11-08-2018, 03:11 PM
As covered in other threads, Attorney General Jeff Sessions was forced to resign yesterday. President Trump had long disparaged Sessions for recusing himself from the Russian Interference investigation due to conflicts of interest.
The new interim Attorney General is Sessions' chief of staff and reported Justice Dept snitch to the President, Matthew Whitaker, pictured below.
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Whitaker has made public comments about how the Special Counsel could be stymied by a new Attorney General who could cut off all the funding to Mueller's team and grind the investigation to a halt.
I don't think that will happen under Whitaker or anyone else, personally. The Mueller investigation has already produced too much documented evidence, indictments, and convictions.
Anyway, now that the Democrats control the House of Representatives and its subpoena/investigative powers, the remaining pieces of the investigation could be picked up there if the Executive influences the Justice Dept to quash Mueller.
The new interim Attorney General is Sessions' chief of staff and reported Justice Dept snitch to the President, Matthew Whitaker, pictured below.
Whitaker has made public comments about how the Special Counsel could be stymied by a new Attorney General who could cut off all the funding to Mueller's team and grind the investigation to a halt.
I don't think that will happen under Whitaker or anyone else, personally. The Mueller investigation has already produced too much documented evidence, indictments, and convictions.
Anyway, now that the Democrats control the House of Representatives and its subpoena/investigative powers, the remaining pieces of the investigation could be picked up there if the Executive influences the Justice Dept to quash Mueller.