“Wasn’t he caught, pressured to go away his agency, with BIG BAD issues to occur? Why did nothing ever occur to him, solely to the 'different'
“Wasn’t he caught, pressured to go away his agency, with BIG BAD issues to occur? Why did nothing ever occur to him, solely to the ‘different’ aspect?” the president wrote.
It isn’t the primary time Trump has ruminated about why Tony Podesta hasn’t been charged with wrongdoing.
Podesta’s once-powerful lobbying agency, the Podesta Group, got here aside in 2017 as Mueller scrutinized its work with Paul Manafort as a part of his investigation into Russian interference within the 2016 election. Trump puzzled a number of instances through Twitter why Podesta hasn’t “been charged and arrested,” as he put it in a 2018 tweet.
Manafort, Trump’s former marketing campaign chairman, organized to rent the Podesta Group and one other lobbying agency, Mercury, in 2012 to foyer on behalf of a nonprofit referred to as the European Centre for a Fashionable Ukraine. Mueller’s investigation revealed the nonprofit was underneath the management of the Ukrainian president on the time, Viktor Yanukovych, and his political celebration.
Manafort was charged with violating international lobbying disclosure legal guidelines, amongst different crimes, however Mercury and the Podesta Group have been by no means charged with wrongdoing.
Mueller handed off the investigation into the 2 lobbying corporations to federal prosecutors in New York. Podesta and a lawyer for former Rep. Vin Weber (R-Minn.), who was Mercury’s lead lobbyist for the Ukraine work, stated in September that they’d been advised they have been now not underneath investigation.