The question of whether a sitting president can be indicted has never actually been litigated in court, but there is a Department of Justice memo which would seem to suggest it goes against DOJ policy. Specifically, a DOJ memo written in 2000 states: “A necessity to defend a criminal trial and to attend court in […]
The question gets asked just about every day: When will Special Counsel Robert Mueller take the next steps which will tell us the end might be near for Donald Trump and the cabal of collaborators who may well have committed treason during the 2016 presidential campaign? It’s been over a year since former National Security […]
Donald Trump thought he had it all figured out. He’d appoint William Barr as his new attorney general and the Mueller report would never see the light of day. Trump probably though the whole scheme was freaking brilliant. But as usual with our dotard chief executive, it fell apart in less than 24 hours. With […]
The chairman of the House Intelligence Committee has some news for President Donald Trump: If you think the Mueller investigation is all you have to worry about, my committee is about to let the American people know the full depths of your treachery. Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) was a guest on CNN’s “State of the […]
The indictment of Donald Trump’s close friend and adviser, Roger Stone, tells us that Special Counsel Robert Mueller is indeed moving up the organizational chart of the 2016 Trump campaign, and it also suggests that Mueller is close to unsealing the indictment that directly implicates the president in conspiring with Russia to steal the last […]
There’s what can best be called a sort of political parlor game taking place in Washington these days, and it focuses on one question: Who will Robert Mueller indict next? Thanks in large part to the report issued by the House Intelligence Committee last April, along with some stellar reporting from an NBC correspondent, we […]
Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election proceeds and appears to be drawing ever closer to the president himself. Not long ago, former Assistant Attorney General Jimmy Gurulé, who served in the George W. Bush administration, was a guest on The 11th Hour With Brian Williams. Gurulé was asked what specific charges he […]
Since the investigation into the 2016 election by Special Counsel Robert Mueller began, there’s been no leaking from his team of prosecutors and absolute silence from Mueller himself. That can be frustrating when you want to know what progress is being made on the case, but that’s how things have to be in order to […]
It was recently reported that Special Counsel Robert Mueller will issue his final report on what he’s learned during his investigation of the Russian attack on the 2016 election sometime in February. According to NBC News, government officials familiar with the situation say the report could come as soon as mid-February. But we do have […]
Thanks to some incredible reporting from The New York Times, we now know that shortly after President Donald Trump fired FBI Director James Comey in May of 2017, the FBI opened a counterintelligence investigation to determine whether or not Trump was working on behalf of Russia: “Agents and senior F.B.I. officials had grown suspicious of […]