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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsMueller Wants the FBI to Look at a Scheme to Discredit Him
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2018/10/special-counsel-refers-scheme-targeting-mueller-to-fbi/574411/?fbclid=IwAR3Ey63CReZvVMeTNbvh8yJ45YdXacKkw3p-nL8JGfr296gjHu8NAxVIYOwThe special counsel says a woman was offered money to fabricate sexual-harassment claims.
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An alleged scheme to pay off women to fabricate sexual-assault allegations against Special Counsel Robert Mueller has been referred to the FBI for further investigation, a spokesman for the special counsels office told The Atlantic. When we learned last week of allegations that women were offered money to make false claims about the Special Counsel, we immediately referred the matter to the FBI for investigation, the spokesman, Peter Carr, told me in an email on Tuesday.
The special counsels offices attention to this schemewhich was brought to the office by a woman claiming she herself had been offered money to make up sexual-harassment claims against Muellerand its decision to release a rare statement about it indicates the seriousness with which the office is taking the purported scheme to discredit Mueller in the middle of an ongoing investigation.
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Mueller Wants the FBI to Look at a Scheme to Discredit Him (Original Post)
G_j
Oct 2018
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fleur-de-lisa
(14,624 posts)1. This is how the innocent react to a false accusation.
As opposed to Blackout Brett Kavanaughty's reaction.
tparrett62
(268 posts)2. And it knocks the phony caravan story
Even further from the front burner. What a stupid idea from the get-go. I hope everyone involved does some serious hard time for obstruction.
Blue Owl
(50,391 posts)3. Should take all of 10 minutes
n/t
Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(108,009 posts)4. Sounds like Roger Stone's been busy.
That these idiots kept with the story for a week not realizing that someone had already referred them to the FBI... and still tweeted about it today in defiance...
Wohl even had the nerve to use #webelievesurvivors
G_j
(40,367 posts)6. I know, right??
unbelievable