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Mueller prosecutor once said that if Republicans 'retain the House, we all need to retain criminal lawyers' because 'that's how bats--- crazy they are,' new book says

Former special counsel Robert Mueller's team was acutely aware that the "third act in this play would be an inevitable investigation of us, by the Trump administration, when our investigation was complete," Andrew Weissmann, a former prosecutor who worked on Mueller's team, wrote in his new book.

In the months since Mueller's investigation ended, the attorney general has directed multiple internal inquiries into Mueller's probe, and President Trump has called for several members of his team to be criminally prosecuted, despite no evidence of wrongdoing.

As Mueller's investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 US election gained steam in 2017 and 2018, "one thing that the whole office soon realized was that the third act in this play would be an inevitable investigation of us, by the Trump administration, when our investigation was complete," Weissmann wrote. "Trump would surely try to undermine every move we had made in order to burnish his standing and consolidate his power.

Rhee's comment turned out to be prescient. In the months since Mueller's team finished its work, Attorney General William Barr has directed multiple internal inquiries into the special counsel's investigation, even though the Justice Department inspector general determined that the FBI was authorized in launching the Russia probe and that its actions were not motivated by political bias.

As Weissmann wrote: "The leader of the free world has asked the Department of Justice to go after Democrats, has advocated the indictment of [former FBI director James] Comey [former FBI deputy director Andrew] McCabe, [former FBI special agent Peter] Strzok, and others, and even accused Mueller of perjury. He and Barr have subverted the rule of law by providing unequal treatment to his cronies ... They dismissed the Russian hack and dump case against a Russian company ...

Prosecutors also examined whether Trump sought to obstruct justice throughout the course of the inquiry and reached a murkier conclusion.

 

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Funny how MAGA wackos are sharing the article without even reading it. - GOP wants blood even when facts don't show ANYTHING WRONG DONE So Trump calling for draining the swamp while he is actually the SWAMP MONSTER. Like 'BENGHAZI' and 'LOCK HER UP' all for the base of fools

ONLY FURTHER DISTRACTION from CORE-DEVASTATING-ISSUES of POLITICAL & JUSTICE-SYSTEM—WORLDWIDE! WHY otherwise would a lead investigator WASTE 2 years following the wrong track—who hacked the Clintin-eMails; instead of investigating the content of the eMails...

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