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| White House lawyer Cobb predicts quick end to Mueller probe |
| 2017-08-19 |
| [Reuters] WASHINGTON (Reuters) - White House special counsel Ty Cobb predicts the cloud of an investigation into Russian meddling in the U.S. election will soon be lifted from President Donald Trump and says he would be "embarrassed" if it still hangs over the president in 2018. Cobb told Reuters this week that he talks to Trump on an almost daily basis and has been in contact with the team of Robert Mueller, the special counsel leading the investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 election. Mueller is investigating possible collusion between Trump's campaign team and Russia, as well as possible money laundering by at least one former aide. But Cobb, who resigned from law firm Hogan Lovells to take the White House job on July 31, said in interviews on Tuesday and Wednesday he believed Mueller's probe was "narrow" and that by the end of the year Trump should no longer be threatened by it. |
| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #12 I agree Rambler, after spending all the $$$ and time they can't come home empty handed. Posted by Jan "Can't come home empty handed?" After seven years and countless hours of congressional time and taxpayer dollars spent on 'repealing' Obamacare with nothing to show for it, I'm not so sure. You may be giving the swamp too much credit. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2017-08-19 20:11 |
| #11 I agree Rambler, after spending all the $$$ and time they can't come home empty handed. |
| Posted by: Jan 2017-08-19 20:00 |
| #10 The Mueller probe will not stop until it sends SOMEBODY to jail, or until there are enough Democrats in Congress to impeach Trump. It really doesn't matter who goes to jail - one of the Trump family, or one of Trump's staff, as long as someone goes to jail. Just like Scooter Libby, in the Valerie Plame "affair". |
| Posted by: Rambler in Virginia 2017-08-19 19:16 |
| #9 I'm thinking that Trump is putting up with the Mueller probe because it makes a nice distraction for the MSM while Trump is getting real work done without MSM attention. |
| Posted by: Seeking cure for ignorance 2017-08-19 14:05 |
| #8 Than it should be "cold iron" not "cold steel" |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2017-08-19 13:52 |
| #7 g(r)omgoru: Cold steel, not silver? When fighting the Unseelie Court use iron and blessed weapons. Note that members of this cabal all recoil at the presence of Holy Scripture, makes you wonder, hmmm? |
| Posted by: magpie 2017-08-19 13:48 |
| #6 So what they look for now is a situation where an employee or visitor picks up one of the commemorative notepads /glasses /whatever and Trump tells them, "Go ahead". Presto: Conspiracy to defraud the Federal Government. |
| Posted by: ed in texas 2017-08-19 12:00 |
| #5 Cold steel, not silver? |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2017-08-19 11:24 |
| #4 They will need cold steel, a stake through the heart and garlic, maybe some wolfsbane as well, to finish off this monster. The forces behind Mueller want to prolong this past the Midterm Elections at the minimum and it will require force to stop them. |
| Posted by: magpie 2017-08-19 11:16 |
| #3 I think Brannon's departure will assure we have access to the pulse of the planet. He has been stifled too long. |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2017-08-19 10:08 |
| #2 How will we know its over? Its not like the media will mention it. |
| Posted by: CrazyFool 2017-08-19 09:54 |
| #1 Special counsel should have never started and after starting, it should have come to a quick end before now. Mr. Cobb, I wouldn't be so sure it will come to a quick end. It benefits the Dems to continue Mueller's special counsel witch hunt/kangaroo court as long as they can. |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2017-08-19 08:09 |