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By tossing Stone's request for a new judge, thereby attempting to separate his case from the RU hackers, Judge ABJ has shown that Mueller is leading to a CRUCIAL collusion connection bet Trump & Russia. It's coming, kids. #SaturdayThoughts politico.com/magazine/story…
2-"Now that the two investigations are one, what remains to be gleaned is how wide and deep the Trump campaign’s connections to the Russians and WikiLeaks were. Previous Mueller filings had noted Stone’s attempts to contact WikiLeaks leader Julian Assange through intermediaries,
3-" hoping to learn what sort of politically potent documents he might have. But Stone had steadfastly denied any contact with Russia or WikiLeaks. That’s a lie, Mueller’s new filing says. Citing evidence obtained in “dozens of search warrants on various accounts used to
4-"facilitate the transfer of stolen documents for release,” it claims Stone communicated with WikiLeaks (referred to as “Organization 1” in the filing) and Guccifer 2.0 (a Russian intelligence alias used to spread the hacks). Who else did Stone talk to about the WikiLeaks dump?
5-"Last month’s Stone indictment had him informing “senior Trump campaign officials” between June and July 2016 that WikiLeaks possessed hacked emails that could damage the Clinton candidacy. Then came WikiLeaks’ first release of Democratic emails on July 22, 2016, followed by
6-"the Trump campaign’s request for more. This artfully constructed sentence in the Stone indictment has birthed a million speculations that Donald Trump was among the requesters: “A senior Trump campaign official was directed to contact Stone about any additional releases and
7-"what other damaging information Organization 1,” the indictment reads. Would anybody be in a position to direct a senior Trump campaign official but Trump himself? Lightly traced but still visible, Mueller has drawn a possible line from Trump to a campaign aide tying
8-"Stone to WikiLeaks and the Russians. Inside the White House, Trump must be screaming for an eraser." AND in re MANAFORT: "In the Manafort case, Mueller roughed up the convict with explicit language in a sentencing memorandum filed Friday. “Manafort acted for more than a decade
9-"as if he were above the law, and deprived the federal government and various financial institutions of millions of dollars,” Mueller stated. “Given the breadth of Manafort’s criminal activity, the government has not located a comparable case with the unique array of crimes and
10-"aggravating factors.” Under federal sentencing guidelines, Manafort could get 19 to 24.5 years in prison—essentially a life sentence for the 69-year-old. Mueller looked like a merciful, New Testament-toting Christian in comparison to Judge Jackson in the Manafort matter.
11-"Her Feb. 13 hearing, in which she examined the special counsel’s charge that Manafort had lied after promising cooperation, was released in redacted form on Friday. The judge rejected Manafort’s attorneys’ assertion that confusion and not lies were behind the stream of bogus
12-"information Manafort had fed Mueller. “My concern isn’t with non-answers or simply denials, but the times he affirmatively advanced a detailed alternative story that was inconsistent with the facts.” The lies followed a pattern, too, the judge said. “Concessions comes [sic]
13-"in dribs and drabs, only after it’s clear that the office of the special counsel already knew the answer. Again, it’s part of a pattern of requiring the office of the special counsel to pull teeth; withholding facts if he can get away with it. The judge singled out the way
14-"Manafort had lied about his interactions with Konstantin V. Kilimnik, Manafort’s former employee and believed by Mueller to be a Russian intelligence asset, calling it a “problematic attempt to shield his Russian conspirator from liability and it gives rise to legitimate
15-"questions about where his loyalties lie.” Manafort originally claimed to have spoken only once with Kilimnik about the Ukrainian “peace plan”—at the Grand Havana Room cigar joint in New York on Aug. 2, 2016, just before he was fired from the Trump campaign. But Manafort
16-"eventually conceded that he discussed the “peace plan” three additional times after prosecutors showed him evidence of the other meetings. Why these lies? What was he hiding? The Kilimnik question engaged and enraged Judge Jackson. “We’ve now spent considerable time talking
17-"about multiple clusters of false or misleading or incomplete or needed-to-be-prodded-by-counsel statements, all of which center around the defendant’s relationship or communications with Mr. Kilimnik,” she said.
18-"“This topic is at the undisputed core of the office of special counsel’s investigation.” ~politico, 2/16/19
And as for Sarah Huckabee Sanders finally admitting that she'd been 'interviewed by OSC, "White House press secretary Sarah Sanders told CNN on Friday that she was interviewed by Mueller’s team late last year. Because Sanders has been loquacious on the investigation topic since
2-"taking the press secretary job in July 2017, Mueller would want to know what sort of input Trump provided. Did he feed her the sort of lies that could be read as obstruction to justice? -hope for [her] sake she told the truth. Judge Jackson & Mueller don’t cotton to liars."
