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Garrett M. Graff
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THREAD: Assuming you didn't spend the whole weekend reading the Mueller Report (but you really should!), I broke down for @WIRED 14 overlooked takeaways hidden in its 448 pages....: wired.com/story/mueller-…
1. This was as much a counterintelligence investigation as a criminal one. Some of the most important lessons for the U.S. may never become public. wired.com/story/mueller-…
2. Jerome Corsi isn’t out of the woods. The first mention of his name comes in a redaction for "Harm to Ongoing Matter," that's bad news for him. wired.com/story/mueller-…
3. Anyone demanding the unredacted version of the report is stalling. For the most part, the redactions aren’t that material to the underlying narrative. (One exception: An intriguing redaction of Don Jr.'s name!) wired.com/story/mueller-…
4. The Trump campaign really wanted Hillary’s emails. They mounted multiple efforts, some well-funded. wired.com/story/mueller-…
5. The Trump Tower Moscow Project was a big deal. While Donald Trump has long tried to downplay his company’s overtures to Russia, Trump fixer Cohen and associate Felix Sater actually saw the Trump Tower Moscow as potentially helpful to Trump’s campaign. wired.com/story/mueller-…
6. Mueller never understood why Paul Manafort shared polling data with Russian intelligence asset Konstantin Kilimnik....
If you only read one section of Mueller's report, tune into Vol. I, pages 129 through 144, that features the still-puzzling actions of Paul Manafort. It makes clear Mueller may never have ever gotten to the bottom of a Trump-Russia conspiracy. wired.com/story/mueller-…
7. Donald Trump runs his White House like a Mafia boss. Mueller’s report is littered with examples that read more like the behavior of a Mafioso than a commander-in-chief. wired.com/story/mueller-…
8. Maria Butina and the National Rifle Association aren’t mentioned at all. Neither are the Alfa Bank server, nor Cambridge Analytica. Many of the Russian contacts to the Trump campaign appear too haphazard to be part of an active intelligence effort. wired.com/story/mueller-…
9. Mueller goes to great lengths to demolish William Barr’s theory of obstruction. wired.com/story/mueller-…
10. Google was a problem for everyone. It got Sam Clovis, Michael Cohen, and George Papadopoulos all in trouble. wired.com/story/mueller-…
11. The US has an important political and policy question ahead: Is accepting known help from a foreign power something we want to prohibit in campaigns? wired.com/story/mueller-…
12. The Atlanta traveler might still matter. I’ve always been particularly interested in the possibility that Mueller and the US government has a cooperator from inside the Internet Research Agency itself. The mystery continues. wired.com/story/mueller-…
13. Sergey Kislyak was perhaps totally irrelevant. The ghost of the Russian ambassadors swirls through the final Mueller report, but it appears Sergey Ivanovich might not really have had a role in anything of consequence. wired.com/story/mueller-…
14. Mueller was deeply conservative in his legal approach. Trump is lucky he didn't face his own Ken Starr. wired.com/story/mueller-… // END
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Garrett M. Graff
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I’m really stuck on how Mueller has made public that two criminal conspiracies aided Trump’s 2016 election: One by Russia, one involving Trump/Cohen/hush money. It’s now clear Trump would have been criminally charged in both if he wasn’t president.... (1/3)
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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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3) And we owe credit to people like Rod Rosenstein and Don McGahn who helped make it possible. They made it possible for Mueller to do what DOJ is supposed to do: Pursue justice, without fear or favor....
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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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