So, have people here turned against the Mueller probe?

[Effete Snob]

Back in 2018, it was clear that Congressional investigators wanted to investigate the extent to which WH counsel McGahn was involved in engineering various questionable Trump activities.

Quite obviously McGahn was of interest to the Mueller investigation since we have today learned that the DoJ had subpoenaed records of his directly from Apple.

Bizarrely, it seems there is a widely held sentiment that it would have been inappropriate for the Mueller team to get at the same information that Congress was after.

Is there some central place where I can subscribe to the weekly memo about what or who should not be investigated for aiding Trump’s corruption? Because the sudden 180 on investigating McGahn is dizzying.

[Budi]

1. Barr stopped Mueller from telling all, saying he could ONLY report on the narrow ..

..topic he was originally tasked with.

Though Mueller's team found out much more, it had to be handed off to his investigators & key prosecutors on his team when the finding was closed.

Which brings us to where we are today with Barr's business.
Mueller was stopped from delivering more info by AG Barr.

Talk about Barr covering for what was really goung on behind tRump's 24/7 media distraction.
Barr's job was to obstruct & cover.
He did it with Mueller's report.

The problem was never with Mueller, it was Bill Barr.
But media redirected that blame, predictably so.

[SheltieLover]

3. The real ?, imho, is wtf Barr has not been arrested yet.

After decades of rat fuckery.

Ty, budi, for clarification.

[Budi]

4. No kidding. Wtf. Plus he had his daughter working in the DOJ too.

Barr is probably the most corrupt & dangerous of the bunch, just by the incredible power he had at his disposal.

tRump didn't know shit about how anything worked, but Bill Barr certainly did.

Hoping for a hard fall for that crook.

[SoonerLib]

2. According to CNN, the subpoena did not come from Mueller.

"The subpoena for McGahn's records did not come from Mueller's team of investigators, the source added."


https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2021/06/13/politics/don-mcgahn-justice-department-apple-account-records/index.html?__twitter_impression=true

[Effete Snob]

7. Ahem..

…there was also the Cohen prosecution.

Check out this site called Democraticunderground some time:


https://democraticunderground.com/10142140231

McGahn, the person said, expects to be questioned by federal prosecutors in New York about his knowledge of the payments, which were the basis for campaign finance charges against Trump’s longtime personal lawyer and fixer, Michael Cohen.

[dem4decades]

5. Mueller failed to do his job, he let Trump avoid sitting under oath.

Mueller was just another Republican, probably having drinks at the club with Barr this afternoon.

[GoodRaisin]

6. I can't speak for everybody here, but for myself, I've become apathetic to it.

I just got tired of nothing coming of the probe after Barr shut it down. Instead, Trump and all his criminal cronies ran roughshod over any accountability for all the crimes we heard about daily during those 4 years of lawlessness. The mainstream news reports of all the crimes became like the boy who cried wolf. Nobody doing any time.

I guess we need to wait for the new AG to have sufficient time to start untangling this massive mess he was left by the Trump administration and Trump's corrupt AG. Until that happens I have no new expectations.

[stillcool]

8. I don't know about turning against the Mueller probe

we have yet to see it. Who is deemed to be of interest to the Justice Dept., or Congress I don't know, and can't see why anyone who did know would release information before they're ready to make it public. There is so much information out there for the reading, maybe this site will help?
https://trumpfile.org/

The fact that Mr. McGahn spoke to Congress at all was significant after a multiyear legal battle by the Trump Justice Department to block an April 2019 subpoena for his testimony. That dispute ended last month, when President Biden’s Justice Department, House Democrats and a lawyer for Mr. McGahn reached a compromise under which he finally showed up.
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Mr. McGahn was a witness to many episodes described in the second volume of the Mueller report, which centered on potential obstruction of justice issues; his name appears there more than 500 times.
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Mr. Trump had directed Mr. McGahn to speak with Mr. Mueller’s investigators in 2017. In 2019, as it became clear that Mr. McGahn had become a chief witness to many of Mr. Trump’s actions that raised obstruction of justice concerns, the president’s allies — like his personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani — began attacking him.

The attacks left Mr. McGahn in a delicate position. He is a hero to the conservative legal movement because he was the chief architect of the Trump administration’s judicial selection process, which filled the federal bench with Federalist Society-style appointees. But Mr. McGahn’s law firm, Jones Day, has many Republican-oriented clients; if Mr. Trump were to order the party faithful to shun the firm as punishment, it could be financially devastating.

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/04/us/politics/mcgahn-trump-russia-testimony.html