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Home Front: Politix
Rats, Ship:Trump-Mueller interview negotiations stall as 2 more prosecutors leave Russia probe
2018-10-03
[FOX] Discussions between Special Counsel Robert Mueller's office and President Trump's legal team over the conditions of a possible presidential interview are ongoing, but have "not terribly advanced" from where they were a couple of weeks ago, a source familiar with the talks told Fox News Tuesday.

Also, The Associated Press reported that two prosecutors detailed to the Russia investigation for the past year are returning to their duties in other parts of the Justice Department. They join two other attorneys who left the team, assigned to investigate potential ties between Russia and the Trump campaign, over the summer.

Fox News' source said negotiations hit a snag when The New York Times reported on Sept. 21 that Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein had discussed secretly recording Trump and enlisting Cabinet members to invoke the 25th Amendment to remove the president from office. Rosenstein has called the Times report "inaccurate and factually incorrect" and at least one source has told Fox News that Rosenstein intended his comment about recording Trump to be sarcastic.
Posted by:Skidmark

#6  FitzMas II
Posted by: M. Murcek   2018-10-03 17:54  

#5  Mueller ain't got squat.

...maybe suborning perjury? Isn't that what turning is about?
Posted by: P2kontheroad   2018-10-03 14:55  

#4  He is getting ready to drop this and shift his attention to Trump's taxes and his hotels doing business with foreign dignitaries.
Posted by: 49 Pan   2018-10-03 13:37  

#3  Mueller ain't got squat. I still bet he releases some "preliminary" report that can be worded so it looks like there might have been collusion at some point with some people somewhere, but none of it can be collaborated at this point because it would ruin the current investigation.

It will provide just enough cover for demoncrats to run the last couple weeks on.

If they take the house, it is easy to gin up some charges for impeachment.
If they don't retake the house, expect the Mueller investigation to continue waddling on until it is put out of its misery.
Posted by: DarthVader   2018-10-03 11:36  

#2  Mueller is dragging things on until the midterms. If the blue wave sweeps everything they'll grab whatever nonsense he has as proof. If not he'll declare he has nothing actionable and go away to write a book about how he was confounded at every turn from getting to the truth or some rot like that.
Posted by: rjschwarz   2018-10-03 11:17  

#1  If Trump outwaits Mueller, this witch hunt will disappear one and two at a time of its own weight. The funding for each position needs to disappear also so that some other bonehead can't be put in there who is a partisan hack.
Posted by: JohnQC   2018-10-03 10:25  

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