Desperate measures - Part whatever

A Florida congressman who has said that the country is at risk of a “coup d’etat” by Special Counsel Robert Mueller says he warned President Donald Trump personally last week that Mueller’s Russia investigation is “infected with bias” against the president.

Rep. Matt Gaetz, a freshman Republican, said he issued the warning during a flight on Air Force One with Trump ahead of a Friday evening rally in Pensacola.

In a phone interview, Gaetz said he stopped short of encouraging Trump to fire Mueller, though he has recommended that step repeatedly in public statements.

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“I did say that I was concerned that this investigation was infected with bias,” he said he told the president. “He said, ‘That’s why you guys have got to do your job.’”

  Politico

So surely now Mueller will have to interview Gaetz. Maybe they're just trying to prolong the investigation. Well, that, and muddy it.

Gaetz has emerged as one of the top advocates in Congress for restricting or ending the Mueller investigation. “We are at risk of a coup d'etat in this country if we allow an unaccountable person with no oversight to undermine the duly-elected President of the United States,” he said recently on the House floor.

Something tells me Gaetz may be one of the Congress scum who are afraid of what the Mueller team might turn up about himself personally.

Gaetz was joined on the Air Force Once flight by another Judiciary Committee member, Rep. Ron DeSantis (R-Fla.), who has also called for limits on the Mueller investigation.

So, add DeSantis to that list.

Rep. Devin Nunes, meanwhile, has for weeks been meeting secretly with a group of House Intelligence Committee Republicans to build a case that senior leaders of the Justice Department and FBI mishandled the contents of the Trump-Russia dossier — a raw intelligence document compiled by the former British spy Christopher Steele outlining allegations of collusion between the Trump campaign and Moscow.

Nunes, that committee's chairman, stepped aside from its Russia investigation in early April following his decision to brief Trump and the press on classified intelligence without telling his fellow committee members.

And he's had his fingers in it ever since. I think we can safely add Nunes to the list of people who are in Mueller's sights.

It is unclear whether Nunes has remained in contact with Trump. A spokesman for Nunes did not return a request for comment.

I think we can be pretty sure he is.

The California congressman has been conducting his own investigations into "unmaskings" by the Obama administration and the credibility of the dossier — two issues Trump promoted heavily earlier this year — heightening speculation that he coordinated with the White House at least initially to create a diversion from the FBI's Russia investigation.

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Democratic Rep. Eric Swalwell told Business Insider earlier this year that Nunes' shadow investigations risked compromising the House panel's Russia probe.

The House panel's probe is compromised already by sheer virtue of the GOP having control of it. It's a waste of everybody's time and money. Another in a long list of worthless government investigations whose real purpose is merely to "clear" the players on the record.

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.

UPDATE: