***DONALD J TRUMP HAS OFFICIALLY BEEN IMPEACHED***

Former Justice Department spokesman Matthew Miller tells me, “This was a transparent attempt to continue stoking conspiracy theories about Mueller among Republicans in Congress, the right-wing media and the Republican grass-roots. The best evidence that the Trump team knows their claims are bogus is that they sent this letter to Congress, rather than filed a motion in court, where any claims would be adjudicated based on the facts and the law, not on hysterical nonsense.” He continues, “The letter claimed transition emails were private, but raised privileges that are only available inside the government. It claimed releasing them was against the law, but asked Congress to change the law to forbid it in the future. It implied that what Mueller and the GSA did was inappropriate, but sought relief from Congress, rather than the courts.” He jokes, “Other than that, it was brilliant!”

Other experts agree. “The GSA has said that transition officials were specifically told that messages on their devices ‘would not be held back [from] law enforcement’ and that ‘no expectation of privacy can be assumed,’ ” Jordan Libowitz from Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington said via email to Right Turn. “If they thought they had a legal case, they would have made it in court. Even Trey Gowdy has said that the courts are the appropriate venue. But they didn’t file anything with the courts, because this is just a political move meant to attack public opinion of the Mueller investigation.”

JC29856 said:

So we know more Dems and Obama officials are begging for Trump to fire Mueller than GOP or TTT, now lets see how many Trump Team Treasoners refuse congressional testimony or plead the 5th as compared to DOJ/Obama officials.... anyone counting?

https://twitter.com/FoxBusiness/status/943169374722121728

Another dot to connect. Connecting dots is fun!

http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/us-lawmakers-question-businessman-at-2016-trump-tower-meeting-sources/ar-BBHomPo?li=BBmkt5R&ocid=ientp

The panels knew Kaveladze was at the June 9, 2016 meeting but became more interested in him after learning he also attended a private dinner in Las Vegas in 2013 with Trump and Agalarov as they celebrated an agreement to hold that year's Miss Universe pageant in Moscow, the sources said.

Committee members now want to know more about the extent of Kaveladze's contacts with the Trump family and whether he had a bigger role than previously believed in setting up the Trump Tower meeting when Trump was a Republican candidate for president.

The White House declined to comment. Mueller's office also declined to comment.

The pictures were found by a University of California at Irvine student and blogger Scott Stedman, who posted them on Nov. 22. Aras Agalarov is a billionaire property developer in Russia who was awarded the Order of Honor by Russian President Vladimir Putin.

Several U.S. officials who spoke on condition of anonymity said Mueller's team and the committees are looking for any evidence of a link between the Trump Tower meeting and the release six weeks later of emails stolen from Democratic Party organizations.

They are also trying to determine whether there was any discussion at the New York meeting of lifting U.S. economic sanctions on Russia, a top priority for Putin, the officials said.

Rob Goldstone, a British publicist, told Trump Jr. ahead of the New York meeting that Russian lawyer Veselnitskaya would be bringing damaging information about donations to a charity linked to Trump's Democratic rival Hillary Clinton, according to emails later released by Trump Jr.

Trump Jr. initially said the meeting was about Russian adoptions but later said it also included Veselnitskaya's promises of information on the donations to the Clinton charity. He said he ultimately never received the information, although it was later posted on the Internet.