What a complete dud this is.
This is Mueller’s exit strategy.
There is a law on the books that precludes foreigners from taking actions in support of any candidate for foreign office.
Never mind that it has very rarely, if ever, been enforced. Especially in the case of Democrats of the modern era like the Clintons and Obama.
In effect, if you supported a non-establishment candidate, Trump, Sanders or Cruz, you were a dupe of the Russians
If you supported Hillary - you are a good American.
Its the Grand Jury that handed down the indictments, not Mueller or Rosenstein. The President got 4% of the vote in the District of Columbia. Clinton got 90%. So imagine who is on a DC Grand Jury and who will be on a DC criminal trial jury panel.
This would be a nice way for Mueller to end his job with the least amount of embarrassment to himself.
Well the FBI was all keystone cops in the Clinton investigation. It was all “see no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil,” and exonerate them beforehand, believe Bill and Loretta Lynch just met accidentally and talked grandchildren, Clinton and her people who were targets were allowed to be interviewed in illegitimate ways, Clinton not under oath IIRC, Comey downgrading his conclusion so it wasn’t a legal one, and on and on. But there are no “ahahs!” from the mainstream media Democratic PACs on any of that.
So we have now gone from collusion and obstruction to using fake names on Facebook.
Three big takeaways for me were that NO Americans were aware that they might be dealing with Russians (positive for the Trump campaign), the outcome of the election was NOT affected in any way, and the organization(s) indicted held both pro and anti-Trump rallies simultaneously in NYC (ergo, no evidence of anything but sowing confusion).
This was announced because the left lost control of the shooting story.
Think Jason Bourne.
I posted some criticism of Angela Merkel’s immigration policies to German friends on Facebook
Am I going to be indicted in Germany
According to the indictment, this started in 2014 long before Trump declared as a candidate. And why would they support Trump, a candidate that no one gave a chance to win right up until election day?
Hillary spent over one billion dollars on her campaign. The Russians spent “millions” trying to influence our election. To what end?
The indictment reads like a political document. The very people who wrote it were Hillary supporters and donors. A very curious indictment indeed. Weissmann has his fingerprints all over it.
Foreign entities try to meddle in all of our elections. We meddle in theirs.
This sounds like crap.
Are we supposed to call it a day now?
Gun Control
Russia, Russia, Russia
FAKE NEWS!
It says the defendants spread derogatory information about various candidates throughout the 2016 campaign and by “early to mid-2016” were supporting Trump’s presidential campaign.
The indictment said the defendants purchased political advertisements on social media in the names of U.S. persons and entities. It also accuses them of staging political rallies inside the United States while posing as U.S. grassroots groups.
I am not sure how this links to Trump. But I don't see where anything they did was illegal in this statement above. If they are American citizens, they are free to make political statements. Identity theft? Are these Trumped up charges to get someone to purger a story that incriminates Trump? I don't trust the intent here. Not by a long shot.
[the indictment accuses them of “supporting the presidential campaign of then-candidate Donald J. Trump ... and disparaging Hillary Clinton.”....]
So I guess all this stuff is B.S according to Muller:
<> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=beqdw19Uj6E
<>http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2017/01/15/hillary-clinton-illegitimate-nomination/
I have a ton of stuff and NOTHING ON IT HAS RUSSIA, RUSSIA, RUSSIA on it...
One is even a Breitbart article, guess they are RUSSIA also...
Talk about a load of crap in their depends!!!
So Obama’s millions of illegal donations from foreign sources were not illegal, then?
After reading the indictment - what I don’t see: Any mention of Trump-Russian collusion.
Andrea Mitchell squirming with hope. She suggests this indictment does not implicate Trump Campaign officials, BUT, that does not say there will not be more indictments that might include others.
Andrea brings up the *lack of security clearances* among the senior White House officials. Andrea’s panel say there remains the obstruction of justice investigation by Mueller against the president, and also against anyone who cooperated with the Russians... encouraging a hunt for cooperating associates to Trump and his administration.
“No American, (according to Rubenstein) was wittingly cooperating with the Russian project to meddle in the election.”
This is causing great angst for the Left. The thread the Left hang on is pushing that Trump was so open to Russia, during his campaign, that they preferred Trump to win.