US special counsel subpoenas Trump Organization: report

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The special counsel investigating Moscow's influence on the US election has subpoenaed the company founded by Donald Trump to turn over documents related to Russia, a report said Thursday, bringing the probe closer to the president. ... the probe closer to the president. For the first time since launching his investigation, Robert Mueller had subpoenas delivered to the Trump Organization in recent weeks ordering it to hand over all...

DHFabian // March 16, 2018 at 12:37 pm //

The problem is that they already spent over a year “investigating,” seeking (creating?) “evidence” of some sort of (unknown) Russian involvement with the election. Every allegation to date has fallen flat, but this doesn’t weaken their obsession. Reality: Both 2016 candidates were opposed by much of their own voting bases, for some of the same reasons. Roughly half of all US voters rejected both, and either voted third party or withheld their votes. In the end, Clinton got the most votes, but Trump got the most electoral votes — and Russia had nothing to do with any of it. (Note: While not common, this isn’t the first time that the candidate who won the most votes lost the election, because of our antiquated electoral college process.)