90 Miles From Tyranny

Friday, December 28, 2018

Giuliani calls for Mueller to be investigated for destruction of FBI evidence

Rudy Giuliani has an unmistakable New Year’s message for special counsel Robert Mueller: It is time for the chief investigator in the Russia case to be investigated in 2019.

In wide-ranging interviews with Hill.TV’s Buck Sexton and me on Wednesday and Thursday, President Trump’s defense lawyer pointedly accused Mueller’s office of destroying evidence by allowing text messages from now-fired FBI official Peter Strzok and his FBI lover, Lisa Page, to be erased in the Russia probe.

“Mueller should be investigated for destruction of evidence for allowing those text messages from Strzok to be erased, messages that would show the state of mind and tactics of his lead anti-Trump FBI agent at the start of his probe,” Giuliani said.

The Justice Department inspector general (IG) reported this month that it found large gaps in the preservation of official government text messages between Strzok and Page, the two top FBI agents who helped to start the Russia probe in 2016, who were having an affair at the time, and who expressed disdain for Trump.

The report said a technical glitch was to blame for the FBI’s failure to save those text messages, but the IG was able to recover more than 19,000 from the early part of the Russia probe before Mueller was...

Former CNN host Soledad O'Brien lashed out at Fox News' Brit Hume after he mocked her for a failed attempt to criticize President Donald Trump for not visiting the troops right before it was revealed he had done so.

The online interaction happened after the media criticized the president for failing to visit U.S. troops during Christmas - a day later it was revealed that he had indeed done so.

Hume was responding to a tweet from Hollywood actress Alyssa Milano criticizing the president by claiming, "Trump becomes first president since 2002 not to visit troops at Christmastime."

"By the time this was posted," Hume responded, "the President and Mrs. Trump were in Iraq with the troops."

O'Brien replied, "Shaming him seems to work," implying that the president had visited the troops after facing online criticism like the tweet from Milano.

"Genius take..."

Hume mocked the suggestion in a second tweet.

"Yes, Ma'am," Hume agreed jokingly. "Trump read this tweet when it was posted and time-traveled himself back to yesterday and flew to Iraq."

"Genius take," he added.

O'Brien lashed out at Hume in another response attempting to salvage her snarky criticism.

"Sorry—let me spell it out more slowly so you can understand me: the President (according to cnn's Barabar [sic] Starr) prepped for this trip several weeks ago," O'Brien tweeted.