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brooklynite

(94,748 posts)
Tue Feb 27, 2018, 09:52 PM Feb 2018

Mueller team asks about Trump's Russian business dealings as he weighed a run for president

Source: CNN

Investigators for special counsel Robert Mueller have recently been asking witnesses about Donald Trump's business activities in Russia prior to the 2016 presidential campaign as he considered a run for president, according to three people familiar with the matter.

Questions to some witnesses during wide-ranging interviews included the timing of Trump's decision to seek the presidency, potentially compromising information the Russians may have had about him, and why efforts to brand a Trump Tower in Moscow fell through, two sources said.

The lines of inquiry indicate Mueller's team is reaching beyond the campaign to explore how the Russians might have sought to influence Trump at a time when he was discussing deals in Moscow and contemplating a presidential run.
Mueller was appointed to investigate Russian meddling in the 2016 campaign. The President claims that any investigation of his family's finances would be a breach of the special counsel's mandate.

Two of the sources said they do not know from the questions asked whether Mueller has concrete evidence to indicate wrongdoing.

Read more: https://www.cnn.com/2018/02/27/politics/trump-russia-investigation/index.html



This can't be good.....
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Mueller team asks about Trump's Russian business dealings as he weighed a run for president (Original Post) brooklynite Feb 2018 OP
Well, it put a smile on my face, LOL! 50 Shades Of Blue Feb 2018 #1
It says there were three sources. Then it specifies "two of the sources said they do not know..." PubliusEnigma Feb 2018 #2
Mueller fishing again. I love fishing! riversedge Feb 2018 #3
fishing in a barrel maybe...... getagrip_already Feb 2018 #9
TPM - "Not Excellent News for Donald Trump" NRaleighLiberal Feb 2018 #4
omg! I've read dt was interested years ago. babylonsister Feb 2018 #5
been sayin for a while now- mopinko Feb 2018 #6
This message was self-deleted by its author torius Feb 2018 #7
My greatest... torius Feb 2018 #8
I think this greatly increases the risk that Trump will fire Mueller Zorro Feb 2018 #10
Now we get to the real meat of the matter. Tommy_Carcetti Feb 2018 #11

PubliusEnigma

(1,583 posts)
2. It says there were three sources. Then it specifies "two of the sources said they do not know..."
Tue Feb 27, 2018, 10:19 PM
Feb 2018

Whats behind door number 3?!?

getagrip_already

(14,848 posts)
9. fishing in a barrel maybe......
Wed Feb 28, 2018, 08:21 AM
Feb 2018

You have to believe that at this point, the questions they are asking are very focussed to evidence they already have. They likely know the answers, and are judging if the witnesses are either lying to them or trying to see if they have anything to add.

Just look at who is cooperating: flynn, bannon, hicks, gorka, giuliani, gates, mcgann, page... and that's just a partial list. You know they probably cracked lawyers, accountants, bankers, gangsters, and politicians.

Right now, they must be like a cat that injures a mouse, and then just watches it and occassionaly plays with it.

NRaleighLiberal

(60,023 posts)
4. TPM - "Not Excellent News for Donald Trump"
Tue Feb 27, 2018, 10:46 PM
Feb 2018

references CNN article in the OP

https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/not-excellent-news-for-donald-trump

This from CNN could be nothing, just checking off boxes. But it sounds ominous for Donald Trump …

Investigators for special counsel Robert Mueller have recently been asking witnesses about Donald Trump’s business activities in Russia prior to the 2016 presidential campaign as he considered a run for president, according to three people familiar with the matter.

Questions to some witnesses during wide-ranging interviews included the timing of Trump’s decision to seek the presidency, potentially compromising information the Russians may have had about him, and why efforts to brand a Trump Tower in Moscow fell through, two sources said.

The article elaborates on these points – in questioning other witnesses, Mueller’s investigators are asking about when Donald Trump became serious about running for President, how this chronology overlapped with various business ventures, who paid for what on his 2013 visit to Russia and what access people had to the now-President to gain compromising information about the President.

Most of the article is not able to get past ‘the questions were asked’. But even in hints and clues you can see the storyline and chain of events beginning to draw tight.

babylonsister

(171,096 posts)
5. omg! I've read dt was interested years ago.
Tue Feb 27, 2018, 10:53 PM
Feb 2018

He is SO STUPID! Why don't a whole collective of supposedly intelligent people not see that?

mopinko

(70,255 posts)
6. been sayin for a while now-
Tue Feb 27, 2018, 11:39 PM
Feb 2018

he was recruited to run, and promised the help of the kremlin from jumpstreet.

Response to brooklynite (Original post)

Zorro

(15,749 posts)
10. I think this greatly increases the risk that Trump will fire Mueller
Wed Feb 28, 2018, 09:33 AM
Feb 2018

and it will happen when Mueller compels Trump to testify under oath.

Also think it will roil the stock market.

Tommy_Carcetti

(43,207 posts)
11. Now we get to the real meat of the matter.
Wed Feb 28, 2018, 12:17 PM
Feb 2018

What's critical is everything that lead up to the 2013 Miss Universe pageant in Moscow, what actually happened at the Miss Universe Pageant, and the time period immediately after the Miss Universe pageant.

That's going to be some good, good stuff.

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