Those of us who read the Mueller Report have known this for years, but finally a federal district court and court of appeals has confirmed that Barr lied to the American people to whitewash Mueller’s findings, and DOJ must release an unredacted copy of Barr’s memo to the public.
Here’s a video summary of what Mueller actually found:
Dating back to at least 2006, Trump did tens of millions of dollars of business with Russian individuals whose profiles raised the possibility of money laundering. More than 1/5 of all condos he sold over his career were purchased in all-cash transactions by shell companies.
In 2013, Trump’s long running pursuit of Russian business intensified. He staged the Miss Universe pageant in Moscow that year and opened discussions on the construction of a Trump Tower in Moscow, from which he hoped to earn “hundreds of millions of dollars.”
Trump continued to pursue the deal for a year after he declared his candidacy. “By early November 2015, Trump and a Russia-based developer signed a Letter of Intent laying out the main terms of a licensing deal.” Trump’s representatives directly lobbied aides to Putin in Jan 2016
In early 2016, Putin ordered an influence operation to “harm the Clinton Campaign, tarnish an expected Clinton presidential administration, help the Trump Campaign after Trump became the presumptive Republican nominee, and undermine the U.S. democratic process.”
Trump campaign adviser George Papadopoulos learned about the Russian active measures campaign as early as April 2016. In May, he talked with Alexander Downer (Australian high commissioner to the UK) about Russia’s plot to intervene in the election to hurt Clinton and help Trump.
Downer described the conversation in a report to his government. By long-standing agreement, Australia shares intelligence with the U.S. government. It was Papadopoulos’s disclosure to Downer that set in motion the FBI investigation of Russia’s interference in the 2016 election.
In June 2016, the Trump campaign received a request for a meeting from a Russian lawyer offering dirt on Clinton. Donald Trump Jr. and other senior Trump advisers accepted the meeting. “If it’s what you say I love it, especially later in the summer,” Junior infamously responded.
The Trump team didn’t get the dirt they wanted. But accepting the meeting was a confirmation to Russia of the Trump campaign’s willingness to accept their help. Shortly after, Trump delivered his “Russia, if you’re listening” line at his last press conference of the campaign.
WikiLeaks, which Trump said he “loved” throughout the campaign, released 2 big caches of hacked Democratic emails in July and October of 2016. WikiLeaks actively sought and played a key role in the Russian intelligence campaign and very likely knew it was assisting Russia/Putin.
Through Roger Stone, the Trump campaign team tried to communicate with WikiLeaks. They believed Stone had inside info which suggested more releases. Stone repeatedly predicted that they would publish an “October surprise” that would harm the Clinton campaign.
While it welcomed Russian help, the Trump campaign simultaneously denied and covered up Russian involvement; publicly undermining the attribution of the hack-and-leak campaign to Russia and disregarding whether it and WikiLeaks were furthering an election interference effort.
In March 2016, the Trump campaign accepted the unpaid services of Paul Manafort, who is beholden to deeply shady Russian business and figures. Manafort sought multiple times to share internal campaign information with a man identified as a Russian intelligence officer.
Manafort’s high-level access and willingness to share information with individuals affiliated with Russian intelligence services represented a grave counterintelligence threat. Through 2016, Russia launched a massive Facebook disinformation program aligning with Trump’s campaign.
At pivotal moments in the 2016 campaign, Trump publicly took positions that broke with past Republican policy and served no domestic political purpose but supported Putin’s foreign-policy goals: denigrating NATO support for Estonia, attacking U.S. allies, and endorsing ‘Brexit.’
Throughout the 2016 election and after, Trump’s team got themselves into legal and political trouble by lying to the public, Congress, and even the FBI about their Russian connections. Trump fired Comey to impede the investigation, which led to the appointment of Robert Mueller.
I’ve done countless threads on all the confirmation we’ve observed that Donald Trump is compromised by Putin and Russia. Here’s one of them:
The reason I put Trump aiding and abetting an attack on the U.S. at the top of this list is because he is first and foremost a traitor to the United States of America and the last person ON EARTH who should have been in the WH or near classified documents
Here’s another video that outlines Trump’s treason that was released prior to the 2016 election. When Trump says “America first,” he means “Russia first.” When he calls something “a hoax” or “a witch hunt,” it’s neither. He’s guilty AF.
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