[PJ] Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich thinks something is fishy with Robert Mueller's investigation into President Trump's Russia ties. On the same day that Mueller asked the White House to preserve all documents pertaining to Don Jr.'s Russian lawyer meeting, Gingrich alleged that there are major conflicts of interest at play here. He told Fox News, "The law firm he comes from gave 99.81 percent of its donations to Hillary Clinton last year." And he said this seems like, "a deliberate effort to go after the president and the president’s team."
[Breitbart] The team charged with investigating whether there was any collusion between President Donald Trump’s campaign and Russia now appears to be leaking details of the probe to damage him.
"A person familiar with the probe" told Bloomberg that the special counsel is examining a broad range of transactions involving Trump and his associates’ businesses.
The leak comes the day after Trump told the New York Times in an interview that delving into his business matters would be outside the bounds of the Russia investigation.
"The Special Counsel’s Office has undertaken stringent controls to prohibit unauthorized disclosures that deal severely with any member who engages in this conduct," Joshua Stueve, spokesman for the Special Counsel’s Office told Breitbart News in an email response.
The team is led by former FBI Director Robert Mueller, and four of the six attorneys on the team donated to the Democratic National Committee or Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign, according to Axios.
James Quarles donated almost $33,000 to Democrats, including Clinton and former President Barack Obama. Jeannie Rhee donated more than $16,000 since 2008 to Democrats, including the maximum donation possible to Clinton in both 2015 and 2016. She has also donated to Obama. Andrew Weissmann donated more than $4,000 to Obama in 2008 and $2,000 to the DNC in 2006, and Elizabeth Prelogar donated $250 each to Clinton in 2016 and Obama in 2012.
Trump and Republican lawmakers have questioned the impartiality of Mueller and the probe, which was created after former FBI Director James Comey leaked a memo to the media for the purpose of prompting a special counsel.
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Why would anyone think the leaks would stop with the special prosecutor?
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Mueller won't find any impeachable offenses but every time he finds some little tidbit that he thinks the MSM can spin to make Trump look bad he'll leak it.
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I'm beginning to think FBI means Funny Business Incorporated or Fame Beats Insecurity. Comey was a leaker and now Mueller? Seems like most of this [Hillary] team has conflicts of interest; this doesn't bode well for the POTUS.
[PalmBeachPost.com] ASPEN, Colo. Two former top intelligence officials harshly criticized President Donald Trump on Friday for not standing up to Russia for meddling in the presidential election, one of them wondering aloud whether the president's real aim is to make "Russia great again."
Former National Intelligence Director James Clapper and former CIA Director John Brennan didn't hold back their anger about Trump's past disparaging comments about the intelligence agencies and their assessment that Moscow deliberately interfered in the election and tried to sow discord in the United States.
Asked if he thinks Trump takes the threat from Russia seriously enough, Clapper said he wonders sometimes if the White House agenda is about "making Russia great again." The comment played off Trump's campaign slogan "Make America Great Again."
In a wide-ranging discussion at the Aspen Security Forum in Colorado, Clapper and Brennan said that Trump advisers should have been more wary of meeting with a Russian lawyer and others. In June, in the heat of the campaign, the president's son, his campaign manager and his son-in-law met a group at Trump Tower in New York that included a Russian lawyer and Russian lobbyist. Emails about the meeting showed that Donald Trump Jr., attended on the premise of obtaining damaging material the Russian government had on Hillary Clinton
"It would have been a really good idea to have vetted whomever they were meeting with. I think the Russian objective here was to explore to see if there was interest in having such a discussion on offering up dirt on Hillary Clinton," Clapper said. He said the meeting reminds him of standard Russian spy craft.
Brennan called the meeting "profoundly baffling" and wondered why Trump advisers would "jump at the opportunity" to meet with individuals about getting information on Clinton. "The Russians operate in a very cunning manner and they will take and exploit any opportunity they get," he said.
Clapper also suggested that the security clearance held by Jared Kushner, a Trump adviser and the president's son-in-law, should at least be suspended until it can be determined why he failed to disclose all the meetings he's had with Russians.
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Clapper and Brennan, both suspect and a part of the Clinton Deep Swamp. If one thinks about the various presidents who ran as Pubs starting with Nixon and going up through Trump, there has been a concerted effort by the Left/Donks/Rinos//Beltway Party to take down every one of them. Today, they would have a field day with Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev. I doubt that Reagan would survive today.
[WAPO] Russia’s ambassador to Washington told his superiors in Moscow that he discussed campaign-related matters, including policy issues important to Moscow, with Jeff Sessions during the 2016 presidential race, contrary to public assertions by the embattled attorney general, according to current and former U.S. officials.
Ambassador Sergey Kislyak’s accounts of two conversations with Sessions -- then a top foreign policy adviser to Republican candidate Donald Trump -- were intercepted by U.S. spy agencies, which monitor the communications of senior Russian officials both in the United States and in Russia. Sessions initially failed to disclose his contacts with Kislyak and then said that the meetings were not about the Trump campaign.
One U.S. official said that Sessions -- who testified that he has no recollection of an April encounter -- has provided "misleading" statements that are "contradicted by other evidence." A former official said that the intelligence indicates that Sessions and Kislyak had "substantive" discussions on matters including Trump’s positions on Russia-related issues and prospects for U.S.-Russia relations in a Trump administration.
Sessions has said repeatedly that he never discussed campaign-related issues with Russian officials and that it was only in his capacity as a U.S. senator that he met with Kislyak.
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One U.S. official said that Sessions -- who testified that he has no recollection of an April encounter -- has provided "misleading" statements that are "contradicted by other evidence." A former official said that the intelligence indicates that Sessions and Kislyak had "substantive" discussions on matters including Trump’s positions on Russia-related issues and prospects for U.S.-Russia relations in a Trump administration.
The vagueness of the above phrase is overwhelming. Some U.S. official said something about something substantive. Nothing is ever said; all just vague emptiness. " matters including Trump’s positions on Russia-related issues and prospects for U.S.-Russia relations in a Trump administration" seems perfectly appropriate for a candidate or an incoming POTUS or a U.S. Senator acting as one of his surrogates.
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Scaramucci = sycophant
How many legs can a rich sycophant hump? I ask hypothetically...quite a few apparently answer below.
In 2008, Scaramucci served as a fundraiser for President Barack Obama...later served as a National Finance Co-Chair for Mitt Romney for President in 2012...During the 2016 presidential election, Scaramucci first endorsed Scott Walker and...later Jeb Bush...after both Walker and Bush had withdrawn from the race...he signed on to Donald Trump's political campaign...and bingo the suck hit the jackpot.
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Commenting on the article, I quit reading it when it degenerated into a People magazine article - "Mr. A didn't like B, but C was against the whole thing from the beginning, which irritated D, who complained about E two years ago [deep breath] all of which continues to proved what we said millennia ago, that Trump is a moron."
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Re #5, the NYT always complains about White House offices being 'disorganized', which translates as "doesn't take us to lunch and gossip".
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[Bloomberg] The U.S. special counsel investigating possible ties between the Donald Trump campaign and Russia in last year’s election is examining a broad range of transactions involving Trump’s businesses as well as those of his associates, according to a person familiar with the probe.
FBI investigators and others are looking at Russian purchases of apartments in Trump buildings, Trump’s involvement in a controversial SoHo development in New York with Russian associates, the 2013 Miss Universe pageant in Moscow and Trump’s sale of a Florida mansion to a Russian oligarch in 2008, the person said.
The investigation also has absorbed a money-laundering probe begun by federal prosecutors in New York into Trump’s former campaign chairman Paul Manafort.
John Dowd, one of Trump’s lawyers, said on Thursday that he was unaware of the inquiry into Trump’s businesses by the two-months-old investigation and considered it beyond the scope of what Special Counsel Robert Mueller should be examining.
"Those transactions are in my view well beyond the mandate of the Special counsel; are unrelated to the election of 2016 or any alleged collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia and most importantly, are well beyond any Statute of Limitation imposed by the United States Code," he wrote in an email.
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Can we have all of Mueller's public and private correspondence checked to see if he is colluding with the Democratic Party? Since he entered government employment, just to be sure, you see? And all of his top aides as well?
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[Breitbart] The team charged with investigating whether there was any collusion between President Donald Trump’s campaign and Russia now appears to be leaking details of the probe to damage him.
[PalmBeachPost.com] ASPEN, Colo. Two former top intelligence officials harshly criticized President Donald Trump on Friday for not standing up to Russia for meddling in the presidential election, one of them wondering aloud whether the president's real aim is to make "Russia great again."
[WAPO] Russia’s ambassador to Washington told his superiors in Moscow that he discussed campaign-related matters, including policy issues important to Moscow, with Jeff Sessions during the 2016 presidential race, contrary to public assertions by the embattled attorney general, according to current and former U.S. officials.
He actually does bear a striking resemblance to Joe Isuzu. 
[Bloomberg] The U.S. special counsel investigating possible ties between the Donald Trump campaign and Russia in last year’s election is examining a broad range of transactions involving Trump’s businesses as well as those of his associates, according to a person familiar with the probe.
