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By Devlin Barrett, Josh Dawsey and Carol D. Leonnig December 18 at 8:15 PM
White House lawyers are expected to meet with special counsel Robert S. Mueller IIIs office late this week seeking good news: that his sprawling investigations focus on President Trump will soon end and their client will be cleared. But people familiar with the probe say that such assurances are unlikely and that the meeting could trigger a new, more contentious phase between the special counsel and a frustrated president, according to administration officials and advisers close to Trump.
People with knowledge of the investigation said it could last at least another year pointing to ongoing cooperation from witnesses such as former Trump campaign adviser George Papadopoulos and former national security adviser Michael Flynn, as well as a possible trial of two former Trump campaign officials. The special counsels office has continued to request new documents related to the campaign, and members of Muellers team have told others they expect to be working through much of 2018, at a minimum.
The dynamic threatens to intensify the already inflamed political atmosphere enveloping the investigation into Russias meddling in the 2016 election. Even as White House lawyers have pledged to cooperate with Mueller, Trump and his allies have accused the Justice Department and FBI of bias and overreach.
The latest salvo came this past weekend, when a lawyer for the presidential transition accused Mueller of wrongfully obtaining thousands of emails sent and received by Trump officials before the start of his administration. The special counsels office said all the material was legally obtained.
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Girard442
(6,075 posts)By that time Trump's outrageous behaviors will be so normalized that he could hack White House guests to death with an axe on live TV and the news would be a big yawn.
underpants
(182,829 posts)If Mueller doesn't say the nice things to them the dashboard believers will hear "it was supposed to end! We were told it was ending!!"