SABOTAGE
Hypes ‘spying’ fantasy to derail Mueller
Wittes, who added Trump was constitutionally able to demand such an action, suggested Rosenstein and FBI Director Christopher Wray would resign instead of carry out the probe.
Georgetown University law professor Carrie Cordero also cast doubt on the Justice Department kick-starting a probe at the President’s behest.
“The Department of Justice doesn’t open investigations for political purposes, which is what the President says today he will order tomorrow,” she tweeted Sunday. “There are rules. And I’m convinced there are people left in this government who will follow them.”
A chunk of Trump’s request may already be covered by an investigation opened in March by Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz.
Attorney General Jeff Sessions and GOP lawmakers requested the watchdog review any improper surveillance of Page and the use of information gathered by British ex-spy Christopher Steele.
Ex-Mayor Rudy Giuliani (photo inset), the President’s personal lawyer, said last week that neither he nor Trump know for sure whether an informant was actually snooping on the campaign. On Saturday, he told The Wall Street Journal that his client needed answers about the supposed informant before agreeing to sit down with special counsel Robert Mueller. Trump’s announcement on Sunday came at the tail end of a Twitter tirade, in which he called Mueller’s Russia probe the “World’s most expensive Witch Hunt.” He said the special counsel’s team is staffed with his political opponents and that the investigation into Russia’s meddling in the 2016 election has cost $20 million in tax dollars.
“STOP! They have found no Collussion with Russia, No Obstruction, but they aren’t looking at the corruption,” Trump tweeted.
He also trashed the “Failing and Crooked” New York Times report about an August 2016 Trump Tower meeting between Donald Trump Jr. and Lebanese-American businessman George Nader.
Nader, who’s reportedly cooperating with Mueller’s probe, was supposedly acting as emissary for princes from Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates who wanted to help the Trump campaign.