Trump attack unleashes oppo against Mueller

[Amica Nostra 4,803]

It looks like the beginnings of a campaign,' said a source familiar with Trump's legal strategy.

By DARREN SAMUELSOHN 03/28/2018 05:01 AM EDT

https://www.politico.com/story/2018/03/28/trump-mueller-russia-probe-488695

 

When President Donald Trump lashed out against Robert Mueller by name earlier this month, the president’s supporters sprang into action — treating the chief Russia investigator to political campaign-style opposition research.

Within hours, the Drudge Report featured a story blaming Mueller, the special counsel leading the Justice Department’s Russia probe, for the FBI’s clumsy investigation into the 2001 anthrax attacks when Mueller ran the bureau. The independent pro-Trump journalist Sara Carter posted a story charging that Mueller, as a federal prosecutor in Boston in the mid-1980s, had covered up the FBI’s dealings with the Mafia informant Whitey Bulger. Carter was soon discussingher findings in prime time with Fox News host Sean Hannity.

 

Meanwhile, Trump supporters on Twitter circulated video of testimony Mueller gave to Congress ahead of the 2003 Iraq War in which he endorsed the view, later proved false, that Iraq possessed weapons of mass destruction.

To some, the barrage looked coordinated among pro-Trump allies and media outlets, a concerted effort to tarnish Mueller’s reputation as part of a political strategy to undermine, or even eventually fire, the Russia investigator.

“It looks like the beginnings of a campaign,” a source familiar with Trump’s legal strategy said. “It looks like they are trying to seed the ground. Ultimately, if the president determines he wants to fire Mueller, he’s going to want to make sure there’s ample public record that he can fall back on.”

While Trump has long publicly denounced the Russia probe, and Mueller has been the target of criticism since he first began his work, both Democratic and Republicans observers say the latest wave of personal attacks on Mueller seem more barbed — and personal — than ever.

Even as they accuse the Justice Department and FBI of anti-Trump bias and unethical tactics, Trump’s conservative allies seem increasingly determined to undermine the personal credibility of Mueller, whom a new CNN poll shows has far more public support for his handling of the Russia probe, at 48 percent, than does the president, at 32 percent

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Shouldn't we want to know the actual background of Mueller?  All we have is a bunch of Washington insiders telling us he is the one.  Regardless, who cares, Mueller is a big boy.

[Amica Nostra 4,803]

3 hours ago, Bill & Katya said:

Shouldn't we want to know the actual background of Mueller?  All we have is a bunch of Washington insiders telling us he is the one.  Regardless, who cares, Mueller is a big boy.

I just wanted a convenient place for all the mud that is about to be slung to be posted to.  

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16 minutes ago, Il Mango Dulce said:

I just wanted a convenient place for all the mud that is about to be slung to be posted to.  

How do we know it is all mud?  Mueller is a Washington insider.

[Amica Nostra 4,803]

1 hour ago, Bill & Katya said:

How do we know it is all mud?  Mueller is a Washington insider.

We haven't seen any real mud yet, that is coming.  

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12 hours ago, Il Mango Dulce said:

We haven't seen any real mud yet, that is coming.  

Smoke can equal fire.