Trump -Target of Mueller's Investigation
Published on fox news 11 hours ago.Judge Andrew Napolitano: Mueller's ultimate target is Trump.
"Does any of this relate to President Donald Trump? Here is the back story.
At the same time that Paul Manafort and his business partner Rick Gates were guiding the Trump campaign in the summer of 2016, Russian agents were manipulating American social media sites so as to arouse chaos in general and animosity toward Hillary Clinton in particular. The Department of Justice appointed former FBI Director Robert Mueller as independent counsel to determine whether any Americans had criminally helped the Russians.
The alleged crimes of Manafort and Gates appear to have nothing to do with Trump, nor have they any facial relationship to the Russians. So why were these two indicted by a grand jury hearing evidence about alleged American assistance to Russian interference with the 2016 presidential campaign?
When prosecutors confront a complex series of potentially criminal events, they often do not know at the outset of their investigation where the evidence will lead them. Sometimes they come upon a person who they believe has knowledge of facts they seek and that person declines to speak with them. Such a refusal to speak to the government is perfectly lawful in America, yet it often triggers a prosecution of the potential witness so that prosecutors may squeeze him -- not literally, of course -- for evidence to which they believe he can lead them.
The ultimate target of Mueller’s investigation is President Trump. It is standard operating procedure when prosecutors have a high-level target to charge those below the target with something just to get them to cooperate. Though the charges against Manafort and Gates need not be related to the Russians or to Trump, they must be real. It's clear they are, as each is facing more than 20 years in prison. Mueller believes that that prospect is enough to dispatch their lawyers to make deals with him.
The danger of such a deal is that Manafort and Gates may offer to tell Mueller what they think he wants to hear -- even if it is not truthful -- so that they can have their prison exposure lessened."
Comments (19)
Of course, they pin him for what he did prior to his assignment on Trump's campaign, then he gets to be pardoned in exchange of implicating the president.
I don't have any problem with that, what bothers me is if it's all a waste of time like Starr dud with Clinton.
Kushner is next
Bye bye Don.
I don't really care for Judge Andrew Napolitano, I seen Bill O'reilly rip him apart one night on a different subject.
We're now one year out from the mid-term elections.
If the Dems cannot put together some actual ideas and present them to the electorate, it will not go well with them.
A platform of 'We hunt Russian witches' & 'No skeleton left uncloseted' is gonna ground nail; they'll be beaten like a rented mule
I don't watch that channel.
it will eventually be let out that Trump was deeply involved in money laundering and that is why
Manafort and Gates were first to get indicted. Note that treason and money laudering is part of the 12 charges.
The team of lawyers that Mueller has hired include those who have extensive experience convicting mob
and money laundering felons.
Trump sold way over-priced apartments to Russians as part of the laundering scheme.
Mueller has just begun to lay the foundation.
There will be a lot more indictments of the Trump campaign team over time.
Each will be a brick in the conviction wall, and not the type of wall Trump wants.
Each brick will be connected to Trump and will eventually include Jared and Trump's sons.
There will be many others first.
Trump will attempt to make Jared the fall guy.
Trump's impeachment trial will make Nixon look like a saint.
So this is all about another lie and scheme of the loser camp.
Nothing financial the man has ever stated has been accurate.
Besides, there's a 'good' reason those returns have not been released.
They would raise more ethical questions than they would eradicate.
That's the real reason he won't release them despite saying he would.
For instance, Trump sold this property to a Russian at $50 Million over market value.
I wonder why the Russian paid such a premium.