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Politics : The Trump Presidency
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From: carranza25/6/2018 11:30:20 PM
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The transcript linked below is very interesting. It deals only with Manafort, who was indicted by Mueller for crimes that happened years before the election. Problem is that Mueller was authorized to investigate the Russian angle into Trump’s election and any matters that arose or may arise from that. How anything that happened before Trump even declared his candidacy is clearly not subject to review by Mueller. Manafort had been under investigation for years by the US Attorney for the Eastern District of Va., who simply handed it off to Mueller despite the fact that Mueller seems to have no jurisdiction to prosecute Manafort for crimes that took place many years ago.

The judge was given a heavily redacted letter issued to Mueller by Rosenstein which allegedly sets forth Mueller’s authority, but he was not given the full document. Thus it was impossible to glean from it that Mueller had the authority to go after Manafort.

Of course, the judge is pissed off because federal trial court judges can see classified material. He demanded a clean copy within two weeks. Mueller’s tem should’ve given him a clean copy from inception. He was clearly upset with Mueller bringing in an old, unrelated case into the fray. Why make things worse by relying on a heavily redacted document that in redacted for does not state what they claim it does? Almost as bad as violating Rule 1 of litigation: never lie to the judge.

The guy who argued for Mueller did a piss-poor job.

It wouldn’t surprise me if the indictment is dropped.

Mueller is illegally taking over pre-existing criminal cases to get the defendant to turn against the main prize, Trump. The judge had to remind Mueller’s attorney that no one in government has this kind of unfettered authority. I think Mueller will either drop the indictment or refuse to provide the Judge with the document in which case he’ll be held in contempt of Court.

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And things are going to get very interesting with respect to Flynn’s plea as it turns out that McCabe stated somewhere that the agents who interviewed him didn’t think Flynn lied.
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