Posted on 09/02/2018 4:08:11 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
Cleta Mitchell is a top campaign-finance lawyer in Washington, D.C. This year she’s also been the target of a political and media smear that reveals some of the nastiness at work in the allegations of collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia.
A partner at Foley & Lardner, Ms. Mitchell was astonished to find herself dragged into the Russia investigation on March 13 when Democrats on the House Intelligence Committee issued an interim report. They wrote that they still wanted to interview “key witnesses,” including Ms. Mitchell, who they claimed was “involved in or may have knowledge of third-party political outreach from the Kremlin to the Trump campaign, including persons linked to the National Rifle Association (NRA).”
Two days later the McClatchy news service published a story with the headline “NRA lawyer expressed concerns about group’s Russia ties, investigators told.” The story cited two anonymous sources claiming Congress was investigating Ms. Mitchell’s worries that the NRA had been “channeling Russia funds into the 2016 elections to help Donald Trump.”
Ms. Mitchell says none of this is true. She hadn’t done legal work for the NRA in at least a decade, had zero contact with it in 2016, and had spoken to no one about its actions. She says she told this to McClatchy, which published the story anyway.
Now we’re learning how this misinformation got around, and the evidence points to Glenn Simpson of Fusion GPS, the outfit that financed the infamous Steele dossier. New documents provided to Congress show that Mr. Simpson, a Fusion co-founder, was feeding information to Justice Department official Bruce Ohr. In an interview with House investigators this week, Mr. Ohr confirmed he had known Mr. Simpson for some time, and passed at least some of his information along to the FBI.
(Excerpt) Read more at wsj.com ...
This thing makes Watergate look like child’s play. If this ends anything like it should, Dems will never bring up Watergate again, as doing so will bring up this seditious conspiracy.
Beautifully said!
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Obama was not stupid, he was just (thankfully) lazy.
Obama was created by the CIA/"Intelligence" Community. He never would have been President if he wasn't "MADE".
This country is more corrupt than 99% of the citizens know. This is a sickening fact.
Chaos is ahead because DJT is one tough son of a gun and he will not bend.
Good/God and The President will win.
GOD BLESS AMERICA
Sure as hell explains that goofy OMG! face on the Halfrican when he met Pres-elect Trump.
The dirt Hillary was supposed to sweep under the rug is now in the hands of the man the Halfrican tried to destroy.
"After all we did for her, that lousy Hillary lost. "How’m I gonna get out of the mess I’m in?"
"I know, we’ll invent Russian collusion......lie like crazy......setup Trump to take the blame.”
Amen.
We must restore Nixon to his proper place in history.......
what exactly were those shady Democrats doing at the Watergate?
It really doesn't seem to be much more complicated than that. As usual, everyone in govt plays stupid.
Trump knows plenty. He’s got these Dem slugs by the ba***.......and they know it.
Slender man from Kenya better get his skinny ass out of town now.
I found no way around the paywall. But, ZH is discussing the article...
“But social media attacks on her haven’t ended. “That allegation impugns my ethical integrity and professional reputation,” she says, one reason she’s calling for Mr. Simpson to be prosecuted for lying to a federal official.”
“This is a conspiracy on a huge scale. Obama was stupid enough to think they could get away with all this treasonous sedition.”
He got away with everything else because of the media covering for him. They assumed that they were dealing with someone who would just pack his bags and leave DC in the face of a withering press.
Not DJT, he’s slamming it right back inb their faces and saying stay tuned...I AM THE STORM.
I want to see the raid on Perkins Coie.
Bttt.
5.56mm
Appoint Rudy a special prosecutor. He’s not deep state, and only half as partisan as the least partisan member of Team Mueller. Sessions can recuse himself from this, too, and keep deporting wet backs and locking up opioid pushers.
Worked for me, thanks
“Appoint Rudy a special prosecutor”
I think Rudy’s best days are well behind him. A lot of verbal gaffs since he came on board.
Mark Levin?
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