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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

Posted on 02/16/2018 4:21:21 PM PST by 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."

(Excerpt) Read more at cnn.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 4thestate5thcolumn; cnn; domesticenemies; fakenews; megafakenews; muellerinvestigation; russiansindicted
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To: mdittmar

not a hoax? this Mueller business is sure a FARCE!


61 posted on 02/16/2018 5:01:45 PM PST by faithhopecharity ("Politicans aren't born, they're excreted." -Marcus Tillius Cicero (3 BCE))
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To: mdittmar

It’s even MORE a hoax now. Indicting 13 Russians that live in St Petersburg, Russia? Maybe they’ll come back on their own and face charges. What this shows is that the Mueller investigation is even weaker than before the press conference ... is “this” all ya’ got?


62 posted on 02/16/2018 5:02:22 PM PST by ThePatriotsFlag (We are getting even more than we voted for!)
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To: Electric Graffiti
This was and is a coup by special counsel, folks. The left are at war with the United States and the rule of law. It’s time people pull their heads out of their asses and start treating these people as enemy combatants.

QFT + 1000%

63 posted on 02/16/2018 5:02:23 PM PST by TTFlyer
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To: Pravious; Wm F Buckley Republican

Even worse! Apparently they were MEAN to the girl and said bad things about her. Smells like #MeToo BS.


64 posted on 02/16/2018 5:02:48 PM PST by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: Mercat

Precisely opposite. They owned the clintoonian and their large group of hungry payees for payola. Like Sid Vicious Blumenthal. Uranium and 500K speeches, and lest one forget the rather deep placement of clinton global and the former clinton presidency with.... the chi-coms. The oligarch russians are not the old soviets. The chi-coms are definitely chinese communist totalitarians, in direct opposition to Russia (like the oligarchs or not, much closer to the old Tsarists).

The Russians supported hitlery and the demoncrat party allied with BOTH chi-com china and their old pals from the soviet days who are now oligarch billionaires. That was how they got the “dossier” put together. Easy peasy.


65 posted on 02/16/2018 5:03:20 PM PST by John S Mosby (SIC SEMPER TYRANNIS)
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To: joethedrummer

Yep,but them union Federal Government folks got pissed off.


66 posted on 02/16/2018 5:03:22 PM PST by mdittmar
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To: mdittmar

Humphrey Bogart, The Caine Mutiny


67 posted on 02/16/2018 5:04:23 PM PST by Brooklyn Attitude (The first step in ending the war on white people is to recognize it exists.)
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To: mdittmar

CNN is full of crap. Trump acknowledged Russian meddling. He denied Russian collusion.

Big difference.


68 posted on 02/16/2018 5:05:23 PM PST by SoFloFreeper
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To: mdittmar

This is dripping with sophomoric nonsense. Insanity has taken over.


69 posted on 02/16/2018 5:05:38 PM PST by Gator113 ( ~~Trump 2020~~)
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To: mdittmar

Indictments that have been sitting in the can and the need to divert attention from the FBI failings in the school shooting gave a perfect opening for this announcement,


70 posted on 02/16/2018 5:07:05 PM PST by LeoTDB69
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To: Brooklyn Attitude

Lot’s of old Freepers here;)


71 posted on 02/16/2018 5:07:16 PM PST by mdittmar
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To: OftheOhio

Obama had a free hand, too, and interfered in national elections all over the world. He gave speeches in London exhorting Brits to vote “No” on BREXIT and actually threatening them with retaliation if they left the EU. That is a million times worse that a few fake accounts on FB that were disparaging Her Mot Royal Highness and Exalted One Whose Turn It Was.

If we are governed by the Rule of Law, Obama must be indicted.


72 posted on 02/16/2018 5:07:23 PM PST by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: tomkat

I agree.

Civilization has gone from Bread and Circuses to Entitlement and T.V. Most of our media supports that garbage.

History repeats. Been reading the history of the politics during Caesar’s reign. Interesting.


73 posted on 02/16/2018 5:07:36 PM PST by lizma2
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To: mdittmar

What BS. They didn’t need a “Special Counsel” for the crap indictments they handed down today. If the Justice Dept thought this was credible they could have done it themselves.

What’s worse is these indictments appear to have been based on intelligence gathered by OTHER agencies and not by the Mueller team.


74 posted on 02/16/2018 5:08:53 PM PST by VeniVidiVici
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To: Gator113

cnn,when you are stuck waiting for a plane in the bar.


75 posted on 02/16/2018 5:10:56 PM PST by mdittmar
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To: mdittmar

We have no idea if Russia committed those crimes because all we have is purported “evidence” furnished by the crooked FBI, corrupt CIA, treacherous DOJ and the word of “he who walks on water” (in the winter in Canada) Mueller.


76 posted on 02/16/2018 5:11:04 PM PST by RetiredTexasVet (Start using cash and checks or the elite class and bankers will make "cashless" the norm.)
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To: mdittmar

If there was no spec counsel, they would have gotten away with it.


77 posted on 02/16/2018 5:12:05 PM PST by njmaugbill (Nj)
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To: M Kehoe
How is Mulehead going to get these Russians into a U.S. court?

Another article said that is the absolute genius of what he's done. Because they will not appear in the U.S., there will never be a trial, discovery, evidence, judgement of guilt. So all we are left with is the indictment and the hysteria it generates.

78 posted on 02/16/2018 5:13:11 PM PST by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: mdittmar

Chris Cillizza is CNN’s No. 1 fascist fairy who sees unicorns and cornucopia exiting his abundant fat ass everyday.


79 posted on 02/16/2018 5:15:54 PM PST by sergeantdave (Teach a man to fish and he'll steal your gear and sell it)
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To: mdittmar; ClearCase_guy

There are some 5 generation family of USNavy officer’s who get the reference. That, and the ice cream and the steel ball bearings. Ed MacMurray played a real Gore Vidal “author” in that one.

Our hearts and minds tend to support greater leadership- ie. in the character played by Jose Ferrer and not so much the lying “author” and his dupe (Lt. Maryk)-Van Johnson.
Having this kind of interplay in the “new” Navy is approaching the soviet model with political commissar/jag officer on every command deck.

Our President picked at by thousands of “journo-list” wannabees who hate this country and especially our People.


80 posted on 02/16/2018 5:16:00 PM PST by John S Mosby (SIC SEMPER TYRANNIS)
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