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Legal commentators & legal professors in the US.
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Ok but there are a lot of commentators. If there is something there then the FBI can investigate or indeed have a special prosecutor. The Democrats control no branches of government so they can't stop it. People talking on TV isn't enough.
If there is enough then by all means they should investigate. Doesn't take anything away from the Mueller investigation.
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However, both brothers founded the group, Tony Podesta left the firm as of yesterday due to close scrutiny due to the revelations of the firm and the DNC paying millions for the Trump Russian Dossier. Which it is being said is a potential crime, felony.
Tony doesn’t want the firm to fight the revelations, he wants to do that as individual, to which he will be a bit late, if a prosecutor is assigned, they will sift through everything with the Podesta name on it. Walking away from the firm, does not mean automatic immunity to them.
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All true and
Tony Podesta might be in the same trouble. However his brother
John Podesta, Clinton's campaign chairman, isn't yet implicated in this. He left the firm in 1993 before the time of these allegations (2012-2014).
Also the DNC / Fusion GPS dossier thing is different from The Podesta Group case. The latter is being investigated by Mueller.
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Clearly Mueller has nothing credible on Trump collusion, else why go through with now trying to leverage Manafort with these charges, in a bid to do a deal to get Manafort to talk on what he knows, if there is actually something to talk about?
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There is a difference between Trump collusion and collusion generally. He does have clearly have evidence of the later. I don't know what Mueller actually has on Trump or anyone else in the campaign. My wild guess is that Trump himself will never be implicated personally but that more senior people than Papadopoulos might be. Any risk to Trump would be if he was judged to have impeded the FBI investigation into this case by firing Corney. Remember this what the FBI was investigating.
Mueller's investigation is still going. Who else is in those sealed documents? Who has Papadopoulos talked too since working for the investigation? Does Mueller have other people who've been secretly charged?