The role foreign money may have played
The special counsel, Robert S. Mueller III, has subpoenaed the Trump Organization to turn over documents, including some related to Russia, according to two people briefed on the matter. The order is the first known instance of the special counsel demanding records directly related to President Trump’s businesses, bringing the investigation closer to the president.
It was delivered “in recent weeks,” Michael Schmidt and Maggie Haberman say vaguely. It orders the Trump Organization to hand over all records related to Russia and other topics of the investigation.
Word of the subpoena comes as Mr. Mueller appears to be broadening his investigation to examine the role foreign money may have played in funding Mr. Trump’s political activities. In recent weeks, Mr. Mueller’s investigators have questioned witnesses, including an adviser to the United Arab Emirates, about the flow of Emirati money into the United States.
Well somebody damn well has to.
Mr. Mueller could run afoul of a line the president has warned him not to cross. Though it is not clear how much of the subpoena is related to Mr. Trump’s business beyond ties to Russia, Mr. Trump said in an interview with The New York Times in July that the special counsel would be crossing a “red line” if he looked into his family’s finances beyond any relationship with Russia. The president declined to say how he would respond if he concluded that the special counsel had crossed that line.
It’s not clear why Trump thinks he gets to declare what the lines are. He’s not a dictator or a king.
Mr. Trump’s lawyers are in negotiations with Mr. Mueller’s office about whether and how to allow his investigators to interview the president. Mr. Mueller’s office has shared topics it wants to discuss with the president, according to two people familiar with the talks. The lawyers have advised Mr. Trump to refuse an interview but the president wants to do it, as he believes he has done nothing wrong and can easily answer investigators’ questions.
Good.
Maybe this is why he’s been even crazier than usual.
Well he’s been having so many reasons lately – that whole thing with the security clearances, and his body man being escorted out of the WH without even being allowed to collect his stuff, and the steady flow of indictments.
No, but he’s a thug and a bully, and he’s using bullying techniques. They’ve been useful to him his whole life, so why not now?
“…as he believes he has done nothing wrong and can easily answer investigators’ questions.”
Just like he believes that the US has a trade defecit with Canada.
This should go wel…