The Conspirators spearphished individuals affiliated with the Clinton Campaign throughout the summer of 2016. For example, on or about July 27, 2016, the Conspirators attempted after hours to spearphish for the first time email accounts at a domain hosted by a thirdparty provider and used by Clinton’s personal office.
https://int.nyt.com/data/documenthelper/80-netyksho-et-al-indictment/ba0521c1eef869deecbe/optimized/full.pdf?action=click&module=Intentional&pgtype=Article
The New York Time spun that sentence into the following headline:
Trump Invited the Russians to Hack Clinton. Were They Listening?
Other left wing outlets cite that as evidence of collusion.
So ask yourself this question: when has a prosecutor ever gone out of their way to note that a criminal they are charging committed a crime "for the first time". Imagine "On Jan 1, the shoplifter, for the first time, attempted to steal several items from Walmart."
They were clearly trying to create exactly the sort of negative inference you discovered, despite the fact that even according to their own indictment the hackers were trying to hack several "individuals affiliated with the Clinton Campaign throughout the summer of 2016." Did they really need Trump to give them the idea of hacking Hillary??
I'm betting that:
1. "on or about July 27, 2016" turns out to be July 26 or before"
2. It wasn't the first time they tried to hack Hilalry's office at all.
Yep. The old “on or about” distortion. Technically not a lie, but not a full truth either. He should be disbarred over this report’s use of 1/2 truths and innuendo.
Here is what I noticed. From the section on obstruction of justice:
“During the press conference, Trump repeated, “I have nothing to do with Russia” five times. He stated that “the closest [he] came to Russia” was that Russians may have purchased a home or condos from him. He said that after he held the Miss America pageant in Moscow in 2013 he had been interested in working with Russian companies that “wanted to put a lot of money into developments in Russia” but “it never worked out.” He explained, “[f]rankly, I didn’t want to do it for a couple of different reasons. But we had a major developer...that wanted to develop property in Moscow and other places. But we decided not to do it.” The Trump Organization, however, had been pursuing a building project in Moscow - the Trump Tower Moscow project - from approximately September 2015 through June 2016, and the candidate was regularly updated on developments, including possible trips by Michael Cohen to Moscow to promote the deal and by Trump himself to finalize it.”
If self-serving statements made in a press conference count as possible obstruction of justice, then Washington DC needs a prison wall built around the entire damn city!
Guess I missed the part where media hacks are Dept of Justice investigators. Heck, Trump could have claimed to have a schlong 20 feet long at a press conference. So what? Doesn’t make it obstruction of justice if Mueller takes out a tape measure and says it is only 19’ 8”.