Robert Mueller just made it impossible for Trump to call the special counsel probe a 'total hoax'

CNN ^ | February 16, 2018 | Chris Cillizza, CNN Editor-at-large

[mdittmar]

(CNN)On Friday afternoon, the Justice Department announced that special counsel Robert Mueller had indicted 13 Russian nationals for their roles in attempted meddling in the 2016 election.

Most of these people do not live in the United States, and you can bet your bottom dollar that Russia won't be extraditing them any time soon. But that's not the point.

The point is this: The indictments of a baker's dozen of Russians gives us a very clear window into not only the depth and breadth of the Mueller investigation, but also makes crystal clear what the Russians wanted in the 2016 election and the elaborate measures they undertook to make it happen.

This paragraph stands out:

"Defendant ORGANIZATION had a strategic goal to sow discord in the U.S. political system, including the 2016 U.S. presidential election. Defendants posted derogatory information about a number of candidates, and by early to mid-2016, Defendants' operations included supporting the presidential campaign of then-candidate Donald J. Trump ("Trump Campaign") and disparaging Hillary Clinton. Defendants made various expenditures to carry out those activities, including buying political advertisements on social media in the names of U.S. persons and entities. Defendants also staged political rallies inside the United States, and while posing as U.S. grassroots entities and U.S. persons, and without revealing their Russian identities and ORGANIZATION affiliation, solicited and compensated real U.S. persons to promote or disparage candidates. Some Defendants, posing as U.S. persons and without revealing their Russian association, communicated with unwitting individuals associated with the Trump Campaign and with other political activists to seek to coordinate political activities."

[trebb]

Of course one also has to wonder why nobody in the DNC was indicted fro rigging their primaries - what they did was worse than what these “Russian Trolls” are accused of...

[itsahoot]

We didn't NEED a special counsel if his job is simply a counterintelligence investigation against Russia.

His job is and always has been to bleach bit the entire corrupt system of any trace of Obama/Hillary corruption. If they happen to entrap Trump then that is a bonus.

[MortMan]

You seriously underestimate FReepers, with geometric logic!

[Kickass Conservative]

Imagine if the DC Grand Jury actually had some Conservatives or on it rather than being nothing but full of Government loving Liberals.

I there had been a whiff of information typing any of this to POTUS Trump, you know they would have pushed for an Indictment.

Take it to a Grand Jury in Oklahoma and see what happens.

[Kickass Conservative]

typing = tying...

[TheConservativeTejano]

Partner, these guys will never ever see a courtroom nor a trail of their misdeeds. The Ruskies will get away with everything thrown at them. This is why it is still a communist country and never to be trusted ever.

[ballplayer]

The whole thing has been a hoax from the beginning.
A case of Projection,accusing your opponent of What you have been doing times 10.
A major distraction endeavor to cover the crimes by the Clintons and them selling out our country,by selling uranium supplies to the Russians for hundreds of millions of dollars to the Clinton slush fund.
If you don’t believe it,how many of you want to hear anymore about Russian collusion?