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Intimidation, Pressure and Humiliation: Inside Trump's Two-Year War on the Investigations Encircling
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/19/us/politics/trump-investigations.html?action=click&module=Top%20Stories&pgtype=HomepageIntimidation, Pressure and Humiliation: Inside Trumps Two-Year War on the Investigations Encircling Him
President Trumps efforts have exposed him to accusations of obstruction of justice as Robert S. Mueller III, the special counsel, finishes his work.
By Mark Mazzetti, Maggie Haberman, Nicholas Fandos and Michael S. Schmidt
Feb. 19, 2019
WASHINGTON As federal prosecutors in Manhattan gathered evidence late last year about President Trumps role in silencing women with hush payments during the 2016 campaign, Mr. Trump called Matthew G. Whitaker, his newly installed attorney general, with a question. He asked whether Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States attorney for the Southern District of New York and a Trump ally, could be put in charge of the widening investigation, according to several American officials with direct knowledge of the call.
Mr. Whitaker, who had privately told associates that part of his role at the Justice Department was to jump on a grenade for the president, knew he could not put Mr. Berman in charge, since Mr. Berman had already recused himself from the investigation. The president soon soured on Mr. Whitaker, as he often does with his aides, and complained about his inability to pull levers at the Justice Department that could make the presidents many legal problems go away.
Trying to install a perceived loyalist atop a widening inquiry is a familiar tactic for Mr. Trump, who has been struggling to beat back the investigations that have consumed his presidency. His efforts have exposed him to accusations of obstruction of justice as Robert S. Mueller III, the special counsel, finishes his work investigating Russian interference in the 2016 election.
Mr. Trumps public war on the inquiry has gone on long enough that it is no longer shocking. Mr. Trump rages almost daily to his 58 million Twitter followers that Mr. Mueller is on a witch hunt and has adopted the language of Mafia bosses by calling those who cooperate with the special counsel rats. His lawyer talks openly about a strategy to smear and discredit the special counsel investigation. The presidents allies in Congress and the conservative media warn of an insidious plot inside the Justice Department and the F.B. I to subvert a democratically elected president.
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Intimidation, Pressure and Humiliation: Inside Trump's Two-Year War on the Investigations Encircling (Original Post)
Drum
Feb 2019
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duforsure
(11,885 posts)1. How long before he starts with
Trying to intimidate Supreme Court Justices and making false accusations towards those that might oppose what he wants to do. He'll do like Stone has done making suggestive comments , but made to vaguely suggest violence . He and Stone use very similar tactics when corned , and they also accuse others with claims of wrongdoings to distract with.
Blue_Tires
(55,445 posts)2. IMPEACHMENT WHEN
Haggis for Breakfast
(6,831 posts)3. Well, now
if he HAD "jumped on a grenade" that would have been a story I would have followed.