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applegrove

(118,665 posts)
Sat Dec 16, 2017, 07:17 PM Dec 2017

Scoop: Mueller obtains "tens of thousands of Trump transition emails

https://www.axios.com/scoop-mueller-obtains-tens-of-thousands-of-trump-transition-emails-2517994590.html?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=organic

Mike Allen at Axios

"SNIP..........


Special Counsel Robert Mueller has obtained “many tens of thousands" of Trump transition emails, including emails of Jared Kushner, transition team sources tell Axios.

*Trump officials discovered Mueller had the emails when his prosecutors used them as the basis for questions to witnesses, the sources said.

*The emails include 12 accounts, one of which contains about 7,000 emails, the sources said.

*The accounts include the team's political leadership and the foreign-policy team, the sources said.

Why it matters: The transition emails are said to include sensitive exchanges on matters that include potential appointments, gossip about the views of particular senators involved in the confirmation process, speculation about vulnerabilities of Trump nominees, strategizing about press statements, and policy planning on everything from war to taxes.

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Hoyt

(54,770 posts)
1. Those transition emails would be interesting, but not sure a crime or evidence
Sat Dec 16, 2017, 07:34 PM
Dec 2017

of election tampering.

Of course, if they talked about Ryan or McTurtle like we do, that would be embarrassing.

denbot

(9,899 posts)
2. Strategizing about press statements..
Sat Dec 16, 2017, 07:38 PM
Dec 2017

Oh dear Goddess, please be about those poor Russian adoptees..

If so, Donnie Tiny Hands is done.

shraby

(21,946 posts)
3. Looks like the horse has been out of the barn for a while if Mueller is using the emails to
Sat Dec 16, 2017, 08:19 PM
Dec 2017

question people. Most of them were question a couple of weeks or more ago.
Right now, I'd say he has what info he needed from them.

Irish_Dem

(47,107 posts)
4. So Mueller had the emails first, then questioned people?
Sat Dec 16, 2017, 08:58 PM
Dec 2017

Did he confront them with the emails or use them to determine if people were telling him the truth???

shraby

(21,946 posts)
5. Yup, he had them first, then questioned people. He didn't confront them,
Sun Dec 17, 2017, 11:52 AM
Dec 2017

he used the information to form his questions.
This is how he determined the truth or falseness of their replies.

Irish_Dem

(47,107 posts)
6. I wonder if the people were smart enough to know he must have emails
Sun Dec 17, 2017, 12:08 PM
Dec 2017

based upon the questions he was asking. If so, that made for some nerve wracking interviews.

Or the people were oblivious and arrogant, and lied out their wazoos.

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