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Equinox Moon

(6,344 posts)
Sun Dec 17, 2017, 07:33 AM Dec 2017

Republicans accused of concocting email scandal against Mueller

Source: Guardian

Claim that investigators wrongfully obtained emails of president’s 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 president’s 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 committee’s Trump–Russia inquiry and weaken Mueller.
[snip]
“‘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. It’s not ‘inappropriate’ or even unusual. Anyone who claims otherwise has no idea what they’re talking about.”

Tweet:
Renato Mariotti (@renato_mariotti)

If Mueller didn’t follow the law, a court would suppress the evidence so it couldn’t be used. The reason Trump’s 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.

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Republicans accused of concocting email scandal against Mueller (Original Post) Equinox Moon Dec 2017 OP
They know the legions of zombies BumRushDaShow Dec 2017 #1
Sign onto an Army computer and you will a Consent Banner Drahthaardogs Dec 2017 #2
Puke's level of hypocrisy is astounding, tone deaf American public eats this shit up. FreeStateDemocrat Dec 2017 #3
They have a TOTAL disregard for truth... lastlib Dec 2017 #14
If they think Mueller did something illegal then why are they not mobeau69 Dec 2017 #4
If the emails had been obtained illegally, Kim Jong Trump would have his lawyers in court Vinca Dec 2017 #5
Fox News, Trump, top Republicans are trying to pervert the course of justice. They need to be held Doodley Dec 2017 #6
I went over to freerepublic to see how the frogs were reacting to increased water temp. Le Gaucher Dec 2017 #7
I'll check it out, but it's hard to believe . . . MrModerate Dec 2017 #12
Freepers msdogi Dec 2017 #15
Fortunately, CNN has framed this properly this morning. annabanana Dec 2017 #8
I think this is just a diversion from the taxScam which is hated by Americans rockfordfile Dec 2017 #9
That plus pumping the idea that Mueller is a rogue coup plotter paid by Soros. Bernardo de La Paz Dec 2017 #11
Soros must be God's brother, if he has as much power as Ilsa Dec 2017 #16
As part of the transition NewJeffCT Dec 2017 #10
Republican Manufactured Hyped Crisis bucolic_frolic Dec 2017 #13
Good definition of the Repug Christo-fascists. lark Dec 2017 #17
And Putin's troll factories are good at manufacturing outrage dalton99a Dec 2017 #18

BumRushDaShow

(127,302 posts)
1. They know the legions of zombies
Sun Dec 17, 2017, 08:23 AM
Dec 2017

will perpetuate the false charges, which are designed to sway public opinion.

Drahthaardogs

(6,843 posts)
2. Sign onto an Army computer and you will a Consent Banner
Sun Dec 17, 2017, 08:24 AM
Dec 2017

That basically says "Whatever you do or say on this thing is the government's"

mobeau69

(11,077 posts)
4. If they think Mueller did something illegal then why are they not
Sun Dec 17, 2017, 08:42 AM
Dec 2017

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)
5. If the emails had been obtained illegally, Kim Jong Trump would have his lawyers in court
Sun Dec 17, 2017, 08:51 AM
Dec 2017

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)
6. Fox News, Trump, top Republicans are trying to pervert the course of justice. They need to be held
Sun Dec 17, 2017, 08:53 AM
Dec 2017

to account.

 

Le Gaucher

(1,547 posts)
7. I went over to freerepublic to see how the frogs were reacting to increased water temp.
Sun Dec 17, 2017, 08:57 AM
Dec 2017

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)
12. I'll check it out, but it's hard to believe . . .
Sun Dec 17, 2017, 09:40 AM
Dec 2017

That there even is a way for Freepers to be more incoherent.

annabanana

(52,791 posts)
8. Fortunately, CNN has framed this properly this morning.
Sun Dec 17, 2017, 09:09 AM
Dec 2017

Will be watching to see what the "big screens" (ABC,NBC,CBS) do.

Bernardo de La Paz

(48,788 posts)
11. That plus pumping the idea that Mueller is a rogue coup plotter paid by Soros.
Sun Dec 17, 2017, 09:21 AM
Dec 2017

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)
16. Soros must be God's brother, if he has as much power as
Sun Dec 17, 2017, 11:04 AM
Dec 2017

the crazy Greedy Obnoxious Pedophiles say he has.

NewJeffCT

(56,827 posts)
10. As part of the transition
Sun Dec 17, 2017, 09:18 AM
Dec 2017

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)
13. Republican Manufactured Hyped Crisis
Sun Dec 17, 2017, 09:56 AM
Dec 2017

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)
17. Good definition of the Repug Christo-fascists.
Sun Dec 17, 2017, 11:31 AM
Dec 2017

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?

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