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Garrett M. Graff
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THREAD: The irony of Trump complaining about the Mueller probe given his historic, huge electoral victory? Mueller has shown there were two separate criminal conspiracies that helped Trump win in 2016—one directed by Trump himself....
The first criminal conspiracy that helped Trump, of course, was the Russian information operations and cyber penetrations that were aimed at attacking Hillary and boosting Trump. ...
The second criminal conspiracy was Trump (aka "Individual 1") directing hush money payments to Stormy Daniels and Karen McDougal. ...
Both criminal conspiracies had an express purpose of misleading the American public, undermining the legitimacy of our election and defrauding voters. So Trump's right: his victory was historic. But not in a good way. /end
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1) SHORT THREAD: If today (or the near future) marks the end of Mueller's probe—regardless of what it finds—let's celebrate the not-minor victory that the rule of law held. Mueller was able to pursue his case to its conclusion. At plenty of moments that didn't seem likely....
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1) SHORT THREAD: I've said versions of this over the last two years, but it's worth restating my bias in the Mueller probe, as we await the final report, which might be just hours away now: I hope Mueller finds nothing....
2) And I think every American should hope Mueller finds nothing—Trump supporters, Democrats, reporters, pundits, all of us have a dog in this fight—and we should hope Trump's innocent, that there is "no collusion"....
3) I hope Mueller comes out and says everything around Trump and Russia is a big, awkward, odd series of coincidences and misunderstandings, that Trump never conspired with Russia, never obstructed justice, and the Trump campaign didn't know about the GRU/IRA attacks....
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