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First Charges Filed in Mueller Investigation

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Maybe I am wrong, but I don't see the "conspiracy admission" here that Josh Marshall asserts in follow up tweets. Rules specifically stated that the pre-meeting was to discuss other things, not the meeting with the Russians. The presence of Rick Gates is a pretty big deal though...hope fully he has hard evidence to hand over of what happened there.
 
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After opening arguments, the jury foreman stood up and said, "Guilty on all charges. I've gotta get back to work."
 
‘Has mom been tested for STDs?’ The Manaforts’ home life and why it matters
Hacked text messages containing several damaging stories about the former campaign manager can now be viewed by anyone with an Internet connection.


Where did he go wrong,” one of the daughters is said to ask about her “fucked up” father.

“mom thinks the power went to his head”

“with Ukraine”

“Right…that it has turned him into a moral-less ethic-less person”

“he is just power crazed…controling. obsessive.”

“He has no moral or legal compass”

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The next part of the sisters’ discussion is the basis for one of the damaging stories about Manafort already published using material from the texts.

“You know he has killed people in Ukraine? Knowingly”

“What?! No”

“Don’t fool yourself. That money we have is blood money”

They are apparently talking about the claim that Manafort was standing next to the Ukrainian president, Viktor Yanukovych, egging him on when the order was given to fire on unarmed demonstrators. There is gossip to this effect in Kiev, but no proof. “I don’t advise raising it with him,” one of the daughters’ texts says. “He lies like a rug and gets realllll pissed off. But it’s true. He thinks I don’t remember.”

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The judge in the case, T.S. Ellis III, has told Mueller’s prosecutors: “You don’t really care about Mr Manafort’s bank fraud.” All they cared about, the judge went on, was what information Manafort had that might lead to President Trump’s impeachment. President Trump has pointed out – correctly – that all of Manafort’s alleged crimes came before he joined the campaign in 2016.

This is true but Trump’s opponents, including some in the “intelligence community”, say there is a connection between the 2016 race and what happened in Ukraine. Manafort’s millions came from oligarchs in Ukraine loyal to the Kremlin. If he were money laundering and cheating on his taxes, Russian intelligence and ultimately Vladimir Putin would have known. They would have had a powerful hold over him: information that could send him to jail.

This is why some intelligence sources believe that Manafort was deliberately put into the Trump campaign by the Kremlin (taking an unpaid post). It is no coincidence, the sources say, that in a later indictment drawn up by Mueller Manafort is jointly charged with his former translator and business partner in Ukraine, Konstantin Kilimnik. Kilimnik was once an officer in Russia’s military intelligence service, known as the GRU. Trump’s former business partner, Felix Sater, told a Congressional committee: “No such thing as a former Russian spy.”

https://spectator.us/2018/07/has-mo...why-it-matters/amp/?__twitter_impression=true
 
Why Are So Many Leftists Skeptical of the Russia Investigation?
By
Jonathan Chait


A theme of their skepticism is a sense of frustration with the way the Russia investigation cuts across the electorate, and especially the political intelligentsia, in a way that frustrates their ideological project. While some leftists have disdained the Mueller investigation, many centrists and even some conservatives have supported it. By expanding the Democratic coalition into the center, at least temporarily, the Russia issue runs counter to their goal of repositioning the party to the left. An undercurrent of frustration expresses itself in sniping at the commonality between liberal Russia skeptics and right-of-center Russia-hawks-turned-Trump-critics like David Frum, Max Boot, and Bill Kristol. What’s more, Trump’s Russia policy has produced a quiet struggle pitting the president against the mostly standard-issue hawkish Republicans who staff his administration. Trump is the enemy of the left’s enemy.

http://nymag.com/daily/intelligence...y-leftists-skeptical-of-the-russia-probe.html
 
Jury selection in Manafort’s trial began yesterday. He’s facing 18 federal charges. A conviction on just one of the charges carries around a 10 year prison sentence.
 
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