Discussion: Trump Claims Rosenstein Assured His Attorneys He's Not Target Of Mueller Probe

Iā€™ve never seen an executiveā€™s desk that empty before.

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Is it just me or is he on a roll today? Something is coming.

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or a head, heart & soulā€¦

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Iā€™ve felt like that for a while now. Yet here we areā€¦

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define ā€˜targetā€™?

As I understand it the DOJ regs specifically define ā€˜targetā€™ and when one is a target of a GJ investigation, they must receive a letter advising them they are a target. If the POTUS cannot be indicted by DOJ policy,he canā€™t be a ā€˜targetā€™ of the GJ investigation, right?

So, maybe the subtlety of this comment is just lost on Trump.

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Itā€™s like the Wizard of Oz.

If he clicks his heels three times and repeats, ā€œI am not a targetā€, heā€™s free!

Now Jr., Jared and Ivanka, howeverā€¦

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No, heā€™s not a target of the Mueller investigation. Thatā€™s what the SDNY is for.

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or the NYS AG ā€¦

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About as reliable as the old ā€œsome people sayā€ā€¦ when Trump says anyone said anything nice/positive/not-condemning of him.

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Yes, we are in a semantics game here.

Now the question is, does Donnie two scoops know or is he in wishful la-la land on his criminal legal exposure?

I say he knows or he wouldnā€™t be trying so hared to obstruct the FBI in their efforts to investigate.

It is propaganda for rubes.

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Trump is so lacking in curiosity that he didnā€™t even read ā€œThe Presidency For Dummies.ā€

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Are prosecutors bound by some sort of law to inform the target?

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ā€œRod told me Iā€™m not a target of the investigation. ā€¦ The lawyers ask him. They say, ā€˜Heā€™s not a target of the investigation,ā€™ā€ he said, later saying he didnā€™t know when Rosenstein had communicated that."

previously

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I think itā€™s worth noting the difference between ā€œTrump claims Rosenstein assured himā€ and ā€œTrump claims Rostenstein assured his attorneysā€.

To the extent we can be confident that Trump will lie to your face about or simply not remember a conversation in which he was personally participating, we can be considerably more confident Trump will lie to our face about or simply have no idea what happened in a conversation he didnā€™t hear.

Just the empty ramblings of the senile grandpa weā€™ve put in charge of all of our nuclear weapons, NBD

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Iā€™m oddly fascinated by the ā€œthreeā€ part. Seems so biblical, like Peterā€™s three denials of Jesusā€¦

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Thatā€™s because publisher IDG hasnā€™t made into flash cards, yet.

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Deja Vu all over again.

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Whether investigators and prosecuters consider you the target of a sprawling inquiry is a determination subject to change literally from day to day, depending on the fruits of said investigation. Todayā€™s ā€œNot a targetā€ is tomorrowā€™s ā€œThis bastard is going down!ā€

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It seems like the timing of such comments, if they happened at all, would be very important. After all, the reason Comey wouldnā€™t publicly say that Dump wasnā€™t under investigation was because he knew that would change in the future.

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