COLLUSION: Trump campaign knew long in advance - Russians were planning on releasing stolen emails

[kpete]

AMAZING THREAD!!!:

Collusion has been established. The Trump campaign conspired with a hostile foreign power running a covert intelligence operation to help them win an election. To believe otherwise you must now ignore the facts that are staring us in the face. END

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We now have proof that the Trump campaign knew long in advance that the Russians were planning on releasing stolen Clinton & DNC emails. 1/

We had known since the Papadopoulos plea last October that the Trump campaign were told in April 2016 that “the Russians had emails of Clinton,” and “they have thousands of emails.” 2/

While the information revealed in the plea does not directly say that Papadopoulos told top officials in the Trump campaign, it made clear he was in frequent contact w them re his Russian contacts & it is inconceivable to believe he just didn’t tell them this bombshell. 3/

We now know from the Democrats’ HPSCI memo released Saturday night that the Russians also told Papadopoulos of their plan to disseminate the stolen emails. 4/

The DOJ felt certain enough of their evidence that the Russians told Papadopoulos that they intended to release the emails that they submitted it to the FISA Court. 5/

Rep. Adam Schiff, the lead author of the Dem HPSCI memo, emphasized the significance of this revelation on @chrishayes on Monday night that this is “the first time the public has been able to see one of the links here.”
http://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/gop-sabotage-efforts-can-t-stop-robert-mueller-1171216963706 … 6/

Schiff draws a line right to Trump, “so when Donald Trump openly called on the Russians to hack Clinton’s emails & they would be richly rewarded if they revealed those to the press, his campaign had already been put on notice that the Russians were prepared to do just that.” 7/

This also sheds new light on the reason Don Jr was so eager to get the promised dirt from the Russians during the infamous Trump Tower meeting: “If it’s what you say I love it.” 8/

The conspiracy is now in the open: Trump campaign knew the Russians had stolen Clinton & DNC emails & they planned to release them; eagerly sought covert Russian help; encouraged more Russian email releases; & made extensive use them when released knowing Russia stole them. 9/

Collusion has been established. The Trump campaign conspired with a hostile foreign power running a covert intelligence operation to help them win an election. To believe otherwise you must now ignore the facts that are staring us in the face. END

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https://www.emptywheel.net/2018/02/24/schiff-memo-reveals-that-mifsud-specifically-told-papadopoulos-russia-would-release-hillary-emails-to-help-trump-campaign/

[duforsure]

1. Is this also conspiracy?

If they acted with Putin to do this knowing any of what they were about to do was a crime, and that's what they are probably worried about, not collusion. Collusion was already shown when Jr got the email for the meeting knowing it was from a foreign government from Russia , and offered dirt on Hillary. If they did or didn't have it at the meeting makes no difference, when they showed up that was collusion. When its shown they worked together with sharing data, and so on, they were conspiring with Putin and Russia. When its shown trump changed the platform for their helping him that's conspiracy too. If its shown Manifort, tillerson , and Flynn were installed by Putin on his campaign that shows conspiracy, and it was organized. I think trump is finished if that is shown to be true. Then add Gates, Manifort , Bannon and others turned offering evidence against him, he's done. Trump is in deep , deep trouble and he's acting out a lot showing signs of desperation. That's why he's attacking Sessions, because he won't protect him from being exposed. Collusion I don't think is actually a crime is it, its conspiracy that is the crime they will be worried about. Trump got into this mess because he's probably broke except russia has kept him afloat, him and Jared. He shows all the signs of being blackmailed into doing this.

[kpete]

3. Thanks for that

xlnt synopsis!


peace,
kp

[Cha]

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