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The special counsels attention to this schemewhich was brought to the office by a woman claiming she herself had been offered money to make up sexual harassment claims against Muellerand its decision to release a rare statement about it to reporters indicates the seriousness with which the office is taking the purported scheme to discredit Mueller in the middle of an ongoing investigation.
The special counsels office confirmed that the scheme was brought to its attention by several journalists who were told about it by a woman alleging that she herself had been offered roughly $20,000 by a GOP activist named Jack Burkman to make accusations of sexual misconduct and workplace harassment against Robert Mueller. The woman told journalists that she had worked for Mueller as a paralegal at the Pillsbury, Madison, and Sutro law firm in 1974. The firm has not returned a request for comment about whether the woman actually worked there.
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2018/10/special-counsel-refers-scheme-targeting-mueller-to-fbi/574411/
Hekate
(90,793 posts)Fullduplexxx
(7,870 posts)GOP school board member busted for Facebook plot to accuse the 2020 Dem presidential nominee...
GOP school board member busted for Facebook plot to accuse the 2020 Dem presidential nominee of sexual assault
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100211311186
Initech
(100,102 posts)OMGWTF
(3,975 posts)RockRaven
(14,998 posts)on which, 1 hour ago, he said he would be having a press conference at some Holiday Inn on Thursday Nov 1 at which "we will reveal the first of Special Counsel Robert Mueller's sex assault victims."
I wonder if he knows yet that the FBI is investigating his BS. He's either very dumb or very brave if he goes through with that presser.
Brother Buzz
(36,463 posts)Brother Buzz
(36,463 posts)He's the ass that turned the murder of Seth Rich upside down and shoved it right into the white-wing conspiracy realm.
Midnightwalk
(3,131 posts)Doesn't matter if it's completely bogus. We need to be in front of it. Obstruction sure, but the reason for doing it now is to influence the election.
The investigation has netted over a dozen convictions of trumps closest advisers. Nothing they do should change us stating that fact.
gratuitous
(82,849 posts)Looks like the ratfuckers are getting to the bottom of their bag of very old tricks. They'd better come up with some new ones, because the last thing the Republicans want is a fair fight.
Scurrilous
(38,687 posts)2naSalit
(86,775 posts)A perp walk to follow.
Initech
(100,102 posts)Salviati
(6,008 posts)You simply need to look at the misdeeds they accuse others of. They are not creative people, and they assume that everyone else is as vile as they are.
unitedwethrive
(1,997 posts)SunSeeker
(51,697 posts)scheming daemons
(25,487 posts)FakeNoose
(32,748 posts).... or Trump (please God, please!)
Somebody high up in the GOP has to be behind this stupid scam. I'm not worried for Mueller, but this is just ridiculous. Somebody will land in jail for this.
dchill
(38,532 posts)malaise
(269,157 posts)Never think you can outsmart the intelligence folks or the media,
The Con is over - lock him up.