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What I do not understand from the #MuellerReport is how Mueller could have avoided claiming that the Trump campaign manager, Paul #Manafort, pursued conspiracy with the Russian military intelligence, GRU.
1. The #MuellerReport (p. 129) states that Manafort stayed in touch throughout the campaign the campaign with Konstantin Kilimnik "a longtime Manafort employee... who the FBI assesses to have ties to Russian intelligence." We know he was GRU all along. Why not write that?
2. "Manafort instructed Rick Gates," the deputy Trump campaign manager, "to provide Kilimnik with updates on the Trump Campaign-including internal polling date" That is Manafort passed on the Trump campaign's most secret data regularly to the Russian intelligence, GRU.
3. The GRU hacked the DNC to get good information & the Internet Research Agency that engaged massively in the US election campaign through social networks must have received this important data, which Mueller is too lazy or sloppy to conclude.
4. From other open sources we know that Manafort received $60 million from Deripaska. The only way to explain this vast amount is that Manafort was the most valuable asset/agent of Russian intelligence (GRU). Deripaska's closest men have been revealed as GRU agents.
5. Unfortunately, the Mueller investigation has not drawn these obvious conclusions. They do not know that Manafort is a GRU agent or even that Kilimnik is & they do not understand that Deripaska paid them for services to the GRU. How amateurish can you be in this game?
6. In the other direction, the Mueller Report clarifies Manafort assisted the Kremlin with its "peace plan" for occupied Donbas in the course of two years. The dumb-witted jared Kushner took one of these plans to Secretary of State Tillerson.
7. how can this not be conspiracy between the Trump campaign & the GRU?
A. It involved the Trump campaign manager & his deputy.
B. They worked directly with known GRU officers
C. They passed on internal polling data to Russian intelligence to tilt results to the benefit of Trump.
7D. Manafort worked for two years on a "peace plan" to the benefit of Russia in Eastern Ukraine against the US interest.
E. Manafort was paid $60 million by Deripaska, who is close to the GRU.
F. All communications with the Russians were encrypted and later lied about.
8. How cannot this obvious treason be illegal in the US? If this is not illegal conspiracy with a hostile power, what is? Mueller offers no explanation to this obvious failure of judgment. The US must me able to do better than this.
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