{"id":101699,"date":"2018-07-29T22:24:58","date_gmt":"2018-07-30T02:24:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=101699"},"modified":"2018-07-30T06:00:01","modified_gmt":"2018-07-30T10:00:01","slug":"trumps-factually-accurate-history-with-mueller-disqualifies-him-as-special-counsel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=101699","title":{"rendered":"Trump&#8217;s Long History With Mueller Disqualifies Him as Special Counsel"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 class=\"article\">Trump Slams Mueller Probe, Details Conflicts of Interest<\/h1>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_101701\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/GetFile-4.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-101701\" class=\"size-full wp-image-101701\" src=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/GetFile-4.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/GetFile-4.jpg 600w, https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/GetFile-4-300x250.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-101701\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">President Donald Trump (Photo by Alex Wong\/Getty Images)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>By Solange Reyner<br \/>\nNEWSMAX<\/p>\n<div id=\"p_lt_zoneContent_pageplaceholder_p_lt_zoneLeft_NewsmaxArticleLayout_pnl\" class=\"artPgMnStryWrapper\">\n<div id=\"mainArticleDiv\">\n<p>President Donald Trump ripped into Special Counsel Robert Mueller&#8217;s Russia probe, which he referred to as a\u00a0\u201cRigged Witch Hunt,\u201d and slammed the special counsel for not releasing his conflicts of interest with the president.<\/p>\n<p>The president detailed the conflicts for the first time: \u201cWe had a very nasty &amp; contentious business relationship, I turned him down to head the FBI (one day before appointment as S.C.) &amp; (James) Comey is his close friend.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/01\/25\/us\/politics\/trump-mueller-special-counsel-russia.html\"><strong>New York Times in January<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0reported that Trump ordered Mueller fired from his role as special counsel in part because of three conflicts of interest: Mueller in 2011 had a dispute over fees at Trump\u2019s National Golf Club in Sterling, Virginia, and still held a grudge against Trump over the matter (per the report), Mueller previously worked for a law firm that represented Jared Kushner and Mueller was interviewed to return for a second stint as FBI director immediately before being appointed as special counsel in May.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">There is No Collusion! The Robert Mueller Rigged Witch Hunt, headed now by 17 (increased from 13, including an Obama White House lawyer) Angry Democrats, was started by a fraudulent Dossier, paid for by Crooked Hillary and the DNC. Therefore, the Witch Hunt is an illegal Scam!<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realDonaldTrump\/status\/1023653191974625280?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 29, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Is Robert Mueller ever going to release his conflicts of interest with respect to President Trump, including the fact that we had a very nasty &amp; contentious business relationship, I turned him down to head the FBI (one day before appointment as S.C.) &amp; Comey is his close friend..<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realDonaldTrump\/status\/1023662510371741696?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 29, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">&#8230;.Also, why is Mueller only appointing Angry Dems, some of whom have worked for Crooked Hillary, others, including himself, have worked for Obama&#8230;.And why isn\u2019t Mueller looking at all of the criminal activity &amp; real Russian Collusion on the Democrats side-Podesta, Dossier?<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realDonaldTrump\/status\/1023664624259014656?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 29, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The investigation, referred to as an &#8220;illegal scam&#8221; by Trump, is &#8220;headed now by 17 (increased from 13, including an Obama White House lawyer) Angry Democrats, was started by a fraudulent Dossier, paid for by Crooked Hillary and the DNC.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The &#8220;13 angry Democrats&#8221; appears to refer to employees in the special counsel&#8217;s office who have registered with the party or have given money to Democratic candidates.<\/p>\n<p>___<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsmax.com\/politics\/special-counsel-robert-mueller-donald-trump-russia\/2018\/07\/29\/id\/874394\/\">http:\/\/www.newsmax.com\/politics\/special-counsel-robert-mueller-donald-trump-russia\/2018\/07\/29\/id\/874394\/<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trump Slams Mueller Probe, Details Conflicts of Interest<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-101699","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101699","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=101699"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101699\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=101699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=101699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=101699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}