Inside The Crazy Cabal Trying To Smear Robert Mueller.
A long read but worth it.
One of the shadier characters in politics, along with a number of fringe internet figures, appears to be behind an attempt to pay women to accuse Special Counsel Robert Mueller of sexual assault.
The scheme became public on Tuesday when Mueller’s staff formally asked the FBI to launch an investigation into the matter. But for weeks it has been simmering below the surface, with numerous reporters having been tipped off by a woman who claimed she had been approached with promises of cash.
At the center of the scheme is publicity-hungry Republican lobbyist Jack Burkman, who has repeatedly dabbled in internet conspiracy theories in the past, including promoting the idea that murdered Democratic National Committee staffer Seth Rich was killed by deep-state government operatives.
Burkman denied involvement in any attempt to pay people to frame or accuse Mueller. But he also claims that he has witnesses who will expose the Special Counsel as a sexual harasser and has scheduled a Thursday press conference in Northern Virginia to introduce his first accuser.
We’re going to prove that he is a drunk and a sexual abuser,” Burkman told The Daily Beast.
Mueller has undergone extensive background checks during a career that has included a stint as director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. And even among his foremost legal adversaries at present, the attorneys representing President Donald Trump, the allegations seemed far-fetched.
“Something like this would be totally inconsistent with what I know of him,” said former New York mayor Rudy Giuliani, who leads the president’s legal team. Giuliani said neither he nor anyone else on the legal team had been contacted by Burkman or knew anything of the allegations against Mueller. Giuliani noted that Mueller worked under him at the Department of Justice in the 1990s. “I’ve never had any issue with Bob’s character,” he said.
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