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The recent departure of FBI veteran Peter Strzok is the first known hitch in a secretive probe that by all public accounts is charging full-steam ahead. Just last week, news surfaced that Mueller's team had executed a search warrant at the Virginia home of Donald Trump’s former campaign manager, Paul Manafort. And the week before that ABC News confirmed Mueller is now using a federal grand jury in Washington, D.C., to collect documents and other evidence.

What to know about Mueller's use of a grand jury in the Russia probe
It's unclear why Strzok stepped away from Mueller's team of nearly two dozen lawyers, investigators and administrative staff. Strzok, who has spent much of his law enforcement career working counterintelligence cases and has been unanimously praised by government officials who spoke with ABC News, is now working for the FBI's human resources division.

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since all the 'russian bots' that support drumpf have suddenly turned into 'white nationalist nazis' (a side note, going from calling supporters of the President lefty commies from russia to national socialist wannabes is funny considering those forces are both derivatives of marxist socialism, yet faced off against each other in WWII, but thats for another day), maybe there should be a 'reich-gate' thread. hopefully the op is okay as his daily toiling away in here has stopped :unsure:

in any event here is an update

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/special-counsels-russia-probe-loses-top-fbi-investigator/story?id=49249486&yptr=yahoo

Special counsel's Russia probe loses top FBI investigator

One of the FBI's top investigators, tapped by special counsel Robert Mueller just weeks ago to help lead the probe of Russian meddling in last year's presidential election, has left Mueller’s team, sources tell ABC News.

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The business associate, Felix Sater, wrote a series of emails to Mr. Trump’s lawyer, Michael Cohen, in which he boasted about his ties to Mr. Putin and predicted that building a Trump Tower in Moscow would be a political boon to Mr. Trump’s candidacy.

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"Our boy can become President of the USA, and we can engineer it"

https://mobile.nytimes.com/2017/08/28/us/politics/trump-tower-putin-felix-sater.html



Note: This deal never went through, and this isn't a smoking gun that pins Trump directly to the wall. It does show more evidence of close relations between members of his inner circle and Russia though, and puts another hole in his claim that he never had business dealings in Russia.

Then there's this BBC interview with Trump, where Trump walked out of the interview once Felix Sater was brought up.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9N5Kun2sJPA

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@AgalarovAras I had a great weekend with you and your family. You have done a FANTASTIC job. TRUMP TOWER-MOSCOW is next. EMIN was WOW!

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Related, under the category #TheresAlwaysATweet: https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/399939505924628480

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Rep. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) has introduced a measure that would defund special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into Russian election meddling six months after its passage. The amendment would also bar Mueller, who is also looking into whether Trump associates colluded with Russian operatives, from probing items that occurred before Trump declared his presidential bid in June 2015.

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How quaint.