Thread by @jedshug

“Mueller’s legal errors meant that
1) he failed to conclude that the Trump campaign criminally coordinated with Russia;
2) he failed to indict Manafort & Gates for campaign crimes (see concise timeline);
3) the 10 acts of obstruction in Vol II fell flat.” thedailybeast.com/robert-mueller…

2/ My article has a concise timeline of 10 events showomg criminal coordination in the back-and-forth between the Trump campaign & Russia. Puzzlingly, Mueller omitted some of these key events from Vol I, but revealed them in other indictments or in Vol II, another strange error.

3/ See especially Aug 2 on Manafort sharing 70 pages of polling data with Russian spy Kilimnik, highlighting target states WI, MI, MN & PA:
"This episode leads to one of the most dumbfounding passages in the report: ‘The Office could not reliably determine Manafort’s purpose...”

4/ “...in sharing internal polling data with Kilimnik during the campaign period.” Mueller entertains Manafort’s assertion that this sharing was ‘good for business.’ Because the polling showed off Manafort’s skills with color graphics? No, because it was valuable coordination...”

5/ “Even if one accepts Manafort’s denial of coordination (to “resolve [Deripaska’s] outstanding lawsuits”), Manafort is essentially confessing to conspiracy/quid pro quo.”
[“Resolve lawsuits” means forgiving debts, the quid for Manafort’s quo, serving oligarch interests.]...

6/ “This is the Mueller Report in a microcosm: he has evidence that Manafort committed 2 different crimes [coordination and either bribery conspiracy or defrauding US 371], yet he bends over backward for a known liar to conclude that instead of both crimes, it was neither."