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Robert Mueller’s Biggest ‘Bombshell’ Indictment Just Got Dismissed With Prejudice

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. . .The Mueller investigation produced several indictments, most of which centered on supposedly lying to the FBI. Figures like Michael Flynn and George Papadopoulos took center stage, having not been proven to have done anything wrong in regards to Russia, but being relentlessly targeted because there had to be some scalps taken.

But there was one case that was said to have proven the Mueller investigation to not be a waste of time. It involved the indictment of a Russian company called “Concord.” Mueller claimed that said company was a front to conduct a full-scale information war against the United States during the 2016 election. This was supposed to prove the nefarious “election interference” we’d all heard so much about. When Mueller dropped the indictment, the media gasped and claimed vindication. Breathless editorials were written at record pace.

Well, it looks like the only real shot Mueller took just missed its target.

(Read more from “Robert Mueller’s Biggest ‘Bombshell’ Indictment Just Got Dismissed With Prejudice” HERE)

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Trump Threatens to Sue Mueller and His Team

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In a series of tweets this Tuesday morning, President Trump threatened to sue various people involved in Robert Mueller’s expansive probe into Russia’s alleged meddling in the 2016 election.

“These were Mueller prosecutors, and the whole Mueller investigation was illegally set up based on a phony and now fully discredited Fake Dossier, lying and forging documents to the FISA Court, and many other things,” Trump tweeted. “Everything having to do with this fraudulent investigation is badly tainted and, in my opinion, should be thrown out.”

As Law&Crime points out, his Twitter rant was sparked by the recent events surrounding the sentencing of his longtime confidant, Roger Stone, and Attorney General Bill Barr’s intervention in the case — followed by Barr’s public statements where he seemingly expressed frustration with Trump’s tweeting about cases of which he’s involved. (Read more from “Trump Threatens to Sue Mueller and His Team” HERE)

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DOJ Indicts Mueller Witness over Illegal Scheme to Funnel Millions to Hillary’s Campaign

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That headline is about as bad as this story gets for Hillary Clinton, as additional emerging details aren’t quite as damning as one might suspect — and there’s a Trump tie-in, as well. We’ll begin with the basics. A California CEO and several others have been charged in a scheme to funnel millions in illegal campaign donations to Hillary Clinton via a Lebanese-American businessman, who showered Clinton with cash until Trump won the election, then scrambled to curry favor with the incoming administration with a major contribution to the president-elect’s (shady) inaugural fund. There’s no evidence of wrongdoing on the part of Clinton or Trump connected to this matter. From Tuesday’s Justice Department press release:

Earlier today, an indictment was unsealed against the CEO of an online payment processing company, and seven others, charging them with conspiring to make and conceal conduit and excessive campaign contributions, and related offenses, during the U.S. presidential election in 2016 and thereafter. A federal grand jury in the District of Columbia indicted Ahmad “Andy” Khawaja, 48, of Los Angeles, California, on Nov. 7, 2019, along with George Nader, Roy Boulos, Rudy Dekermenjian, Mohammad “Moe” Diab, Rani El-Saadi, Stevan Hill and Thayne Whipple…According to the indictment, from March 2016 through January 2017, Khawaja conspired with Nader to conceal the source of more than $3.5 million in campaign contributions, directed to political committees associated with a candidate for President of the United States in the 2016 election. By design, these contributions appeared to be in the names of Khawaja, his wife, and his company. In reality, they allegedly were funded by Nader. Khawaja and Nader allegedly made these contributions in an effort to gain influence with high-level political figures, including the candidate. As Khawaja and Nader arranged these payments, Nader allegedly reported to an official from a foreign government about his efforts to gain influence.

How do we know the candidate in question was Hillary Clinton?

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WATCH: President Trump Considering ‘a Major Lawsuit’ in Response to Mueller Investigation

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President Trump said Wednesday that he’s considering bringing “a major lawsuit” against unidentified people regarding former special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation, accusing Mueller of treating him and his associates unfairly.

“We’ve been investigating on a personal basis, through Rudy [Giuliani] and others, lawyers, corruption in the 2016 election. We’ve been investigating corruption because I probably will, I was going to definitely, but I probably will be bringing a lot of litigation against a lot of people having to do with the corrupt investigation having to do with the 2016 election,” Trump said during a press conference with Finnish President Sauli Niinistö.

“I’ve been looking at that long and hard for a long period of time, how it started, why it started, it should never happen to another president, ever, but I’ve been talking about it from the standpoint of bringing a major lawsuit, and I’ve been talking about it for a long time,” he added.

Trump has long accused Mueller of political bias and misconduct during his two-year probe into Russia’s election meddling and obstruction of justice.

The former special counsel found insufficient evidence to charge Trump with conspiracy to collude with Moscow but declined to make a prosecutorial judgement as to whether the president obstructed subsequent probes. (Read more from “President Trump Considering ‘a Major Lawsuit’ in Response to Mueller Investigation” HERE)

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Report: Mueller May Have Lied to Congress

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Congressional Republicans say Former Special Counsel Robert Mueller may have lied during his testimony before the House Intel and Judiciary Committees last month, and a new report shows there is evidence to back up the claim. . .

Reporter Paul Sperry provided newly-released court documents indicating that Mueller might have made his brief press conference in May “as damage control after a federal judge privately threatened to hold his team in criminal contempt of court over what she called misleading language in his final report about Russian government interference in the 2016 election.”

Indeed, the day before Mueller made his public appearance on May 29, Judge Dabney Friedrich scolded the special counsel for implying that accused “trolling” firms run by Russian citizens were linked to the Russian government without providing evidence for such a link. . .

During Mueller’s press conference he emphasized that the indicted Russians were “private” entities. According to RealClear Investigations, that apparently satisfied Friedrich. The judge wrote in a July 1 opinion “that Meuller had ‘demonstrated’ the government had complied with her order with his statements to the media.” . . .

McClintock told RealClearInvestigations of Meuller’s answer, “It certainly doesn’t pass the smell test,” adding “If he lied, he’s guilty of perjury and lying to Congress. I think this would be of interest to the U.S. attorney investigating misconduct in this matter and the inspector general’s office.” (Read more from “Report: Mueller May Have Lied to Congress” HERE)

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They Were Warned: Mueller Staff Cautioned Democrats Not to Get Their Hopes Up

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Staff for former special counsel Robert Mueller issued a warning to Democrats eager to have him testify about his investigation into Russian election interference.

Days after Mueller delivered shaky testimony to two congressional panels, a report said Mueller’s team denied rumors that the 74-year-old’s cognitive acuity was wavering and that prompted Democrats to compel him to appear publicly.

However, before and after a reluctant Mueller was subpoenaed, Mueller’s staff told the Democrats, some of whom have cited Mueller’s report as a blueprint for impeachment, that their boss would not stray from what was already disclosed in his unredacted 448-page report. . .

But in the run-up to Wednesday’s hearings, House Judiciary Chairman Jerry Nadler said Democrats hoped to get Mueller to divulge information that does not appear in his report. “Hopefully we go a little further,” the New York Democrat said on MSNBC last week after acknowledging their main strategy will focus on getting Mueller to recite the findings of his report in front of a live audience.

That did not come to pass. Mueller may have provided some sound bites for Democrats to capitalize on, including denying that his report “totally” exonerates President Trump, but as he stressed in his late-May public statement after the conclusion of his investigation, the former special counsel largely stuck to the script of his report. (Read more from “They Were Warned: Mueller Staff Cautioned Democrats Not to Get Their Hopes Up” HERE)

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Nearly Half of Americans Left Unfazed by Mueller’s Testimony

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The opinions of many Americans on whether or not President Trump should be impeached remain unchanged after former special counsel Robert Mueller’s congressional testimony.

An ABC News/Ipsos poll released Sunday shows that 47% of Americans were not at all moved on the impeachment question after Mueller’s testimony. The people who were moved one way or the other were closely split at 27% more likely to support impeachment and 26% less likely. . .

Mueller testified in front of the House Judiciary and Intelligence committees Wednesday. Democrats pushed Mueller to clarify his report and his position on whether or not Trump should be charged with obstruction of justice. Republicans focused largely on why the investigation was launched and how the Russian collusion conspiracy gained so much traction.

Mueller was halting and slow throughout his testimony, often seeming unfamiliar with facts and passages in his report. He evaded answering roughly 200 questions during the nearly seven-hour affair by referring the questioner back to the report or asserting that the question was outside of his purview. (Read more from “Nearly Half of Americans Left Unfazed by Mueller’s Testimony” HERE)

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Trump: ‘This Was Treason’ — ‘This Should Never Be Allowed to Happen to Our Country Again’

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By Breitbart. In an interview with Fox News Channel’s Sean Hannity, his first since former special counsel Robert Mueller testified before the House Intelligence and Judiciary Committees, President Donald Trump decried the Mueller “fake witch hunt.” . . .

“This should never happen to another president of the United States again,” Trump said on Thursday’s broadcast of Fox News Channel’s “Hannity.” “This is an absolute catastrophe for our country. This was a fake witch hunt, and it should never be allowed to happen to another president again. This was treason. This was high crimes. This was everything as bad a definition as you want to come up with. This should never be allowed to happen to our country again.” (Read more from “Trump: ‘This Was Treason’ — ‘This Should Never Be Allowed to Happen to Our Country Again’” HERE)

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Trump: Mueller Made Biden ‘Look Like a Dynamo’

By The Hill. President Trump took aim at former special counsel Robert Mueller and Joe Biden late Thursday, renewing his criticism of the former vice president’s age while suggesting that Mueller’s appearance before House lawmakers on Wednesday made Biden look like a “dynamo.”

“Sleepy Joe is okay, but he’s fading, I think he’s fading fast,” Trump said of Biden’s 2020 presidential campaign inan interview with Fox News’s Sean Hannity. “The only good thing about Mueller is that it made Joe Biden look like a dynamo.”

Trump’s remarks came in his first interview since Mueller appeared before the House Judiciary and House Intelligence Committees to testify on his more than 400-page report, which detailed his investigation into Russian election interference and possible obstruction of justice by Trump.

Mueller’s performance in his back-to-back hearings drew widespread criticism among those who questioned his grasp of his own investigation.

While many Democrats publicly praised his testimony before the House panels, some privately expressed a sense of disappointment in Mueller’s, at times, shaky performance. (Read more from “Trump: Mueller Made Biden ‘Look Like a Dynamo'” HERE)

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Former Federal Prosecutor on Mueller: ‘He Clearly Did Not Run This Investigation’ (VIDEO)

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In my initial reactions post yesterday, I described what appeared to be knowledge gaps and cognitive shortcomings on the part of former Special Counsel Robert Mueller. Out of respect for his career of service and patriotism, I somewhat soft-pedaled these points. On my Fox News radio program last evening, however, longtime Assistant United States Attorney Andrew McCarthy was more candid. He said the proceedings made him viscerally sad, stating outright that after watching hours of testimony, he believes the venerable lawman was not in control of the investigation that bore his name:

McCarthy: I just think he didn’t know the investigation.

Benson: You really think there were other people calling the shots and pulling the strings?

McCarthy: I do, yes. I don’t think he could tell you what the OLC guidance was.

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Mueller couldn’t, or wouldn’t, say who wrote the highly-scrutinized letter sent by his office to the Attorney General, effectively complaining that the narrative around Mueller’s findings were not to the special counsel’s liking. Barr’s summary of Mueller’s bottom-line findings were accurate, but it seemed as though Mueller wasn’t pleased with the flavor of how things were being framed in the press. The letter felt like a political act, especially because it leaked into the public eye — unlike basically anything else out of Muellerworld. In the clip above, the special counsel dodged on who actually wrote that seemingly politically-motivated missive, and could not cobble together an answer about the suspicious nature of the leak. I’ll just say that the ‘Mueller wasn’t really running the show’ theory became at least a bit more plausible to me in that exchange. (Read more from “Former Federal Prosecutor on Mueller: ‘He Clearly Did Not Run This Investigation'” HERE)

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During Mueller Hearing, the UN Took Another Swipe at Israel

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With Robert Mueller’s anticipated hearings on the Hill now over, we can browse through some of the other news around the world we missed. Boris Johnson delivered his first speech as prime minister, Puerto Rico governor Ricardo Rosselló resigned, and, apparently, the United Nations took (another) biased vote on Israel.

By a vote of 40-2, with 9 abstentions, the UN Economic and Social Council concluded that Israel was the “major obstacle” for Palestinian women “with regard to their advancement, self-reliance, and integration in the development of their society.” The only “no” votes were the U.S. and Canada.

The Jewish state was harshly and repeatedly condemned in a resolution, adopted 40 to 2 with 9 abstentions and 3 absent (see breakdown below), for allegedly being the “major obstacle” for Palestinian women “with regard to their advancement, self-reliance, and integration in the development of their society.”

Out of 20 items on the UN Economic and Social Council’s 2018-2019 agenda, only one — Item No. 16 against Israel — focuses on condemning a specific country. All the other focus areas concern global topics such as disaster relief assistance and the use of science and technology for development. (UN Watch)

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“The UN reached new heights of absurdity by singling out Israel alone on women’s rights, yet saying nothing on Iran holding women’s rights lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh behind bars, Saudi Arabia jailing and torturing women’s rights activists, and subjugating women under harsh male guardianship laws, or on Yemen denying women hospital treatment without the permission of a male relative,” Executive Director of UN Watch Hillel Neuer noted. (Read more from “During Mueller Hearing, the UN Took Another Swipe at Israel” HERE)

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