Special Counsel Mueller Issued Subpoena for Russia-Related Documents From Trump Campaign Officials

[MelissaB]

Source: Wall Street Journal

Senate committee also pressures Kushner lawyer to turn over more documents

By Rebecca Ballhaus and
Peter Nicholas
Nov. 16, 2017 6:40 p.m. ET

Special counsel Robert Mueller’s team in mid-October issued a subpoena to President Donald Trump’s campaign requesting Russia-related documents from more than a dozen top officials, according to a person familiar with the matter.

The subpoena, which requested documents and emails from the listed campaign officials that reference a set of Russia-related keywords, marked Mr. Mueller’s first official order for information from the campaign, according to the person. The subpoena didn’t compel any officials to testify before Mr. Mueller’s grand jury, the person said.

The subpoena caught the campaign by surprise, the person said. The campaign had previously been voluntarily complying with the special counsel’s requests for information, and had been sharing with Mr. Mueller’s team the documents it provided to congressional committees as part of their probes of Russian interference into the 2016 presidential election.

The Trump campaign is providing documents in response to the subpoena on an “ongoing” basis, the person said.

Read more: https://www.wsj.com/articles/special-counsel-mueller-issued-subpoena-for-russia-related-documents-from-trump-campaign-officials-1510875492?mod=e2tw

[BigmanPigman]

1. Why were they "surprised"

when they had been copperating in the past? Sounds fishy to me.

[Honeycombe8]

2. They thought they were getting away with providing select documents.

It's not illegal not to provide something, unless there's a subpoena. They thought that by cooperating, they could avoid a subpoena.

No way.

[L. Coyote]

8. They were surprised Mueller knew they were withholding incriminating documents.

Not everyone withheld the same docs, and their deceit was discovered!

[wishstar]

3. Mueller's team knew this crooked crew would withhold docs and not fully cooperate

Finally it was made public today by the Senate investigators that they caught Kushner red- handed - selectively leaving out the most damning and significant emails from Senate when he and his lawyers claimed to be fully cooperating voluntarily.

[snooper2]

4. I'm not sure people fully appreciate how important this story is

This will be chapter 4 in whoever writes the first book on these assholes

[Lochloosa]

5. I believe you are right.

[byronius]

6. +1

[CatWoman]

7. k; r

[FakeNoose]

9. Another WSJ news story

... behind the paywall.