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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsLawfare: Mueller's Show of Strength: A Quick and Dirty Analysis.
https://lawfareblog.com/robert-muellers-show-strength-quick-and-dirty-analysisThe first big takeaway from Monday mornings flurry of charging and plea documents with respect to Paul Manafort Jr., Richard Gates III and George Papadopoulos is this: The president of the United States had as his campaign chairman a man who had allegedly served for years as an unregistered foreign agent for a puppet government of Vladimir Putin, a man who was allegedly laundering remarkable sums of money even while running the now-presidents campaign, a man who allegedly lied about all of this to the FBI and the Justice Department.
The second big takeaway is even starker: A member of President Trumps campaign team admits that he was working with people he knew to be tied to the Russian government to arrange a meeting between the Campaign and the Russian government officials and to obtain dirt on Hillary Clinton in the form of thousands of hacked emailsand that he lied about these activities to the FBI. He briefed President Trump on at least some of them.
Before we dive any deeper into the Manafort-Gates indictmentcharges to which both pled not guilty to Mondayor the Papadopoulos plea and stipulation, lets pause a moment over these two remarkable claims, one of which still must be considered as allegation and the other of which can now be considered as admitted fact. President Trump, in short, had on his campaign at least one person, and allegedly two people, who actively worked with adversarial foreign governments in a fashion they sought to criminally conceal from investigators. One of them ran the campaign. The other, meanwhile, was interfacing with people he understood to have substantial connections to Russian government officials and with a person introduced to him as a relative of Russian President Vladimir Putin with connections to senior Russian government officials. All of this while President Trump was assuring the American people that he and his campaign had "nothing to do with Russia."
The release of these documents should, though it probably wont, put to rest the suggestion that there are no serious questions of collusion between the Trump campaign and the Russian government in the latters interference on the formers behalf during the 2016 election. It also raises a profound set of questions about the truthfulness of a larger set of representations Trump campaign officials and operatives have made both in public and, presumably, under oath and to investigators.
And heres the rub: This is only Special Counsel Robert Muellers opening salvo.
As opening salvos go, its a doozy.
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Lawfare: Mueller's Show of Strength: A Quick and Dirty Analysis. (Original Post)
pnwmom
Oct 2017
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guillaumeb
(42,641 posts)1. The Trump people are probably frantically deleting all photos and emails
linking Trump with anyone and everyone.
bench scientist
(1,107 posts)3. the internet is forever and they are very stupid.
WhiteTara
(29,718 posts)2. Followed up with a volley of indictments
still under seal.