First Charges Filed in Mueller Investigation

[Newenglanddeac]

 

[avalon]

It seems this is the administration's latest talking point and Republicans are more than willing to play along.

Also an excuse for why they're not doing anything about the election interference going into the midterms.

 

[Newenglanddeac]

It seems this is the administration's latest talking point and Republicans are more than willing to play along.

Also an excuse for why they're not doing anything about the election interference going into the midterms.

Yep.

Also holy shit these goalposts continue to move.

 

[Newenglanddeac]

It's amazing what you can find once you start putting all of the random puzzle pieces together.

 

[RJKarl]

I am still baffled at why the Trump tower money laundering case has been swept under the rug by the media and Mueller. It's an absolute smoking gun and quid-pro-quo.

I've never heard of the IRS and FBI allowing people who have laundered over $220,000,000 off with NO convictions, NO jail time and a fine of UNDER $6,000,000. But that's the resolution here.

I've never heard of a sitting Attorney General taking over such an inconsequential case, but Jeff Sessions closed this one.

The criminals were represented by Natalia Veselnitskaya.

This is a huge story, but it has been let go.

That's a disgrace.

 

[WakeForestRanger]

 

[Newenglanddeac]

 

[Newenglanddeac]

Look at that smug motherfucker in a USA hat...like he gives two shits about this country. He cares about himself and that's it.

 

[PhDeac]

I thought that story broke late at night. Maybe that’s when the tape was released.

This isn’t about moving goalposts. The GOP is in league with Russia and has been for years. Some of the links above discuss how Citizens United paves the way for Russia money.

 

[PhDeac]

It's amazing what you can find once you start putting all of the random puzzle pieces together.

Since Watergate, the line has been “the crime is in the coverup.” Maybe that’s the lesson Republicans learned. Don’t even bother covering it up. Just deny and then normalize it once you’re found out.

 

[WakeForestRanger]

Fuck that traitorous piece of shit

 

[Newenglanddeac]

Fuck that traitorous piece of shit

Seconded.

 

[avalon]

 

[birdman]

What did he lie about? Please elaborate.

Still waiting on a substantive reply to this inquest.

 

[Newenglanddeac]

 

[ONW]

Seconded.

Thirded. BTW Mr. Trump, you control the Congress and are stocking the Supreme Court, who the fuck is capable of obstructing you regarding anything? Trey Gowdy can go fuck himself as well. You don't like doing public hearings? STFU

 

[RJKarl]

BENGHAZI TREY must have dementia.

 

[Newenglanddeac]

 

[Newenglanddeac]

Ashford, who lost his seat to Republican Don Bacon by 3,464 votes, said hackers obtained all of his campaign's email correspondence with the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee. He said he was notified of the breach in the summer of 2016 by House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi's office and was told that the Russians were likely responsible.

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Ashford said he doesn't believe any of the stolen information ever went to Bacon or the Republican Party, and he doesn't know whether it made a difference in his race. He did face a series of anonymous political attacks on social media.

He said he chose not to disclose it during the campaign because he believed he was going to win and opted not to say anything afterward because he didn't want to appear like he was making excuses for his loss. Bacon told the Omaha World-Herald on Friday that he didn't know that hackers had targeted Ashford's emails, but said it's clear that Russians were trying to cause trouble in the 2016 election.

 

[bym051d]

If someone has a better idea of a place to put this, feel free to suggest it.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/15/opinion/trump-russia-investigation-putin.html

Trump, Treasonous Traitor
The president fails to protect the country from an ongoing attack.

Put aside whatever suspicions you may have about whether Donald Trump will be directly implicated in the Russia investigation.

Trump is right now, before our eyes and those of the world, committing an unbelievable and unforgivable crime against this country. It is his failure to defend.

The intelligence community long ago concluded that Russia attacked our election in 2016 with the express intention of damaging Hillary Clinton and assisting Trump.

And it was not only the spreading of inflammatory fake news over social media. As a May report from the Republican-run Senate Intelligence Committee pointed out:

“In 2016, cyber actors affiliated with the Russian Government conducted an unprecedented, coordinated cyber campaign against state election infrastructure. Russian actors scanned databases for vulnerabilities, attempted intrusions, and in a small number of cases successfully penetrated a voter registration database. This activity was part of a larger campaign to prepare to undermine confidence in the voting process.”

And this is not simply a thing that happened once. This is a thing that is still happening and will continue to happen. As Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats told the committee in February, “Persistent and disruptive cyberoperations will continue against the United States and our European allies using elections as opportunities to undermine democracy.” As he put it, “Frankly, the United States is under attack.”

The Robert Mueller investigation is looking into this, trying to figure out what exactly happened in 2016, who all was involved, which laws where broken and who will be charged and tried.