PeterS wrote:
If they have nothing to do with your president then why is your president doing everything he can to suppress the investigation? When you are wearing a witches hat and riding a broom then you shouldn't be claiming that something is a witch hunt--cuz they might just be hunting you...
What exactly is he doing to 'suppress' the investigation?? He hasn't done anything to suppress this investigation, he tweets some random comment and the media runs with it for days on end (which is rather funny).
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2018/apr/16/robert-mueller-many-news-stories-trump-russia-prob/"Special counsel Robert Mueller’s office is warning that “many” news articles on the Trump-Russia probe have been wrong.
The statement from a spokesperson did not single out particular stories. But the warning did come after media inquiries about a McClatchy News story on Friday that said Mr. Mueller has evidence that President Trump’s personal attorney, Michael Cohen, did in fact travel to Prague in 2016 as alleged by the Christopher Steele dossier.
“What I have been telling all reporters is that many stories about our investigation have been inaccurate,” the Mueller spokesperson said. “Be very cautious about any source that claims to have knowledge about our investigation and dig deep into what they claim before reporting on it. If another outlet reports something, don’t run with it unless you have your own sourcing to back it up.”
"The filing relates to a matter apparently unrelated to Trump-Russia: the FBI raided Mr. Cohen’s office and home on April 9 to search for evidence that he committed crimes in his business dealings.
The supposed Cohen Prague trip has been pushed to reporters and government investigators by Glenn Simpson, co-founder of Fusion GPS, which paid Mr. Steele. Fusion has long-standing relationships with Washington’s powerful news outlets such as CNN, the Washington Post and the New York Times.
Mr. Simpson still believes Mr. Cohen went to Prague. He told the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence that Mr. Cohen ***may have** traveled by yacht and a Russian’s plane." (notice this was his own wet dreams, but no proof, he may have gone there, but..his own passport and witnesses claim he was in California with his son).
The same McClatchy reporters in January authored another disputed story. It said the FBI is investigating whether millions of dollars in illegal Russian funds ended up in the National Rifle Associations’ political action committee (PAC). The NRA flatly denies this happened.
The story said the money was supposedly funneled by a Russian lawyer who is an NRA member and has ties to the Kremlin. The story strongly implied that the illegally happened by showing that the NRA raised far more money in 2016 than it did in the 2012 presidential race.
The Washington Times first reported on a detailed letter from the NRA to Congress. The letter said that an in-house examination showed that no foreign funds ended up in campaign donation fund.
There has been no independent press report to confirm the McClatchy story.
Mr. Simpson is also pushing the NRA-Russia narrative, telling the House committee that the Kremlin has “infiltrated” the gun rights group.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2018/apr/16/robert-mueller-many-news-stories-trump-russia-prob/https://nypost.com/2018/04/11/nra-reveals-how-much-money-it-got-from-russia-linked-donors/And of course there is this...
In the letter to Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) sent Wednesday, the NRA revealed the amount it received overall was $2,512.85 mainly for “routine payments” for magazine subscriptions or membership dues, NPR reported.