bendog
Diamond Member
Yeah, there's no facts to dispute that the FBI was investigating Trump/Russia before Steele came forward.Escapism for Trump loyalists often centers around the rhetoric that even if Trump did collude with Russians, collusion is not a crime.......But the rhetoric will no longer work.
There’s little doubt that trump’s legal team is in panic mode. The possibility of Trump having to testify before Mueller’s team is a scenario that must have Trump’s lawyers ready to jump out a window.
But, here’s the real “rub” that Trump’s legal team CANNOT prepate him for when facing questions by the special counsel’s team:
Questioning Trump on the general topic of the Russia investigation (collusion) leaves Trump quite a bit of room to rail, complain, and profess his ignorance. Asking him about the actions he’s personally taken to fire Comey, draft memos about ‘adoption,’ and heap dirt on the FBI gives Trump very little room to run.
When Trump made a tweet openly admitting that he had knowledge of Flynn’s lying to the FBI, one of his legal team flung himself onto the resulting dumpster fire.
While Trump denied pressuring Comey, one of his lawyers stated that it was he who drafted the tweet in question and made a mistake. Attorney John Dowd told USA TODAY that Trump did not know for sure Flynn had lied to the FBI, only that the Justice Department had raised questions about his comments regarding his contacts with Russian Ambassador Kislyak.
The idea that one of Trump’s lawyers stepped in to make this clear confession of obstruction is itself one of the most blatant lies of the whole affair. And when Dowd was caught out in his own lie about emailing the proposed tweet, he was forced to lie again by claiming he’d made a phone call to dictate the tweet.
But even though Donald Trump’s lawyers are willing to take actions that might easily get them disbarred — if not jailed — in order to save their client, a real live meeting with Mueller won’t allow much room for Trump’s lawyers protecting him.
Gloomy days ahead for both Trump and his hapless legal team.
The Senate is not going to flip, and it's not going to convict him in an impeachment charge anyway. Trump's fear is being somehow "not bigger than Lincoln." So collusion is one his mind a lot. I look forward to reading what FACTS Mueller will say there is evidence to prove as to Trump's Russian Affair. (-:
Here's the simple facts, 100% confirmed:
The FBI started its investigation into Trump's Russia connections based on info it was given by the CIA, who received it from Downer, the Australian Ambassador that George Papadopolous drunkely bragged to that he knew Moscow had dirt on Hillary Clinton in the form of hacked e-mails. Papadopolous has plead to charges that he lied to the FBI in January when they asked about his Russia connections. Since mid-2016 Papadopolous has been providing the FBI and the Special Counsel with everything he knows. So one of the big Conservative arguments that the dossier prompted a politically motivated investigation is bullshit. And since that is bullshit, then it means the FBI was investigating Trump as early as mid-2016, months before the dossier was produced and months before Simpson and Steele took their findings to the FBI.
For some reason, RW nuts and nut sites seem to be misleading (lying) about search warrants and what law enforcement needs to get them. Law enforcement just need informants who provide information that in one way or another becomes more likely than not to have some factual basis. Typically that is because the informant has been used before, or as it appear now in Trump world, Papandopolus and Steele provided similar, unrelated, factual assertions.
I still think in the end all we'll see is report from Mueller that will confirm the opinions of those who think Trump is Putins bitch, and the election was a fraud, and those who are tied to Trump will just deny the facts.
Unless Trump is indicted. Which is a possibility too.
I think the chances of Mueller being the first DOJ employee calling for indicting a sitting president is around 0%. We'll get facts that justify our beliefs that Trump is not legitimately elected, and Trump fans will say the deep state lies.