Mueller Shutting Down Probe
H.A. Goodman says Special Prosecutor Robert Mueller is going to shut down his probe because of court opposition to how he has handled the Manafort and Russian Internet cases. If Mueller is, in fact, fading into history, isn’t it time Julian Assange was freed.
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Earlier, Lionel Nation discussed the buildup to this point. A most angry and pointed federal judge severely criticized special counsel Robert Mueller and the scope of his team’s probe Friday morning during a hearing related to fraud charges brought against former Trump Campaign Manager Paul Manafort, the Federalist reports.
U.S. District Judge T.S. Ellis III grilled the special counsel’s team for nearly an hour, questioning their “unfettered power” to prosecute and their desire to “tighten the screws” on Manafort, according to NBC’s Ken Dilanian. Ellis said he doesn’t see how Manafort’s indictment is related to what Mueller’s team is authorized to investigate.
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