Danger for Trump: The case shows the pro-Russian tilt of his campaign manager and his allegedly illegal operations
Investigation 4
Irregular super PAC finances
Danger for Trump: The case shows how those close to Trump misused campaign money and facilitated improper access to the president by foreign influencers from Ukraine and Russia from the very beginning.
Investigation 5
Allegedly illegal operations by the Donald J. Trump Foundation
This case is especially damaging for the president. Fmr. NY AG Underwood said the Trump Foundation functioned as “a checkbook to serve Mr. Trump’s business and political interests”
Investigation 6
Allegations of tax fraud and tax evasion by the Trump family
Evidence of systemic tax evasion could strike a major blow to Trump’s credibility.
Butina plead guilty to conspiring with a Russian government official and an American to infiltrate Republican political groups like the NRA to influence American politics.
Used social media to interfere in the 2016 presidential and 2018 midterm elections, worked to “sow discord in the U.S. political system and to undermine faith in our democratic institutions”
Investigation 9
Improper Turkish influence inside Trump’s campaign and administration
Michael Flynn and his business partner Bijan Kian allegedly served as unregistered lobbyists for Turkish interests.
Flynn is cooperating with Mueller and will testify against Kian.
Investigation 10
Alleged violations of the U.S. Constitution’s emoluments clause (MD and DC AGs)
The Washington Post reported that Saudi lobbyists had paid for an estimated 500 nights in Trump’s D.C. hotel so veterans could lobby against a bill the Saudi government opposed.
What do GOP voters think? 2. Politics is not about enacting good public policy, but "ensuring the country’s survival as we know it“ 3. They suffer from Religious persecution(?)
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What's driving GOP voters? 4. Fear and anxiety from losing cultural and economic power 5. Republicans come into contact with a lot of news, but they’re primed to distrust the majority of it, and overwhelmingly believe that media is not working for the good of the people.
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"I would be willing to swear on anything that I never said that about our fallen heroes...What animal would say such a thing?” DT
Animal DT:
“I like people who weren’t captured”
“I always wanted to get the Purple Heart. This was much easier."
1/10 washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/…
Sometimes, it's what Trump doesn't say that shows his distain for American Troops.
Putin paid bounties to Taliban enemies to kill American soldiers and not a word from Donald Trump
DT:
"He's not a war hero"
"The problem is we have the Geneva Conventions, all sorts of rules and regulations, so the soldiers are afraid to fight."
"I've made a lot of sacrifices. created thousands and thousands of jobs" comparing himself to the death of Army Cpt. Khan 2/10
What’s life like in America’s concentration camps for kids? Here are their stories.
M.G. Is a Mexican teenager. "I cried every day because I didn’t want to be there," he said. "I felt so alone that I was even losing my appetite. I didn't leave the bed.” miaminewtimes.com/news/children-…
M.G. was put in solitary confinement for 8 days
He spent his 16th birthday crying. Early last July, he asked to go home. That was when he was sent to the roomful of bunks and left there by himself for more than a week. He never found out why — not even when his mom called to ask
N.J. was separated from her family. Again and again, She asked the guards where her father was.
"But they would yell at me telling me to remain quiet and saying that I didn’t belong because the government didn’t want Guatemalans, Hondurans, or Salvadorans in the United States,"
10 Footnotes you need to read from Mueller’s report:
On October 30, 2016, Michael Cohen received a text from Russian businessman Giorgi Rtskhiladze that said, 'Stopped flow of tapes from Russia but not sure if there's anything else. Just so you know”
Trump wanted Clapper to say the dossier was bogus:
"See 1/11/17 Email, Clapper to See I /11 /17 Email, Clapper to Comey ('He asked if I could put out a statement. He would prefer of course that I say the documents are bogus, which, of course, I can't do.')
Mueller specifically says:
"Congress has authority to prohibit a President's corrupt use of his authority in order to protect the integrity of the administration of justice."
The organizer of the trip, Republican Paul Erickson, believed he was securing an interview with Putin and believed the trip could have “enormous diplomatic consequences.” The email, sent in Nov 2015 came just months before the Kremlin’s election meddling went into full gear./2
So let’s be clear. A powerful American company with a huge lobbying apparatus is apparently conspiring with an adversarial foreign government to influence our elections. I hope they kept some money back for the criminal defense fund. /3