THREAD: It’s Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s birthday! To mark the occasion, here are 10 things we only know thanks to his investigation:
1. Thanks to Mueller, we know that a Kremlin-linked professor told a Trump campaign adviser months in advance that Russia had stolen Democrats’ emails. justice.gov/file/1007346/d…
2. We know the names of the 12 hackers from Russia’s military-intelligence unit who carried out that theft. justice.gov/file/1080281/d…
3. We know that, the day Trump asked Russia to hack Clinton’s private email server, the hackers tried to do exactly that. vox.com/policy-and-pol…
4. We know that at least one congressional candidate reached out to GRU agents about weaponizing the stolen information. theatlantic.com/politics/archi…
5. We know that Russia also hacked into DNC analytics and state websites, stealing data on American voters. justice.gov/file/1080281/d…
6. We know that Russia spent millions of dollars on its online bot- and troll-farm operations in the run-up to the 2016 election. justice.gov/file/1035477/d…
7. We know that effort included planning on-the-ground events and communicating with Republican operatives. justice.gov/file/1035477/d…
8. We know that Trump’s first National Security Adviser spent the transition on the phone with the Russian ambassador undermining Obama administration policies. washingtonpost.com/politics/micha…
9. We know that Trump’s campaign chairman allegedly laundered millions of dollars he made working for shady Kremlin-backed oligarchs in Ukraine. politico.com/f/?id=00000163…
10. And we know he did it with help from a long-time associate who also has a long history working for Russian intelligence. washingtonpost.com/news/politics/…
Mueller has contributed an awful lot to our understanding of Russia’s unprecedented, unprovoked attack on America’s elections, and how American citizens may have aided and abetted that attack.
Trump’s already tried to fire Mueller at least twice—which is why we can think of no better birthday present than for Congress to stop stalling and pass the bill to protect him from Trump's brazen attempts to impede the investigation. nbcnews.com/politics/congr…
