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"While Barr’s letter states that the investigation did not establish that the campaign reached an agreement with the Russian government to take actions to impact the election in Trump’s favor, it reveals...
"...that the campaign did field 'multiple offers from Russian-affiliated individuals to assist the Trump campaign.' Yet President Trump and others have repeatedly claimed that they had no contact with Russians, or knowledge that Russians were acting to assist his campaign...
"Remarkably, after the release of the Barr letter — which makes it undeniable that the Russians were seeking to help the Trump campaign — the president still denies it. Why?"

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Rachel Maddow MSNBC
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What happened between Sunday and today that made Barr expand the list of things he will cut from the Mueller Report?

On Sunday, it was (1) grand jury material and (2) stuff that impacts ongoing cases.

Now he's added (3) intelligence information and (4) "embarrassing" material.
This was Sunday's redaction plan...
And this is today's...
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Remarkable op-ed from Elliot Richardson's top aide, JT Smith in the NYT today.
"Most people take for granted that both Special Counsel Robert Mueller and the attorney general, William Barr, accept the current Justice Department legal position — reached in a 2000 opinion — that a sitting president cannot be indicted...
"Yet since 1973, the Justice Department has revisited its position five times on the question of indicting a sitting president and reached different conclusions...
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On pages 9-10 of this Congressional Research Service report...
fas.org/sgp/crs/misc/R…
there's a fun haiku-esque approach to the criminal statutes potentially at issue here...
just to dot the i's and x the t's here:
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Thousands of interviews and hundreds of subpoenas later, special counsel Robert Mueller broke his two-year Wizard of Oz-like silence in the form of a 448-page report that formally dropped the curtain on the bad political musical we’ve come to know as the Russian collusion scandal
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Dr. Dena Grayson
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THREAD: Important to note what is NOT in Bill Barr’s summary of the #MuellerReport, along with what is in it.

Barr says that Mueller uncovered 2 ways #Russia🇷🇺influenced the election:

☝🏼IRA’s disinformation/social media op
✌🏼GRU’s hacking/dissemination of Democratic emails
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#MuellerReport

Note: Barr does NOT mention WikiLeaks/Assange (and why Roger Stone’s #indictment cross-references the GRU’s), Don Jr gleefully accepting campaign help from the #Russian🇷🇺government, @GOP platform change on #Ukraine, quid pro quo #sanctions-for-help deal.🤨
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Paula Chertok🗽
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Shocker: Bill Barr—appointed AG after giving Trump a 19-page memo saying Trump didn't obstruct justice—just exonerated Trump of obstruction of justice. Mueller specifically said "this report does not conclude that the President committed a crime, it also does not exonerate him"
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#Trump is going to speak in the Rose Garden any minute now. Is he going to lie a bunch about reopening the government? Is he just going to yell "no collusion! witch hunt!" over and over again? Both? Stay tuned!
Oh hell, #Trump is going to take questions too. This is going to be a sh*tshow.
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Dr. Dena Grayson
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🔥THREAD: Michael Cohen's plea deal with Mueller is utterly damning for @realDonaldTrump and his spawn, Don Jr, Kremlin🇷🇺Barbie, and Eric.

Please follow along and RT some of the highlights of Cohen's plea deal (link to Cohen's plea deal: docs.google.com/viewerng/viewe…)

#TrumpRussia
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#TrumpRussia
#Conspiracy
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Dr. Dena Grayson
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💣BOOM💣

THREAD: About a month after Trump launched his campaign, Rob Goldstone emailed that his #Russian🇷🇺pop-star client Emin Agalarov could arrange for a Trump-#Putin meet‼️

Goldstone also arranged the #RussianLawyer meet about a year later.🤨 1/

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“Maybe he would welcome a meeting w/ Putin,” Goldstone wrote.🤨 2
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