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How has this story not been retracted, or at minimum re-visited, yet? "Trump Campaign Aides Had Repeated Contacts With Russian Intelligence" @nytmike @MarkMazzettiNYT @mattapuzzo
nytimes.com/2017/02/14/us/…
@nytmike @MarkMazzettiNYT @mattapuzzo Story claimed that "Phone records and intercepted calls show that members of... Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign" - including Manafort "and other Trump associates had repeated contacts with senior Russian intelligence officials in the year before the election."
@nytmike @MarkMazzettiNYT @mattapuzzo Comey later denied it under oath ("in the main, it was not true"), and Mueller makes no mention of any such contacts in his report. So how can it still stand? nytimes.com/2017/06/08/us/…
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Aaron Maté
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Maddow claims that Mueller delivered a "blunt, unequivocal accounting... of who in the President’s campaign was compromised by Russia… including the President." Did we watch the same hearing? Or rather, are we in same universe?
The evidence adduced for this is Schiff's moronic theory that Kremlin *could* have recorded Michael Cohen's phone call w/ a Kremlin press assistant about Trump Tower Moscow. Schiff omits that the assistant rejected Cohen's request for help & that Trump Tower Moscow went nowhere.
Oh, there's also the problem of there being actual transcripts of the hearing where Mueller supposedly revealed that the Trump campaign is compromised by Russia. Here's Mueller saying he found no evidence of Kompromat, and didn't reach a counterintel conclusion on compromise:
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Only thing Mueller “brought to life” today was what a dud Russiagate was & what a joke Democratic Party has become. Dems sound like unhinged lunatics calling clickbait/ stolen emails an “invasion” & spouting a series of debunked (some even by Mueller himself) conspiracy theories.
Mueller debunked a # of new conspiracy theory elements today:

- no evidence of “kompromat”
- no impeding of his probe or orders to avoid Trump’s finances
- no claim that Barr falsely portrayed his findings
- no Trump Tower-Alfa Bank communications (good lord that was dumb)
Mueller refused to answer why he didn’t indict the supposed Russiagate predicate, Joseph Mifsud, for lying (but did indict Trump figures for same).

Also refused to explain why he excluded Mifsud & Kilimnik’s ties to the West and the US, while insinuating suspect ties to Russia.
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