Special Prosecutor's Response To Trump's Granting Clemency To Roger Stone...

As tRump continues his slide into deep corruption Special Prosecutor Robert S. Mueller speaks out. His rebuttal to tRump IS honest and spot on. The volume of credible evidence is huge. America needs to hear this message over, and over, and over again until 80% or better of the nation grasps corruption and incompetence of the man it elected president in November of 2016. Our democratic republic depends on it.


Robert S. Mueller III served as special counsel for the Justice Department from 2017 to 2019.

The work of the special counsel’s office — its report, indictments, guilty pleas and convictions — should speak for itself. But I feel compelled to respond both to broad claims that our investigation was illegitimate and our motives were improper, and to specific claims that Roger Stone was a victim of our office. The Russia investigation was of paramount importance. Stone was prosecuted and convicted because he committed federal crimes. He remains a convicted felon, and rightly so.

Russia’s actions were a threat to America’s democracy. It was critical that they be investigated and understood. By late 2016, the FBI had evidence that the Russians had signaled to a Trump campaign adviser that they could assist the campaign through the anonymous release of information damaging to the Democratic candidate. And the FBI knew that the Russians had done just that: Beginning in July 2016, WikiLeaks released emails stolen by Russian military intelligence officers from the Clinton campaign. Other online personas using false names — fronts for Russian military intelligence — also released Clinton campaign emails.

Following FBI Director James B. Comey’s termination in May 2017, the acting attorney general named me as special counsel and directed the special counsel’s office to investigate Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election. The order specified lines of investigation for us to pursue, including any links or coordination between the Russian government and individuals associated with the Trump campaign. One of our cases involved Stone, an official on the campaign until mid-2015 and a supporter of the campaign throughout 2016. Stone became a central figure in our investigation for two key reasons: He communicated in 2016 with individuals known to us to be Russian intelligence officers, and he claimed advance knowledge of WikiLeaks’ release of emails stolen by those Russian intelligence officers.

We now have a detailed picture of Russia’s interference in the 2016 presidential election. The special counsel’s office identified two principal operations directed at our election: hacking and dumping Clinton campaign emails, and an online social media campaign to disparage the Democratic candidate. We also identified numerous links between the Russian government and Trump campaign personnel — Stone among them. We did not establish that members of the Trump campaign conspired with the Russian government in its activities. The investigation did, however, establish that the Russian government perceived it would benefit from a Trump presidency and worked to secure that outcome. It also established that the campaign expected it would benefit electorally from information stolen and released through Russian efforts.

Uncovering and tracing Russian outreach and interference activities was a complex task. The investigation to understand these activities took two years and substantial effort. Based on our work, eight individuals pleaded guilty or were convicted at trial, and more than two dozen Russian individuals and entities, including senior Russian intelligence officers, were charged with federal crimes.

Congress also investigated and sought information from Stone. A jury later determined he lied repeatedly to members of Congress. He lied about the identity of his intermediary to WikiLeaks. He lied about the existence of written communications with his intermediary. He lied by denying he had communicated with the Trump campaign about the timing of WikiLeaks’ releases. He in fact updated senior campaign officials repeatedly about WikiLeaks. And he tampered with a witness, imploring him to stonewall Congress.

The jury ultimately convicted Stone of obstruction of a congressional investigation, five counts of making false statements to Congress and tampering with a witness. Because his sentence has been commuted, he will not go to prison. But his conviction stands.

Russian efforts to interfere in our political system, and the essential question of whether those efforts involved the Trump campaign, required investigation. In that investigation, it was critical for us (and, before us, the FBI) to obtain full and accurate information. Likewise, it was critical for Congress to obtain accurate information from its witnesses. When a subject lies to investigators, it strikes at the core of the government’s efforts to find the truth and hold wrongdoers accountable. It may ultimately impede those efforts.

We made every decision in Stone’s case, as in all our cases, based solely on the facts and the law and in accordance with the rule of law. The women and men who conducted these investigations and prosecutions acted with the highest integrity. Claims to the contrary are false.


Comments

  1. I'm going to go with Mueller on this. A combat marine VN, shot in the leg and returned to duty, platoon leader,
    company commander, later lawyer and FBI director. No doubt you as well, but others will stick with Corporal Bonespurs,
    hero of the Stormy Daniel assault and smart enough to have a fellow student take his SAT test so he could get into college. Yeah, I'll go with the Band of Brothers rather than the lifelong tax cheat...

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    1. I'm with you BB Idaho. Once, years ago, I was a proud conservative businessman. Back when conservatism actually had values and principles. But over the years since Gerald Ford the GOP and principled "slow change" conservatism has morphed into something more resembling a third world fascist party. tRump is simply the fruition of many years of evolving AWAY from the values and principles that will truly MAGA.

      I'll go with the Band of Brothers as well BB Idaho. And be proud that I did.

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  2. We should have seen this in 1968. That's when the GOP lamented that George Wallace, in his rogue bid to win the presidency, lamented that Wallace was "taking" their voters!

    Let that sink in.

    Patrick Buchanan has been quoted, and it is on tape, lamenting that the GOP was worried about losing an election because the racists Wallace supporters were not going to vote for them.

    1968 is when the rot really set in. But like a venereal disease, it has taken this long to work its' sorry scourge across the party.

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    1. Indeed Dave. And it has been eating away at the soul of the party every since. tRump is merely the crown jewel.

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  3. Former John McCain pal and now Trump enabler, Lindsay Graham has invited to
    Meuller to appear before the Senate picked team of trumploonies. After 3 years
    of political schizophrenia, I thinking the Trump & Co attack on Dr. Fauci is
    intended to arrest and jail the renowned epidemiologist and replace him with
    Roger Stone. Orwell would love it.

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  4. BB... has Fauci been wrong on some of this? Yes he has. And he has owned that. We know substantially more about Covid than we did in those early days. Experience, hopefully, causes us to reevaluate and evolve. And in this case, we had to do that in real time. Sadly, right now, Fauci seems to be the only one in the admin who can critically take in info, flex with it, and try and apply ti to America. He's making recommendations based on the science. Not fitting the science around the wishes of the political leaders.

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    1. Fauci is a scientist first and foremost. Truth and knowledge are both his goal and guide.

      He is a leader 2'nd. tRump and company are neither.

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    2. What do we really know about the Fauci character? Many many questions need answerings, he has been wrong more often than he’s been right!

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    3. Wrong. Fauci makes mistakes. He acknowledges his mistake when they occur. He is RIGHT more often than not. Unlike tRump tghe incompetent.

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  5. I actually think that the Democrats, Liberals, Progressives ,and all the other Psychopaths, Sociopaths, such as Libertarians, and all other Maniacs, Lunatics, and unstable people with mental disorders such as John “The Manchurian Candidate” McCain, and their sycophants in the media attack and lie about anything that President Trump says because he is not a member of their Turncoat Tribe and doesn't follow their orders!

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    1. Really franco, well, thanks for that. Confirmatiob yet again of your senility and or ignorance.

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  6. Mr. Stone said he had been misinterpreted when he said he had refused “to play Judas” against the president. Instead, he said investigators working for the special counsel Robert S. Mueller III wanted him to “bear false witness” against Mr. Trump.

    “I would not lie against my friend of 40 years so they could use it for impeachment,” Mr. Stone said on Sean Hannity’s show on Fox News. “They wanted me to be the ham in their ham sandwich because they knew the Mueller report, particularly on Russia, was a dud. It was a goose egg. They had nothing.”

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  7. Actually, Stone is FOS. Neither tRump or Stone know how to tell the truth.

    Both are corrupt and both should be in a federal penitentiary.

    As a NON tRumper I can not and do not feel your pain as tRump accelerates his descent to crash and burn.

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  8. Go Fuck you’re self. they are 10 times more truthful than your sorry ass sleepy Gropin Joe the crook of the Ukraine!

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    1. Believe your own BS and that of your Orange Turd presnit. Fine by me. It does however confirm you basic lack of intelligence.

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  9. Once again Poo Poo , your debating skills have degraded to a 4rd Grade level . I would have said 5th grade but you would have been given a grade of F and had to repeat the school year. This Blog of yours is so stupid, it's not deserving any discussion.

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    1. First I am not debating. There is nothing to debate. I do not debate bald face liars like you. It;s a colossal waste of time and energy. You have exactly NOTHING to offer. Come on back when you do have something of truth to offer.

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  10. We surmise the writer G. Warrior is referred to in
    ancient Ephesian poetry as=
    There was a Gallant Warrior
    With balls of iron and brass
    When he lied they'd knock together
    no matter what the weather
    -and lightning would shoot out his ass
    -Hermesianax of Colophon


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  11. Very Cute Prickface, we recited that in 3rd grade, I guess that’s where your are now!

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