Posted on 02/16/2018 10:24:55 AM PST by RoosterRedux
A federal grand jury in the District of Columbia on Friday indicted 13 Russian nationals and three Russian entities accused of interfering in U.S. elections.
The announcement came from the office of Special Counsel Robert Mueller.
According to the special counsel, the indictment charges the defendants with conspiracy to defraud the United States, three defendants with conspiracy to commit wire fraud and bank fraud and five defendants with aggravated identity theft.
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Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein is scheduled to hold a press conference Friday afternoon.
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More than this Mueller stuff, I have actually been paying more attention to the politics going on *inside* Russia right now — as they will be hosting their presidential election circus in March.
“Circus” and “Fraud” are two words that perfectly encapsulate the state of Russian democracy and its dysfunctional electoral process/system.
So insecure and inept they are in building/foritfying their own institutions - that they have nothing better left to do than sabotage that of countries they envy and resent the most.
OK FBI gumshoes show exactly how these Boris and Natashas influenced a single vote in the last election let alone tipped the election to Trump. All of these indictments prove nothing about stealing votes.
In reading this indictment, Mueller & The GJ jury poured it on. Talk about overkill.
The genesis of this and the history of it all falls on Obama’s watch.
Yep. Ultimately they want government to enforce a requirement of positive identification of any American expressing an opinion on the internet, and to make that available to their employer and to radical groups and to police in order that people can be easily punished for their opinions and to prosecute "hate speech".
https://www.justice.gov/file/1035477/download
Social media postings! Real James Bond stuff!
Not!
The Grand Jury papers are following Russians in 2014 - how could it be for Trump, he wasn’t even running. Yet the mention Trump in the first few pages to set a false tone.
This bullshit would not stand if Jeff Sessions were alive.
This looks like CYA crap, it is a far cry from the bogus Steele dossier. A lot of it is putting fakenews on the internet and posing as a US person. Is that a crime?
Then arrest the DNC media.
In the summer of 2016, most of the known world believed Hillary was going to win, these anti-Hillary posts, (if you believe a Grand Jury Indictment, which is always questionable) were nothing more than mischief making and knocking down the sure winner. The left, wants to make this a Trump conspiracy but it is clearly not that.
The government will play this like it does everything else, selective persecution.
The targets of this action by Mueller and Rosenstein, are targeted based on who they are, not on what they did. If anybody else had won the GOP nomination, none of this "Russian interference" nonsense would have seen the light of day.
The biggest threats to American freedom are the US government, the press, and academia. The enemy is within, and it is deeply entrenched.
It started in 2014 when Trump wasn’t a candidate. Meaning this is normal everyday business for the Russians. Hell, the Soviets invented the word “Disinformation”.
It’s not a financial crime but that is what they will charge since they lied to get bank accounts, and provided others’ social security numbers.
This whole thing proves nothing. This would have occurred without Trump, and it likely did in the last election.
Hillary was a shoo-in, this just meant to disrupt and weaken. Very small potatoes.
This started in 2014, and only Hillary was running at that time, so the Trump conspiracy is fakenews. They would have supported Jeb Bush at that spot.
They still wanted Hillary to win, because they did business with her and knew she could be bought.
The side by side of Rosenstein and Himmler is interesting. A morphing program wouldn’t have to work hard to transition from one to the other.
Now let’s investigate Obama, Holder, Hillary and their co-conspirators for colluding with illegal immigrants/dreamers to influence our election.
Howwwww much money and political capital was spent on this, just to find out that there was no effect on our election?
What country doesnt want to influence other countries? This whole thing is a joke. I looked at Trump giving his speech by the escalator and he had my vote. Unless it was some Russian guy doing an excellent Trump impression, they didnt help me vote Trump.
So how about the Chinese? The Chinese certainly interfered in our elections to help elect Bill Krintong in the 1990s.
They are masters at infiltrating our internet and stealing US government secrets and US industrial information.
Are we going to find out what they did in the last election? Oops, or would that lead to finding out they helped Hillary?
The real investigation should be Bob Creamer and what Project Veritas uncovered. Those Dems were admitting busing people around to voter fraud orgies. They admitted it, unknowingly, on tape. They also send violent goons to Trump rallies, to start fights so the lackey media will report Trump’s violence. All crimes.
Sessions has let America down!
Go after real crime.
Isnt it just EMBARRASSING?
If these people are in trouble for “sowing confusion” about political candidates, then every American mainstream media news company, along with all of their bubble-headed, script-readers, better be worried that Mueller and company will be banging down their doors - at any dang minute!!
I think I know of a few agents who colluded to interfere with us elections. They werent Russians though. They run the FBI and DOJ.
Just because of his adorable dimples when he cracks himself up, we are NOT sending John Oliver to Guantanamo. Also, he is American. And his hot wife is a military hero.
Excellent point........Mueller gives them more credit than what they’re worth.....they have enough to do keeping afloat there.
Naw. He knows he has to find something, and wrap this up cleanly. The “Russian conspiracy to interfere in US elections” has been found, participants indicted, and Trump exonerated. That narrative is over; like a decapitated chicken, it may keep moving, but it’s dead.
To go after the big fish, you first have to catch small fish to act as tasty bait for ever larger fish. This indictment explicitly released the minnows, while keeping the eels which are neither good bait nor good eating.
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