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“Some troubling-to-outright-damning episodes have been lost in the noise around its release.” nytimes.com/2019/06/07/opi…
Coordinating with WikiLeaks?
(VOLUME I, PP. 52-54)
“This section suggests that Mr. Trump may have been in the loop on the campaign’s efforts to get a heads-up about what WikiLeaks had planned. And that is a very long way from “no collusion.”
(VOLUME I, PP. 52-54)
“This section suggests that Mr. Trump may have been in the loop on the campaign’s efforts to get a heads-up about what WikiLeaks had planned. And that is a very long way from “no collusion.”
Looking for Clinton’s “missing” emails
(VOLUME I, PP. 49, 62-63)
“Collusion” has no legal definition. But if the term means working behind the scenes with Russian actors to obtain hacked information damaging to Mrs. Clinton...”
(VOLUME I, PP. 49, 62-63)
“Collusion” has no legal definition. But if the term means working behind the scenes with Russian actors to obtain hacked information damaging to Mrs. Clinton...”
“... then this section of the report describes just that — collusion that took place at Mr. Trump’s request.”
Sharing polling data
(VOLUME I, PP. 130-131, 140)
“While managing the campaign, Mr. Manafort told Mr. Gates to share “internal polling data” private to the campaign with Mr. Kilimnik, so he could share it with Ukrainian oligarchs and a Russian oligarch.”
(VOLUME I, PP. 130-131, 140)
“While managing the campaign, Mr. Manafort told Mr. Gates to share “internal polling data” private to the campaign with Mr. Kilimnik, so he could share it with Ukrainian oligarchs and a Russian oligarch.”
“Mr. Gates sent Mr. Kilimnik the data regularly, deleting the WhatsApp messages after he did so.”
Obstructing justice
(VOLUME II, PP. 90-93)
“President Trump’s ordered his former campaign manager Corey Lewandowski — who was not a government employee — to convey a message to Attorney General Jeff Sessions, telling him to constrain the scope of the Mueller investigation.”
(VOLUME II, PP. 90-93)
“President Trump’s ordered his former campaign manager Corey Lewandowski — who was not a government employee — to convey a message to Attorney General Jeff Sessions, telling him to constrain the scope of the Mueller investigation.”
“Substantial evidence indicates that the president’s effort to have Sessions limit the scope of the special counsel’s investigation to future election interference was intended to prevent further investigative scrutiny of the president’s and his campaign’s conduct.” — Mueller
