"It is … evident that Americans have not learned the lessons of Russia's attack on our democracy in 2016," Mueller writes in a preface to Interference: The Inside Story of Trump, Russia and the Mueller Investigation by Aaron Zebley, James Quarles and Andrew Goldstein, prosecutors who worked for Mueller from 2017 to 2019.
Mueller continues: "As we detailed in our report, the evidence was clear that the Russian government engaged in multiple, systematic attacks designed to undermine our democracy and favor one candidate over the other."
Former president Donald Trump is preparing to bring back into his campaign fold a man convicted of multiple crimes and whom a bipartisan Senate report labeled a "grave counterintelligence threat" because of his ties to a Russian spy...
Today, I’ll be speaking with Robert DeNault about a trove of Mueller documents that were released to the public this week. There are some redactions in there but these documents, in particular the letter from Mueller to Trump’s lawyers, go a long way to shore up the fact that Trumplandia obstructed the Mueller probe by refusing to cooperate. And of course, later I’ll have the Fantasy Indictment League and Sabotage for you as things start to heat up in Central Florida as we approach the charging decision on Matt Gaetz.
"... the Senate committee's report "confirms nearly everything" about Trump's ties to Moscow. He said it vindicated claims by the Democrats and others that the campaign had indeed colluded with the Russians – something Trump has vehemently denied."
The work of the special counsel’s office — its report, indictments, guilty pleas and convictions — should speak for itself. But I feel compelled to respond both to broad claims that our investigation was illegitimate and our motives were improper, and to specific claims that Roger Stone was a victim of our office. The Russia investigation was of paramount importance. Stone was prosecuted and convicted because he committed federal crimes. He remains a convicted felon, and rightly so. .... https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/07/11/mueller-stone-oped/
A cache of secret documents from former special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into Russia’s interference in the 2016 election and potential attempts by President Donald Trump to obstruct the inquiry was turned over to BuzzFeed and CNN Friday in response to Freedom of Information Act lawsuits. https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/jasonleopold/mueller-memos-part-7-more-secret-documents
On Wednesday, Politico reported that the Department of Justice is releasing the memo that laid out the precise nature of how former special counsel Robert Mueller was tasked with investigating the Trump campaign’s ties to Russia — which has long been sought by President Donald Trump’s allies.
“The memo, ‘The Scope of Investigation and Definition of Authority,’ was sent on Aug. 2, 2017, to Mueller by Rod Rosenstein, the deputy attorney general at the time,” reported Daniel Lippman and Kyle Cheney. “The unredacted bullet points include four names, beginning with former Trump campaign foreign policy adviser Carter Page. It tasks Mueller with determining whether Page committed a crime by ‘colluding with Russian government officials’ as they interfered in the 2016 election.” https://www.rawstory.com/2020/05/justice-department-releases-document-outlining-muellers-mandate-to-investigate-russia/
For months, a loose network of pro-Trump commentators and outside agitators has been urging the president to purge his administration of anyone and everyone involved in the Russia probe.
They’ve celebrated as many of the FBI and Justice Department officials involved in the investigation have left government. And now, with an angry and newly liberated President Donald Trump seeking retribution in the wake of his impeachment acquittal, they’re pressing him to finish the job. .... https://www.politico.com/news/2020/02/20/trump-allies-target-mueller-team-116168
Steve Bannon, the brains behind Donald Trump’s upset election victory, saw the danger posed by the cash cravings of the First Family. In Fire and Fury, Michael Wolff chronicled Bannon drawing a direct line between purported dark doings at Deutsche Bank and Jared Kushner’s brushes with the Mueller investigation: “This is all about money laundering … It goes through Deutsche Bank and all the Kushner shit.” https://www.theguardian.com/business/2020/feb/16/dark-towers-review-deutsche-bank-donald-trump
