https://www.politico.com/story/2018/06/26/judge-rejects-challenge-676814 https://www.vox.com/2018/6/26/17507478/manafort-mueller-judge-ellis-virginia Ellis's 31-page written opinion is rife with skepticism about the special counsel mechanism and about Mueller's pursuit of fraud charges against Manafort. But the judge ultimately concluded that Manafort's attorneys had not made a sufficient legal case to justify tossing out his indictment.
http://thehill.com/policy/national-security/394636-mueller-subpoenas-former-aide-to-stone-report https://news.vice.com/en_us/article...s-trolling-the-mueller-investigation-in-court The defense team has challenged Mueller’s legitimacy and swamped prosecutors with a litany of court motions and requests, while firing off unusually sharp and personal rhetoric, outside legal observers told VICE News. “They’re acting as aggressively as they possibly can, and they don’t really care whether they piss off other people,” said Jens David Ohlin, Cornell Law vice dean and expert in international criminal law. “It’s over the top.”
http://thehill.com/homenews/adminis...sed-by-the-white-house-in-comey-firing-report https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/29/...tein-comey-firing.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share
http://www.businessinsider.com/cour...ipaska-loaned-paul-manafort-10-million-2018-6 https://www.bloomberg.com/news/arti...10-million-loan-from-russian-oligarch-in-2010 https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-new...lion-manafort-business-documents-show-n887196
“The information we had which was alleging a Russian offer of assistance to a member of the Trump campaign was of extraordinary significance,” Strzok said. “It was credible. It was from an extraordinarily sensitive and credible source.” “The urgency for us to understand what was going on – in advance of the election, and certainly in advance of any inauguration – I can’t overstate the importance of that,” Strzok said. https://www.boston25news.com/news/p...ok-denies-bias-in-trumprussia-probe/788470358
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Our relationship with Russia has NEVER been worse thanks to many years of U.S. foolishness and stupidity and now, the Rigged Witch Hunt!</p>— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href="">July 16, 2018</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>