Trump asking witnesses about mueller investigation

Special counsel Robert Mueller’s team continued to ask witnesses about the involvement of President Donald Trump’s former personal attorney Michael Cohen in the presidential campaign weeks after federal investigators raided the lawyer’s office and hotel room, CNBC reported on Tuesday. The investigators also wanted to know why Cohen didn’t get a job at the White House and if the attorney carried out personal business while working as an employee of the Trump Organization. The latest details emerged a week after Cohen pleaded guilty to eight federal counts, including campaign finance charges. Cohen implicated Trump by saying he ordered Cohen to move ahead with arranging payments during the campaign to two women to keep silent about affairs with Trump in order to influence the election. Following the raid on Cohen’s office in April, the special counsel continued asking witnesses about the attorney into at least May, according to sources. In June, Ukrainian … [Read more...] about CNBC: Even After Raid, Mueller’s Team Asked Witnesses About Cohen’s Involvement in Trump Campaign

World Jared Kushner George Nader Robert Mueller Steve Bannon United Arab Emirates Donald Trump Vladimir Putin Russia probe special counsel Robert Mueller is reportedly looking into a meeting that President Donald Trump’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner, attended with former United Arab Emirates adviser George Nader, who is cooperating in the investigation. Related: Firm tied to Jared Kushner’s Middle East contact comes under Mueller investigation Mueller’s investigators asked witnesses for information on the meeting, which took place in early 2017 in New York, The New York Times reported Wednesday. In attendance were Kushner, Nader, former White House chief strategist Steve Bannon and Kushner’s friend Richard Gerson, who founded the hedge fund Falcon Edge Capital.   It is unclear why Mueller is probing the meeting, but noteworthy connections exist among the individuals. Kushner’s family foundation has contributed tens of … [Read more...] about Mueller Investigating Jared Kushner Meeting With Former United Arab Emirates Adviser

President Donald Trump's former personal lawyer says he is providing "critical information" as part of special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. election and possible coordination between Russia and the Trump campaign. Michael Cohen, who pleaded guilty to campaign finance and other charges last month, said Thursday he is providing the information to prosecutors without a cooperation agreement. Trump's longtime fixer-turned-foe could be a vital witness for prosecutors as they investigate whether Trump's campaign coordinated with Russians. For more than a decade, Cohen was Trump's personal lawyer, and he was a key power player in the Trump Organization and a fixture in Trump's political life. Cohen pleaded guilty in August to eight federal charges and said Trump directed him to arrange payments before the 2016 election to buy the silence of porn actress Stormy Daniels and a former Playboy model who had both alleged they had affairs with … [Read more...] about Ex-Trump Lawyer Cohen Boasts of Aiding Mueller Investigation

Paul Waldman, The Washington Post Published 11:59 am PST, Friday, November 16, 2018 President Donald Trump's long struggle to destroy special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation into the Russia scandal is officially over. The president himself might not quite realize it yet, and he probably doesn't understand why it happened. But he has lost that conflict, and the reason is simple: His attempts to fight Mueller were so ham-handed and so public that it made it impossible for him and his administration to shut Mueller down. The president is simply incapable of subtlety and judges everything by how it plays out in the media. But in this case, the more attention he drew to his rage at Mueller, the greater the consequences of moving against Mueller became. And now it's too late. Look, for example, at the way he handled Attorney General Jeff Sessions. It was precisely because Trump complained publicly so many times that he was livid with Sessions for recusing himself from … [Read more...] about Trump’s battle to destroy the Mueller investigation is officially doomed

If you were running an investigation into possible collusion between the Trump campaign and Russian operatives seeking to influence the 2016 presidential election, who would you interview: Trump campaign officials who you know met with Russians offering information on Trump’s opponent, Hillary Clinton, and others who had documented contact with Kremlin officials? Or the ones who didn’t?Special Counsel Robert Mueller, understandably, has focused his investigation on Trump associates who had known contacts with Russia, like former foreign policy adviser George Papadopoulos, who was scheduled to begin a 14-day sentence Monday for lying to the FBI. But President Trump, who has frequently urged Mueller to speed up his investigation, also wants him to interview “hundreds” of campaign associates who had no contact with Russia.He didn’t say what he thought Mueller should ask them, or what information they could provide about a subject they know nothing about.When … [Read more...] about Trump asks why Mueller hasn’t interviewed ‘hundreds’ of campaign staffers