America Should not Tolerate the Unhinged Monstrosity That Is the Mueller Probe

TODAY'S NEWS IS ABOUT A NICE MAN AND A MONSTROUSLY OVERREACHING MUELLER. Who can possibly accept that in America anything as outrageous as this could happen to anyone. • • • JEROME CORSI FELONY-PERJURY-TRAPPED FOR FORGETTING. It was Fox News's Tucker Carlson who had the best commentary on the sordid affair : "For the crime of forgetting, Jerome Corsi is facing bankruptcy and imprisonment." • The video of Carlson and Corsi discussing his treatment by Mueller is imbedded at < https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/tucker-carlson-for-the-crime-of-forgetting-jerome-corsi-is-facing-bankruptcy-and-imprisonment?cmpid=NL_opinion >. • As Tucker Carlson points out, "Jerome Corsi is 72-years-old. He has a Ph.D. in political science from Harvard. He has written two New York Times bestsellers about politics. He is the kind of person who could, and probably should be happily retired by now. Instead, he's facing felony charges from Robert Mueller." • Carlson asks and answers : "How did this happen? Earlier this year, the independent counsel subpoenaed Corsi and seized his laptop and personal phone. They had all of his communications. They know exactly what he did and didn’t say. In September Corsi was summoned to an interview with prosecutors. They asked him if he'd ever tried to broker a meeting with Julian Assange in London. Corsi responded, no. 'I didn’t want anyone to see Assange.' So the prosecutors left the room to confer after Corsi said that. They returned and informed Corsi that he'd just committed a felony. On Corsi’s laptop was an email chain -- from more than two years before -- in which he had been asked to contact Assange. Corsi forwarded that email to someone else. Nothing ever came of any of this. And, again, the independent counsel would know, because they have Corsi’s laptop and phone. They know that Corsi never left the United States and never spoke to Julian Assange. Corsi said he forgot all about forwarding the email. For the crime of forgetting, he is facing bankruptcy and imprisonment." • That is Robert Mueller at work -- ruthlessly at work. • Tucker Carlson says none of us -- not even Robert Mueller -- would survive "under the same standard he set up for Jerome Corsi. Mueller is 74-years-old. What if the next special prosecutor seized his personal computer and interrogated him about every email he'd ever sent -- or forwarded -- going back years? He'd probably be able to remember some of it. But all of it, to the letter? Keep in mind, the slightest mistake would mean prison time. Would that be justice? Or would it be its opposite?" • Roger Stone, who is the Daily Caller's Men's Fashion Editor, wrote a letter published by the Daily Caller on Tuesday, that states : "My friend Dr. Jerry [Jerome] Corsi is being harassed by the special counsel, not for lying, but for refusing to lie. It is inconceivable that in America, someone would be prosecuted for refusing to swear to a false narrative pushed on him by Robert Mueller’s team of investigators. However, according to new media reports, Dr. Corsi received “limited-use immunity” to testify that he worked with me to develop an after-the-fact cover for my now-iconic Aug. 21, 2016 tweet about John Podesta and his brother, Tony, in which I stated it would “it will soon be the Podesta’s time in the barrel.” The idea that we developed any such story is completely devoid of logic. At the time, that tweet went completely unnoticed and unreported. I did not need anything to deflect attention. I steadfastly maintain that Jerry, who had been researching the Podesta brothers, brought their business dealings to my attention, and that is what prompted my tweet. I asked him if he would write it up, and he agreed. It took him until around the end of August to do so. Go back and look at the reporting at the time. It was not until after the Podesta emails were released that my tweet got any attention. If the reports are true, Jerry is simply mistaken that what we discussed was a cover. Ask yourself: a cover for what? In August 2016, there was no investigation, no special counsel, no congressional committees, and no subpoenas. Why would a cover story be necessary? According to published media reports, Mueller’s team is contending that Jerry had advance information about emails to and from Hillary Clinton Campaign Chairman John Podesta that had been purloined and would be published by Wikileaks. If Jerry ever deduced as much, he did not share that conclusion with me. Our discussions were limited to the research he had been doing on the money and business ties that John Podesta and his brother, Tony Podesta, had with Russian oligarchs in gas, banking and uranium and who were also tied to Russian President Vladimir Putin. I never received advance notice, from anyone, that Podesta’s emails had been “nicked,” as the Brits would say, and would be published. Any and all research I received from Dr. Corsi came from public legal sources. As Dr. Corsi has also said, I have no knowledge of any contact or communication with Wikileaks or its founder, Julian Assange, by Dr. Corsi. The facts are clear. Mueller’s team is subjecting Corsi, an innocent American journalist engaged in First Amendment activities, to high-pressure gulag tactics reserved for violent organized crime (mafia) associates. These partisan 'prosecutors' are determined to prove a false narrative. Corsi told One America News that Mueller wanted him to say he was my conduit to Assange, and that I passed allegedly stolen or hacked emails to Donald Trump or the Trump campaign. Corsi said he refused to say it because that statement would have been false. Despite all this, media reports indicate that Mueller deputy Jeannie Rhee, a former lawyer for the Clinton Foundation, ridiculed and badgered Dr. Corsi -- a 72-year-old man -- over 40 hours of interrogation. Ironically, this all comes at the same time that Democrats nationally argue that Acting Attorney General Matt Whitaker should recuse himself because of his private political activities. Nothing could show the hypocrisy and the persistence of this hit squad more clearly." • Corsi instructed his legal team on Wednesday to file a criminal complaint against ‘Mueller’s special counsel’ and the Department of Justice, alleging prosecutorial misconduct. Corsi said in a tweet that he retained attorney Larry Klayman, the founder of the conservative Judicial Watch, who later left and founded Freedom Watch. Corsi told Fox News' Tucker Carlson on Tuesday that Mueller's investigators accused him of lying after he didn’t "give them what they wanted." He elaborated further Wednesday when talking with Sean Hannity : "My experience made it clear to me that political criminals are running the Department of Justice and Mueller’s prosecution. I was ridiculed; my testimony was laughed at; they yawned at it; they misbehaved. They accused me of being a liar and a fabricator." Corsi thinks that investigators hoped that he would admit to a connection with WikiLeaks' Julian Assange. The connection would bolster their Russian collusion investigation, he said. A link between Corsi and Assange would make it easy to tie in President Trump's former Trump advisor Roger Stone, he said. Corsi rejected a deal with investigators that would have required him to plead guilty to perjury. He said he could not lie to something he knew to be false, even if it meant living out his life in prison. A draft court filing prepared as part of the rejected plea deal, which Corsi has provided to multiple media outlets, said Corsi notified Trump advisor Stone in August 2016 that WikiLeaks intended to release information damaging to Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign. Corsi said he had "figured out that Assange had Podesta’s emails. I figured that out and told Roger Stone and told many people in August and it just happened that I was right." The DOJ has not commented, but Bloomberg reported that Klayman said in an email that he is preparing to file a complaint with Acting Attorney General Matthew Whitaker and two units within the DOJ. • Can anyone -- especially any lawyer -- justify Robert Mueller's jackboot tactics? He has soiled the legal profession, the FBI, the already badly damaged idea of special counsel, and the Department of Justice that continues to let him wreak havoc on the American justice system and its ideals of fair play and rule of law. • • • MUELLER, SWAMP CREATURE PAR EXCELLENCE. Jerome Corsi is just the latest of Mueller's victims. Before him, there was General Michael Flynn and Carter Page and George Papadopoulos and Michael Cohen. They are all friends or advisors or just poor unwitting political slobs who happened to wander into the Trump campaign looking for instant fame or actually trying to help. That common thread is so obvious that nobody can refute it -- because the real victim, the man whose blood and head on a platter Mueller is salivating to get is Donald Trump. • I leave out Paul Manafort. He is of another universe. The one thing we could say, until now, about Manafort is that his crimes -- for if he did what he has admitted to doing he has committed criminal offenses -- should have been immediately forwarded to a federal prosecutor with no connection to the Mueller "collusion" probe. What Paul Manafort is dealing with is a past that included working for the now-deposed Russian-backed president of Ukraine. He undoubtedly made a lot of money in his role, even if, as he has said, he only worked to help the Ukrainian president get Ukraine into a closer relationship with the European Union. His problems arose in trying to hide at least some of that money by not reporting it to the IRS and by failing to register as the agent of a foreign entity. While it is Manafort's connection to the Trump campaign that got him into trouble with Mueller, his misdeeds have nothing to do with President Trump. As I wrote in a long-ago blog, I leave Paul Manafort to his own particular demons and guilts. • But, now, even Paul Manafort has fallen into the Mueller felony-lie trap. Mueller has charged Manafort with lying to his investigators after he entered into a plea bargain arrangement under which he was to cooperate fully with Mueller's team. A report Tuesday in the UK Guardian claims that Manafort met with WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange a few months before the group leaked the hacked emails of Hillary Clinton campaign chair John Podesta. It's a potentially explosive revelation that Manafort has DENIED : " I have never met Julian Assange or anyone connected to him. I have never been contacted by anyone connected to Wikileaks, either directly or indirectly. I have never reached out to Assange or Wikileaks on any matter." BUT, in a court filing Monday, Mueller's team alleged that Manafort had lied to investigators, asking the judge to move immediately to sentencing. They also said they would provide a “detailed sentencing submission,” outlining “the nature of the defendant’s crimes and lies.” In other words, Mueller plans to quickly issue a “report” on Manafort’s activities, one that will be more informed, more knowledgeable, and more detailed than any we has thus far seen in the Manafort cases. We should be careful in judging Manafort's denial because Mueller knows has apparently caught Manafort twice already in lies -- when he tried to deny ghostwriting an op-ed supporting himself and then prosecutors showed the court the Microsoft Word track changes edits he’d made; and, when he tried to align his story with a witness and Mueller’s team hit him with witness tampering charges and showed the court his encrypted text messaging conversations. Tread lightly on anything relating to Paul Manafort. • Mueller’s team has apparently been laser-focused since the spring on President Trump's friend Roger Stone, who has said for months that he expects to be indicted. Stone is suspected of having contact with WikiLeaks, potentially relating to the hacked Podesta emails, before the emails were released. That is the only reason Mueller was interested in Jerome Corsi, but Corsi became the first victim to cry "foul" by refusing to enter into a plea bargain under Mueller(s terms that include what Corsi says would be admitting to lies. That probably leaves Mueller with less muscle in attacking Stone, and it may make the Stone indictment either weaker or unfiled. The other aspect of the Stone-Corsi attack is Mueller's reported efforts to indict Assange himself. Assange has lived at the Ecuadorian embassy in London since 2012 in self-imposed exile to avoid potential criminal charges. The ambassador who has helped protect and negotiate on Assange’s behalf since 2015 was removed from office last week by Ecuador’s president, following many staff who have left the embssy service after supporting Assange over the years. WikiLeaks tweeted Thursday : “All diplomats known to Assange have now been terminated to transferred away from the embassy.” And, in a rather ominous tweet, WikiLeaks said that Assange’s lawyers have now been barred from visiting him. Has Equador quasi-abandoned Assange because it knows he is going to be indicted by the US on criminal charges? • AND, Mueller has finally received President Trump's written answers to questions put to him by Mueller’s investigators. • ABC News recently reported that Mueller's team has filed an abnormally large number -- 36 or so -- sealed indictments in DC federal court in 2018, and 14 of those sealed indictments have been added to court records since August. The special counsel is building toward something. • Alan Dershowitz told Fox News on Thursday that : "President Donald Trump's former attorney Michael Cohen's decision to plead guilty to lying to Congress about work he did on a Trump real estate deal on Russia shows special counsel Robert Mueller is 'making all of his decisions based on false statements,' and that the plea could also mean a perjury trap for the President himself. Harvard Law Professor Emeritus Dershowitz said : "He [Cohen] is admitting to making false statements. His credibility as a witness diminishes. The question is whether he will say what others have said about buildings in Moscow or whether or not that constitutes any kind of criminal activity. I find it very hard to define." But, Dershowitz says that the Cohen plea could even mean a "perjury trap" for Trump himself : "They are going to comb through every one of his answers and see if they can come up with anybody who can contradict anything the President said," referring to written answers Trump has given Mueller in the case, "That is why it is called perjury. Even if the President believes what he said was true, if somebody will contradict it, then the President can be charged with lying to government officials, which is the equivalent of perjury." Dershowitz explained that this makes it dangerous for President Trump or anyone who is the subject of an investigation to answer questions from prosecutors, as they can "get evidence that they can use to show contradictions." Professor Dershowitz added that Thursday's guilty plea means Mueller's report is not quite ready to release, if the investigators are still filling blanks : "They have lost Paul Manafort as a witness. Of course, he is unlikely to be a witness...they are probably hustling to try to get a new witness to fill some of those gaps." Meanwhile, Mueller's case has never been very strong against the President, according to Dershowitz, and Cohen won't be a good witness because of his own "history of questionable conduct...I think they are going to look to see if they can get some information that can be corroborated." • • • DEAR READERS, American Patriot Daily wrote an article on Wednesday about how Mueller did his best to corner President Trump. APD says : "He hoped to provoke a massive legal fight that would lead to Trump’s downfall. But instead he walked right into a trap that sealed his own doom....Trump turned in written answers to Mueller’s questions about the Russian collusion hoax. But he did not answer any questions regarding Mueller’s attempts to frame him for obstruction of justice. And he does not plan to sit for an interview." • President Trump’s personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani told the leftist Axios in an exclusive interview exactly why Mueller would be likely to lose an obstruction of justice case : “I don’t think he has any way to compel testimony on obstruction because the argument of executive privilege would be very, very strong. It all relates to a period of time after he was President.” Giuliani added that Mueller has other sources of information to get Trump’s explanations for his actions : “Any question he has on obstruction....the President has given [the answers] in interviews, tweets. Other witnesses have given it to him....And the law definitely requires that if you’re going to subpoena a President, you have to show that you can’t get the information any place else.” • As for "collusion" with Russia, Giuliani also told Axios that he believes Mueller has no evidence of Russian collusion : “I don’t think they have any evidence of collusion of any kind. I think their obstruction case, as a legal matter, doesn’t exist.” • Giuliani said that Mueller questions for Trump were in two areas : Did Trump know ahead of time about the meeting between Donald Trump, Jr. and a group of Russians at Trump Tower in June 2016, and about Trump’s joke in July 2016 about the Russians finding Hillary Clinton’s 30,000 missing emails. We remember that during a campaign rally, Trump said, “Russia, if you’re listening, I hope you’re able to find the 30,000 [Hillary Clinton] emails that are missing.” The Fake news media inflated that obvious joke into “evidence” that Trump colluded with the Russians. But, anyone who watched his comment could tell that candidate Trump was joking. However, Mueller and his junkyard dogs -- 17 angry Democrats -- used the joke as an excuse to ruin the lives of Trump allies -- Flynn, Page, Papadopoulos, Cohen -- and waste tens of millions of dollars investigating the President. • "This [Mueller] investigation is a complete failure. The purpose was to investigate a conspiracy between the Trump campaign or the President and the Russians. There is absolutely no evidence of that in any of the cases that he has brought." That's what former US Attorney Joseph diGenova told Fox News' Laura Ingraham on Wednesday night. • Will somebody pull the plug on the real joke -- a sick joke -- and get rid of Robert Mueller and his Fake and unhinged investigation.