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#CORRECTION: Maria Butina was NOT CHARGED BY MUELLER.

The investigation and charges were brought by DOJ officials, not related to the Special Counsel.

The Washington Post has reported this correctly in the past.
The Washington Post knows this...

"The case, which is not part of the special counsel investigation into Russian interference..."
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#UPDATE: Looks like the @WashingtonPost has updated their headline to reflect the fact that Butina was NOT charged by the Special Counsel.

(Only if you click the link...not yet in the preview on Twitter.)

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#REDALERT: Treasury Dept. to LIFT SANCTIONS on Oleg Deripaska's companies.

Treasury's OFAC has notified Congress it intends to terminate sanctions on Deripaska's companies — the oligarch close to Putin w/ ties to Manafort and the Mueller Investigation.

#REDFLAG: As predicted earlier in this thread...

Deripaska's companies only qualified for sanctions relief assessment BECAUSE Deripaska "stepped down."

But OBVIOUSLY Deripaska installed board members that reported directly to him.

So why lift sanctions?
#FLAG: The answer to that question is Treasury is being WILLFULLY IGNORANT.

They've directed Deripaska's companies to "undertake significant
restructuring and corporate governance," determine why the moles were installed, and reduce his influence.

LOL.
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#BREAKING: Maria Butina PLEADS GUILTY to acting as an agent of the Kremlin — agreeing to cooperate w/ Federal Prosecutors.

The "Russian gun-rights activist" is the first Russian national convicted for conspiring to influence U.S. Policy.

She infiltrated the NRA and GOP in 2016.
#RELATED: Russia, Dark Money, the NRA, and the 2016 election.

Thankfully, the Senate just overturned the Trump administration rule change that would've allowed orgs like the NRA to keep donors secret...

...a rule changed the same day Butina was charged.
#RELATED: The wife of a former NRA president offered Maria Butina 1 million dollars to secure tons of Russian jet fuel for an American middleman. The scheme would've violated sanctions.

Clearly, those around the NRA knew Butina wasn't just an "activist."
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#KEYTHOUGHTS: Some things to note on Michael Cohen's guilty plea today for lying to Congress about his efforts to negotiate a Trump Tower Moscow deal w/ Russia during 2016.

1/ It's no coincidence that this comes TWO DAYS before Trump's next scheduled meeting w/ Putin at the G20.
2/ This new move by Mueller is perfectly-orchestrated. This isn't only about lying to Congress and cooperation...

It directly IMPLICATES Trump himself...and his children.

According to Cohen, he gave each of them regular briefings throughout the process.
3/ Cohen admits (with CORROBORATION thru documentary evidence seized by the FBI and Mueller) that Moscow Project negotiations lasted thru JUNE 2016.

That's months after the timeline Trump, Cohen, and those around them, have claimed.

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#Spygate: The True Story of Collusion How the United States of America's most powerful agencies were weaponized Against President @realDonaldTrump during 2016 Election & Today

Worst Scandal of Government Corruption since Watergate

Read Complete Details: matthewcogdeill.blogspot.com/2018/12/spygat…
1) Although the details remain complex, the structure underlying #Spygate—the creation of the FALSE narrative that candidate @realDonaldTrump colluded with Russia, and the spying on his presidential campaign—remains surprisingly simple: 👇Thread to Follow below👇
1. CIA Director John Brennan, with some assistance from Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, gathered foreign intelligence and fed it throughout our domestic Intelligence Community.
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I will now read for myself the #Mueller #CohenSentencingMemo and comment on it here in real-time like I previously did the one from the Feds.
Mueller says Cohen ADMITTED lying to Congress specifically to conceal the president's involvement in the Moscow business project, and give false impression matter was settled before the Iowa Caucuses.
The tone of Mueller's memo seems friendlier to the Feds, which was a 38-page verbal spanking (see my thoughts on that one posted here earlier).
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Trump Installs a Critic of the Mueller Investigation to Oversee It nyti.ms/2yZCpIa
Inside the Justice Department, senior officials, including Rod J. Rosenstein, the deputy attorney general, have viewed Mr. Whitaker with intense suspicion.
Before his current job at the Justice Department, Mr. Whitaker was openly hostile on television and social media toward the special counsel, Robert S. Mueller III, and was seen by department officials as a partisan and a White House spy.
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Mueller's pre-trial filing gives clear picture of exactly what FARA disclosures require SO @TheJusticeDept when will Waldman be brought to court for not disclosing his communications with @MarkWarner on behalf of Deripaksa? They do not appear in any of the filings? #MuellerTime
This is a violation of Federal Law happening in front of America's face the special counsel was directed to investigate Russian interference in our election, these texts SHOW THAT @PaulManafort is being charged so....................... ?
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The precedent has been set by the almighty #SpecialCounsel all others must now be charged with same and we all know it's way more than Waldman, Podesta did the exact thing, Chalupa hasn't even registered etc. etc. etc! #EqualJustice
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Judge Ellis - who sparred with Mueller's attorneys about their prosecution of Paul Manafort - has denied the former Trump campaign chair's challenge to the special counsel's authority. Manafort has now lost on this issue in both DC and VA.
Judge Ellis goes out of his way to address arguments Manafort didn't raise, including one that's been circulating online that Mueller's appointment violated the Appointments Clause.
Here's what came of Judge Ellis' request to see an unredacted copy of the memo laying out the scope of Mueller's investigation:
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THREAD

MEMBERS OF TEAM #MUELLER
1.Zainab Ahmed
Ahmed is an expert in prosecuting terrorism and organized crime, Zainab Ahmad previously served as an assistant US attorney for the Eastern District of New York. She joined #TeamMueller in the summer of 2017.
1a)Ahmad has worked on the case of Flynn: She was one of two prosecutors who signed Flynn’s charging documents and was also in court for Flynn’s guilty plea in December 2017.

#MuellerTime
#TeamMueller
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