Posted on 07/16/2018 1:35:10 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
On Friday, special counsel Robert Mueller indicted 12 Russian intelligence officials for hacking Democratic organizations and the Clinton campaign, offering the clearest story yet of how the Russian government interfered in the 2016 presidential election.
But the other part of the story — which hasn’t been completely told — is how the Trump campaign actively seized on this interference, how it benefited from it, and how its associates communicated (wittingly or unwittingly) with Russian intelligence and WikiLeaks, according to the Mueller indictments, the public record and previous reporting.
A Trump campaign associate — presumably Roger Stone — communicated with Russian intelligence: “On or about August 15, 2016, the Conspirators, posing as Guccifer 2.0, wrote to a person who was in regular contact with senior members of the presidential campaign of Donald J. Trump, ‘thank u for writing back … do u find anyt[h]ing interesting in the docs I posted.’” (Mueller indictments, July 13, 2018)
Donald Trump Jr., Paul Manafort and Jared Kushner met with a Kremlin-connected lawyer on June 9, 2016 after Donald Trump Jr was told that the Russian government had dirt on Hillary Clinton: “If it's what you say, I love it,” Trump Jr. wrote back (June 3, 2016)
Trump himself asked Russia for assistance in the 2016 election: "If you're listening, I hope you're able to find the 30,000 emails that are missing." (July 27, 2016)
Russian intelligence, “for the first time,” tried to gain access to Hillary Clinton’s personal emails/server on that same day: “[O]n or about July 27, 2016, the Conspirators attempted after hours to spearphish for the first time email accounts at a domain hosted by a third-party and used by Clinton’s personal office.” (Mueller indictments, July 13, 2018)....
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“offering the clearest story yet of how the Russian government interfered in the 2016 presidential election.” The bias is just, disgusting. 12 people indicted does not mean they have been found guilty.
Morons still do not get it. It was exactly this idiocy by the DC Poltical/Media that elected Trump.
Trump is a genius. He plays these people like a fiddle. Their idiocy keeps Trump’s voters engaged and enraged. In the past, the GOP would win, the voters would go back to sleep for and the GOP would morph into Democrat Lite.
Now the Media, the Dems and the GOPE are keeping the Trump voters engaged. This will not end well for the DC machine.
Why not indict the aliens who crashed at Roswell? They’re about as liable to show up for trial.
So we’ve gone from ‘colluding’ to just ‘benefitting’. Got it.
these lies will be on these leftists lips til the day they breath their last breath.
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