Many of us were surprised or worried about the subject/target article appearing in the post. However, whatever that means, there has been too much overwhelming and damning publicly available evidence of the crimes committed by thing to believe that Robert Mueller and his ace team were not going to refer impeachment articles to the House committee. Too much evidence for this not to be where it ends up. And we have only been looking at the evidence available to the public. Imagine, then, how much Mueller knows and the kind of evidence he has to support the charge. As an example, they had enough evidence to convince a judge to allow Cohen's law office , thing's attorney, to be searched. That would not even be asked for if there were not overwhelming evidence that his attorney was guilty of crimes committed in collaboration with thing. It would never be granted if the evidence were not incredibly strong. Look at the results to date of Mueller's efforts with Page, Manafort, ... Cohen now is going to take the fifth. Cohen likely violated campaign finance law which is a felony by itself. This is not going to end well for thing. It is no wonder thing is so agitated lately.
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Three sources familiar with the investigation said the findings Mueller has collected on Trump’s attempts to obstruct justice include: His intent to fire former FBI Director James Comey; his role in the crafting of a misleading public statement on the nature of a June 2016 Trump Tower meeting between his son and Russians; Trump’s dangling of pardons before grand jury witnesses who might testify against him; and pressuring Attorney General Jeff Sessions not to recuse himself from the Russia investigation.
Mueller would then likely send a confidential report to Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, who is overseeing the Russia investigation. Rosenstein could decide whether to make the report public and send its findings to Congress. From there, Congress would then decide whether to begin impeachment proceedings against the president, said two of the sources.
Rosenstein met with the president at the White House on Thursday. A White House official told reporters the meeting was about "routine department business." A Justice Department spokeswoman said it was part of a scheduled meeting with officials from other agencies as well as DOJ.
The special counsel’s office declined to comment on this report or whether it would seek to subpoena Trump to testify before a grand jury.
Since the FBI raid seizing Cohen’s documents and electronics, Trump has soured on the idea of sitting for an interview with Mueller, people familiar with his thinking said. Trump’s lawyers were wary of him agreeing to a sit-down, but in the days before the raid they had started initial preparations for Trump to take part in a possible interview in part because the president could overrule their advice, people familiar with the discussions said.
Prior to the FBI raid on Cohen, Trump’s legal team also had been preparing various approaches depending on how discussions with Mueller concluded, people familiar with the matter said.
If Trump were to decline a voluntary interview, his legal team discussed making the case that a sitting president can’t be subpoenaed, according to people familiar with the discussions. The argument hinges on the idea that a sitting president can’t be indicted, with Trump’s lawyers surmising that if a president can’t be indicted he can’t be subpoenaed.
Two people familiar with the investigation said they expect a flurry of activity from Mueller’s office on the investigation in the next six weeks around the anniversary of his appointment as special counsel.