The Trump-Russia Probe Is About to Get Uglier

[CatWoman]

Unpleasant facts are spilling out. Republicans don't want to know them.

Here are two certainties about the Trump-Russia investigation. It won't end soon. It will get uglier.

A new shoe drops almost daily in special counsel Robert Mueller's probe. First, Former national security adviser Michael Flynn pleaded guilty to lying and agreed to cooperate. Then the White House changed its story (again) on what President Donald Trump knew after he was first advised in January that Flynn posed security problems.

Last week came news that Mueller had subpoenaed financial records from Deutsche Bank pertaining to people affiliated with Trump. Then Donald Trump Jr. said he wouldn't tell Congress about his dad's 2016 conversations with a Kremlin-linked Russian lawyer, invoking a dubious claim of attorney-client privilege.

This is not a saga in its closing chapter.

There are three avenues Mueller is exploring. Did the Trump team aid and abet the Russian efforts to hack and steal e-mails with an eye toward influencing with the U.S. presidential election? Did the president try to obstruct the investigation into those efforts? What was the nature of any financial arrangements Trump may have had with Russians linked to the Kremlin? Many of the Trump defenses seem to be unraveling.

https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2017-12-10/the-trump-russia-probe-is-about-to-get-uglier

[InAbLuEsTaTe]

1. Tick tock, tick tock...

[creeksneakers2]

2. The Congressional investigations are being hijacked by Clinton haters.

The Republicans are trying to lay groundwork for firing Mueller. Hopefully, Mueller will come up with enough soon that if he's fired he can go public with it.

[DeltaLitProf]

3. I know this is true in the House . . .

. . . but how is the Senate committee being hijacked?

[Iliyah]

5. Yes.

Burr and Grassley, although Burr is the head honcho but silent, and Grassley is the out spoken one.

Checks and balances. The founding fathers knew. One house one party and the other another party. The EC was suppose to stop things like this happening with a insane person. But alas, foreign forces with the help of the GOPs allowed tampering in our elections.

[creeksneakers2]

6. Same way

Its like its all part of a plan.

Senators clash over direction of Russia, Clinton probes

http://thehill.com/homenews/senate/364049-senators-clash-over-direction-of-russia-clinton-probes

2 of the 3 major panels investigating Trump and Russia have become gripped by ugly infighting

http://www.businessinsider.com/congress-trump-russia-investigations-devin-nunes-2017-12

[cilla4progress]

14. Bannon succeeded.

Chaos. No confidence in how it will turn out.

[LenaBaby61]

4. The Trump-Russia Probe Is About to Get Uglier.

Agree@ CatWoman.

It's rumored that Mueller is going to be dropping 3 and possibly 4 indictments before Christmas.

[Grammy23]

7. Could Santa bring us an early Christmas gift?

Oh, please! Let it be so. I wouldn’t ask for another thing! Promise!

[Fred Sanders]

8. America may be getting a huuuge Christmas gift, and it is not fake fax cuts.

[alfredo]

11. I remember Fitzmas and the big nothing that became.

[LenaBaby61]

9. I PRAY so...

Grammy23

[Grammy23]

10. This waiting game is wearing me out. Evidently lots of others feel the same.

A dropped shoe (or indictment or two or twelve) before Christmas would sure make a lot of us have a happier holiday!

LenaBaby61

[Thunderbeast]

12. Sorry to be redundant on DU.....

Can anyone name 23 Republican congressmen, and 19 Republican senators with the integrity to impeach?

[sellitman]

15. Nope

They may bitch & moan but they love 45.

I predict they will not Impeach him. He is doing their bidding. Why would they ever get in the way of that?

I cannot see how we remove him without another election.

[cilla4progress]

13. Excellent, concise

Analysis.

[McCamy Taylor]

16. It's the obstruction of justice that will do Trump in.

However, there may have been some dirty money, too. Citizens United only protects the free speech rights of foreign corporations. In any foreign individuals gave Trump or his family bribes, that is also a crime. And if Trump conspired with Russia to do any illegal wiretapping or hacking that is also a great big felony--in the US.