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Charlamagne tha God: America has zero protection from people like Donald Trump
At 6:54 a.m. on Thursday, President Donald Trump continued his onslaught against special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election.
“Did you ever see an investigation more in search of a crime? At the same time Mueller and the Angry Democrats aren’t even looking at the atrocious, and perhaps subversive, crimes that were committed by Crooked Hillary Clinton and the Democrats. A total disgrace!”
“When will this illegal Joseph McCarthy style Witch Hunt, one that has shattered so many innocent lives, ever end-or will it just go on forever? After wasting more than $40,000,000 (is that possible?), it has proven only one thing-there was NO Collusion with Russia. So Ridiculous!”
This is, of course, standard fare for Trump – although the pace of his attacks have ramped up of late as Mueller appears to be tightening his grip on those close to Trump.
Amid Trump’s rhetorical rapid-fire, it’s easy to lose sight of the actual facts here. And those facts paint a very different picture from the one Trump is trying to push.
3. Among those seven are: Cohen (Trump’s former personal lawyer and fixer), Paul Manafort (former Trump campaign chairman), Rick Gates (former deputy campaign chairman) and Michael Flynn (former national security adviser). These are not low-level underlings.
4. Manafort, who is accused of breaking his plea deal by lying to Mueller’s team, was convicted by a jury of his peers for his pre-Trump campaign work with the Ukrainian government.
5. Mueller was appointed as special counsel on May 17, 2017. That’s 18 months ago. That’s far shorter than other high-profile special investigations like it – including Whitewater and Iran Contra, both of which lasted more than six years.
6. The direct costs that Congress has allocated for the special counsel’s office is $10.4 million for fiscal year 2017 and $10.4 million for fiscal year 2018, which runs through September 2019. So the direct cost of the investigation could – if the probe last until next September – be north of $20 million. Not $40 million.
7. Three people – Alex van der Zwaan, Richard Pinedo and George Papadopoulos – have been sentenced to prison as a result of the Mueller investigation.