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Kathianne
05-19-2017, 10:15 AM
Have been reading more and more along this line, it gives him 'breathing space' when that was being choked off. I'm posting this because I do like the angle that the Democrats may have 'got what they wanted, only to find out it was the last thing they wanted, no crimes!'

https://www.the-american-interest.com/2017/05/18/after-mueller-trump-critics-worry-maybe-theres-no-scandal/


After Mueller, Trump Critics Worry: Maybe There’s No Scandal
JASON WILLICK (https://www.the-american-interest.com/byline/jason-willick/)

Eli Lake is right (https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2017-05-18/robert-mueller-the-special-counsel-who-could-save-trump): The DOJ’s appointment of widely-respected former prosecutor Robert Mueller to lead the special inquiry into the Trump campaign’s potential collusion with Russia is a reprieve for a Trump Administration in crisis—a reprieve that it will almost certainly squander, but a reprieve nonetheless.

How do we know? Because the responses from Trump’s most dogged critics on the Russia question betray a kind of anxiety about the Mueller appointment—an anxiety that the no-nonsense law enforcement wise man will lower the temperature in Washington without actually uncovering enough damaging material to bring down the President.
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Kathianne
05-19-2017, 11:31 AM
and a real case in point:

http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/334181-mueller-to-ask-congress-to-step-back-russia-investigations-report


Mueller to ask Congress to step back Russia investigations: report

BY OLIVIA BEAVERS (http://thehill.com/author/olivia-beavers) - 05/18/17 11:03 PM EDT

Robert Mueller, the newly appointed special counsel in the Russia probe, will likely ask the multiple congressional investigations to curtail their public hearings in order to proceed with his own investigation, according to a Thursday New York Times report (https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/18/us/politics/rosenstein-memo-trump-comey.html).

Five different Senate and House committees also have ongoing investigations into whether Russia interfered in the presidential election and possibly colluded with Trump campaign aides.

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