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Mueller found that the Trump campaign “expected it would benefit electorally from information stolen and released through Russian efforts” cnbc.com/2019/04/18/spe…
"WikiLeaks, which is accused of accepting and publishing stolen Democrats' emails allegedly hacked by Russian intelligence, asked Trump Jr. to tweet a link in order to help them with "digging through leaked emails." Trump Jr. tweeted the link two days later."
"The Trump campaign planned a press strategy and communications campaign based on the possible release of Clinton emails by WikiLeaks, according to Rick Gates, Trump's former deputy campaign chairman."
"The special counsel considered Trump's written answers, submitted in lieu of a face-to-face interview, "inadequate""
"The special counsel accepted the Office of Legal Counsel's view on indicting a sitting president when making a determination about whether Trump obstructed justice."
The report states: "The President's efforts to influence the investigation were mostly unsuccessful, but that is largely because the persons who surrounded the President declined to carry out orders or accede to his requests."
On Manafort sharing polling data with Kilimnik: "Mueller's team "did not identify evidence of a connection between Manafort's sharing polling data and Russia's interference in the election."
"When Jeff Sessions told Trump about Mueller's appointment, Trump slumped back in his chair and said, "Oh my God. This is terrible. This is the end of my Presidency. I'm f----d.""
The full Mueller report: wired.com/story/mueller-…
Another copy of the Mueller Report for posterity: scribd.com/document/40672…
If any other American obstructed justice as blatantly as Trump did, they would be heading to prison.

Trump didn't avoid indictment because of a lack of evidence. He avoided indictment because he’s a sitting president. newyorker.com/news/our-colum…
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Patrick
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A Pro-Trump super PAC backed solely by bank executive Andrew Beal used donations to fund Facebook conspiracy meme campaign against Hillary Clinton in 2016. The PACs leader conducted the campaign through his own company, Rally Forge LLC. cnbc.com/2019/04/02/pro…
"That year, Beal contributed $350,000 to RallyPAC, which was founded and managed by Jake Hoffman, according to Federal Election Commission Records. Most of those donations were funneled toward an obscure media advisory firm called Rally Forge LLC"
"Hoffman’s company also has done work for the nonprofit right-wing organization Turning Point USA, according to Turning Point’s latest tax filing, which covers a year from June 2016 through June 2017."
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Patrick
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A woman carrying two Chinese passports and a device containing malware lied to Secret Service agents and was able to gain access to Mar-a-Lago while the president was there this weekend, according to court papers apnews.com/ba3d463a66f744…
During the same time Fancy Bear was actively hacking the DNC and GOP, Trump Hotels' payment system was hacked not once, but twice, by unidentified hackers, stealing credit card data. Trump Hotels tried to cover it up.
This is of particular concern because of how much government business is being conducted at Mar-a-Lago that seems to also include club members
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...and he still hasn't even announced. This is how much of a threat Republicans and the far left see for Joe Biden.
Several people around Joe Biden think advisers to Bernie Sanders are at least partly behind the recent campaign against him. axios.com/2020-president…
Biden: “Social norms have begun to change, they’ve shifted, and the boundaries of protecting personal space have been reset, and I get it. I hear what they’re saying, I understand it, and I’ll be more mindful. That’s my responsibility and I’ll meet it" buzzfeednews.com/article/nidhip…
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Teri Kanefield
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(Thread) Dear Sen. Graham:

Did you read Report?

The problem isn’t that Trump stood by and expected to benefit from a foreign criminal attack on our elections.

The real problem is U.S. Senators telling bald-faced lies to the American people.
1/ First, let's look at your lies.

The report stated: “while the investigation identified numerous links between individuals with ties to the Russian government and individuals associated with the Trump campaign, the evidence was not sufficient to support criminal charges.”👇
2/ Lots of links, but “evidence not sufficient to support criminal charges” is different from “no collusion.”

But of course, you already knew that. You’re distorting the Report on purpose.

As it turns out, the report establishes a few things that are worse than "collusion."
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Teri Kanefield
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(Thread) Reading the Mueller Report, Part V

All those links—but no “coordination.” How can that be?

Part I begins here:


Mueller’s task was to determine whether there were “links and/or coordination” between the Trump Campaign and Russia.
1/ Mueller found links galore.


But it turns out that finding “coordination” — or, to use the legal term, “conspiracy”— proved more difficult.
2/ Special Counsel considered whether contacts between Trump Campaign officials and Russia-linked individuals triggered liability for conspiracy, either under statutes that have their own conspiracy language or under 18 U.S.C. § 371.
law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18…
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Marshall Cohen
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MINI-THREAD: Here's my analysis of the widening divide between what Attorney General William Barr said publicly about the Russia investigation and special counsel Robert Mueller's actual report. Here are the four major ways Barr twisted Mueller's words. cnn.com/2019/04/19/pol…
1/ One thing was crystal clear from Barr's press conference: No collusion! The attorney general's willingness to echo President Donald Trump's favorite two-word mantra was evident throughout his remarks.
2/ "The special counsel confirmed that the Russian government sponsored efforts to illegally interfere with the 2016 presidential election but did not find that the Trump campaign or other Americans colluded in those schemes," Barr said Thursday morning.
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Brad Heath
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"The Russian government perceived it would benefit from a Trump presidency and worked to secure that outcome, and that the Campaign expected it would benefit electorally from information stolen and released through Russian efforts."
Rod Rosenstein authorized the special counsel to continue a criminal investigation of Attorney General Jeff Sessions, his boss.
Russia's military intelligence service hacked and leaked troves of documents from Democratic political organizations. "The release of documents was timed to interfere with the 2016 U.S. presidential election and undermine the Clinton Campaign."
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Dr. Dena Grayson
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🔥Mueller "identified numerous links between the #Russian🇷🇺gov't & the Trump Campaign...the #Russian🇷🇺gov't perceived it would benefit from a Trump presidency & worked to secure that...and the Campaign expected it would BENEFIT ELECTORALLY from info stolen/released (by #Russia)."
Damning. Mueller found that Team🇷🇺Trump *knew* of #Russia's efforts to influence the election and "expected it would benefit electorally from information stolen and released through #Russian🇷🇺efforts."

Mueller states that the reason that members of Team🇷🇺Trump have not been charged criminally was that the investigation "did not establish" that there was an "agreement–tacit or express–between the Trump Campaign and the #Russian🇷🇺government on election interference."
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Baratunde
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This could take hours, days, or maybe I won't ever make it to the end, but this begins my final PDF breakdown of Robert Mueller's work on behalf of our U.S. democracy. 448 pages. starting with the cover. Volume 1 of 2?? They already promising sequels? How George RR Martin-esque!
page 2 is blank. reminding me of my childhood book reports I wanted to make so nice and beautifully formatted. I remember trying to get those plastic bindings to loop through and mostly i just went with a binder clip. I wonder if Mueller used the plastic loopies.
the table of contents is five pages. for those who've seen me do this before i continue to be impressed with the organizational structure of these legal documents! Roman numerals. Indenting. Clarity matters when outlining foreign attacks. Wish I could change to a sans font tho
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