Rudy Gee Trump's attorney sticking to party
line: “STOP MUELLER”
Mueller's Grand Jury indictment key points
The main story from here –
Dep AG Rod Rosenstein said he briefed
Trump on the latest allegations earlier this week, adding that although
Americans corresponded with the indicted Russians, no Americans knowingly conspired with Russian intelligence
officers.
But, I ask everyone to consider even though
“some Americans may have unknowingly assisted the Russians in their mission,”
how about this little reminder of Trump Jr. along with Manafort and Kushner met with several high ranking Russians in
June 2016 at Trump Tower.
Recall that the meeting invite email
told Jr. “They have dirt on Hillary Clinton.” Jr. replied “If so, I love it.
Especially for this summer.” The narrative from Trump on down the line and
everyone in between is since that meeting was innocent and all the wanted to
talk about was our sanctions and how they were impacting Russian adoption
policies.
I ask logically, if collusion itself is
not a crime, what about intent to collude – that is to coordinate or cooperate
with the Russians to ensure a Trump win. Further, suppose the sanctions on
adoptions were promised to be lifted, would the Russians afterwards in fact
fork over “dirt on Hillary Clinton as they originally stipulated to Jr. for
that June 2016 meeting?” It is very easy to believe that they would have done
that and now more so based all the closely related Mueller stuff uncovered.
Sadly, without hard evidence and proof, it’s hard to make a case on what I ponder
to in fact, stick in court.
In the meantime, the Trump camp is
sticking to their hardcore talking points with its title page: “Deny, deflect, and bury
anything about that meeting ASAP and sustain that story line constantly no
matter what Mueller says or does.”
More links to this same story:
To date Mueller’s results shown here and below in this list of all
publicly known indictments and plea deals from S/C Mueller’s probe:
(1) George Papadopoulos,
former Trump campaign foreign policy adviser (Nickname from Trump: Just Coffee
Boy), pleaded
guilty in October to making false statements to the FBI.
(2) Michael
Flynn, Trump’s former NSC adviser, pleaded
guilty in December to making false statements to the FBI.
(3) Paul
Manafort, Trump’s former campaign chairman, was
indicted in October in Washington, DC on charges of conspiracy, money
laundering, and making false statements — all related to his work for Ukrainian
politicians before he joined the Trump campaign. He’s pleaded not guilty on all
counts. In February, Mueller filed a new
case against him in VA re: tax, financial, and bank fraud charges.
(4) Rick
Gates, a former Trump campaign aide and Manafort’s longtime junior business
partner, was indicted on similar charges to Manafort. In February he agreed to
a plea
deal with Mueller’s team, pleading guilty to just one false statements
charge and one
conspiracy charge.
(5 - 20) 13
Russian nationals and three Russian companies were indicted on
conspiracy charges, with some also being accused of identity theft. The charges
related to a Russian propaganda effort designed to interfere with the 2016
campaign. The companies involved are the Internet
Research Agency, often described as a “Russian troll farm,” and two other
companies that helped finance it. The Russian nationals indicted include 12 of
the agency’s employees and its alleged financier, Yevgeny Prigozhin.
(21) Richard
Pinedo: A California man who pleaded
guilty to an identity theft charge in connection with the Russian
indictments, and has agreed to cooperate with Mueller.
(22) Alex
van der Zwaan: This London lawyer pleaded
guilty to making false statements to the FBI about his contacts with
Rick Gates and another unnamed person based in Ukraine. Went to jail, now, and deported
out of the U.S.
(23)
Konstantin Kilimnik: A longtime business associate of Manafort and Gates, currently
based in Russia, was
charged along with Manafort with attempting to obstruct justice by
tampering with witnesses in Manafort’s pending case.
(24 - 35) Now,
Mueller has indicted 12 Russian GRU officers: These officers of Russia’s
military intelligence service have been charged with crimes related
to the hacking and leaking of leading Democrat (DNC, DCCC, and John Podesta) emails in
2016.
My 2 cents: So far, no Trump associates have been
specifically charged with any crimes directly relating to helping Russia
interfere with the 2016 election.
The closest to that is Papadopoulos and Flynn both now
admit that they lied to the FBI about their contacts with people connected to
the Russian government.
All the above noted indictments are in the public
domain – others could be in the pipeline as it were and thus, stay tuned.
So, just a witch hunt, right Mr. Trump: Well it seems
there are now 35 unemployed witches, um? Maybe for your 2020 run, you think?
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