Republicans accused of concocting email scandal against Mueller
Source: Guardian
Claim that investigators wrongfully obtained emails of presidents transition team are dismissed as baloney and a ploy to discredit Trump-Russia inquiry.
Republicans have been accused of trying to discredit Trump-Russia investigator Robert Mueller by inventing a claim that his inquiry inappropriately gained access to emails from the presidents transition team.
The complaint from the Trump for America group comes a day after a warning from Adam Schiff, a senior Democrat, that top Republicans are manoeuvring to shut down the House intelligence committees TrumpRussia inquiry and weaken Mueller.
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Private documents on a US government, public email system? What are they afraid was found? Baloney.
In a series of tweets, Renato Mariotti, a former federal prosecutor, said the Republicans were playing politics but this is a bad sign for them.
Of course Mueller obtained emails from a third party, he said. Prosecutors in most white collar criminal investigations do that. Its not inappropriate or even unusual. Anyone who claims otherwise has no idea what theyre talking about.
Tweet:
Renato Mariotti (@renato_mariotti)
If Mueller didnt follow the law, a court would suppress the evidence so it couldnt be used. The reason Trumps lawyers are writing letters to Congress instead of Mueller or a court is because their legal arguments have no merit. https://t.co/6Vy7jwKcY4
December 17, 2017
Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/dec/17/republicans-accused-of-concocting-email-scandal-against-robert-mueller
Of course they did, this is what republicans do.
Definition:
Republican -- legal criminals that are corrupting and destroying America.
BumRushDaShow
(127,302 posts)will perpetuate the false charges, which are designed to sway public opinion.
Drahthaardogs
(6,843 posts)That basically says "Whatever you do or say on this thing is the government's"
FreeStateDemocrat
(2,654 posts)lastlib
(22,981 posts)...for them, truth is what they WANT it to be.
mobeau69
(11,077 posts)taking any legal action? They are trying to use the court of public opinion as they know they don't have a legal leg to stand on.
Vinca
(50,170 posts)stopping their use immediately. This is the first part of this investigation I've truly found amusing. The Trump team was too dumb to realize an email with a government address isn't private.
Doodley
(8,976 posts)to account.
Le Gaucher
(1,547 posts)Yup.
They are even more delirious and incoherent than they usually are. Their brains are slowly turning into mush.
Frog soup anyone?
MrModerate
(9,753 posts)That there even is a way for Freepers to be more incoherent.
Had to look, omg.
annabanana
(52,791 posts)Will be watching to see what the "big screens" (ABC,NBC,CBS) do.
rockfordfile
(8,682 posts)Bernardo de La Paz
(48,788 posts)They are trying to salt the earth so that they can kill Mueller's report and indictments as they arrive. Nip them in the bud, as it were.
Ilsa
(61,675 posts)the crazy Greedy Obnoxious Pedophiles say he has.
NewJeffCT
(56,827 posts)they waived their expectation of privacy in regards to electronic communications. Sounds like they were surprised later on when they found that out.
Oops
bucolic_frolic
(42,672 posts)They're good at that, you gotta give them that.
It's all hype. I though the first hyped news was the O.J. chase. A warmup.
Remember Bill Clinton's "Bad Hair Day". Cable news was all over it, yet 10 years
later we learned it never happened - no plane was delayed at LAX for a Clinton haircut.
Yet the public believed it at the time.
They do it for ratings. They also do it for political advantage, and to escape blame, point the
finger at someone else, get the public worked into a lather to support them.
Media Hype. Old-fashioned Madison Avenue Corporate PR techniques. Often subliminal.
They have all the money in the world to throw at it. Truth is the only antidote.
lark
(23,003 posts)Republican -- legal criminals that are corrupting and destroying America.
Might I add, they are totally committed to destroying the working class in America and turning us into barons and serfs. Guess which we will be?