It’s not what AG Bill Barr, Trump and the GOP are saying. We do not yet have Mueller’s full written Report to read. All we have is Bill Barr’s distilled, version of Mueller’s Report, and Bill Barr’s determination that Trump did not obstruct justice. Barr is acting as a filter. […]
Collusion
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We are at the end of the Mueller investigation. The bombshell news is that the Report seems to clear the president and his associates of conspiracy with the Russians but did not reach a conclusion on obstruction of justice. However Barr and Rosenstein seem to have decided to give Trump […]
Mueller has followed the prosecutor’s playbook on white collar crime cases by indicting key members in Trump’s closest orbit: Manafort, Gates, Flynn, Cohen and others, on violations of the law that are largely financial crimes and have little or nothing to do with a Russian conspiracy to win the 2016 […]
Where there is smoke there is fire. Smoke is filling the room. Taken together there are three recent bombshell articles that have created an even more smoke-filled room full of circumstantial evidence. 1) January 11th NYT article written by Goldman, Schmidt and Fandos, “F.B.I. Opened Inquiry Into Whether Trump Was […]
Mueller just ripped up the cooperation agreement Manafort had with the Special Counsel. Instead of telling the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth, Manafort lied and lied. About material things, meaning they were central to the case. When you enter into an agreement to cooperate with the […]
Sheila Markin is a former Assistant US Attorney. She helps people to understand in plain English what is going on in US politics today. Subscribe to the blog so you don’t miss a post! Have you read Bachelor Nation: Inside the World of America’s Favorite Guilty Pleasure? It’s a fascinating […]
Sheila Markin is a former Assistant US Attorney. She helps people to understand in plain English what is going on in US politics today. Subscribe to the blog so you don’t miss a post! Twelve Russian enemy agents disguised as Americans (using false online American identities), surreptitiously entered the Democratic […]
Sheila Markin is a former Assistant US Attorney. She helps people to understand in plain English what is going on in US politics today. Subscribe to the blog so you don’t miss a post! Unlike Trump and Rudy Guiliani who are trying to make the national conversation about “fake news” […]
Sheila Markin is a former Assistant US Attorney. She helps people to understand in plain English what is going on in US politics today. Subscribe to the blog so you don’t miss a post! Michael Cohen has a new attorney. His lawyer, Guy Petrillo, used to work in the US […]