Well looks like Wolff is a LAIR. or he writes fiction and palms it off as fact. You decide ..
now i know this will be a bitter pill for the leftys here to accept but unless you are CONVINCED Mueller is a bent liar then Mueller's DA NILE is the TRUTH .... like his report that DID NOT find enough evidence to make a case to impeach Trump.
yeah .. what a letdown it must be. Saint Mueller betrayed ya, now Wolffy's "book" is exposed as FAKE NEWS!
BAHHAHAAAAAAA
remember valued posters, WE TOLD YOU. but ya just couldn't believe it.
Michael Wolff’s ‘Draft Indictment’ of Trump Doesn’t Exist, Says Mueller’s Office
https://news.yahoo.com/michael-wolff...131616644.html
By jamie.ross@thedailybeast.com (Jamie Ross)
,The Daily Beast•May 28, 2019
A spokesman for Robert Mueller has emphatically denied a claim from Fire and Fury author Michael Wolff that the special counsel drew up a three-count obstruction-of-justice indictment against Donald Trump before deciding to ditch it.
The unverified allegation is made in Wolff’s new book, Siege: Trump Under Fire, which is due to be published next week. It’s the sequel to Fire and Fury, which infuriated the president for its claims about the dysfunctional inner workings of his White House.
The Guardian obtained a copy of the new book and reports that Wolff states his findings about Mueller’s supposed draft indictment are “based on internal documents given to me by sources close to the Office of the Special Counsel.” The newspaper writes that it’s seen the documents.
However, Peter Carr, a spokesman for Mueller, told The Guardian: “The documents that you’ve described do not exist.”
Wolff claims the draft listing the president’s alleged abuses was written under the title “United States of America against Donald J. Trump, Defendant,” and it sat on Mueller’s desk for a year before being discarded.
The Guardian reports the first of the three counts charged the president with corruptly influencing, obstructing, or impeding a pending proceeding before a department or agency. The second count is said to have charged the president with tampering with a witness, victim, or informant, while the third allegedly charged Trump with retaliating against a witness.
According to Wolff, Mueller’s team drew up both the three-count indictment of Trump as well as a supporting draft memorandum of law opposing any motion from Congress or the White House that sought to dismiss it.
The memo quoted by Wolff says: “The Impeachment Judgment Clause, which applies equally to all civil officers including the president… takes for granted… that an officer may be subject to indictment and prosecution before impeachment. If it did not, the clause would be creating, for civil officers, precisely the immunity the Framers rejected.”
Wolff writes that Mueller agonized for a long time over whether to charge the president before ultimately deciding he could not move to prosecute a sitting president.
Wolff's conclusion reads: “Bob Mueller threw up his hands. Surprisingly, he found himself in agreement with the greater White House: Donald Trump was the president, and, for better or for worse, what you saw was what you got—and what the country voted for.”
- The_Waco_Kid
- 05-28-2019, 05:29 PM
- bambino
- 05-28-2019, 05:57 PM
These people never give up. After Avenatti’s arraignment today he asked when is Trump getting indicted. TDS runs deep.
- The_Waco_Kid
- 05-28-2019, 06:12 PM
- oeb11
- 05-28-2019, 07:04 PM
Avenatti is hoping or a Pardon from Hillary!
Thinks if Trump is impeached she will be POTUS!!
He can continue those nightmares right into his 6x9 cell with Bruno the Bruiser!
He can still be a DPST candidate for POTUS from his cell
I like Harris/Avenatti ticket!~!!!!
Thinks if Trump is impeached she will be POTUS!!
He can continue those nightmares right into his 6x9 cell with Bruno the Bruiser!
He can still be a DPST candidate for POTUS from his cell
I like Harris/Avenatti ticket!~!!!!
- friendly fred
- 05-28-2019, 07:56 PM
- rexdutchman
- 05-29-2019, 09:19 AM
Deep State BS ,,,,
- The_Waco_Kid
- 06-08-2019, 02:51 PM
and the press wonders why they have a credibility problem...
Confronted with multiple errors in his new Trump book, a testy Michael Wolff says, 'You have to trust me'
https://www.yahoo.com/news/confronte...181252406.html
After portraying himself as a reliable chronicler of Donald Trump’s White House, author Michael Wolff is taking a page from the president when confronted with the multiple factual errors in his new book, “Siege: Trump Under Fire.”
“Even if I was wrong, I’m not going to admit it to you,” said Wolff in an interview for the Yahoo News podcast “Skullduggery.”
Wolff, in that case, was refusing to back down on one of his relatively minor mistakes: He claimed in one passage of his book that former Associate Attorney General Rachel Brand — briefly a possible candidate to oversee the Russia investigation — was nominated by President Obama. In fact, she was nominated by Trump.
But talking about his new book, Wolff stuck to the same no-apologies, no-retreat line about a host of other more consequential errors and questionable claims, including his sensational assertion that he has copies of a March 2018 draft indictment of Trump prepared by special counsel Robert Mueller’s office charging the president with three counts of obstruction of justice.
Mueller’s office said that the documents described by Wolff “do not exist,” and Mueller himself, in his only statement to the press, emphasized that due to Justice Department legal opinions, “charging the president with a crime was therefore not an option we could consider.”
Wolff remains unrepentant and insists he’s obtained material proving a planned indictment that nobody else covering the Mueller probe has been able to get their hands on — or even confirm exists. “There’s no other reporter who’s produced documents or even claims to produce documents,” he said. “I am the only person who might begin to claim to have some insight here.”
Download or subscribe on iTunes: “Skullduggery” from Yahoo News
In the “Skullduggery” interview, Wolff repeatedly brushed aside questions about the authenticity of his claimed documents, including why the title of the supposed indictment he quotes from — “United States of America Against Donald J. Trump” — is conspicuously different than the wording used in all other Justice Department indictments. (They read “United States of America v” the defendant, not “against.”)
“Maybe not draft indictments, maybe not this, I don’t know,” Wolff said when asked about the odd wording on his claimed indictment. “All I am doing is quoting from two things — a document given to me by an incredibly authoritative source, and that two, on the face of it, that is incredibly convincing.”
Michael Wolff. (Photo illustration: Yahoo News; photo: Carolyn Kaster/AP)
But it is not clear how convincing Wolff’s document is either. Wolff claims one of the supposed grounds on which Mueller’s office was planning to indict Trump was the president’s alleged attempt to interfere with testimony by FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe and efforts to retaliate against him. Yet none of the 11 episodes of potential obstruction detailed in Mueller’s final report even mention the events surrounding McCabe’s testimony or retaliation against him.
Wolff was also questioned about other apparent errors in his latest book:
· Wolff wrote that in April 2018, when the FBI searched his residence and office, Michael Cohen “sat handcuffed for hours in his kitchen.” But Cohen was never arrested or charged with a crime that day, making it implausible that he would have been handcuffed. Cohen’s lawyer Lanny Davis said in a text to Yahoo News that “neither Michael Cohen nor his wife nor anyone else was handcuffed during the FBI search.”
“I have no idea on the basis on which someone is handcuffed,” said Wolff when asked about his claim that Cohen had been handcuffed. “I know that the description of the scene that was given to me, again, a very good source on this had him sitting in the kitchen in handcuffs.”
· Wolff wrote that Don McGahn, Trump’s pick for White House counsel, had never worked “anywhere in government.” In fact, McGahn had served as chair and vice chair of the Federal Election Commission, during a five-year stint with the agency.
Wolff also insisted, wrongly, that the FEC “is not a part of the government.”
· Wolff wrote that former Obama White House counsel Kathy Ruemmler had been the “previous occupant” of McGahn’s office. In fact, she had left in White House in 2014 and Neal Eggleston was McGahn’s predecessor
· Wolff wrote that President Bill Clinton “could hardly stomach his Attorney General Janet Reno, having to weather the blow back from her decisions regarding Ruby Ridge.” In fact, the siege at Ruby Ridge, Idaho — a site where an armed family of right wing zealots were surrounded by federal agents —took place in August, 1992, when William Barr was attorney general, not Reno.
The exchange over Wolff’s multiple mistakes grew testy at times.
“You get all these things wrong and then you ask us to trust you,” this correspondent said to Wolff.
“No, you get these things wrong,” Wolff retorted. “This critique is bullsh**!”
Wolff insisted that none of the questions about his accuracy matter or are significant, noting that he had faced many of the same criticisms about his last book, “Fire and Fury.”
“The object of this book, as with the last book — and I remember I went through the same thing with the last book … is about trying to re-recreate life in Trump world,” he said. “It's trying to give readers a sense of what this experience is, of what goes on here, of the tenure, of the language, of the emotional life of Trump world.”
Wolff claimed that due to being a New York based journalist for the last 40 years, “I know these people. I have an access here that most other people involved in this story do not have.”
Yet most of Wolff’s sources are anonymous, with the notable exception of Steve Bannon, the former White House strategist who was banished from Trump world in August, 2017, and hasn’t spoken to the president ever since.
Pressed on his sourcing, and whether he would release copies of the supposed Mueller draft indictment memos he claims to have gotten, Wolff averred. He couldn’t release copies, he said, because that might expose one of his anonymous “authoritative” sources.
“You just have to trust me,” he said.
Confronted with multiple errors in his new Trump book, a testy Michael Wolff says, 'You have to trust me'
https://www.yahoo.com/news/confronte...181252406.html
After portraying himself as a reliable chronicler of Donald Trump’s White House, author Michael Wolff is taking a page from the president when confronted with the multiple factual errors in his new book, “Siege: Trump Under Fire.”
“Even if I was wrong, I’m not going to admit it to you,” said Wolff in an interview for the Yahoo News podcast “Skullduggery.”
Wolff, in that case, was refusing to back down on one of his relatively minor mistakes: He claimed in one passage of his book that former Associate Attorney General Rachel Brand — briefly a possible candidate to oversee the Russia investigation — was nominated by President Obama. In fact, she was nominated by Trump.
But talking about his new book, Wolff stuck to the same no-apologies, no-retreat line about a host of other more consequential errors and questionable claims, including his sensational assertion that he has copies of a March 2018 draft indictment of Trump prepared by special counsel Robert Mueller’s office charging the president with three counts of obstruction of justice.
Mueller’s office said that the documents described by Wolff “do not exist,” and Mueller himself, in his only statement to the press, emphasized that due to Justice Department legal opinions, “charging the president with a crime was therefore not an option we could consider.”
Wolff remains unrepentant and insists he’s obtained material proving a planned indictment that nobody else covering the Mueller probe has been able to get their hands on — or even confirm exists. “There’s no other reporter who’s produced documents or even claims to produce documents,” he said. “I am the only person who might begin to claim to have some insight here.”
Download or subscribe on iTunes: “Skullduggery” from Yahoo News
In the “Skullduggery” interview, Wolff repeatedly brushed aside questions about the authenticity of his claimed documents, including why the title of the supposed indictment he quotes from — “United States of America Against Donald J. Trump” — is conspicuously different than the wording used in all other Justice Department indictments. (They read “United States of America v” the defendant, not “against.”)
“Maybe not draft indictments, maybe not this, I don’t know,” Wolff said when asked about the odd wording on his claimed indictment. “All I am doing is quoting from two things — a document given to me by an incredibly authoritative source, and that two, on the face of it, that is incredibly convincing.”
Michael Wolff. (Photo illustration: Yahoo News; photo: Carolyn Kaster/AP) But it is not clear how convincing Wolff’s document is either. Wolff claims one of the supposed grounds on which Mueller’s office was planning to indict Trump was the president’s alleged attempt to interfere with testimony by FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe and efforts to retaliate against him. Yet none of the 11 episodes of potential obstruction detailed in Mueller’s final report even mention the events surrounding McCabe’s testimony or retaliation against him.
Wolff was also questioned about other apparent errors in his latest book:
· Wolff wrote that in April 2018, when the FBI searched his residence and office, Michael Cohen “sat handcuffed for hours in his kitchen.” But Cohen was never arrested or charged with a crime that day, making it implausible that he would have been handcuffed. Cohen’s lawyer Lanny Davis said in a text to Yahoo News that “neither Michael Cohen nor his wife nor anyone else was handcuffed during the FBI search.”
“I have no idea on the basis on which someone is handcuffed,” said Wolff when asked about his claim that Cohen had been handcuffed. “I know that the description of the scene that was given to me, again, a very good source on this had him sitting in the kitchen in handcuffs.”
· Wolff wrote that Don McGahn, Trump’s pick for White House counsel, had never worked “anywhere in government.” In fact, McGahn had served as chair and vice chair of the Federal Election Commission, during a five-year stint with the agency.
Wolff also insisted, wrongly, that the FEC “is not a part of the government.”
· Wolff wrote that former Obama White House counsel Kathy Ruemmler had been the “previous occupant” of McGahn’s office. In fact, she had left in White House in 2014 and Neal Eggleston was McGahn’s predecessor
· Wolff wrote that President Bill Clinton “could hardly stomach his Attorney General Janet Reno, having to weather the blow back from her decisions regarding Ruby Ridge.” In fact, the siege at Ruby Ridge, Idaho — a site where an armed family of right wing zealots were surrounded by federal agents —took place in August, 1992, when William Barr was attorney general, not Reno.
The exchange over Wolff’s multiple mistakes grew testy at times.
“You get all these things wrong and then you ask us to trust you,” this correspondent said to Wolff.
“No, you get these things wrong,” Wolff retorted. “This critique is bullsh**!”
Wolff insisted that none of the questions about his accuracy matter or are significant, noting that he had faced many of the same criticisms about his last book, “Fire and Fury.”
“The object of this book, as with the last book — and I remember I went through the same thing with the last book … is about trying to re-recreate life in Trump world,” he said. “It's trying to give readers a sense of what this experience is, of what goes on here, of the tenure, of the language, of the emotional life of Trump world.”
Wolff claimed that due to being a New York based journalist for the last 40 years, “I know these people. I have an access here that most other people involved in this story do not have.”
Yet most of Wolff’s sources are anonymous, with the notable exception of Steve Bannon, the former White House strategist who was banished from Trump world in August, 2017, and hasn’t spoken to the president ever since.
Pressed on his sourcing, and whether he would release copies of the supposed Mueller draft indictment memos he claims to have gotten, Wolff averred. He couldn’t release copies, he said, because that might expose one of his anonymous “authoritative” sources.
“You just have to trust me,” he said.
- rexdutchman
- 06-10-2019, 09:35 AM
and the press wonders why they have a credibility problem,