Mueller prosecutor once said that if Republicans 'retain the House, we all need to retain criminal lawyers' because they're 'batsh*t''
As the special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation was picking up speed in 2018, Jeannie Rhee, a prosecutor on his team, warned that if Republicans maintained control of the House of Representatives after that year's midterm elections,"we all need to retain criminal lawyers."
As Mueller's investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 US election gained steam in 2017 and 2018,"one thing that the whole office soon realized was that the third act in this play would be an inevitable investigation of us, by the Trump administration, when our investigation was complete," Weissmann wrote."Trump would surely try to undermine every move we had made in order to burnish his standing and consolidate his power.
Rhee's comment turned out to be prescient. In the months since Mueller's team finished its work, Attorney General William Barr has directed multiple internal inquiries into the special counsel's investigation, even though the Justice Department's inspector general determined that the FBI was authorized to launch it and that the agency's actions were not motivated by political bias.
"The leader of the free world has asked the Department of Justice to go after Democrats, has advocated the indictment of Comey, McCabe, Strzok, and others, and even accused Mueller of perjury," Weissmann wrote, referring to former FBI Director James Comey, former Deputy Director Andrew McCabe, and the former special agent Peter Strzok.
Ultimately, Mueller's team did not find sufficient evidence to charge anyone on the Trump campaign with conspiracy, the special counsel's final report on the investigation said. However, Mueller's team indicted 34 people and three Russian entities, and those indictments resulted in seven guilty pleas and five prison sentences for crimes that included obstruction of justice, lying to the FBI, and computer hacking.
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