Whole cloth will be in short supply as the midterm elections approach.
The disinformation campaign begins, even before a resolution of whether POTUS* will speak to Mueller or be compelled by a subpoena.
Back from golfing at Trump’s Scottish courses, Rudy Giuliani announces that a preemptive “counter-report” to the Mueller report is coming even as none of the latter exists.
Tree-poisoning starts early in the Autumn as the Trumpists try yet again to discredit Mueller, much like the failed attempts by Devin Nunes to delegitimize a far too accurate Steele dossier.
President Donald Trump’s legal team is crafting a “counter-report” that will seek to delegitimize Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into Russian election meddling and present countervailing arguments.
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Glenn Kirschner, a retired federal prosecutor in Washington, D.C., said it was highly unusual for a rebuttal report to be authored by lawyers for potential subjects of an investigation, and virtually unheard of for it to be put together prior to the investigation’s findings being made public.
“This sounds to me like pure PR nonsense,”
Kirschner said. “They are making an announcement that they will issue a rebuttal to a report that we don’t know when it is coming out or what it will contain.”
Kirschner said he believed the entire exercise was being done for the purposes of trying to “poison the well” for Mueller, as there was virtually zero likelihood that Giuliani and others would admit to any wrongdoing on the part of Trump.
“I’m going to go out on a limb and guess that they will find no obstruction or collusion,” Kirschner said.
The Trump team’s counter-report has been in the works since late July. Giuliani briefly mentioned the “report” in a tweet earlier this month, but little information about the actual document has been reported since.
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