Thread by @moscow_project

THREAD: As Mueller indicts another member of Trump's inner circle, Trump's last defense is that he had nothing to do with his campaign's rampant illegal behavior.
But we know that's not true, because Trump ran the Trump campaign. Here are the receipts: themoscowproject.org/dispatch/trump…

“Donald Trump is running this campaign. And I’m working directly for Donald Trump.”
-Paul Manafort, April 2016 nbcnews.com/meet-the-press…

“Mr. Trump is the final arbiter of what goes on in this campaign. He decides what the messaging is. That will not change regardless of my involvement or anyone else’s involvement in the campaign.”
-Corey Lewandowski, April 2016 msnbc.com/msnbc/infighti…

“It’s his campaign. He’s the candidate.”
-Kellyanne Conway, October 2016 nymag.com/daily/intellig…

Trump is “his own chief strategist, campaign spokesman and overseer of day-to-day operations.”
-Mark Barabak, Los Angeles Times, June 2016 latimes.com/politics/la-na…

“Trump’s campaign is unusual for the candidate’s singular control over its daily message, which thwarts attempts at traditional discipline.”
-John Harwood, CNBC, August 2016
cnbc.com/2016/08/02/all…

“During the campaign, [Trump] personally reviewed every single campaign ad, rejecting some over the smallest of perceived flaws.”
-Jonathan Lemire, AP, November 2016 elections.ap.org/content/trumps…

“Trump is known to take direct responsibility for the content of his train-of-thought press releases, his political strategy, and…the ‘tone’ of his quixotic pursuit of the presidency.”
Jon Swaine, Oliver Laughland, and Ben Jacobs, The Guardian, April 2016
theguardian.com/us-news/2016/a…

Everybody agreed: Trump ran the Trump campaign, just like he had his business. It’s flat-out ridiculous to claim he was totally out of the loop on his campaign’s biggest decision: collusion with Russia. themoscowproject.org/dispatch/trump…