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Offline kevindavis007

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The Trump administration is exploring whether it can use an obscure ethics rule to undermine the special counsel investigation into ties between President Donald Trump's campaign team and Russia, two people familiar with White House thinking said on Friday.


Trump has said that Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein's hiring of former FBI Director Robert Mueller as special counsel to lead the investigation "hurts our country terribly."


Within hours of Mueller's appointment on Wednesday, the White House began reviewing the Code of Federal Regulations, which restricts newly hired government lawyers from investigating their prior law firm’s clients for one year after their hiring, the sources said.


An executive order signed by Trump in January extended that period to two years.


Mueller's former law firm, WilmerHale, 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 Justice Department, which appointed Mueller. He 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.


The Justice Department is already reviewing Mueller's background as well as any potential conflicts of interest, said department spokeswoman Sarah Isgur Flores.


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That's just going to smell like an attempted cover up of something

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That's just going to smell like an attempted cover up of something


Yep.. My advice for Trump is just let the investigation proceed and don't stall or attempt crap like this.. Nixon tried it and it failed.
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Sen. Feinstein and Rep. Waters, said there is no evidence.

All the more reason to continue the fishing expedition, until something can be made up.
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Two people familiar with White House thinking.

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"Robert Mueller as special counsel to lead the investigation "hurts our country terribly."
Within hours of Mueller's appointment on Wednesday, the White House began reviewing the Code of Federal Regulations, which restricts newly hired government lawyers from investigating their prior law firm’s clients for one year after their hiring, the sources said."

Within hours after Mueller appointed, Trump wants to shut him down.  And, it was Trump who signed an executive order so it would be TWO years before an attorney could investigate their prior law firm's clients. 

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Have these dickwads even heard of Nixon?  A circlejerk of paranoiacs is not going to end well.