Things are not looking good for the DNC/DOJ/FBI/SC silent coup against the POTUS.
Robert Mueller had a no good, awful, terrible, very bad Friday morning in court.
"A federal judge on Friday harshly rebuked Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s team during a hearing for ex-Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort – suggesting they lied about the scope of the investigation, are seeking “unfettered power” and are more interested in bringing down the president.
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You don't really care about Mr. Manafort,” U.S. District Judge T.S. Ellis III told Mueller’s team. “
You really care about what information Mr. Manafort can give you to lead you to Mr. Trump and an impeachment, or whatever."
Further, Ellis demanded to see the unredacted “scope memo,” a document outlining the scope of the special counsel’s Russia probe that congressional Republicans have also sought."
"The Reagan-appointed judge
asked Mueller’s team where they got the authority to indict Manafort on alleged crimes dating as far back as 2005.
The special counsel argues that Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein granted them broad authority in his May 2, 2017 letter appointing Mueller to this investigation. But after the revelation that the team is using information from the earlier DOJ probe,
Ellis said that information did not “arise” out of the special counsel probe – and therefore may not be within the scope of that investigation.
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We don’t want anyone with unfettered power,” he said."
"Mueller’s team says its authorities are laid out in documents including the August 2017 scope memo – and that some powers are actually secret because they involve ongoing investigations and national security matters that cannot be publicly disclosed.
Ellis seemed amused and not persuaded.
He summed up the argument of the Special Counsel’s Office as, "We said this was what [the] investigation was about, but we are not bound by it and we were lying."
He referenced the common exclamation from NFL announcers, saying: "C'mon man!"
The judge also gave the government two weeks to hand over the unredacted “scope memo” or provide an explanation why not -- after prosecutors were reluctant to do so, claiming it has material that doesn’t pertain to Manafort.
“I’ll be the judge of that,” Ellis said."
As I posted in another thread, AG Sessions needs to step in and put an end to this silent coup financed by the DNC and implemented by the DOJ, FBI and SC.
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2018...-cmon-man.html
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