Well, this makes things very interesting.
As President Trump considers whether or not to fire Rod Rosenstein, the deputy attorney general, it turns out Rosenstein may have just delivered a valuable bit of information to the President.
It turns out that Robert Mueller isn’t investigating Donald Trump as part of his Russia probe. Bloomberg reports:
Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein told President Donald Trump last week that he isn’t a target of any part of Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation, according to two people familiar with the matter.
Rosenstein, who brought up the Mueller probe himself, offered the assurance during a meeting with Trump at the White House last Thursday, a development that helped tamp down the president’s desire to remove Rosenstein or Mueller, the people said.
After the meeting, Trump told some of his closest advisers that it’s not the right time to remove either man since he’s not a target of the probe. One person said Trump doesn’t want to take any action that would drag out the investigation.
Deputy AG Rod Rosenstein told Trump last week that he isn’t a target of any part of Mueller’s investigation, sources say https://t.co/FIZcWqzs57 pic.twitter.com/ivpq0sgoxS
— Bloomberg (@business) April 19, 2018
This is a very interesting development. If Trump isn’t a target of the Mueller probe, why was his personal lawyer’s office just raided last week? Why are Trump’s personal finances being looked into?
And here’s the big question: If Mueller isn’t investigating Trump, what the hell is the point of the whole investigation?
If it’s true that Trump isn’t being targeted, that means his presidency isn’t in danger. And that means a lot of Democrats aren’t going to be happy.
But what if Rosenstein was only saying Trump wasn’t a target to save his own hide?
Time will tell. We’ll have to wait until Mueller actually ends his probe to know all the answers.
If Trump isn’t a target of the Mueller probe, should the investigation be closed? Tell us your thoughts below!
Rosenstein reportedly tells Trump that Trump is not a target of the investigation. Whether Rosenstein’s assertio is true or not, what he left out of that statement is the word “now”. Things can change.
Is this just another LIE by the beady-eyed Rosenstein?
By now, I think we’ve found, their written and/or spoken word means little to nothing . . . often the opposite to its meaning.
…did he put it into writing and sign it that President Trump would never be charged for anything found in Cohen’s reocrds?
The “investigation” is a waste of taxpayer money.
And it has raised the level of politics to the level it has turned the Constitution inside out to smear a legally elected President because the DNC candidate fought one of the most corrupt campaigns and used the same compromised DOJ to escape more serious charges. Many moral Americans are simply sick of the Clinton’s and being ignored by DC politics, careerists, globalists, the USG union and people who will ass a horrible Bill like Affordable Health care which is not affordable and made health providers provide more bureaucracy and less care.
The question and confusion is further compounded because President Trump has not gotten the support from the party he is aligned with which is insulting to those of us who voted for President Trump on the Republican ticket. And we have seen several Republicans resign because they claim they can not work with President Trump. They should resign and I admire them for giving up their over paid positions.
SC isn’t about facts, truth, justice and increasing our value citizens, it’s about the elections in November and what it means to self-serving politicians, meanwhile American citizens are being vilified as racist because we value our country, our citizenship and a election process that escaped the inertia of the beltway and has both parties suffering from tightened sphincters and flabbergasted by the thought they are not the God like law makers they wish to imagine themselves and are instead merely representatives of the citizens who elected them. when did it become unAmerican to think that? When the most corrupt Presidency in US history took office and both Houses.
no one will be prosecuted under Trump according to trump hillary went through enough.
Or the monies spent by Obama in Napa Valley, California or Hawaii?
like the tax payer money spent on Trump Properties, or the cost of his weekends in FLORIDA!
there was no evidence from th eget go….so the investigation aint over….it never was.in the first place…..huge waste of tax payer money (as usual)……boy they sure do throw around hard working tax payer money, dont they?
If you ask me this investigation should have been over after no evidence of collusion could be determined. It seems to me that Mueller has investigated enough of everything else. This is just a continued waste of tax payers money.
What a waste of tax payer money! Mueller has NO business looking at Trump’s finances, or anything about his sex life. What does any of this have to do with the Russia deal?
The old sour faced mule will NEVER end the “collusion” investigation. His pockets are not full yet, and he would have to include his close friends hillary and obama if the investigation is seeking truth. He does not want to shoot himself in the back of his head….twice.
THIS INVESTIGATION SHOULD HAVE BEEN CLOSED MONTHS AGO. HILLARY, ET AL, ARE THE ONES THAT SHOULD HAVE BEEN INVESTIGATED. THE COMPOUND ELEMENTS WITH MUELLER HAVE COST AMERICAN TAX-PAYERS, I BELIEVE, $700 MILLION DOLLARS. MUELLER AND ALL THE REST OF THAT GANG SHOULD BE FIRED! DIRTY CROOKS – EVERY ONE OF THEM!
Bonespurs, huh?
What branch of the Armed Forces was Hilary in? Barry? Bill? Yea, thought so. At least Trump want to a military academy. Bill was busy in England avoiding the draft, Hilary was busy taking down Nixon, and Barry was busy in Indonesia learning the Quran. You’re not smart enough to be stupid.
The full story is that Bonespurs isn’t a “target”, but he IS a “subject” of the investigation, which means his conduct is being reviewed for potential criminal violations. The Mueller investigation hasn’t yet finished, so nobody knows whether or not he has found any wrongdoing, whether that be “collusion” or something else.
Every time I look at Rosenstein he reminds me of Heinrich Himmler – and I think I might trust Himmler a little further than Rosenstein.
Rosenstein missed his calling. He should be selling used cars.
@enoch68 soros and the beast would have to send him for a walk somewhere where he would be the victim of a failed robbery…
OR SUICIDE BY 2 BULLETS IN THE BACK OF HIS HEAD!!!!!
…surely President Trump doesn’t believe this traitorous coward? There’s no way that rosenswine would have the cajones to let this be known…soros and the beast would have to send him for a walk somewhere where he would be the victim of a failed robbery…
That might be a vable theory and one I’d like to believe if it wasn’t for the fact that Mueller and eveyone he hired for the special councel are all up to their necks in it for Hillary and are all Anti-Trump. Good try though.
Then this takes me back to a thought I have expressed to friends sometime back–what if this is a Rope-a-Dope? Make it look like the focus is President Trump while the real targets are Clinton and the Obama Gang of Conspirators?
Want to know more? The war with North Korea has been on hold for 66 years. Many lulls and surges, mostly of late. Well folks, IT’S OVER . . .! Ask Xi. Ask Vlad. Ask Abe. Ask Moon. And especially, ask Kim . . .! Holding patterns are a part of the life of ‘undercurrent conflict’ (including ‘underground’) and skewed (screwed) perceptions. As Korea goes, so goes the “Russian Collusion Collision” that Hillary ‘invented’. She is now a slippery ‘boat person’ seeking asylum in Cuba as Bubba goes back to Arkansas to revisit his youth.
The weeping and gnashing of teeth by the libs and so-called ‘media’ (that’s a laugh . . no . . . a GUFFAW) will soon drown to a gurgling whimper and then a ‘dusty death’ as it all dries up. Thank you, Bill Shakespeare, for your insight in all the ‘Empire’ plays and sonnets about these “Good Times”!
“You can trust me, I work for the Deep State”.
he said that right before they raided Cohen’s offices. I wouldn’t believe a word any of them say; they’ve proven time and time again they’re corrupt liars.
Another BIG story about the great investigation in search of a crime. We get about one a day and none of them have so far proven to be nearly as shattering as they’re trumpeted to be. If this story is true, it does indeed raise the question, what the hell is the point of the whole stupid thing? Well, we all know what the point is: To discredit Donald Trump and invalidate his presidency BAMN in order to punish him for having the audacity to defeat the rightful heir to the throne, Hillary “It Wasn’t My Fault” Clinton. How can anyone take any of these shenanigans seriously? The Left is turning itself into self-parody.
How much more Bull Crap do we, the American public have to put up with this bogus investigation before we insist that it’s costly and totally unnessesay. If the POTUS isn’t under investigation for the Russian probe, or any other reason, then someone of sane mind please stop this bull crap from going on. It’s ridiculous.
Yor post is so right on the money….
Mueller still has not accounted for Whitey Bulger. He was in with John Connolly up to his eyeballs. He condoned serious murder and narcotics crimes. He was way over the line. He broke cardinal FBI ethics and committed crimes. How did he escape that ? Ask the stool pigeon Kevin Weeks.
If I were the president I would fire both of them for incompetence for clearly they conducted a investigation and didn’t get any results.
This seems like a paraphrasing of old news. I believe that Mueller already said that President Trump was a subject of the investigation but not a target of the investigation. As Attorney Dershowitz and others of his calibre have said — Mueller’s stating that President Trump is a “subject” but not the target is still not great since Mueller still called him a “subject” of the investigation since a subject of an investigation can turn into a target overnight. Rosenstein is a weasel. I would not believe a thing that man said; he is up to his ears with what was going on with the FBI trying to help Hillary and harm Trump. And Sessions recuses himself w/out mentioning it to the new President. Sessions is Elmer Fudd — in over his head. Sessions created all of these problems for this Presidency. He needs to be replaced by a competent person who would be a pitbull overseeing the likes of Rosenstein and monitoring the zealot, Mueller. Mueller has a history of screwing things up – badly. He puts Trump-hating Democrats on his team and doesn’t have any of them step down until these anti-Trump persons are exposed to the public. So, that makes Mueller in with the anti-Trump group and either didn’t vet them or care to vet them — or he’s stupid man because he didn’t vet these team members out of ignorance. Sessions needs to be replaced yesterday with a person who has the know-how and ability to aggressively oversee what Mueller and his boy, Rosenstein are doing.
Why wasn’t this information made in a public news conference by Mueller?
THE “SCOTUS” ALLOWS “ALL POLICE” TO LIE WITHOUT ANY PROBLEMS. TRUE!!! ROSIEBUTT I MORE THAN LIKELY LYING. OTHERWISE WHY ARE, (MULLERS’ MAFIA NAZI GESTAPO DEMOCRAPS) TAKING SO LONG. I THINK PROBABLY FOR THE MONEY. WHAT A WASTE OF OUR MONEY. DOES ANYONE KNOW HOW MUCH $$$$$ HE’ S MAKING FOR THIS SCAM???? AND THE TOTAL COST????
They have become unhinged since the election and have not recovered… They will harm this president and his family any way they can. They have nothing left when you think about it. Be patient, Hillary is on the chopping block and they KNOW it. Notice we haven’t heard a peep out of Bill in 3 or 4 months. He knows the jig is up. This investigation is so complex and involves so many Obama bureaucrats that its going to take time to unwind and put all the evidence of their criminal activity together…. but it WILL happen.
His lawyer’s office was raided so it can be shown he had an affair. Personally, what he did BEFORE he became POTUS should not be anyone’s business except his and his wife’s! Imagine what this could do to his Dear young Son! Shame on the Witch Hunters! The DemocRATS wont win a thing if they take him down other than have Pence assume office which they will like even LESS! Why do they insist on following through with this witch hunt?
@ Edwina Who trusts Rosenstein?
THE “SCOTUS” ALLOWS “ALL POLICE” TO LIE WITHOUT ANY PROBLEMS. TRUE!!! ROSIEBUTT IS MORE THAN LIKELY LYING. OTHERWISE WHY ARE, (MULLERS’ MAFIA NAZI GESTAPO DEMOCRAPS) TAKING SO LONG. I THINK PROBABLY FOR THE MONEY. WHAT A WASTE OF OUR MONEY. DOES ANYONE KNOW HOW MUCH $$$$$ HE’ S MAKING FOR THIS SCAM???? AND THE TOTAL COST????
Who trusts Rosenstein? Who could trust anything this man says…but if Trump is not who this investigation has been and tsill is about- then why the investigation? If this is true, then Congress should step up and stop this extremely expensive fishing expedition…it should be their job to do this and not Trump’s. CONGRESS NEEDS TO ACT!!!
DO I NOT TRUST OUR OWN GOVERNMENT? You better believe I don’t…we have Comey, the ex-FBI being proven to have run his own political scheme, lying to Congress and the American people; Our DOJ recusing himself from being able to do anything about any of this; the head of the CIA and the head of the IRS lying under oath; the DOJ and the FBI withholding documents pertinent to all the information which is being revealed daily –there is only a small
handful of people in Washington I trust and the one person I trust the most is President Trump!!
DO I NOT TRUST OUR OWN GOVERNMENT? You better believe I don’t…we have Comey, the ex-FBI being proven to have run his own political scheme, lying to Congress and the American people; Our DOJ recusing himself from being able to do anything about any of this; the head of the CIA and the head of the IRS lying under oath; the DOJ and the FBI withholding documents pertinent to all the information which is being revealed daily –there is only a small
handful of people in Washington I trust and the one person I trust the most is President Trump!!
@ jpl – I find it hard but you can’t believe your own government.
YIKES. WE ARE ON THE 3rd. PLANET FROM THE SUN. IN THE LAST 20 YEARS, WHICH ONE HAVE YOU BEEN ON? DUH!! UNLESS THAT WAS A TONGUE AROUND THE CHEEK PHRASE.
I find it hard but you can’t believe your own government.
Rosenstein reportedly tells Trump that Trump is not a target of the investigation. Whether Rosenstein’s assertio is true or not, what he left out of that statement is the word “now”. Things can change.
Is this just another LIE by the beady-eyed Rosenstein?
…did he put it into writing and sign it that President Trump would never be charged for anything found in Cohen’s reocrds?
By now, I think we’ve found, their written and/or spoken word means little to nothing . . . often the opposite to its meaning.
The “investigation” is a waste of taxpayer money.
And it has raised the level of politics to the level it has turned the Constitution inside out to smear a legally elected President because the DNC candidate fought one of the most corrupt campaigns and used the same compromised DOJ to escape more serious charges. Many moral Americans are simply sick of the Clinton’s and being ignored by DC politics, careerists, globalists, the USG union and people who will ass a horrible Bill like Affordable Health care which is not affordable and made health providers provide more bureaucracy and less care.
The question and confusion is further compounded because President Trump has not gotten the support from the party he is aligned with which is insulting to those of us who voted for President Trump on the Republican ticket. And we have seen several Republicans resign because they claim they can not work with President Trump. They should resign and I admire them for giving up their over paid positions.
SC isn’t about facts, truth, justice and increasing our value citizens, it’s about the elections in November and what it means to self-serving politicians, meanwhile American citizens are being vilified as racist because we value our country, our citizenship and a election process that escaped the inertia of the beltway and has both parties suffering from tightened sphincters and flabbergasted by the thought they are not the God like law makers they wish to imagine themselves and are instead merely representatives of the citizens who elected them. when did it become unAmerican to think that? When the most corrupt Presidency in US history took office and both Houses.
no one will be prosecuted under Trump according to trump hillary went through enough.
there was no evidence from th eget go….so the investigation aint over….it never was.in the first place…..huge waste of tax payer money (as usual)……boy they sure do throw around hard working tax payer money, dont they?
like the tax payer money spent on Trump Properties, or the cost of his weekends in FLORIDA!
Or the monies spent by Obama in Napa Valley, California or Hawaii?
If you ask me this investigation should have been over after no evidence of collusion could be determined. It seems to me that Mueller has investigated enough of everything else. This is just a continued waste of tax payers money.
What a waste of tax payer money! Mueller has NO business looking at Trump’s finances, or anything about his sex life. What does any of this have to do with the Russia deal?
The old sour faced mule will NEVER end the “collusion” investigation. His pockets are not full yet, and he would have to include his close friends hillary and obama if the investigation is seeking truth. He does not want to shoot himself in the back of his head….twice.
THIS INVESTIGATION SHOULD HAVE BEEN CLOSED MONTHS AGO. HILLARY, ET AL, ARE THE ONES THAT SHOULD HAVE BEEN INVESTIGATED. THE COMPOUND ELEMENTS WITH MUELLER HAVE COST AMERICAN TAX-PAYERS, I BELIEVE, $700 MILLION DOLLARS. MUELLER AND ALL THE REST OF THAT GANG SHOULD BE FIRED! DIRTY CROOKS – EVERY ONE OF THEM!
The full story is that Bonespurs isn’t a “target”, but he IS a “subject” of the investigation, which means his conduct is being reviewed for potential criminal violations. The Mueller investigation hasn’t yet finished, so nobody knows whether or not he has found any wrongdoing, whether that be “collusion” or something else.
Bonespurs, huh?
What branch of the Armed Forces was Hilary in? Barry? Bill? Yea, thought so. At least Trump want to a military academy. Bill was busy in England avoiding the draft, Hilary was busy taking down Nixon, and Barry was busy in Indonesia learning the Quran. You’re not smart enough to be stupid.
Every time I look at Rosenstein he reminds me of Heinrich Himmler – and I think I might trust Himmler a little further than Rosenstein.
Rosenstein missed his calling. He should be selling used cars.
…surely President Trump doesn’t believe this traitorous coward? There’s no way that rosenswine would have the cajones to let this be known…soros and the beast would have to send him for a walk somewhere where he would be the victim of a failed robbery…
@enoch68 soros and the beast would have to send him for a walk somewhere where he would be the victim of a failed robbery…
OR SUICIDE BY 2 BULLETS IN THE BACK OF HIS HEAD!!!!!
Then this takes me back to a thought I have expressed to friends sometime back–what if this is a Rope-a-Dope? Make it look like the focus is President Trump while the real targets are Clinton and the Obama Gang of Conspirators?
That might be a vable theory and one I’d like to believe if it wasn’t for the fact that Mueller and eveyone he hired for the special councel are all up to their necks in it for Hillary and are all Anti-Trump. Good try though.
Want to know more? The war with North Korea has been on hold for 66 years. Many lulls and surges, mostly of late. Well folks, IT’S OVER . . .! Ask Xi. Ask Vlad. Ask Abe. Ask Moon. And especially, ask Kim . . .! Holding patterns are a part of the life of ‘undercurrent conflict’ (including ‘underground’) and skewed (screwed) perceptions. As Korea goes, so goes the “Russian Collusion Collision” that Hillary ‘invented’. She is now a slippery ‘boat person’ seeking asylum in Cuba as Bubba goes back to Arkansas to revisit his youth.
The weeping and gnashing of teeth by the libs and so-called ‘media’ (that’s a laugh . . no . . . a GUFFAW) will soon drown to a gurgling whimper and then a ‘dusty death’ as it all dries up. Thank you, Bill Shakespeare, for your insight in all the ‘Empire’ plays and sonnets about these “Good Times”!
“You can trust me, I work for the Deep State”.
he said that right before they raided Cohen’s offices. I wouldn’t believe a word any of them say; they’ve proven time and time again they’re corrupt liars.
Another BIG story about the great investigation in search of a crime. We get about one a day and none of them have so far proven to be nearly as shattering as they’re trumpeted to be. If this story is true, it does indeed raise the question, what the hell is the point of the whole stupid thing? Well, we all know what the point is: To discredit Donald Trump and invalidate his presidency BAMN in order to punish him for having the audacity to defeat the rightful heir to the throne, Hillary “It Wasn’t My Fault” Clinton. How can anyone take any of these shenanigans seriously? The Left is turning itself into self-parody.
How much more Bull Crap do we, the American public have to put up with this bogus investigation before we insist that it’s costly and totally unnessesay. If the POTUS isn’t under investigation for the Russian probe, or any other reason, then someone of sane mind please stop this bull crap from going on. It’s ridiculous.
Mueller still has not accounted for Whitey Bulger. He was in with John Connolly up to his eyeballs. He condoned serious murder and narcotics crimes. He was way over the line. He broke cardinal FBI ethics and committed crimes. How did he escape that ? Ask the stool pigeon Kevin Weeks.
Yor post is so right on the money….
If I were the president I would fire both of them for incompetence for clearly they conducted a investigation and didn’t get any results.
This seems like a paraphrasing of old news. I believe that Mueller already said that President Trump was a subject of the investigation but not a target of the investigation. As Attorney Dershowitz and others of his calibre have said — Mueller’s stating that President Trump is a “subject” but not the target is still not great since Mueller still called him a “subject” of the investigation since a subject of an investigation can turn into a target overnight. Rosenstein is a weasel. I would not believe a thing that man said; he is up to his ears with what was going on with the FBI trying to help Hillary and harm Trump. And Sessions recuses himself w/out mentioning it to the new President. Sessions is Elmer Fudd — in over his head. Sessions created all of these problems for this Presidency. He needs to be replaced by a competent person who would be a pitbull overseeing the likes of Rosenstein and monitoring the zealot, Mueller. Mueller has a history of screwing things up – badly. He puts Trump-hating Democrats on his team and doesn’t have any of them step down until these anti-Trump persons are exposed to the public. So, that makes Mueller in with the anti-Trump group and either didn’t vet them or care to vet them — or he’s stupid man because he didn’t vet these team members out of ignorance. Sessions needs to be replaced yesterday with a person who has the know-how and ability to aggressively oversee what Mueller and his boy, Rosenstein are doing.
Why wasn’t this information made in a public news conference by Mueller?
THE “SCOTUS” ALLOWS “ALL POLICE” TO LIE WITHOUT ANY PROBLEMS. TRUE!!! ROSIEBUTT I MORE THAN LIKELY LYING. OTHERWISE WHY ARE, (MULLERS’ MAFIA NAZI GESTAPO DEMOCRAPS) TAKING SO LONG. I THINK PROBABLY FOR THE MONEY. WHAT A WASTE OF OUR MONEY. DOES ANYONE KNOW HOW MUCH $$$$$ HE’ S MAKING FOR THIS SCAM???? AND THE TOTAL COST????
His lawyer’s office was raided so it can be shown he had an affair. Personally, what he did BEFORE he became POTUS should not be anyone’s business except his and his wife’s! Imagine what this could do to his Dear young Son! Shame on the Witch Hunters! The DemocRATS wont win a thing if they take him down other than have Pence assume office which they will like even LESS! Why do they insist on following through with this witch hunt?
They have become unhinged since the election and have not recovered… They will harm this president and his family any way they can. They have nothing left when you think about it. Be patient, Hillary is on the chopping block and they KNOW it. Notice we haven’t heard a peep out of Bill in 3 or 4 months. He knows the jig is up. This investigation is so complex and involves so many Obama bureaucrats that its going to take time to unwind and put all the evidence of their criminal activity together…. but it WILL happen.
Who trusts Rosenstein? Who could trust anything this man says…but if Trump is not who this investigation has been and tsill is about- then why the investigation? If this is true, then Congress should step up and stop this extremely expensive fishing expedition…it should be their job to do this and not Trump’s. CONGRESS NEEDS TO ACT!!!
@ Edwina Who trusts Rosenstein?
THE “SCOTUS” ALLOWS “ALL POLICE” TO LIE WITHOUT ANY PROBLEMS. TRUE!!! ROSIEBUTT IS MORE THAN LIKELY LYING. OTHERWISE WHY ARE, (MULLERS’ MAFIA NAZI GESTAPO DEMOCRAPS) TAKING SO LONG. I THINK PROBABLY FOR THE MONEY. WHAT A WASTE OF OUR MONEY. DOES ANYONE KNOW HOW MUCH $$$$$ HE’ S MAKING FOR THIS SCAM???? AND THE TOTAL COST????
I find it hard but you can’t believe your own government.
DO I NOT TRUST OUR OWN GOVERNMENT? You better believe I don’t…we have Comey, the ex-FBI being proven to have run his own political scheme, lying to Congress and the American people; Our DOJ recusing himself from being able to do anything about any of this; the head of the CIA and the head of the IRS lying under oath; the DOJ and the FBI withholding documents pertinent to all the information which is being revealed daily –there is only a small
handful of people in Washington I trust and the one person I trust the most is President Trump!!
@ jpl – I find it hard but you can’t believe your own government.
YIKES. WE ARE ON THE 3rd. PLANET FROM THE SUN. IN THE LAST 20 YEARS, WHICH ONE HAVE YOU BEEN ON? DUH!! UNLESS THAT WAS A TONGUE AROUND THE CHEEK PHRASE.