Muller has arrested 4x Trump advisors in six months signaling peril ahead for a
White House after six months of work Special Counsel Robert Mueller 3 has
indicted two top advisors to President Donald Trump and accepted guilty pleas
from two others in exchange for their cooperation with his probe into Russian
meddling in the 2016 election a sign of mounting legal peril for the White House
with the guilty plea Friday by former national security adviser Michael Flynn
one of Trump's closest and most valued aides the investigation has swept up an
array of figures with intimate knowledge of the campaign the transition in the
White House it appears to have swiftly expanded beyond Russia's interference in
the campaign to encompass a range of activities including contacts with
Russian officials during the transition and alleged money laundering that took
place long before Trump ran for office and Flynn's agreement to fully cooperate
with investigators suggests that Mueller is not done yet both flynn and george
papadapolis who served as a foreign policy adviser to Trump's campaign
acknowledged lying to the FBI about their contacts with the Russians now
both are cooperating with Mueller according to prosecutors potentially
providing evidence against other Trump aids Mueller has proceeded with
professionalism deliberation and without delay to build a case with a wall of
substance said Richard been finished who is a lead member of the Watergate
special prosecution team this plea today is another brick in that wall Mueller
has moved so swiftly that it has left Trump's team grasping for answers about
how far the probe might ultimately reach along with Flynn and Papadopoulos former
Trump campaign Chairman Paul Manafort and his deputy Rick gates have been
charged with money laundering and other crimes related to political consulting
they did in Ukraine prior to joining Trump's effort they pleaded not guilty
on Friday the news about Flynn's deal broke after the regular senior staff
meeting the White House startling top officials
and leaving many feeling helpless we don't know really what is going on
according to one advisor who speaks to trump often and requested anonymity to
describe private conversations who's that going to implicate what are they
going to say there have been signs for months that Trump was particularly
nervous about the possibility of the investigation in snaring his former
national security former FBI director James Comey testified in June that Trump
urged him in February to back off an investigation of Flynn their one-on-one
conversation in the Oval Office came three weeks after Flynn was interviewed
by FBI agents and lied about his foreign contacts if anyone on the campaign
coordinated with the Russians and their efforts to interfere with the election
Flynn would probably have been aware likewise Flynn spoke to kiss Liang about
new US sanctions imposed on Russia by President Barack Obama in late December
only after discussing the matter with a senior Trump official who had
accompanied him on a trip to his private Morrow Lango club according to the
documents the senior official was Flynn's deputy katie mcfarland according
to two people familiar with the conversation mcfarland who has been
nominated to be ambassador to Singapore did not respond to a request for comment
Muller is now expected to explore a new word in the White House about Flint's
interactions with the Russians and whether any other Trump aids lied about
that knowledge legal experts said Mueller could be looking at whether
Trump's team violated a more than 200 year old law known as the Logan Act that
prohibits private citizens from working with foreign governments against the US
government court filings show that Flynn was actively working to undercut Obama's
foreign policy before formally entering government in consultation with other
Trump officials it sure looks like this is a Logan Act violation said Stephen
Vladek an expert in national security law the University of Texas still use of
the Logan Act which has not been used to prosecute the u.s. citizen since the
Civil War would face strong legal challenges
but Muller has shown a willingness to be aggressive when it comes to using
obscure federal statutes as seen in his use of the foreign agents Registration
Act which is rarely prosecuted in criminal cases Muller charged manna fort
and gates with violating that law aside from the legal implications
Flynn's account could ratchet up the political pressure on the White House
which will now face more questions about why incoming Vice President Mike Pence
chief of staff Rian's Priebus and then spokesman Sean Spicer insisted that
Flynn did not discuss sanctions with kis lyac when other senior officials knew
otherwise at the time of Flynn's conversations with the Russian
ambassador Obama was weighing how to respond to the US intelligence
community's conclusion that Russian President Vladimir Putin had ordered
cyber hacking and propaganda operations to help Trump win the White House in
those same weeks Obama's team had been discussing what to do about the failure
to jumpstart israeli-palestinian peace negotiations that question abruptly
required an answer on December 21st when Egypt unexpectedly introduced a UN
Security Council resolution criticizing Isreal for its West Bank settlements and
called for a vote the next day on both issues the policies chosen by Obama ran
counter to those preferred by Trump and his team but long-standing US tradition
supported by the Logan Act has held that a president-elect take a back seat to
the serving president until after taking the oath of office on December 28th
Obama announced the expulsion of 35 Russian intelligence officials from this
country and the closure of two Russian diplomatic facilities as punishment for
what US intelligence said was Moscow's interference in the election events
surrounding the December 23rd Security Council vote condemning Israeli
settlements as illegal mark the most overt interference in u.s. foreign
policy by the Trump team in Trump personally between his election and
inauguration Egypt's abrupt introduction of the resolution on December 21st in
the scheduling of a vote for the next day took much of the council
in the obama administration by surprise as obama consulted with aides on the US
vote israeli officials mobilized to head off passage Trump's position was the
same as Israel's the resolution should be vetoed he tweeted before dawn on
December 22nd according to court documents that same day the senior
official directed Flint to contact foreign leaders including from Russia
and urge them to do what Obama had decided the United States would not
oppose the resolution or at least delay it Trump himself called Egyptian
president Abdel Fattah al-sisi to discuss the resolution the Egyptians
announced at the time at first Trump's scam but appeared to have worked
just before the vote was to take place Egypt withdrew the resolution but by the
next morning it had been reintroduced by New Zealand and other co-sponsors and a
vote was quickly held the United States abstained and the resolution was adopted
with the vote of all other fourteen Security Council members Trump publicly
fumed tweeting we cannot continue to let Israel be treated with such total
disdain and disrespect
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