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Historical Note: I was in the @BuzzFeedNews NYC office on a Tuesday afternoon when Trump fired Comey ... and then again, 15 months later, when Cohen pleaded guilty and Manafort was found guilty. 👀
The latest on Cohen's guilty plea today —> Trump's Longtime Personal Lawyer Michael Cohen Pleaded Guilty To Multiple Federal Charges buzzfeednews.com/article/chrisg…
The latest on Manafort's guilty verdict today, from @ZoeTillman —> Former Trump Campaign Chair Paul Manafort Has Been Found Guilty Of Tax And Bank Fraud Charges buzzfeednews.com/article/zoetil…
And here's @tparti, on what today meant at the White House —> Trump Had A Nightmare Day In Court buzzfeednews.com/article/tarini…
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BREAKING: Supreme Court denies the foreign country-owned company's request to stay a contempt order resulting from its refusal to comply with a grand jury's subpoena. Chief Justice Roberts' "administrative stay" is vacated, so the result is the contempt order is back in effect.
That order of the court follows this request, made Monday but put on the docket today, to file a cert petition in the case under seal. Not clear what will happen with that now, but the contempt order (and associated fines) will now be back in place.
REDACTED DOCUMENT: Here's the redacted motion at SCOTUS, noted previously, of what appears to be the foreign-owned company seeking to file its petition for certiorari in the grand jury dispute under seal. documentcloud.org/documents/5677…
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In the wake of yesterday's contentious hearing involving Concord in the Russian troll farm case, Concord's lawyers are STILL AT IT, in a new filing that could be one sentence and instead is four pages: documentcloud.org/documents/5677…
Here's @ZoeTillman on yesterday's hearing: buzzfeednews.com/article/zoetil…
Concord's lawyers say that Judge Dabney Friedrich created "at a minimum an appearance of bias or prejudice in favor of the government" yesterday.
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JUST IN: Natalia Veselnitskaya — the lawyer in the Trump Tower meeting — was indicted related to her alleged actions the Prevezon matter (a hearing for which she also attended on that day in June 2016) on Dec. 20, 2018. The case was unsealed today. assets.documentcloud.org/documents/5677…
Here's my report on this Very Interesting Development. —> The Russian Lawyer At The Trump Tower Meeting Was Indicted On Charges Of Obstructing Justice In A Money-Laundering Case buzzfeednews.com/article/chrisg…
Update: I just talked to Bill Browder about today's Veselnitskaya indictment news: Needless to say, he's happy. buzzfeednews.com/article/chrisg…
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Note: the fauxdacted #Manafort filings say that Manafort met the GRU in Spain to discuss a "Ukranian peace plan".

You know who else worked on a "Ukranian peace plan"?

Michael Cohen. patribotics.blog/2018/12/07/mic…
2. The no doubt deliberate fauxdactions warn others what OSC wants hidden.

Important in that they show what OSC is presently trying to redact:

1. A meeting in Spain with the GRU
2. About the Ukr plan
3. Handed Trump polling data over
4. Ongoing contacts w Trump campaign
3. What are the cumulative implications of those redactions?

a) that Manafort continued to act for Trump
b) that in that capacity he received polling help from Russian intelligence
c) in exchange for the same sanctions relief on Ukraine Cohen was working on

That's collusion.
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Trump: Day 678
-Cohen Reaches Plea Deal w/Mueller
-Moscow Project Ties Trump/Russia
-Planned $50M Penthouse 4 Putin
-Mueller Eyes Don Jr & Ivanka's Work
-Chicago Tax Lawyer's Office Raided
-Deutsche Bank HQ Being Searched
-Tim Scott Buries Farr Nomination
-Heads 2 Argentina 4 G20
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Day 783 since Donald Trump admitted to sexual assault — yet he’s still in the Oval Office
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Day 634 of NO EVIDENCE produced by Trump that his phones were tapped by Obama.

The FISA warrant Trump referenced targeted Carter Page. #TrumpLies
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(Thread) Did Trump Aid and Abet a Campaign Finance Law violation?

Cohen pleaded guilty to 52 USC 30116(a)(1)(A) and (a)(7), making excessive and unreported in-kind campaign violations through his payments to Stormy Daniels and Karen McDougal.
lawfareblog.com/document-micha…
1/ Under penalty of perjury, Cohen said he made the payments for the purpose of influencing the election and “at the direction” of Trump.
nymag.com/daily/intellig…

Cohen also said that he knew he was committing a crime when he made the payments.
2/ Trump’s “defense” (offered on Fox) was that the payment wasn’t a crime because the money came from him, not the campaign.
cnn.com/2018/08/22/pol…
Unfortunately for Trump, federal law treats a loan to a campaign the same as a contribution:
fec.gov/help-candidate…
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This is the THREAD for 08/21/2018 "THE CLINTON'S CORRUPTION TO THE MAX"
#QAlert @POTUS #QAnon #Corruption #LockThemUp #QArmy
Q !!mG7VJxZNCI No.172 📁
Aug 21 2018 00:09:08 (EST)
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The Great Awakening.
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Everyone needs to read this. Slowly, and patiently, because it’s very important......
#QAlert #QArmy #Corruption #ClintonFoundation
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Sarah Sanders ends her opening statement by expressing condolences to the Tibbetts family. "Sadly, the individual believed to be responsible for the murder is an illegal immigrant."
Sarah Sanders says Trump "did nothing wrong" over the payments over which Cohen pleaded guilty. "Just because MIchael Cohen made a plea deal doesn't mean that implicates the president on anything."
Asked if Trump is now planning to pardon Manafort, Sarah Sanders says: "The Manafort case doesn't have anything to do with the president."
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😡😬On November 6, 2016, in desperation and trying to stop the inevitable insanity, I explained how #MichaelFlynn , #PaulManafort, #CarterPage, #FellixSater and #DonaldTrump are connected with #Russia and work for the #Kremlin. crossingenres.com/what-fbi-cant-…
As of August 21, 2018: 1. #Flynn: About to be sentenced but is still waiting as Mueller’s team "could believe Flynn has more information that is useful to the investigation...politico.com/story/2018/08/…
#Manafort: "found guilty on eight counts of fraud. Jury said it could not reach consensus on the other 10 charges against him. The charges carry a maximum sentence of decades in prison" theguardian.com/us-news/2018/a…
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