Lawyer speak can be hard to decipher sometimes, since lawyer's will often try to interpret words to fit a narrative that they want to be perceived as the "truth," or at least a reasonable explanation of existing evidence to exonerate their client. So the word of the day now is "Collusion." The quote I have seen isn't all that clear:
"Four months, they're not going to be colluding with Russia, which I don't even know if that's a crime, colluding about Russians," Giuliani, a former federal prosecutor, continued. "You start analyzing the crime -- the hacking is the crime. ... The President didn't hack."
Now there is more to the Mueller investigation than collusion, not that this is being mentioned much. And the whole "collusion" word has been mentioned before. Even James Comey has previously explained that collusion "is not actually a thing that exists under the federal laws of the United States." But there are crimes that do exist that relate to assisting or getting some sort of gain from criminal endeavors against the U.S. Things like getting foreign money would be a clear example. Getting foreign intelligence would likely fit into the same category.
But the goal here is to get a story out there to exonerate Trump from the investigation in general, and collusion issues in particular. Since the whole "collusion" term is kind of murky, and not really a legal term, it makes for a good target. It's going to be interesting when Mueller actually lays out ihs case though, especially seeing as Trump is Mueller's boss's boss.
- Trump Charity lawsuit by New York Attorney General
- FBI investigation (it keeps being called a Russian Collusion investigation, but I'm pretty sure more to it than that at this point)
- North Korea
- The Space Force
- The Border Wall
- Alien Children Detention/family separation
- Presidential Pardons
- Civil War Monuments
- Muslim Travel Ban
- China Tariffs/Trade
- Canada-G7 Tariffs/Trade
- NAFTA
- Puerto Rico response
- Military Parade in Washington
- World Trade Organization
- Covfefe Syndrome
- NATO
- Russia/Putin relationship
Giuliani still there as Lawyer
John F. Kelly still there as Chief of Staff - 6-29-2018 Trump says "Things Happen."
Jeff Sessions still there as Attorney General
Sarah Huckabee Sanders still there as Press Secretary, rumors continue to be denied.
Mike Pompeo - Secretary of State
John Bolton - National Security Advisor
Marc Short - White House Legislative Affairs Director - no denial of plans regarding his departure prior to the 2018 midterms.
Kirstjen Nielsen - Homeland Security Secretary
Joe Hagin - White House deputy Chief of Staff is resigning.- reported June 19th
Scott Pruitt - EPA Director - Resigned 7-5-2018
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