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https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/may/28/mueller-trump-obstruction-charge-michael-wolff-book-siege-under-fire-newsA new book from Fire and Fury author Michael Wolff says special counsel Robert Mueller drew up a three-count obstruction of justice indictment against Donald Trump before deciding to shelve it an explosive claim which a spokesman for Mueller flatly denied.
The stunning revelation is contained in Siege: Trump Under Fire, which will be published a week from now, on 4 June. It is the sequel to Fire and Fury, Wolffs bestseller on the first year of the Trump presidency which was published in 2018.
The Guardian obtained a copy of Siege and viewed the documents concerned.
In an authors note, Wolff states that his findings on the Mueller investigation are based on internal documents given to me by sources close to the Office of the Special Counsel.
But Peter Carr, a spokesman for Mueller, told the Guardian: The documents that youve described do not exist.
meow2u3
(24,778 posts)I read "Fire and Fury" and took his writings as nothing but gossip. Wolff is a tabloid gossip columnist and his writings should be interpreted that way.
gldstwmn
(4,575 posts)Also this article says Wolff has copies of the documents.
onenote
(42,885 posts)If he doesn't, it would suggest he's got nothing.
eleny
(46,166 posts)Hopefully he'll get his butt out of the clouds and gets over himself for the good of the democracy.
gldstwmn
(4,575 posts)The book comes out June 4th I think.
gldstwmn
(4,575 posts)paragraphs especially explosive:
And yet Wolff reports that Muellers office drew up a three-count outline of the presidents alleged abuses, under the title United States of America against Donald J Trump, Defendant. The document sat on the special counsels desk, Wolff writes, for almost a year.
According to a document seen by the Guardian, the first count, under Title 18, United States code, Section 1505, charged the president with corruptly or by threats of force or threatening communication influencing, obstructing or impeding a pending proceeding before a department or agency of the United States.
uponit7771
(90,378 posts)... from the Mueller team.
Looks like that one article by [forget the name] was right about Cohen or close enough not to deny the jist and substance.
gldstwmn
(4,575 posts)Does he work for DOJ? Because if he does than this is just more of Barr and his BS.
uponit7771
(90,378 posts)GoCubsGo
(32,103 posts)It's going to be quite the shitshow when everything starts coming out into the open....
gldstwmn
(4,575 posts)that they don't want to get out. I'd love to see the copies of those documents.
flotsam
(3,268 posts)...any more.
gldstwmn
(4,575 posts)You know his publisher vetted them. Where did they come from?