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Mueller is trying to get Trump to give an interview under oath.
These indictments box Trump into accepting that nothing exists that links American to these bad Russians. Come into my parlor and tell me all about how you did nothing with them.
Fred Sanders
(23,946 posts)indicated in the indictment and others rather coyly referred to but not further identified as knowing or not.
It was an American R in Texas that told the Russkies to target purple states and then several organizations got $$$$.
From Fox (sorry), but accurate:
Prosecutors accuse the Russians of communicating with a real U.S. person affiliated with a Texas-based grassroots organization. They learned from that person to focus their activities on purple states like Colorado, Virginia and Florida," the indictment says.
It also says the groups employees referred to as specialists created social media accounts to look like they were operated by Americans. They created group pages on Facebook and Instagram with names like Secured Borders, Blacktivist (to promote the Black Lives Matter movement), United Muslims of America, Army of Jesus, South United and Heart of Texas.
They also created and controlled numerous Twitter accounts, like one named Tennessee GOP under the @TEN_GOP handle that attracted more than 100,000 followers.
According to the indictment, the specialists were instructed to post content online that criticized Hillary and the rest (except Sanders and Trump we support them)."
It said they used pro-Trump, anti-Clinton hashtags online like #Trump2016, #TrumpTrain, #MAGA, #IWontProtectHillary, and Hillary4Prison.
It says the defendants, around the latter half of 2016, encouraged minority groups in the United States not to vote in the election or vote for a third party candidate. An Instagram account they controlled called Woke Blacks posted a message on Oct. 16, 2016 that read: We cannot resort to the lesser of two devils. Then wed surely be better off without voting AT ALL.
Fox News' Jake Gibson contributed to this report.
grantcart
(53,061 posts)He is appealing to his vanity that Trump can come in and try persuade that nobody did anything bad "knowingly".
Once he gets to the interview he will see a different set of questions.
In the meantime Trump can no longer protest that no Russian involvement exists.
Fred Sanders
(23,946 posts)GRAND JURY means Mueller knows...but can not reveal for fear of prejudicing further investigation...one is surely Shitler. Unindicted coconspirators...for now.
His lawyers have a real conundrum. Must be pouring over every word.
grantcart
(53,061 posts)They got inside the Russian side. Going back to 2013. They have massive amounts of intel.
Clearly the NSA and the CIA have been providing huge amounts of detail of Russian activity.
His lawyers won't even be able to discern the outer limits of what Mueller knows.