He might be headed down the
trail to a final resolution
(Or maybe not)
Who will have the honor of putting in the “last nail”
(Or maybe not)
Now
add this to the mix vis-à-vis Robert Mueller being appointed as Special Prosecutor, updated from Reuters via Vox.com:
Trump has said that Deputy AG Rod
Rosenstein's hiring of former FBI Director Robert Mueller as special counsel to
lead the investigation “hurts our country terribly,” ergo: Trump’s move to
squelch that appointment within hours of Mueller's appointment on May 24, is: To have the House begin reviewing the Code of Federal Regulations (CFR), which
restricts newly hired government lawyers from investigating their prior law
firm’s clients for one year after their hiring.
Note: An executive
order signed by Trump in late January extended that one-year period to two
years.
The impact: Mueller's former law firm, Wilmer-Hale, represents
Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner,
who met with a Russian bank executive in December, and the president's former
campaign manager Paul Manafort, who is a subject of a federal
investigation.
Legal
experts said the ethics rule can be waived by the DOJ which nominated Mueller. Mueller did not represent Kushner or Manafort directly at
his former law firm.
If
the department did not grant a waiver, Mueller would be barred from
investigating Kushner or Manafort, and this could greatly diminish the scope of
the probe, experts said.
Plus, the DOJ is already reviewing Mueller's
background as well as any potential conflicts of interest, said DOJ spokeswoman
Sarah Isgur Flores.
Even
if the DOJ grants such a waiver, the White House would consider using the
ethics rule to create doubt about Mueller's ability to do his job fairly. Plus,
administration legal advisers have been asked to determine if there is a basis
for this at all.
All
this appears to be totally new, and let’s call it for what it is: underhanded and
sneaky which would allow such a strategy to occur allowing the administration to
raise the issue in press conferences and
public statements to justify squelching the Mueller appointment while having it
appear “all fancy and legal.”
I Note: And, who says Trump is a dummy? Ha… dummy like the
proverbial fox in the hen house, um? Call it “Art of the Con.”
Stay
tuned as usual … a lot more shoes to drop before this nightmare is over...!!!
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