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Official Russian Election Interference Thread

Blumenthal: ‘99 percent sure’ of Flynn, Manafort indictments

At least two key Trump associates will face criminal charges, says the Connecticut senator and former state attorney general.

09/26/2017 01:47 PM EDT

Criminal charges against two former top advisers to President Donald Trump are virtually certain, Democratic Sen. Richard Blumenthal said Tuesday.

Michael Flynn and Paul Manafort are almost sure to be indicted as a result of Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s probe into Russian interference in the 2016 election, the Connecticut senator told POLITICO.

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“I'm about 99 percent sure there will be some criminal charges from this investigation,” said Blumenthal, a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee. Blumenthal has also served as a U.S. attorney and spent 20 years as his state's attorney general.

Blumenthal said he is less certain Trump himself would end up facing charges, including for possible obstruction of justice for his firing of FBI Director James Comey.

But he said that several Trump associates may find themselves under indictment.

Manafort and Flynn "are the most prominent,” he said, "but there may well be others."

http://www.politico.com/story/2017/...-paul-manafort-richard-blumenthal-says-243158
 
I hope Steve Schmidt is preparing to rebuild the Republican Party after all this goes down. He's one of the few reasonable ones left.
 
PhDeac said:
I hope Steve Schmidt is preparing to rebuild the Republican Party after all this goes down. He's one of the few reasonable ones left.
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+1. Schmidt is a real American. He is also probably one of the only people who knows everything John McCain knows at this point.
 
Roger Stone: I Didn’t Name My WikiLeaks Intermediary in House Intel Committee Interview

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Roger Stone, the Republican political operative with close ties to President Trump, said on Tuesday that he declined to name his WikiLeaks intermediary during an interview with the House Intelligence Committee. “That’s the only question I declined to answer,” Stone told reporters after his interview with the committee, which is investigating Russia’s meddling in the 2016 election. Stone said the individual is a journalist, and that he could not reveal the person’s identity because they had an agreement that it would be off the record. Rep. Mike Conaway (R-TX), who is leading the panel’s Russia probe, declined to speak with reporters after the interview but said Stone’s remarks at the podium were “very accurate.” Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA), the committee’s ranking member, also appeared to confirm Stone’s account of the testimony, saying “there was one significant area” in which “Stone was unwilling to answer our questions,” adding: “We hope he will cooperate in the future. If not, it will be necessary to subpoena him to bring him back to answer those questions.” Schiff did not answer reporters’ questions about whether that “significant area” was regarding Stone’s intermediary, but Rep. Mike Quigley (D-IL) said later Tuesday that he was the member who asked the question, calling it “critical in explaining his connection with Wikileaks.”

http://www.thedailybeast.com/roger-...termediary-in-house-intel-committee-interview
 
Special counsel probing flow of Russian-American money to Trump political funds

Three Americans with significant Russian business connections contributed almost $2 million to political funds controlled by Donald Trump, ABC News has learned.

The timing of contributions coming from US citizens with ties to Russia is now being questioned by investigators for special counsel Robert Mueller, according to a Republican campaign aide interviewed by Mueller’s team.

Unless the contributions were directed by a foreigner, they would be legal, but could still be of interest to investigators examining allegations of Russian influence in the 2016 campaign, said Rep. Adam Schiff of California, the ranking Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee.

“Obviously, if there were those that had associations with the Kremlin that were contributing, that would be of keen concern,” Schiff told ABC News.

A review of Trump campaign records conducted by the Center for Responsive Politics for ABC News found large contributions coming from two émigrés born in the former Soviet Union who now hold U.S. citizenship, and from a third American who heads the subsidiary of a large Russian private equity firm.

Those donations began flowing to the Republican National Committee, the group says, just as Trump was on the verge of securing the Republican nomination and culminated in two large gifts – totaling $1.25 million – from these individuals to the Trump inaugural fund following his victory.

http://abcnews.go.com/amp/Politics/...rump-wealthy-donors-russian/story?id=50100024
 
Trump-Russia investigators close in on sources named in explosive dossier

Efforts to get ex-MI6 officer Christopher Steele to testify in US have fallen short, but Mueller's probe appears to be making steady progress

"Meanwhile, the team of special counsel Robert Mueller, leading a separate investigation into the Kremlins’ activities, have contacted and taken evidence from a number of figures named in the dossier, including one, The Independent has learned, who has been providing important information.

Concerted attempts were made to dismiss Mr Steele’s report as fantasy when news of its existence broke at the beginning of the year by Mr Trump, his supporters and right wing media outlets in the US and UK.

Since then, however, many of his claims have proved to be true. There is now rivalry between three ongoing inquiries into Mr Trump – by former FBI director Mr Mueller, the Senate Intelligence Committee, the House Intelligence Committee and the Senate Intelligence Committee – to get Mr Steele to testify."

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But some with inside knowledge of the Steele report say that one of the “sources” could be Felix Sater, a Russian whose family emigrated to New York when he was six years old. Mr Sater was jailed for stabbing a man in the face with a cocktail glass. He was also convicted of investment fraud involving the Russian mafia targeting the elderly including Holocaust survivors, but avoided a potential 20 years sentence by becoming an informer.

Mr Sater is a former business associate of Mr Trump and had accompanied him on trips to Russia. At Mr Trump’s behest he had chaperoned Donald junior and Ivanka on a Moscow visit during which he was influential enough to engineer that Ivanka got to sit on President Putin’s chair in the Kremlin.

Mr Sater (aka Felix Sheferovsky) was a childhood friend of Michael Cohen, Mr Trump’s personal lawyer. Mr Cohen was named in the Steele dossier as a key conduit between the Trump camp and the Russians and that Vladimir Putin’s spokesman Dmitry Peskov was tasked with carrying out a covert campaign to undermine Hilary Clinton’s presidential campaign (which Mr Peskov denies).

Mr Cohen had denied having “any dealings” whatsoever with the Russians in his work for Mr Trump. But newly leaked emails show that Mr Cohen asked for Mr Peskov’s help with a Trump real estate project, Trump Tower, in Moscow in 2016. This was when Mr Trump was already campaigning to secure the Republican nomination for the Presidency.

The leaks also revealed emails from Mr Sater to Mr Cohen. One said excitedly: “Can you believe two guys from Brooklyn are going to elect a President.” Another said: “Our boy can become President of the USA and we can engineer it … I will get Putin on this programme and we will get Trump elected.”

Andrew Weissmann, the federal prosecutor who “turned” Mr Sater during the fraud investigation, is now on Mr Mueller’s team. Mr Sater is helping federal authorities in a Kazakh money laundering scheme in which some of the money was supposedly laundered through a Trump property. The claims of Mr Trump being the Muscovian Candidate for the US Presidency, raised by Mr Steele, continue to grow and reverberate.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/w...-mueller-us-election-senate-a7970821.html?amp
 
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And 12 months later, russia is still trying to fuck with us.

 
Those Russians really know how piss off conservatives.
 
WFFaithful said:
It's not hard.
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