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applegrove

(118,743 posts)
Mon Jan 28, 2019, 06:58 PM Jan 2019

Robert Mueller's probe is 'close to being completed'

Reuters

https://www.politicususa.com/2019/01/28/robert-muellers-probe-is-close-to-being-completed.html

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The probe of possible Russian meddling in the 2016 U.S. election, led by Special Counsel Robert Mueller, is wrapping up, Acting U.S. Attorney General Matthew Whitaker told reporters on Monday.

“I’ve been fully briefed on the investigation and I look forward to Director Mueller delivering the final report,” he said at a press conference on U.S. charges against China’s Huawei Technologies Co Ltd. “Right now the investigation is I think close to being completed and I hope that we can get the report from Director Mueller as soon as possible.”

The investigation most recently ensnared a long-time confidant of President Donald Trump, political operative Roger Stone, and has led to the conviction of Trump’s former campaign manager, Paul Manafort.

Mueller has been tight-lipped about when the months of closed-door grand jury sessions and plea deals will conclude, leaving questions over how far into the White House his probe will reach and what will happen to his findings. Trump’s nominee to fill the attorney general post permanently, William Barr, recently pledged to make public as much of the report as possible, saying Mueller is required to file it confidentially.

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Robert Mueller's probe is 'close to being completed' (Original Post) applegrove Jan 2019 OP
Stones case won't go to trial until next year Alea Jan 2019 #1
I think pressure is being put on Whitaker TrishaJ Jan 2019 #5
Says the dirty Matthew Whitaker PSPS Jan 2019 #2
LOL. No. manor321 Jan 2019 #3
Whitaker said he "thinks" it is close to completion. democratisphere Jan 2019 #4
Baloney. Mr. Ected Jan 2019 #6
The apparatchik has no concept of how long it would take to do these types of investigations... Thomas Hurt Jan 2019 #7
Whitaker is incoherent DonaldsRump Jan 2019 #8

TrishaJ

(798 posts)
5. I think pressure is being put on Whitaker
Mon Jan 28, 2019, 07:15 PM
Jan 2019

to get it ended, especially after Stone's arrest.

Just a hunch. We'll see.

democratisphere

(17,235 posts)
4. Whitaker said he "thinks" it is close to completion.
Mon Jan 28, 2019, 07:14 PM
Jan 2019

Anyone around drumpf has always answered this question the same way because drumpf probably asks that same question a thousand times a day. No one knows when Mueller will be done till Mueller is done. "Thinking it is close to completion" pacifies drumpf for the moment and temporarily gets him off their back.

Mr. Ected

(9,670 posts)
6. Baloney.
Mon Jan 28, 2019, 07:28 PM
Jan 2019

Special Counsel is nowhere near being finished. These are Trump's words inserted into Whitaker's mouth, more wishful thinking from the lead character in The Indictables.

A rolled Stone colludes no mas. And Trump is holding back a pantload.

Thomas Hurt

(13,903 posts)
7. The apparatchik has no concept of how long it would take to do these types of investigations...
Mon Jan 28, 2019, 07:34 PM
Jan 2019

He is more familiar with the time it takes to run a con the elderly.

DonaldsRump

(7,715 posts)
8. Whitaker is incoherent
Mon Jan 28, 2019, 08:08 PM
Jan 2019

I heard his full statement several times on CNN radio, and he seems all over the place, as if he really doesn't know.

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