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Mueller is getting closer.....Thats where Reince Priebus comes in. He was Republican National Committee chairman during the 2016 campaign and then became Trumps White House chief of staff. Comey testified that Priebus was one of the aides shooed out of the Oval Office, and that as Trump pressed his point about Flynn, Priebus poked his head back in through the doorway.
Priebus was fired acrimoniously in July. He has kept a doggedly low profile ever since, in contrast to his fellow Trump exiles. Priebus hasnt gone on a late-night TV tour like Sean Spicer; or attempted to launch a nebulous Web site like his profane nemesis Anthony Scaramucci; or promoted himself as the mastermind behind a bigoted Alabama Senate candidate like Steve Bannon. Instead, Priebus has quietly played some golf, shopped himself as a paid speaker, and looked for a law firm job. Reince is fine, said his longtime friend Brad Courtney, the chairman of Wisconsins Republican Party. Weve traded some texts. I was really glad that he got to take a nice vacation with his family.
All of which is in keeping with Priebuss mild-mannered style as a Republican operativebut its one of the things that makes him a potentially dangerous witness: hes sane and credible. Priebus could confirm whether Trump or Comey is telling the truth about the circumstances of the Oval Office meeting, but also shed light on Trumps motives for firing Comey. And of the seven people, aside from Trump and Comey, who attended the fateful meeting, Priebus is the only one not still in the employ of the administration.
If you have any outsiders, someone who is no longer on the team, you want to start with questioning them, on the theory that youll get a more accurate, complete picture, said Sam Buell, a former federal prosecutor who worked on the Enron case and is now a Duke Law professor. Everyone is going to be under oath, but someone who is no longer part of the operation might be more open.
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2017/09/mueller-reince-priebus-russia-investigation
PearliePoo2
(7,768 posts)Sing Reince...SING!
Nail this bastard. Do it for your country and the planet...PLEASE!
Gore1FL
(21,095 posts)I'm not sure that either of those two words would ever have a place in a good description of the man.
jodymarie aimee
(3,975 posts)and all our Rs are batshit crazy dopes...VF doesn't live here !!
Scruffy1
(3,252 posts)Mr.Bill
(24,228 posts)is sane or credible.
Scurrilous
(38,687 posts)politicaljunkie41910
(3,335 posts)eventually blows the whistle on him to Comey. It was said that he had recording devices in Trump Towers and was known to record his conversations, and phone calls so it would have been within his character. I Hope there's a John Dean type out there with knowledge and just waiting to drop that shoe.