This is about the rule of law. Reasoned voices opposing the firing of Mueller.
America Is Heading for an Unprecedented Constitutional Crisis
The Republican Party is ready to serve as an accomplice to obstruction of justice.
By Max Boot | December 11, 2017, 3:49 PM
U.S. President Donald Trump in a meeting with Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and Speaker of the House Paul Ryan at the White House on June 6. (Olivier Douliery-Pool/Getty Images)
White House lawyer Ty Cobb has been attempting to keep the First Client in check by telling him that Robert Mueller’s investigation will soon be over and result in his exoneration. Back in August, Cobb was confident .. http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2017/12/01/white-house-lawyer-ty-cobb-predicted-russia-probe-thanksgiving/ .. that it would all be over by Thanksgiving. When that didn’t happen, Cobb, like a millenarian cultist adjusting the date of doomsday, claimed that it would end by Christmas. Now Christmas is almost upon us, and no light is visible at the end of the tunnel. Far from it. The investigation, which has already resulted in two indictments and two guilty pleas of Trump advisors, appears to be accelerating and drawing ever closer to the Oval Office.
What will Trump’s reaction be when he figures out he’s been duped — and that the Mueller probe, far from a “nothing burger,” is a carafe of strychnine that poses an existential threat to his presidency? The likely result is that Trump will either pardon everyone involved or try to fire the special counsel, or both. And then the nation will be plunged into a constitutional crisis the likes of which we have not seen since Watergate. http://foreignpolicy.com/2017/12/11/america-is-heading-for-an-unprecedented-constitutional-crisis/
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The Partisan, Nihilist Case Against Robert Mueller
Jonathan Ernst / Reuters
Attacks on the special counsel aren’t about misconduct—instead, they’re aimed at discrediting the very idea of professionalism.
Part 75, some of Russian meddling, and related, material from F6 biggies. These from a 2nd on Tuesday, 12/12/17, headed, Flynn legal team cuts ties with Trump’s lawyers
Mueller is eyeing Flynn's involvement in a film his lobbying firm did not want anyone to know about Robert Mueller is looking into former national security adviser Michael Flynn's involvement in the production of a film about an exiled Turkish cleric. Flynn's consulting firm was tasked with producing the film last year and reportedly did not want anyone to know of its involvement in the project. News of Mueller's latest focus on Flynn comes on the heels of a Thursday New York Times report which indicated that Flynn's team is negotiating or cooperating with Mueller's team. http://www.businessinsider.com/mueller-michael-flynn-intel-group-fethullah-gulen-turkey-trump-russia-2017-11
Newly-obtained flight records shed light on Paul Manafort's extensive Russia ties Former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort's flight records show that he traveled to Moscow at least 18 times while advising the pro-Russian strongman Viktor Yanukovych, who later became Ukraine's president. Yanukovych fled to Russia in 2014, but Manafort continued advising Ukraine's Opposition Bloc — a political party that is considered even closer to the Kremlin than Ukraine's Party of Regions. Manafort's spokesman, Jason Maloni, said Manafort’s trips to Russia were “related to his work on behalf of" the Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska’s "commercial interests.” http://www.businessinsider.com/paul-manafort-flight-records-russia-ties-mueller-2017-11
John Kelly reportedly wanted Kushner and Ivanka Trump to leave the White House by the end of the year President Donald Trump's chief of staff, retired Marine Gen. John Kelly, reportedly considered the possibility of senior adviser Jared Kushner and Trump's daughter, Ivanka, leaving the West Wing by the end of this year. Trump has also grown frustrated with Kushner's political advice and is said to be urging his daughter and son-in-law to depart Washington, DC, and go back to New York. Calls for Kushner's dismissal have grown since he began facing increased scrutiny in the Russia investigation. http://www.businessinsider.com/john-kelly-considered-having-kushner-and-ivanka-leave-white-house-by-end-of-2017-2017-11
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