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Rudy Giuliani threatens $17 million legal action against Robert Mueller during Fox News interview

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Rudy Giuliani, President Donald Trump’s television defense attorney, said he was considering bringing a $17 million legal action against former special counsel Robert Mueller.

Giuliani was incensed that Mueller did not come to a prosecutorial conclusion on Trump’s obstruction of justice. Mueller laid out over ten instances of such obstruction but said he was prevented from bringing charges due to a Department of Justice regulation.

“It was a dereliction of duty,” Giuliani claimed.

“Why do you appoint an independent counsel, a special counsel? Theoretically there’s some kind of conflict, they are supposed to make a decision,” the former New York City mayor said.

Giuliani said he was considering a $17 million legal action against the special counsel.

“I think I might bring a qui tam action to get that money back for the government,” he said.

A qui tam action is a legal mechanism that allows a whistleblower exposing fraud to bring a lawsuit on behalf of the federal government.

“What a joke. I think Mueller has made a complete fool out of himself,” Giuliani said, unironically.

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Mar-a-lago is seeing ‘a whole new kind of lobbying’ from special interests: report

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President Donald Trump raised the membership fee for anyone seeking to join his Palm Beach golf and country club, Mar-a-Lago, just after he was elected. But now, that has turned into a whole new kind of lobbying, as Trump brings swamp-dwellers to the surface.

An Axios report called it "a stunning situation" where the president is profiting off of people paying for a membership so that they can then get close to him and promote their own causes.

"In the popular conception, he's a Manhattan real estate builder. But in some ways, that's not really his world. Certainly, not anymore. His world is Palm Beach," said Jonathan Swan during "Axios on HBO."

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Trump tests out new ‘no obstruction’ claims: ‘Facts that led to no obstruction’

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President Donald Trump ended a day on the golf course Sunday with another attack on Democrats claiming "no collusion and no obstruction," but with a unique twist.

This time around, Trump claims that the "facts led to no obstruction," he tweeted. The facts actually led special counsel Robert Mueller to ten examples of obstruction that he handed over to Congress.

"And as set forth in the report, after that investigation, if we had had confidence that the president clearly did not commit a crime, we would have said so. We did not, however, make a determination as to whether the president did commit a crime," Mueller said during his press conference in May.

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BOMBSHELL: NRA donors have been funding fancy wardrobe for Wayne Lapierre for 15 years

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According to an extensive report, the National Rifle Association was using money from their donors to fund the lavish lifestyles of their board members and vendors.

The Washington Post revealed the findings Sunday in a bombshell report about the misuse of funds being uncovered in the organization.

For example, a former pro-football player was on the national board and paid $400,000 to do "public outreach" and "firearms training." A writer in New Mexico was given $28,000 for writing articles for an NRA publication. Another board member sold ammunition to the NRA for an "undisclosed sum."

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