the U.S. possessed to a dry cleaners in Chappaqua, NY.
He’d be putting himself, or trying to, beyond the reach of any restraint. It’d be tantamount to an admission of guilt in the eyes of three-quarters of the country. It’s playing Russian roulette, so to speak, with the ongoing existence of the GOP as anything but a regional party. It’s not certain the GOP could brazen it out without impeaching him and expect anything but a bloodbath in the midterms just eleven months from now. Washington would screech to a standstill. No tax bill, no nothing. Everything the IC has on him would probably come out in a rush. It would be cataclysmic. That doesn’t mean he won’t do it, but I think this weekend they made all this clear to him.
The fact that Trump’s attorneys didn’t take this to the judge who is overseeing the grand jury, and instead just sent a letter to members of Congress and issued a press release, tells you all you need to know about the merits of their accusations.
If there was any real legal argument to be made here, they’d be making it to a judge.
There isn’t, so they’re not.
Mueller’s team obviously used the TT emails to help them put together their interview strategy and the TT members did not know that these were already available to Mueller. Wanna bet they caught all of most of the members in multiple lies? Mueller is obviously at least two steps ahead of Trump and his toadies and I can’t imagine that Mueller has responses in place in case Trump decides to fire him. He may have even flipped someone still high on the WH staff who is keeping him appraised of Stubby Digit’s activities.
And the point being that the ‘account holder’ is the GSA who consented. These emails are government property and do not belong to any private organization or person(s).