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Letter: Trump was not out of line at D-Day remembrance

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In response to Larry Smith's letter, " The President's involvement in the D-Day ceremony was disrespectful to us all ," published June 14:

I would say to Mr. Smith that no, President's Trump involvement at the D-Day ceremony was not disrespectful to us all, and he was not out of line for condemning Robert Mueller. You stated that he was out of line for condemning Mueller, who "is a hero."

Mueller is no hero. In fact, he was involved in a cover up that involved sending four innocent men to prison for decades in order to protect a mob boss turned informant. Two of the men died in prison, two were released, and the men and their families were able to sue and secure a settlement of over $100 million a result of the travesty.

Mueller's involvement was called “chilling” by Clinton-appointed federal judge, Nancy Gertner, who in 2006 described the former FBI director’s attempts to cover up a massive frame-up by Boston G-men. The FBI was refusing to turn over the exonerating evidence to either the plaintiffs or the Justice Department, which was defending the FBI after its frame up.

Mueller’s stonewalling, Gertner wrote, was a “serious problem.” Six days after Mueller was threatened with contempt by the court, he finally agreed to turn over the evidence that showed the innocence of the four men.

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Additionally, in 2002, Mueller directed the G-men to oppose state pardons for the four men because the FBI’s own evidence that exonerated them was merely “fodder for cross-examination.” Despite the FBI’s knowledge that the men, including Peter Limone, were innocent, Mueller’s FBI claimed to a state board that the incontrovertible exculpatory evidence “does not necessarily mean, however, that Limone or any of the other defendants is innocent – it merely means that they are entitled to a new trial.”

I would point additionally to the fact that he chose to include Andrew Weissman as one of his main lawyers on the team. Weissman: who has had numerous cases overturned, some by unanimous decision by the Supreme Court, who knowingly proceeded with cases against people who were innocent.

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Lastly, even Alan Dershowitz, the liberal professor emeritus of law at Harvard, has declared that Mueller has overstepped his authority as a prosecutor in his letter, in his assessments and in his parting speech.

I would be more concerned if the president were not mad about this entire situation than that he is mad and that he declares Mueller and the team corrupt. So, no, Mr. Smith, Mr. Mueller is certainly no hero.

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