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President Donald Trump took to Twitter Saturday to again lambast Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s “Rigged Witch Hunt” investigation into claimed Russian meddling and collusion in the 2016 election.

Prosecutors for special counsel Robert Mueller asked a federal court Friday to bar the defense for Paul Manafort from arguing charges against their client were brought because of his role in Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign.

Not only is the IG Report rife with evidence of outrageous political bias and actions based on that, but it also reveals evidence that warrants independent counsel to conduct a thorough, criminal investigation of everyone involved in the farcical Clinton email investigation at the Department of Justice and the FBI for their conspiracy and obstruction of justice.

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) suggested Friday that special counsel Robert Mueller should conclude his investigation into collusion between Russia and Trump campaign officials.

President Donald Trump again hit the ongoing Russia investigation by Special Counsel Robert Mueller, calling it a “pile of garbage.”

Sunday on CBS’s “Face the Nation,” former Whitewater independent counsel Ken Starr told host Margaret Brennan that President Donald Trump had the authority to fire special counsel Robert Mueller if he saw fit. Starr said the question of firing Mueller would

Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s team of lawyers reportedly asked witnesses to hand over their phones for inspection of possible encrypted communications between individuals with ties to President Donald Trump. 

The Justice Department’s (DOJ) Special Counsel’s Office (SCO), under which Robert Mueller and his “Russia investigation” operate, issued its required biannual spending report, showing a significant increase in the investigation’s spending rate.

17 Republican lawmakers, led by Rep. Lee Zeldin (R-NY), submitted a resolution on Tuesday demanding a second special counsel probe “misconduct,” by Justice Department and FBI officials in relation to surveillance of Donald Trump’s 2016 campaign and handling of the Hillary Clinton email probe.

President Donald Trump’s attorney Rudy Giuliani told Fox News on Wednesday that special counsel Robert Mueller notified Trump’s legal team two weeks ago that he will not indict the president.

Robert Mueller has served grand jury subpoenas to a social media consultant with ties to longtime Trump ally Roger Stone, in yet another sign that the Special Counsel investigation of Russian election interference may be far from over.

President Donald Trump ridiculed special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigators looking for possible charges of obstruction of justice, calling such accusations “nonsense.”

Ty Cobb may have been the right lawyer to handle an investigation. He was clearly the wrong man to stop an attempted coup.

“There was no Collusion (it is a Hoax) and there is no Obstruction of Justice (that is a setup & trap),” he wrote on Twitter.

The New York Times published a list of questions Monday that, it said, were prepared by Special Counsel Robert Mueller to ask President Donald Trump. One of them, oddly, referred to a long-debunked conspiracy theory about the 2016 Republican Party platform.

White House lawyer Ty Cobb was reportedly overheard discussing President Donald Trump’s legal affairs in public — again.

During Monday’s White House Press Briefing, White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders declared, “we have no intention of firing the special counsel.” Sanders said, “As we’ve said many times before, we have no intention of firing the special counsel. We’ve

“Really, does everybody know what that means?” he wrote on Twitter.

Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein told President Trump last week he is not a target of any part of the special counsel probe or the investigation into his lawyer Michael Cohen, according to Bloomberg.

Jackie Mason digs into the real reason that Special Counsel Robert Mueller just can’t let his investigation into President Trump go.

“I have full confidence in Ty Cobb, my Special Counsel, and have been fully advised throughout each phase of this process,” Trump wrote on Twitter on Thursday.

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg on Tuesday confirmed that Facebook is working with the special counsel investigating Russian meddling in the 2016 election and potential collusion with the Trump campaign.

Left-wing documentary filmmaker Michael Moore penned a lengthy Facebook post this week taunting President Donald Trump and daring him to fire special counsel Robert Mueller.

The FBI raided President Trump’s personal lawyer Michael Cohen’s office, home, and hotel room on Monday, seizing documents related to several issues, including payments to porn star Stormy Daniels.

A federal court judge in Washington on Tuesday sentenced London-based Dutch attorney Alex van der Zwaan to 30 days of jail time for lying to the special counsel. It was the first sentence to stem from the investigation.

Attorney General Jeff Sessions sent a letter in reply to a group of leading Republicans on Thursday, indicating he would not be appointing a special counsel to investigate certain aspects of the FBI’s handling of probes into Russian election interference.

John Dowd, the lead attorney representing President Donald Trump in dealing with Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into alleged collusion with Russia in the 2016 presidential campaign, has resigned.

Momentum is building for a second special counsel to investigate the handling of the Trump-Russia investigation by senior officials at the Justice Department and the Federal Bureau of Investigations.

Special counsel Robert Mueller has focused on events since the election — not during the campaign — in his conversations with President Trump’s lawyers, Axios reported Monday. 

Special Counsel Robert Mueller recently subpoenaed the Trump Organization for any documents related to Russia and other topics he is investigating, according to a report in the New York Times.

The House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence has concluded its Russia probe, but the committee’s Senate counterpart is continuing forward with its investigation.

Attorney General Jeff Sessions appointed prosecutors in 2017 to investigate matters Congress referred to the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) as growing scandals possibly involved criminal activities. These prosecutors will report directly back to Sessions, who told Fox News on Wednesday night that he will then decide whether a second special prosecutor is necessary to take these matters to court.

During an interview aired on Wednesday’s “Fox News @ Night,” Attorney General Jeff Sessions stated that the Department of Justice will “consider seriously” the request made by House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-VA) and Representative Trey Gowdy (R-SC) for a

Wednesday on Fox News Channel’s “America’s Newsroom,” Rep. Trey Gowdy (R-SC), chairman of the House Oversight Committee, told host Bill Hemmer he saw the appointment of a special counsel to investigate potential wrongdoing at the Department of Justice as the

Special counsel Robert Mueller is charging an attorney who communicated with former Trump campaign adviser Rick Gates with making false statements to federal officials, according to an indictment released Tuesday.

Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s interest in Jared Kushner is extending beyond his contacts with Russia, and now includes his efforts to secure financing for his company from foreign investors during the presidential transition.