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@RossMcKitrick @JohnWHuber @Wilkmaster @jabeale I was pondering exactly the same thing but you need to re-phrase. Papadop pursued Timofeev, a legit Russian academic. Timofeev and Russians made no attempt to seduce Papadop; instead insisted on meeting request from Trump campaign office within protocol.

@RossMcKitrick @JohnWHuber @Wilkmaster @jabeale 2/ @NVeselnitskaya of Trump Tower meeting was legit Russian lawyer, trying to expose Browder/Magnitsky fraud. She wasn't trying to do anything untoward, notwithstanding lurid advertisement from uninformed music publicist Rob Goldstone.

@RossMcKitrick @JohnWHuber @Wilkmaster @jabeale @NVeselnitskaya 3/ Carter Page was invited to give speech by New Economic School in Moscow (same venue as Obama) by legit academics. No approach was made to him by Russian intel. Kremlin turned down opportunity to meet him (requested by NewES) since they had been advised that Page fringe.

@RossMcKitrick @JohnWHuber @Wilkmaster @jabeale @NVeselnitskaya 4/ Flynn attended RT dinner in 2015, but no allegation that he was approached by Russian intel. Bill Clinton was paid to attend much grander function a few years earlier, without occasioning surveillance.

@RossMcKitrick @JohnWHuber @Wilkmaster @jabeale @NVeselnitskaya 5/ Mueller Report, to my eye, doesn't contain a single actual allegation of a Russian agent attempting to seduce (in general sense) any member of Trump campaign or of any attempt being rebuffed.

@RossMcKitrick @JohnWHuber @Wilkmaster @jabeale @NVeselnitskaya 6/ Mueller deceptively lists supposed links between Mifsud and Russia, but never actually alleged that he was Russian agent - or, if so, why FBI dropped the ball.

@RossMcKitrick @JohnWHuber @Wilkmaster @jabeale @NVeselnitskaya 7/ closest is probably Manafort's long-time associate Kilimnik, who Mueller throws mud at as Russian intel, but far from clear that Kilimnik was. Kilimnik had worked for IRI (associated with McCain) before Manafort. US intel doesn't seem to have previously worried about Kilimnik

@RossMcKitrick @JohnWHuber @Wilkmaster @jabeale @NVeselnitskaya 8/ to have warned Manafort.

9/ Henry Olyansky aka Greenberg who approached Michael Caputo appears to have been long-time FBI informant. This was not reported by dishonest Mueller.

@RossMcKitrick @JohnWHuber @Wilkmaster @jabeale @NVeselnitskaya 10/ Felix Sater, who initiated 2015 Trump Tower Moscow round, is long-time FBI informant (working with Weissman) with nearly all contacts to Russia focused thru him. Dishonest Mueller did not report that he was FBI informant.

@RossMcKitrick @JohnWHuber @Wilkmaster @jabeale @NVeselnitskaya 11/ there had been attempt in past by Russian agents to co-opt Carter Page tho actions from Page perspective wouldn't have seemed out of ordinary. They were charged and one of them convicted. Page co-operated with FBI once they informed him of situation. MR describes dishonestly.

@RossMcKitrick @JohnWHuber @Wilkmaster @jabeale @NVeselnitskaya 12/ but I don't see any examples in Mueller Report of any 2016 attempt to recruit anyone from Trump campaign. Gong show.