Trump interviewed Mueller for FBI job day before he was tapped for special counsel

He interviewed for it. One of many.

Comey was fired May 9, 2017.
Mueller was appointed May 17, 2017. That means he would have interviewed for the FBI job May 16.
Wray was nominated June 7.

There is no evidence that he was "denied" the job. The timeline makes it unlikely. He interviewed on May 16 and was offered a different job the next day.

No conflict. Bye-bye.

 

Given the person who started the thread, I would say it is more likely to be a Russian troll tactic.

 

His not getting the job he sought the day before, is a GLARING CONFLICT OF INTEREST in his being named to INVESTIGATE THE MAN WHO DID NOT GIVE HIM THE JOB.

It isn't "loyalty to Trump" that is the issue; it is having an UNBIASED SC.

If this were happening to a democrat POTUS, leftists would be rioting in the streets.

 

Still waiting for a LOGICAL explanation of how this is NOT a GLARING CONFLICT of INTEREST.

 

The OBVIOUS prior situation regarding the job.
If you went back to your old company to interview for a job, and didn't get it; would you then be an UNBIASED "investigator" of that same CEO?

Get real.

 

As noted earlier, there is no evidence that he was denied the job. None.

I'm still waiting for an explanation of how anything IS a conflict of interest.

 

I actually doubt that.

Our OP friend is attracted to right wing conspiracy theories and unlikely fake memes. That was true even before the Russian disinformation campiagns stated.

NewsMax has a long history of recycling previously discredited stories as news news,assuming that the target audience has forgotten that they were discredited in the first place. They did this regularly during the marketing of the Mr Bush's fake WMD claims.

 

First of all, the White House denined half of Ruddy's claim. Given his history, there is little reason to credit the other half either.

He never presented any evidence to support his claim.

Yet, you are demanding that we all accept it as fact.

Sorry, but that only works on the sort of folks who think what they hear on AM right wing talk radio is real.

The rest of us are smarter than that.

 

A conflict of interest is when someone is in a position to personally benefit from a circumstance which conflates with the role they are assigned. Mueller accepting the position he was assigned in the investigation doesn't really fall into this category

It is also inaccurate to say he had been denied the position at that point, since the decision had not been finalized, and he was one of multiple people within the FBI who was being interviewed for the position.

 

I thought you said he was interviewed the day before appointment as special counsel. To fit your point, wouldn't Mueller have had to have been denied the job the day before being appointed special counsel? Anyway, it all sounds too fuzzy wuzzy to me. People don't live in stainless steel drawers like utensils of some master chef. So anything is possible I guess. But we have to be careful that we don't slip into the realm of paranoid conspiracy theories. Which is exactly what the left is doing.

 

Rosenstein was likely interviewing him for Special Counsel and the FBI job was used as cover to get him in for the interview.

 

this becomes truth today some 14 mos after everyone paying attention knew of this ..... why? LOL

 

Great thread. Truth is not Truth. LOL

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Former FBI Director Robert Mueller attends the ceremonial swearing-in of FBI Director James Comey at the FBI headquarters in 2013.

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The Trump White House had been considering Robert Mueller as a top candidate to lead the FBI before the deputy U.S. attorney general changed course and tapped Mueller to serve as special counsel investigating Russian interference in last year's election, two sources familiar with the process told NPR.

Mueller had gone so far as to meet with Justice Department leaders and White House officials about the FBI job, which opened after President Trump fired Director James Comey on May 9. But that idea went by the wayside after Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein instead reached out to Mueller to run the politically sensitive Russia probe, which is examining ties between Russians and Trump campaign aides, the sources said
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And the idea that Rosenstein, who had been criticized for his role in the dismissal of Comey, reached into the White House process to fill the FBI post and invited Mueller to serve as a Justice Department special counsel underscores the heavy pressure Rosenstein was under to find an independent law enforcement leader to take charge of the Russia probe. Rosenstein's selection won applause from Congress and Justice Department veterans, who said Mueller would do the job without fear or favor.
https://www.npr.org/2017/06/09/5322...ign=npr&utm_term=nprnews&utm_content=20170609

 

Perhaps you can't handle the truth.......or just won't.

 

You know that how?

Which means he probably didn't want it back.

 

A better one came up......der.

 

Because that is the only possible CONFLICT OF INTEREST. Utter BULLSHIT.

Revenge as MOTIVE and OVERT ANIMOSITY are ALSO "CONFLICTS of INTEREST" in this case...

 

May 16. Appointed SC May 17.

Let me see...umm..YEAH, THAT IS THE NEXT DAY.

 

Please cite all the others that interviewed for the job.

 

That is OBVIOUS, one would think.

 

Not if I didn't really want the job or a better one came along.

 

At least
Joe Lieberman
Frank Keating
Andrew McCabe
Richard McFeely
Robert Mueller
Chris Wray

Possibly also
John Pistole
John Cornyn
Alice Fisher
Michael Garcia

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/4-candidates-trump-interviewed-fbi-director
https://www.politico.com/story/2017/05/12/fbi-director-candidates-interviews-238343
http://dailycaller.com/2017/06/13/w...ump-interviewed-mueller-for-fbi-director-job/

I've answered your question. Now you answer mine.

Please prove that Mueller was told he wouldn't get the FBI job before he accepted the SC job. Provide links.

 

So you're saying that revenge is the conflict of interest? I'm sorry but there is no court in the world where that would hold up. Your argument is based on emotion rather than a real conflict of interest. It just wouldn't hold up in any legal review of the investigation.

Furthermore, he wasn't denied the position at the time he was assigned his role as SC, he had merely been interviewed for the position. If anything, him accepting the role he was assigned would guarantee that he would not get the position.

 

Because Ghoul-iani wanted to be AG, didn't he...and Ghoul-iani was laying low because he has **** to hide as well...

 

What would he want revenge for?