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<!--:*McCabe also is implicated in the FBI's offer to pay Christopher Steele for more fabricated information in Hillary Clinton's opposition research ''Steele dossier''. Neither did McCabe recuse himself from the Russia investigation, despite failing to act on a FARA (Foreign Agents Registration Act) complaint against FusionGPS, Christopher Steele's employer, as an unregistered foreign agent of the Russian government.-->

<!--:*McCabe also is implicated in the FBI's offer to pay Christopher Steele for more fabricated information in Hillary Clinton's opposition research ''Steele dossier''. Neither did McCabe recuse himself from the Russia investigation, despite failing to act on a FARA (Foreign Agents Registration Act) complaint against FusionGPS, Christopher Steele's employer, as an unregistered foreign agent of the Russian government.-->

:*McCabe visits Trump at the Oval Office that evening.

:*McCabe visits Trump at the Oval Office that evening.

:*Within two hours of Comey's firing Strzok and Lisa Page exchange messages: {{quotebox|Strzok - “We need to open the case we’ve been waiting on now while Andy [McCabe] is acting [director].”<br>Lisa Page - "We need to lock in [redacted, likely Trump]. In a formal chargeable way. Soon."<br>Strzok - "I agree. I've been pushing and I'll reemphasize with Bill [ [[Priestap]] ]."}}  

:*Within two hours of Comey's firing Strzok and Lisa Page exchange messages: {{quotebox|Strzok - “We need to open the case we’ve been waiting on now while Andy [McCabe] is acting [director].”<br>Lisa Page - "We need to lock in [redacted, likely Trump or POTUS]. In a formal chargeable way. Soon."<br>Strzok - "I agree. I've been pushing and I'll reemphasize with Bill [ [[Priestap]] ]."}}  

:*Lisa Page later told Congress there was was no evidence of Russia collusion with the Trump team at this time.<ref>www.foxnews.com/politics/2018/09/17/strzok-page-texts-calling-to-open-case-in-chargeable-way-under-fresh-scrutiny.html</ref>  

:*Lisa Page later told Congress there was was no evidence of Russia collusion with the Trump team at this time.<ref>www.foxnews.com/politics/2018/09/17/strzok-page-texts-calling-to-open-case-in-chargeable-way-under-fresh-scrutiny.html</ref>  

:*Under questioning Lisa Page admitted by inference it was an obstruction of justice charge being discussed. The redacted name is likely President Trump.<ref>https://www.theepochtimes.com/transcripts-of-lisa-pages-closed-door-testimonies-provide-new-revelations_2763452.html</ref>

:*Under questioning Lisa Page admitted by inference it was an obstruction of justice charge being discussed. The redacted name is likely President Trump.<ref>https://www.theepochtimes.com/transcripts-of-lisa-pages-closed-door-testimonies-provide-new-revelations_2763452.html</ref>

:*Ohr reported all his contacts with Steele up to November 2017. Ohr was demoted in December when the contacts were discovered. Three possibilities exist about the missing 302s: (1) they were withheld from Congressional investigators; (2) they were never recorded; (3) they are in the custody of the Mueller investigation.

:*Ohr reported all his contacts with Steele up to November 2017. Ohr was demoted in December when the contacts were discovered. Three possibilities exist about the missing 302s: (1) they were withheld from Congressional investigators; (2) they were never recorded; (3) they are in the custody of the Mueller investigation.

*'''16 May.''' Trump interviews Mueller as Comey's replacement. Rosenstein is present. Trump later tells the ''NYT'': {{quotebox|"We were interviewing replacements at the F.B.I. Did you know Mueller was one of the people that was being interviewed? … Now what happens is, [Mueller] leaves the office. Rosenstein leaves the office. The next day, [Mueller] is appointed special counsel.”}}

*'''16 May.''' Rosenstein and Mueller visit Trump in the Oval Office. Mueller is ineligible to serve as FBI director, yet Rosenstein convinces Trump to interview Mueller as Comey's replacement, which would take a special waiver from Congress.

:*Mueller 'accidentally' leaves his cell phone in the Oval Office, the possible "wire" Rosenstein proposed to McCabe.

:*Trump later tells the ''NYT'': {{quotebox|"We were interviewing replacements at the F.B.I. Did you know Mueller was one of the people that was being interviewed? … Now what happens is, [Mueller] leaves the office. Rosenstein leaves the office. The next day, [Mueller] is appointed special counsel.”}}

*'''Second Comey felonious leak of privileged information through Daniel Richman published in ''NYT'''''.<ref>https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/16/us/politics/james-comey-trump-flynn-russia-investigation.html</ref>

*'''Second Comey felonious leak of privileged information through Daniel Richman published in ''NYT'''''.<ref>https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/16/us/politics/james-comey-trump-flynn-russia-investigation.html</ref>

:*Private investigator hired by the famiy reports, "My investigation shows someone within the D.C. government, Democratic National Committee or Clinton team is blocking the murder investigation from going forward.”<ref>http://myfox8.com/2017/05/16/slain-dnc-staffer-had-contact-with-wikileaks-sources-say/</ref>

:*Private investigator hired by the famiy reports, "My investigation shows someone within the D.C. government, Democratic National Committee or Clinton team is blocking the murder investigation from going forward.”<ref>http://myfox8.com/2017/05/16/slain-dnc-staffer-had-contact-with-wikileaks-sources-say/</ref>

*'''17 May.''' '''Rosenstein appoints Mueller "to serve as Special Counsel to oversee the ''previously-confirmed FBI investigation'' of Russian government efforts to influence the 2016 presidential election''' [i.e., a countetintelligence investigation, ital added]." Lisa Page later testified under oath that '''after nine months of the most invasive surveillance capabilities of the U.S. government, the FBI still had not made a case connecting Trump or his campaign to Russia’s election meddling.'''<ref>https://thehill.com/hilltv/rising/406881-lisa-page-bombshell-fbi-couldnt-prove-trump-russia-collusion-before-mueller</ref>  

*'''17 May.''' '''Rosenstein informs [[Gang of Eight]] that Mueller has been appointed "to serve as Special Counsel to oversee the ''previously-confirmed FBI investigation'' of Russian government efforts to influence the 2016 presidential election''' [i.e., a countetintelligence investigation, ital added]." Lisa Page later testified under oath that '''after nine months of the most invasive surveillance capabilities of the U.S. government, the FBI still had not made a case connecting Trump or his campaign to Russia’s election meddling.'''<ref>https://thehill.com/hilltv/rising/406881-lisa-page-bombshell-fbi-couldnt-prove-trump-russia-collusion-before-mueller</ref>  

:*Questions remain over the legality of Rosenstein's appointment of Mueller. '''By statute, a Special Counsel can only be appointed in criminal investigations, not a counterintelligence investigation'''. Comey's Trump-Russia investigation was a counterintelligence investigation. Comey's illegal, felonious [[fake news]] [[leak]] of his memo is an effort to create a criminal obstruction of justice charge against Trump, however Rosenstein's mandate clearly authorizes Mueller to continue the FBI counterintelligence investigation into Russian meddling. What's more, the mandate makes no mention of authorizing Mueller to pursue unrelated banking and tax fraud charges against [[Paul Manafort]], which Rosenstein himself deemed unmerited for prosecution a decade earlier.

:*Questions remain over the legality of Rosenstein's appointment of Mueller. '''By statute, a Special Counsel can only be appointed in criminal investigations, not a counterintelligence investigation'''. Comey's Trump-Russia investigation was a counterintelligence investigation. Comey's illegal, felonious [[fake news]] [[leak]] of his memo is an effort to create a criminal obstruction of justice charge against Trump, however Rosenstein's mandate clearly authorizes Mueller to continue the FBI counterintelligence investigation into Russian meddling. What's more, the mandate makes no mention of authorizing Mueller to pursue unrelated banking and tax fraud charges against [[Paul Manafort]], which Rosenstein himself deemed unmerited for prosecution a decade earlier.