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“Of course Mueller obtained emails from a third party,” he said. “Prosecutors in most white collar criminal investigations do that. It’s not ‘inappropriate’ or even unusual. Anyone who claims otherwise has no idea what they’re talking about.”

If Mueller didn’t follow the law, a court would suppress the evidence so it couldn’t be used. The reason Trump’s lawyers are writing letters to Congress instead of Mueller or a court is because their legal arguments have no merit.

Tell 'em anything; just change the topic. Let the loyal sheep gather talking points from the host of conservative websites promoting this fiction and let them post the crap on internet forums. With luck some new headlines will emerge to divert attention from their weak arguments and the whole cycle will begin again.

Transition documents are private property, not government records, the Trump organization contends. The letter invokes federal law and decades of precedent to argue that Mueller overstepped. "The transfer of transition documents is “unlawful conduct that undermines the Presidential Transition Act of 1963,” the letter said.

One White House adviser disputed pundits’ and lawyers’ claims that the only way the transition could object was to file a motion before the chief judge overseeing the grand jury.

“This wasn’t a subpoena pursuant to a grand jury. GSA just turned them over,” the adviser said.

The Presidential Transition Act of 1963 the act directs the Administrator of General Services to provide facilities, funding of approximately five million dollars, access to government services, and support for a transition team, and to provide training and orientation of new government personnel and other procedures to ensure an orderly transition.

United States presidential transition is the transfer of federal executive branch power from the incumbent President of the United States to the president-elect, during the period of time between election day in November (on the first Tuesday after November 1), and inauguration day on the following January 20.

United States presidential transition - Wikipedia

Your quote from New York Magazine, in my never humble opinion, shows how desperate the Republicans have become. They need to bury this thing before the mid-terms, when the Democrats have a good shot at taking over the Congress.

What is really pathetic is that Mueller is a life-long Republican, appointed Assistant U.S. Attorney in San Francisco in 1976, and who has held one responsible post after another in Republican and Democratic administrations ever since.

It matches, if indeed it does not surpass, the surreal and savage atmosphere in the Congress in the days of HUAC and tail-gunner Joe.

And the plan: to build the Third Temple on the Temple Mount – where the Al-Aqsa Mosque currently stands