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Originally Posted by Damien
Trump talks about the investigation more than Mueller does. As I said he should either do it or leave it. Fire Mueller, pardon anyone who might be implicated as well as those already indicted and face any consequences or let it finish.
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That would almost certainly warrant obstruction of charges charges (irregardless of whether he is a target of the investigation or not) so he won't. He has a big ole mouth but when it comes to action that is all he ever is - all mouth.
Even with a GOP majority he would be worried that the House would almost have to file articles of impeachment / or at least let Goodlatte start committee hearings. Even as a retiring congressman (not seeking re-election anyway) he would not try and stonewall that.
In the mean time, Manafort is now is now in even more trouble (witness tampering):
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Federal prosecutors accused former Trump presidential campaign chairman Paul Manafort of witness tampering late Monday in his tax and lobbying case and asked a federal judge to consider revoking or revising his release pending trial.
In a late Monday filing in Washington, prosecutors accused Manafort and a longtime associate they previously linked to Russian intelligence of repeatedly contacting two members of a public-relations firm since February to secure false testimony about their collective work involving a group of former senior European politicians.
The group, informally called the “Hapsburg group,” was secretly retained in 2012 by Manafort to take positions favorable to Ukraine, for whom Manafort was working, prosecutors charged.
In court documents, including an affidavit by FBI agent Brock W. Domin, prosecutors with Special Counsel Robery S. Mueller III allege Manafort and his associate-- referred to only as Person A - tried to contact the two witnesses by phone and through an encrypted messaging program.
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/local...=.f774ae443b70