After almost an entire year of fruitless investigation into whether or not Russia meddled in the US election, the Washington Post is reporting that FBI Special Counsel Robert Mueller widened the scope of his Russia investigation shortly after former FBI Director James Comey’s firing on May 9th to determine whether or not President Trump attempted to obstruct justice – according to FIVE (!?) anonymous sources.
Spoiler alert; it’s about Trump allegedly asking two other intelligence officials to drop the Flynn investigation – one of whom said he ‘never felt pressured to intervene.’
Mueller’s team is reportedly set to interview Daniel Coats, the current director of national intelligence, Mike Rogers, head of the NSA, and Richard Ledgett – Rogers’ departed deputy, about an alleged meeting Trump held which may have been inappropriate.
Coats was attending a briefing at the White House with officials from several other government agencies. When the briefing ended, as The Washington Post previously reported, Trump asked everyone to leave the room except for Coats and CIA Director Mike Pompeo.
Coats told associates that Trump had asked him whether Coats could intervene with Comey to get the bureau to back off its focus on former national security adviser Michael Flynn in its Russia probe, according to officials. Coats later told lawmakers that he never felt pressured to intervene.
A day or two after the March 22 meeting, Trump telephoned Coats and Rogers to separately ask them to issue public statements denying the existence of any evidence of coordination between his campaign and the Russian government. –WaPo
Officials say Coats and Rogers refused to comply with the president’s requests – while Ledgett wrote an internal NSA memo documenting the call between Rogers and Trump.
Striking Out
After nearly a year of investigation, the FBI wasn’t able to find any evidence of collusion between the Trump campaign and the Kremlin – and James Comey testified that President Trump wasn’t personally being investigated. Moreover, Comey, Dan Coats and Mike Rogers – if the WaPo report and it’s 5 anonymous sources is accurate – all said they never felt pressured to end the Flynn investigation. The definition of a nothingburger.
Don’t worry though #NeverTrumpers – once this Mueller story is exhausted the deep state will shift to the recently filed lawsuit over Trump’s business entanglements. Doesn’t it seem like they’re obstructing the President at this point?
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Wash Post is a tabloid.
Don’t take the bait.
When is this “according to anonymous sources”, “person familiar with the matter”, etc. become old and ignored?
The public, as stupid as they are, will catch on to the bullshit soon.
Maybe I’m giving them too much credit.
Never forget the 47%…
Why the color Grey. That fag Cooper that witch Mika. Are they really talking corpse vampires. No color at all. Is it make up. What kind of sociopath goes lifeless.
It’s a political decision. Why? Because there can be no obstruction of justice by our head law enforcement officer aka Trump. Alan Dershowitz has, fortunately, explained this to all of us by now.