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Last night's big WikiLeaks news sheds new light on one of last year's most controversial stories: the allegation that Paul Manafort met with Julian Assange at the Ecuadorian Embassy in March 2016. theguardian.com/us-news/2018/n…
Manafort and Assange denied it (of course). The Guardian's report notes: "Visitors normally register with embassy security guards and show their passports. Sources in Ecuador, however, say Manafort was not logged."
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Last night, we learned how that could be true: Because Assange had the ability to sneak guests pass security and delete names from the visitor logs, making it easy to cover up his actions.
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We're continuing our series Breaking Down the Mueller Report. First up: Why George Papadopoulos's claim that he never told anyone on the campaign what he knew about Russian hacking is so implausible. #BDMR
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Next: We all saw the emails stolen from the DNC and John Podesta. But what about the material Russia stole that they *didn't* publish? #BDMR
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Then: The strange story of a Senate staffer who appears to have been working with GOP operative Peter Smith to find additional emails they believed had been stolen from the Clinton campaign. #BDMR
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Trump's meetings with Putin always highlight just how much Putin has gained from Trump's presidency. Here are our 12 examples of Putin's Payout for his investment in Trump:
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1. Trump has weakened and divided the transatlantic alliance, undermining NATO and our relationships with European allies. themoscowproject.org/reports/putins…
2. Trump has helped degrade the European Union and foster pro-Russian political movements, including by actively supporting and praising anti-EU and Kremlin-backed politicians and parties. themoscowproject.org/reports/putins…
Reminder: When reporters asked Trump during the campaign about evidence that Putin has had journalists killed, Trump disputed the charges and responded, "I think that our country does plenty of killing, too."
The first time Trump and Putin held a press conference together in 2017, they also bonded over their attacks on the press.
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And, oh yeah, that "sweeping and systemic" attack on American democracy Trump seemed to find so funny this morning included at least 14 Russian operatives who have been indicted for their roles in a Kremlin-funded online disinformation campaign.
The House Judiciary Committee's second hearing on the Mueller report is starting now. Watch it live here:
As @RepJerryNadler highlights the damage of Russian interference, a reminder: Trump still has not condemned Russia's attack on the 2016 election. theatlantic.com/international/…
Trump said last week that he'd take information offered by a hostile foreign power, and refused to commit to alerting law enforcement or the intelligence community. That's exactly what happened in 2016.
A lot. To start with, the surveillance of Page happened under a law specifically designed to prevent abuses like the FBI spying on King.
Three separate judges—all of whom were appointed by Republicans—signed off on the warrant. Two of those required evidence that the surveillance was providing investigators useful information about clandestine foreign intelligence activities in the US.
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Also worth noting: The first of those applications didn't come in until October 2016, *after* he'd officially left the Trump campaign. nytimes.com/2018/07/21/us/…
In honor of Kushner’s claim he knew nothing about the June 9 meeting going in, here’s a moment from the Mueller report that shows how unbelievable that is: axios.com/jared-kushner-…
Volume one, page 108: In late April 2016, Dmitri Simes, who “personally has many contacts with current and former Russian government officials,” specifically warned Kushner against meeting with Russians. justice.gov/storage/report… 
According to the report, both of them recall a conversation where “Simes raised the issue of Russian contacts with Kushner, advised that it was bad optics for the campaign to develop hidden Russian contacts …” justice.gov/storage/report…
Mueller’s press conference today could not have been clearer: His report is an impeachment referral to Congress. themoscowproject.org/dispatch/muell…
He explicitly did not “exonerate” Trump. Instead, he reiterated that DOJ policy prevents indicting a sitting president, but that, “if we had confidence that the president clearly did not commit a crime, we would have said so.”
He outlined why the investigation into obstruction was “of paramount importance”: because that obstruction threatened to hide the truth about Russia’s attack on American democracy. nytimes.com/2019/05/29/us/…
That big George Papadopoulos profile that’s been going around ignores some pretty big details—including that Joseph Mifsud told Papadopoulos that Russia had hacked Clinton’s emails long before that became public. themoscowproject.org/explainers/aid…
Mifsud told Papadopoulos that Russia would be releasing emails stolen from Trump’s opponents on April 26, 2016. The public didn’t learn about it until almost two months later. The Russia scandal simply didn’t exist then—except for Mifsud and Papadopoulos. themoscowproject.org/dispatch/what-…
When Papadopoulos bragged about it in May 2016, there wasn’t a “Russia investigation”—that didn’t start until July, when the Australian government told the FBI after WikiLeaks began publishing. The Mueller report confirms it literally on page one.
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In 2016 and 2017, employees at Deutsche Bank reportedly suggested that activity related to Trump and Kushner’s accounts be reported to federal anti-money-laundering authorities, only to be overruled by their superiors. nytimes.com/2019/05/19/bus…
We don’t know yet if Mueller investigates these activities in his counterintelligence investigation. Either way, Congress must act now to “follow the money.” nydailynews.com/opinion/ny-ope…
For more on Trump’s shady business history and how it left him vulnerable to compromise, check out the latest episode of #TheAsset, narrated by @maxbergmann, and featuring @TimOBrien and @lukeharding1968: theassetpodcast.org/episode/bankru…
Tax documents newly obtained by the New York Times show Trump in the red every year from 1985 to 1994, ultimately amounting to $1.17 billion in losses over the course of a decade—more than any other taxpayer in America.
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As we wrote in October, Trump's decades of failed business dealings—during which his father propped him up, often using illegal methods—formed the foundation of his relationship with Russia: themoscowproject.org/dispatch/the-t…
Want to learn more about those corrupt deals? Tune into our new podcast #TheAsset, where next week we'll be "following the money" on the origins of Trump's corrupt business dealings. theassetpodcast.org
