More ties to Hillary Clinton in Robert Mueller’s Russia collusion investigation come to light

  It has been a tough week for Robert Mueller’s investigation into alleged Russian collusion during the 2016 election: We learned Peter Strzok was removed from the investigation earlier this year after he it was learned he sent rabid anti-Trump texts to his mistress, calling into question his impartiality. And then we learned Bruce Ohr was demoted for dubious ties to Christopher Steele and Fusion GPS during the 2016 election.

  Now we are learning about more ties between Hillary Clinton and Robert Mueller’s team, here is more:

More Clinton connections have emerged for members of Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigative team, amid growing Republican complaints about potential bias inside the office created to lead an independent probe. 

On Friday, The Wall Street Journal reported that Mueller investigator Andrew Weissmann, a former partner at WilmerHale, attended Hillary Clinton’s election night party last November at the Javits Center in New York City. Fox News reported earlier this week that Weissmann in January also praised outgoing acting Attorney General Sally Yates, after she was fired for refusing to defend President Trump’s travel ban. 

Meanwhile, at least two Mueller investigators’ past legal work for Clinton-tied figures is getting a second look as Republicans hunt for signs of bias. 

Aaron Zebley, another former partner at WilmerHale and a former chief of staff to Mueller when he served as FBI director, represented Justin Cooper, a key figure in the Hillary Clinton email controversy. 

Cooper is the longtime Bill Clinton aide responsible for helping set up the now-infamous private email server. Cooper later admitted to “two instances where he destroyed [Hillary] Clinton’s old mobile devices by breaking them in half or hitting them with a hammer.”

Jeannie Rhee, another former partner at WilmerHale, represented ex-Obama National Security Adviser Ben Rhodes, the Clinton Foundation in a 2015 racketeering case, and Hillary Clinton herself in a lawsuit seeking access to her private emails. 

  So, one member of the team attended Hillary Clinton’s election night party which eventually fizzled into embarrassment; a second defended the Clinton aide who helped to set up Hillary Clinton’s private email server and helped Hillary Clinton smash her cellphones with hammers; while a third member of the team represented Ben Rhodes against racketeering charges as well as defending Hillary Clinton when she was being sued for access to her private emails. And we are supposed to believe this investigation is on the level?

  Here is what Rep. Matt Gaetz had to say about these latest revelations:

“You’ve got Donald Trump being persecuted by Hillary Clinton’s fan club—that’s inequitable. Many of the members of Mueller’s team donated to the Clinton campaign. We have a lot of highly qualified federal prosecutors in the Justice Department and we could have found a bunch of them who didn’t donate to either candidate. But that didn’t occur, and that’s troubling.” 

  For more on the donations made by people on Robert Mueller’s team to the Clinton campaign see the article I linked above. It is pretty clear what is going on here…

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