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NOTES ON THE INDICTMENT
Powerline Blog ^ | FEBRUARY 17, 2018 | Scott Johnson

Posted on 02/17/2018 11:03:21 AM PST by Oklahoma

As the Wall Street Journal observes in the related editorial today (behind the Journal’s paywall): “The 37-page indictment contains no evidence of collusion between Russia and the Trump campaign, but it does show a systematic effort to discredit the result of the 2016 election. On the evidence so far, President Trump has been the biggest victim of that effort, and he ought to be furious at Vladimir Putin.”

The Journal editorial asks a good question: “The indictment also makes us wonder what the Obama Administration was doing amid all of this. Where were top Obama spooks James Clapper and John Brennan? Their outrage became public only after their candidate lost the election. If they didn’t know what was going on, why not? And if they did, why didn’t they let Americans in on the secret? President Obama sanctioned Russia for its meddling only after the election.”

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Government
KEYWORDS: 2016; chrissteele; hillarycampaign; indictments; muellerinvestigation; russia; russiansindicted

1 posted on 02/17/2018 11:03:22 AM PST by Oklahoma
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To: Oklahoma

Zero can always claim that’s why he kicked out those 35 Russian diplo corps.


2 posted on 02/17/2018 11:05:55 AM PST by txhurl (The Final Thunderdome: Two Americas enter, One America leaves.)
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To: txhurl

Crapper to busy Lying


3 posted on 02/17/2018 11:06:54 AM PST by mplc51
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To: Oklahoma

Did Mueller’s “non-partisan”, “open-minded” team investigate whether there was any Mexican, Chinese, Canadian, German French social media meddling in the American election?


4 posted on 02/17/2018 11:08:24 AM PST by House Atreides (BOYCOTT the NFL, its products and players 100% - PERMANENTLY)
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To: Oklahoma
And if they did, why didn’t they let Americans in on the secret?

Well we know he obviously didn't, because he always only learned about things after seeing it in the press. /sarcasm

5 posted on 02/17/2018 11:08:53 AM PST by Robert DeLong
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To: Oklahoma

The indictments seem to me to be much to do about very little.

It would appear the Russian efforts were trivial compared to the free speech efforts of “The View” or “Jimmy Kimmel”. Compared to the vindictive harangues of Maxine Waters, the Russian product amounts to very little.

There were indictments but I don’t know what laws were broken and there is certainly no convictions with proofs of guilt


6 posted on 02/17/2018 11:15:21 AM PST by bert (K.E.; N.P.; GOPc;WASP .... The Fourth Estate is the Fifth Column)
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To: House Atreides

Or Iranian.


7 posted on 02/17/2018 11:17:50 AM PST by right way right (May we remain sober over mere men, for God really is our one and only true hope.)
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To: Oklahoma


8 posted on 02/17/2018 11:43:40 AM PST by Bon mots
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