A lawyer for President Trump’s transition team said Saturday that Robert Mueller’s special counsel office obtained tens of thousands of emails from the Trump transition organization illegally, Reuters reports.
Kory Langhofer, counsel to Trump for America (TFA), wrote a letter to several congressional committees claiming that Mueller’s team improperly obtained thousands of emails from the General Services Administration (GSA), where the Trump transition team housed its staffers during the transition.
Langhofer’s letter accuses Mueller’s team of “unlawfully produc[ing] TFA’s private materials, including privileged communications, to the Special Counsel’s Office,” according to Reuters.
The illegally obtained documents include “tens of thousands of emails,” the letter adds.
The move from Mueller’s team to obtain the emails from the GSA stymied efforts from transition officials, who were prepared for Mueller’s request for the emails and had separated messages they believed contained privileged information. Mueller now has access to all of them.
Langhofer’s letter, which was sent to the Senate Homeland Security Committee and the House Oversight Committee, calls on the committees “to protect future presidential transitions from having their private records misappropriated by government agencies, particularly in the context of sensitive investigations intersecting with political motives.”
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JUST IN: Trump lawyer claims Mueller illegally obtained Trump transition emails https://t.co/TVdihchWwU pic.twitter.com/UQ17QZIW1b
— The Hill (@thehill) December 16, 2017
Dem shreds Trump lawyer for saying Mueller illegally got transition emails: You're just trying to discredit him https://t.co/PTmeBRqm93 pic.twitter.com/SaC1JPa6IM
— The Hill (@thehill) December 17, 2017
NEW: Trump transition lawyer suggests MUELLER violated guidelines before accessing thousands of transition emails.
Legal experts aren't totally buying this one. Dems think it's an attempt to justify Trump firing Mueller. w/ @dsamuelsohnhttps://t.co/NNSpFzdbuQ
— Kyle Cheney (@kyledcheney) December 17, 2017
As we now know:
1) Mueller obtained ALL of the emails sent to/from Trump transition team accounts
2) The Trump gang only realized this after Mueller's team seemed to know all about their emails
3) This made them quite… upset2/
— The Hoarse Whisperer (@HoarseWisperer) December 17, 2017
Earlier this year, Trump appointed the top attorney at the office responsible for providing all the electronics and email accounts the Trump transition team used.
That attorney's name was Richard Backler.
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— The Hoarse Whisperer (@HoarseWisperer) December 17, 2017
So, Trump appointed Backler and then Backler went and ensured Trump transition team attorneys that he would not allow his org (the GSA) to provide any of their emails to investigators.
One problem: Backler fell ill and ultimately passed away.
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— The Hoarse Whisperer (@HoarseWisperer) December 17, 2017
Trump and his flunkies thought their friend at the GSA had locked their emails away *literally* in a vault no one could get to…
They thought their bodies were all buried.
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— The Hoarse Whisperer (@HoarseWisperer) December 17, 2017
Can you imagine the freakout that must have occurred in Trumpland when they realized their cleanup guy hadn't actually done the cleanup after all?
Alllllllll of the things they thought they had buried were not only not buried; Mueller had them in writing!
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— The Hoarse Whisperer (@HoarseWisperer) December 17, 2017
Trump appointed a Giuliani guy to protect him from Mueller…
…and then the guy went and died just as Mueller was coming a'calling.
Trump must be losing his freaking mind…
…even more panicked: Jared Kushner.
Mueller is gonna roast them all.
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— The Hoarse Whisperer (@HoarseWisperer) December 17, 2017
One more note: as the letter in the link lays out, Beckler was incapacitated by August. He was hospitalized when Mueller’s crew came a’knockin’.
— The Hoarse Whisperer (@HoarseWisperer) December 17, 2017
Shorter Trump WH: It's illegal to legally find out we did illegal stuff during the transition and lied to the FBI about it.
— John Schindler (@20committee) December 17, 2017
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