Has Mueller subpoenaed Trump?
Secret star chamber stuff!
Iām surprised there hasnāt been more notice of this on the right wing.
Just saw Ms. Sneed on MSNBC talking about this. I donāt cheer at the TV often, but i did. Nice job getting in front of this, TPM.
Good job reporting about this on teevee, Tierney!
Yay!
Iāll bet it deals with Kutchner dodging a subpoena. He has his Secret Service agents keep everyone far away from him.
I wonder if thatās why Jared wasnāt named CoS.
Whatevah. Mulvaney is laughable. Just another incompetent moron.
trump knows how to pickum.
I always wondered if the FBI or Marshalās Service could just ask the Secret Service to deliver a protectee to custody, and have them do so.
Just another reminder that we still only know a fraction of what Mueller knows.
Of one thing we can be sure; just like when you see one roach in your kitchen, there are 15 in the wall, Trumpās known crimes are just the tiny, tiny tip of the crime-berg. Mueller may have loads of evidence of Trumpās heinous crimes and Trump is totally clueless about it. We can dream, canāt we?
noticing that an appellate judge who previously worked in the Trump White House had recused himself at an early stage in the proceedings,
Full Stop
JFC How many times has any / all WH associates used ārecusedā then asked how the hell do I git outta here ?
Um, TPM staff, ask yourself what Omarosa would do with, oh, say, a spare phone that one happened to drop somewhere.
I just want to point out that Merrick Garland is on the DC US Appeals Court. (giggle) Then I remember that heās said heāll recuse himself from Trump-related cases for the obvious reasons (boo, this doesnāt seem fair).
Good question. A few months ago I read somewhere that Kutchner was building a wall between himself and anyone who could possibly subpoena him. Iām probably wrong about my guess. Itās something that keep I hope blows up in Kutchnerās face. Iād love to see all the trump kids subpoenaed.
CNN reports that Zainab Ahmad was at the court today along with Michael Dreeben. Dreeben is the appellate guy. Ahmad handles terrorism cases and had a stint on global organized crime under Loretta Lynch. Sheās young and her career isnāt a very long one. She has been brought on for specialized expertise. That expertise is in finding witnesses, flipping witnesses, and clearing the hurdles to enable witnesses to testify on cases involving criminal enterprises. My theory is that she found a witness, an important one, and somebody or some entity is trying to prevent that witness from testifying.
I thought this was tied to a Tom Barrack-ish figure. It could be Barrack or someone in his network whom we do not yet know but who has been a witness to important events which would prove the guilt of a big name player or validate a key theory supporting the larger #trumprussia conspiracy. With Zainab on the case, Iām thinking itās someone like a Nastya Rybka, the Belarussian model who was Oleg Deripaskaās sort of girlfriend who reportedly taped conversations that would prove his involvement in the #trumprussia matter. Alexander Navalny, Putinās nemesis in Russia who has been jailed at various times by the Kremlin, reposted a video from Rybkaās Instagram page showing Deripaska and Russian Deputy Prime Minister Sergey Prikhodko talking about the Russia-US relationship. Navalny suggested that Prikhodko and Deripaska served as conduits to Manafort and the Trump campaign (perhaps a ācutoutā used for Trump and the Russian govāt to communicate with each other).
Thatās just a shot in the dark, but if you think about terrorism cases and organized crime cases, there are always these seemingly ordinary folks who get swept up into something bigger and witness things that can expose how a criminal organization works.
Presidents have been subpoenaed before. It wouldnāt require this much secrecy.
I was thinking hoping Mueller might be trying to indict Trump.
Why would that require this much secrecy?
Zainabās possible involvement makes me wonder. Sheās an expert in terrorism, particularly in the middle east and speaks Arabic, Weāve not heard much in this area since George Nader got immunity a year ago. Iām wondering if the mystery man in this case is Erik Prince.
One of the darkest on the dark sideā¦
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Eric Prince[/quote]
Letās go back to 2017 . . .
April 3, 2017 | WaPo National Security
The United Arab Emirates arranged a secret meeting in January between Blackwater founder Erik Prince and a Russian close to President VladiĀmir Putin as part of an apparent effort to establish a back-channel line of communication between Moscow and President-elect Donald Trump, according to U.S., European and Arab officials.
The meeting took place around Jan. 11 ā nine days before Trumpās inauguration ā in the Seychelles islands in the Indian Ocean, officials said. Though the full agenda remains unclear, the UAE agreed to broker the meeting in part to explore whether Russia could be persuaded to curtail its relationship with Iran, including in Syria, a Trump administration objective that would be likely to require major concessions to Moscow on U.S. sanctions.
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The Seychelles meeting came after separate private discussions in New York involving high-ranking representatives of Trump with both Moscow and the Emirates.
Continue to see others namedā>
Flynn
Kushner
Bannon
Kislyak
Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed al-Nahyan
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