https://www.huffingtonpost.ca/entry/jeffrey-toobin-mueller-memo_us_5c07798be4b0a6e4ebd9b0df CNN’s chief legal analyst said President Donald Trump and those closest to him might have reason to sweat after the latest documentsreleased by the office of special counsel Robert Mueller. The court filings urge no prison time for Michael Flynn because of his cooperation with the inquiry, and are heavily redacted. But Jeffrey Toobin told Anderson Cooper one uncensored line should worry the White House. The document said Flynn’s “record of military and public service distinguish him from every other person who has been charged” in the investigation, but added that “senior government leaders should be held to the highest standards.” Toobin said that line could be a big clue as to where Mueller is going, telling Cooper: “The fact that he is saying ‘senior government leaders should be held to the highest standards,’ I would be a little nervous if I were the people involved in the obstruction of justice investigation, starting, of course, with the president of the United States.” “I don’t think that is just filler material,” Toobin said. “I think that is a statement of how Mueller is going to approach the remainder of his investigation as he starts thinking about the people in the White House.”
Mueller says Michael Flynn gave 'first-hand' details of Trump transition team contacts with Russians https://www.cnbc.com/2018/12/04/rob...o-for-former-trump-advisor-michael-flynn.html Mueller, in a court filing, says Flynn's "substantial assistance" to the special counsel's probe over the past year warrants a light criminal sentence, which could include no jail time. The memo relates to lies Flynn told FBI agents about his conversations with Russia's then-ambassador to the United States, Sergey Kislyak, during the presidential transition. Former national security advisor Michael Flynn has given special counsel Robert Mueller "first-hand" details of contacts between President Donald Trump's transition team and Russian government officials, a bombshell court document filed Tuesday says. Mueller in a sentencing memo said Flynn's "substantial assistance" to his probe warrants a light criminal sentence — which could include no jail time for the retired Army lieutentant general. That assistance, which includes 19 interviews with Mueller's team and Justice Department attorneys, related to a previsouly unknown "criminal investigation," as well as to Mueller's long-running probe of the Trump campaign's and transition team's links or coordination with the Russian government. "The defendant provided firsthand information about the content and context of interactions between the transition team and Russian government officials," the memo says. Mueller's memo almost completely blacks out details of what Flynn might have said. Trump's ex-national security advisor is due to be sentenced Dec. 18 in U.S. District Court in Washington. He pleaded guilty last December to a single count of lying to federal agents about his conversations with Russia's ambassador to the United States during the presidential transition in late 2016. Flynn has cooperated with Mueller's ongoing probe since pleading guilty. "Given the defendant's substantial assistance and other considerations set forth below, a sentence at the low end of the guideline range — including a sentence that does not impose a term of incarceration — is appropriate and warranted," Mueller's office wrote in the memo filed Tuesday. Mueller's memo says that some of Flynn's benefits to the probe "may not be fully realized at this time because the investigations in which he has provided assistance are ongoing." Mueller said in the filing that while Flynn's long military and public service records "distinguish him from every other person who has been charged" in the Russia probe, that same record "should have made him particularly aware of the harm caused by providing false information to the government." Flynn's lawyers will file their own sentencing memorandum by next week. He faces a possible maximum sentence of five years in prison. But his plea agreement with Mueller says he is eligible for a sentence ranging from no time in prison to six months locked up. Mueller is expected to file another court document later this week in connection with ex-Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort. Those documents will detail Mueller's allegation that the longtime Republican consultant Manafort, who pleaded guilty in August to multiple crimes unrelated to the campaign, had lied since then to investigators after agreeing like Flynn to cooperate with Mueller's probe. Flynn had served only briefly as Trump's national security advisor — just 24 days. He is the only member of the Trump administration to date to plead guilty to a crime uncovered by Mueller's probe. He was forced to resign Feb. 13, 2017, after being accused of lying to Vice President Mike Pence and other top Trump administration officials about the nature of his discussions with Russia's ambassador. Flynn was a prominent supporter of Trump during the presidential campaign, and had been a senior member of his transition team after the election. On Jan. 24, 2017, just two days after being sworn in as national security advisor, Flynn, in an interview with the FBI, lied by saying he did not ask Russian ambassador Sergey Kislyak, to refrain from retaliating against the United States in response to sanctions the Obama administration had imposed on Russia for the election meddling. Flynn also lied by saying he did not recall a subsequent conversation with Kislyak in which the ambassador said Russia had opted to be moderate in its response to the sanctions because of Flynn's request. When he pleaded guilty, Flynn also admitted to having made false statements in multiple documents with the Justice Department in March 2017 related to the Foreign Agents Registration Act in connection with a project being performed by him and his firm, the Flynn Intel Group, on behalf of the government of Turkey. Trump has repeatedly railed against Mueller's investigation, calling it a "witch hunt."
Newsflash for CNN and the people in MooseDump: There has never been a time when Mueller has not been focused on bringing Trump and "the people in the White House" down. Let's see now. Popadopolis, Mannafort, Flynn. All big, big, my dick is going to fall off, links to the white house and who are going to flip on Trump. And these were all the guys who actually had ties to the Russians although legal. But Mueller has not been able to even make a collusion/conspiracy related charge against any of them let alone get a conviction. WITCH-HUNT.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive...nt-Robert-Mueller-Special-Counsel-Russia.html I hope you had a good nap. What's it been now, one and a half years? Well rested, I hope.
Mueller is holding a royal flush and building the pot. https://www.cnbc.com/2018/12/04/rob...o-for-former-trump-advisor-michael-flynn.html
What's your point? You are the one who posted some fake news CNN/Jeffrey Torbin article about how Mueller is now somehow focusing on trump and the white house. And I pointed out that it has always been about that right from the get-go. That is why Rosenstein gave Mueller a full witch-hunting license. This is what it looks like when you get all your news from FAKECNN. You think it is news just because it finally showed up where you watch it. Others got a clue years ago. Oh, what's next? Mueller is focusing on Don Jr. and Trump Tower, yeh, okay, lets treat that as "news."
“senior government leaders should be held to the highest standards.” LOL. That's like saying equal justice for all. Wake me when that actually happens. Trump is president today, he will be the president tomorrow, next week, next month, next year and all the way to the end of his term. How hard they make that term is up for debate, but he will remain in office. There was no collusion, and all the other chicken shit they can find doesn't and won't rise to the level of removal from office, and if they did this thorough of check on every politician, and I mean every single one of them, D.C. would be empty.
It's been my observation over the years that this is often what eventually happens to career gangsters, i.e., someone focuses on bringing them down. What's unusual in the present case is that no one in the history of crime and criminals has been more vociferous in denying guilt against a backdrop on continuous lies than Donald Trump, leaving not one shred of doubt.