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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsBreaking late Friday: Trump Administration studying ways to neutralize Mueller
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-mueller-idUSKCN18F2KK?utm_campaign=trueAnthem:+Trending+Content&utm_content=591f7a1f04d30128b8af4b89&utm_medium=trueAnthem&utm_source=twitterFrom Reuters
The Trump administration is exploring whether it can use an obscure ethics rule to undermine the special counsel investigation into ties between President Donald Trump's campaign team and Russia, two people familiar with White House thinking said on Friday.
Trump has said that Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein's hiring of former FBI Director Robert Mueller as special counsel to lead the investigation "hurts our country terribly."
Within hours of Mueller's appointment on Wednesday, the White House began reviewing the Code of Federal Regulations, which restricts newly hired government lawyers from investigating their prior law firms clients for one year after their hiring, the sources said.
An executive order signed by Trump in January extended that period to two years.
Mueller's former law firm, WilmerHale, represents Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner, who met with a Russian bank executive in December, and the president's former campaign manager Paul Manafort, who is a subject of a federal investigation.
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The fascinating thing is the number of stories that are being leaked out of the White House now.
Tis a flood.
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Breaking late Friday: Trump Administration studying ways to neutralize Mueller (Original Post)
grantcart
May 2017
OP
So Mueller assigns that part of the investigation to another lawyer
The Velveteen Ocelot
May 2017
#8
Cant imagine that good for Drumph, now he has two counsels looking into his crap
MyNameIsKhan
May 2017
#13
unblock
(52,503 posts)1. trying to obstruct justice in the investigation of obstruction of justice?
grantcart
(53,061 posts)4. so if Mueller can't do it, lets bring in Preet Bharara
L. Coyote
(51,129 posts)14. Float Barack Obama's name and watch Trump STFU.
BannonsLiver
(16,548 posts)2. They are being utterly decimated by leaks
I've never seen anything like it. Its a thing of beauty.
roamer65
(36,748 posts)3. Then DOJ just appoints another special counsel.
Preet Bharara would be an excellent choice.
grantcart
(53,061 posts)5. we posted same idea at the same time lol
roamer65
(36,748 posts)7. Great minds think alike.
He would be the obvious choice!
spanone
(135,950 posts)6. these folks are despicable. may they go down in glorious flames
The Velveteen Ocelot
(116,003 posts)8. So Mueller assigns that part of the investigation to another lawyer
whom he can hire.
MyNameIsKhan
(2,205 posts)13. Cant imagine that good for Drumph, now he has two counsels looking into his crap
dhill926
(16,390 posts)9. they will pull every trick they can...
until the bitter end...
Atman
(31,464 posts)10. This will not end well for Trumpsky.
Not at all.
Dawson Leery
(19,348 posts)11. We need a Democratic Congress.
MyNameIsKhan
(2,205 posts)12. Go ahead do this, you will get two special prosecutors on top of you
one general counsel Muller and other one specially for Kushner...
L. Coyote
(51,129 posts)15. Planning ahead? "An executive order signed by Trump in January extended that period to two years."
So why did Trump take the time in January to modify this obscure rule,and since they knew all about this rule in January, why does the story say they went looking for a rule on Wed. this week? I smell something that stinks.
justiceischeap
(14,040 posts)16. That jumped out at me too.
I'm sure it's not something that can be used in a court of law but it's just one more brick in the obstruction wall.
L. Coyote
(51,129 posts)17. It certainly tells us they were obstructing the investigations from Day 1.
And all the perjury was part of the conspiracy to obstruct justice. Kushner and Sessions are co-conspirators in hiding the conspiracy to illegally steal the election.