‘It’s a witch-hunt! It’s fake!’ Kellyanne says Mueller’s grand jury is a ‘fishing expedition’ that will turn up nothing
Federal grand jury has been empaneled to determine whether anyone will be charged with a crime in special counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia probe
The panel has reportedly issued subpoenas related to a 2016 Trump Tower meeting that included Donald Trump Jr. and Russian lawyers
Kellyanne Conway insists it’s ‘a witch hunt’ and ‘fake’
‘These types of investigations become fishing expeditions, where you’re just throwing Jell-o up against the wall and hoping something will stick’
By David Martosko, Us Political Editor
DailyMail.com
4 August 2017
Presidential adviser Kellyanne Conway insisted Friday that a federal grand jury empaneled by special counsel Robert Mueller to probe allegations that the Trump campaign colluded with Russia last year will turn up nothing.
‘Let me remind everyone what the president has said about this: It’s a witch-hunt. It’s fake. Last night I believe he called it a fabrication,’ she said on ‘Fox & Friends.’
‘These types of investigations become fishing expeditions, where you’re just throwing Jell-o up against the wall and hoping something will stick,’ Conway added. ‘The fact is that this White House and everyone involved has said they would comply and share whatever information that they do have.’
You saw Jared Kushner do that just last week with House and Senate officials, and then he came right out here behind me at the White House and delivered a statement. You heard Don Jr. say that he would share information he has.’
The president said Thursday night during a West Virginia rally that ‘the Russia story’ – a premise that his campaign colluded with Moscow to tilt the November election – ‘is a total fabrication, an excuse for the greatest loss in the history of politics.’
‘It makes them feel better when they have nothing else talk about. What the prosecutors should be looking at are Hillary Clinton’s 33,000 deleted emails,’ Trump said. ‘We didn’t win because of Russia, we won because of you.’
Subpoenas have reportedly been issued in relation to a 2016 Trump Tower meeting that included Donald Trump Jr. and a Russian lawyer who promised to disclose – but never delivered – dirt on Hillary Clinton.
Don Jr. set up the meeting after being contacted via email by music publicist Robert Goldstone, who also mentioned Russian government support for Donald Trump.
Trump Jr. immediately agreed to the meeting and subsequently invited Trump son-in-law Jared Kushner and former Trump campaign chair Paul Manafort to join him.
The meeting was attended by Russian lawyer Natalia Veselnitskaya, a leading proponent of an effort to roll back anti-Russia sanctions in the 2012 Magnitsky Act – a U.S. law deplored by Russian President Vladimir Putin.
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