Matthew Whitaker of CNN - "Mueller's investigation of Trump is going too far"

[orangecrush]

"This information is deeply concerning to me. It does not take a lawyer or even a former federal prosecutor like myself to conclude that investigating Donald Trump's finances or his family's finances falls completely outside of the realm of his 2016 campaign and allegations that the campaign coordinated with the Russian government or anyone else. That goes beyond the scope of the appointment of the special counsel."

https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2017/08/06/opinions/rosenstein-should-curb-mueller-whittaker-opinion/index.html



Hey, Matt....

[blueinredohio]

1. How does any one even know what he's looking into?

[Blue_true]

2. Yeah. And Clinton got impeached for getting a blowjob because of some cheesy land deal

that he had nothing to do with other than buying a few acres.

It least in Trump's case a line can be drawn between Russian loan money and Russian interference in our election to help him win.

[deurbano]

26. No blow! (So to speak.)

[Cosmocat]

33. THIS is why this country is where it is right now

Because it lets republicans frame things based on how the wind is blowing to their favor regardless of how much it contradicts what they were screaming about one second earlier.

[Blue_true]

34. I have come to view the modern Republican Party as soulless and corrupt.

They like to say they are the party of Lincoln, but if Abe was alive today, he most likely would be a rabid Democrat.

[Cosmocat]

35. decades of spewing their bullshit

they have come to truly believe it ...

ANYTHING is justified in the riteous effort to defeat the evil liberal boogyman.

[VMA131Marine]

3. Who is Matt Whittaker...

And when did he become a right wing shill. It seems to me that if the special prosecutor sees evidence of a crime, he has a responsibility to investigate it regardless of whether it is connected to his original mandate.

[grantcart]

7. He ran in the Republican primary for Iowa Senate in 2014.

So I guess he was a right wing shill some time before that.

[orangecrush]

21. He seems

A little worried!

[rurallib]

23. now I remember him - total jerk as I recall

[greeny2323]

4. Not really "of CNN"

He's an idiot of course and paid by CNN to write that opinion piece, but he's not "of CNN" in the sense of being a journalist or a reporter. They publish opinions.

[orangecrush]

11. I googled "Trump"

And this was the top result.

Which is why CNN needs to stop giving a platform to assholes like this.

Just my opinion.

[Quixote1818]

5. Hey Matt, the Russian mob has been financing him ever since American banks cut him off

That's kind of relevant why he would be colluding with Russia and that wouldn't even be a fishing expedition. It would just be following the money.

[Warren DeMontague]

6. Read this, shithead:

https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/3726381/Robert-Mueller-Special-Counsel-Russia.pdf


Specifically the part about "any matters that arose or may arise"

[orangecrush]

12. ...

[secondwind]

8. Mueller was given a wide berth, to investigate

as freely as possible. This fella is mistaken. Somebody please educate this moron

[spanone]

9. good luck with that bullshit.....BENGHAZI...

[orangecrush]

19. Looks like Trump fanboys

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Are crapping their linens now!

[WoonTars]

10. Your concern is noted.

Now fuck off.

[dalton99a]

13. Matthew Whitaker runs a dark-money outfit for Charles Koch

https://www.opensecrets.org/news/2016/04/new-nonprofit-tied-to-stealthy-circle-of-dark-money-groups/

FACT is a much newer creation, organized in 2014 as a conservative counterweight to watchdog groups viewed as more left-of-center, such as Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington. The newer outfit took its first public action about a year ago when it filed a complaint with the Federal Election Commission against Democratic voter data firm Catalist.

Since then, FACT has, on rare occasions (possibly just once), gone after a Republican, but most frequently accuses Democrats — particularly frontrunner and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton — of ethical or legal violations.

Its funding — $600,000 in 2014, according to the only tax return it has filed to date — comes entirely from a conservative donor-advised fund called DonorsTrust, which means it could come from anywhere. DonorsTrust is a pass-through vessel that manages the charitable contributions of wealthy individuals and foundations to organizations that are “dedicated to the ideals of limited government, personal responsibility, and free enterprise,” according to its website, while allowing the donors to remain anonymous. Charles Koch is among the many conservatives who have filtered money through DonorsTrust.

In other words, an organization “dedicated to promoting accountability, ethics, and transparency” gets 100 percent of its funds from a group that exists mainly as a vehicle for donors to elude transparency.

[orangecrush]

14. Thanks for that pertinent information!

Wish CNN would have put that link in the introduction to the article, so the average reader could see that this guy is NOT impartial.

[ismnotwasm]

15. I read that earlier

It's a bunch of verbiage with nothing to back it up. A bone.

[orangecrush]

17. My thoughts exactly

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He is completely full of crap, nothing to back up his claims at all.

[ProudLib72]

16. Running a personal business venture out of the WH

is outside the purview of a president. So fuck you!

[orangecrush]

18. This article really looks like a plant

Someone must have somebody at CNN by the curlies, is all I can figure out.

[Egnever]

20. Not if they have been grooming him for years with sweetheart deals.

It absolutely would be a part of a pattern that shows motive.

Course this clown has no wish to acknowledge that has been going on for decades.

[orangecrush]

22. He knows better

But for some reason, CNN gave him a platform, which considering Trumps attacks on the free press, disappoints me deeply.

[MrPurple]

24. Why doesn't CNN purge their Trump toadie asshats like Jeffrey Lord?

They've taken the full brunt of Trump and the alt-right attacking them as fake news and the label has stuck with a lot of Trumpanzee zombies. Why do they continue to employ Trump stooges on their "panels"? No one who likes their being there is watching your network and they annoy the fuck out of everyone else.

[LudwigPastorius]

25. So, a detective investigating a guy for mail fraud finds 5 bodies in his back yard next to...

the buried mail he's been stealing.


"Yeah, let's just let that go. That's not why we're here boys."

[Squinch]

27. If anyone needed proof that Republicans are going to trash Mueller's report no matter what it says,

here it is. Guy hasn't got a clue what Mueller is investigating, because no one does, but he's "deeply concerned" and sure its illegitimate.

[OliverQ]

28. Actually finances are extremely relevant.

If Trump is deeply in debt to Russia, it provides a motive and quid pro quo for him getting help to win and in turn helping Russia.

We absolutely need to know Trump's financial debts and who he's laundering money too. These Republicans need to shut the heck up.

If Clinton were being investigated, they'd sure as heck support investigating every little minute detail of her life.

[orangecrush]

29. Sure got that right

And that damn article is still at the top of Google results for a "Trump" search as of 1 minute ago.

Something stinks.

Are they trying to grease the rails of public opinion for when Trump tries firing Mueller?

Sure looks like it.

[Quixote1818]

30. Finances are usually the root of most crimes

So why the hell would he not look there?

[PRETZEL]

36. absolutely

and why would it not also be out of the realm of possibilities that Russian monies didn't filter into RNC coffers?

[TEB]

31. Karen carpenter we only just begun

[orangecrush]

37. Great tune!

A&M 45 rpm!

[Vinca]

32. He must have been an incompetent federal prosecutor.

Russia didn't just happen to muck with the election. They didn't just happen to pick Don as their favorite. Someone's been bankrolling the Trump organization and it hasn't been American banks. A first grader could figure out the connection between Russia and Trump's finances.

[orangecrush]

38. Crystal clear

Great post!