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@realDonaldTrump On October 3, 2016, WikiLeaks sent another direct message to Trump Jr., asking "you guys" to help disseminate a link alleging candidate Clinton had advocated using a drone to target Assange. Trump Jr. responded that he already "had done so". – Mueller report, vol I, page 60.

@realDonaldTrump According to Gates, by the late summer of 2016, the Trump Campaign was planning a press strategy, a communications campaign and messaging based on the possible release of Clinton emails by WikiLeaks. – Mueller report, vol I, page 62.

@realDonaldTrump Between 2013 and June 2016, several employees of the Trump Organization, including then president of the organization Donald J. Trump, pursued a Moscow deal with several Russian counterparties. – Mueller report, vol I, page 75.

@realDonaldTrump On November 3, 2015, the day after the Trump Organization transmitted the LOI, Sater emailed Cohen suggesting that the Trump Moscow project could be used to increase candidate Trump’s chances at being elected – Mueller report, vol I, page 78.

@realDonaldTrump Manafort briefed Kilimnik on the state of the Trump Campaign and Manafort’s plan to win the election. That briefing encompassed the Campaign’s messaging and its internal polling data. – Mueller report, vol I, page 148.

@realDonaldTrump According to Gates, it also included discussion of “battleground” states, which Manafort identified as Michigan, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, and Minnesota. – Mueller report, vol I, page 148.

@realDonaldTrump In sum, the investigation established multiple links between Trump Campaign officials and individuals tied to the Russian government. Those links included Russian offers of assistance to the Campaign. – Mueller report, vol I, page 173.

@realDonaldTrump Trump responded to questions about possible connections to Russia by denying any business involvement in Russia - even though the Trump Organization had pursued a business project in Russia as late as June 2016. – Mueller report, vol II, page 15.

@realDonaldTrump Trump also expressed skepticism that Russia had hacked the emails at the same time as he and other Campaign advisors privately sought information about any further planned WikiLeaks releases. – Mueller report, vol II, page 15.

@realDonaldTrump The President wanted McGahn to talk to Sessions about the recusal, but McGahn told the President that DOJ ethics officials had weighed in on Sessions’s decision to recuse. – Mueller report, vol II, page 51.

@realDonaldTrump (..) the President called McGahn and directed him to have the Special Counsel removed because of asserted conflicts of interest. McGahn did not carry out the instruction for fear of being seen as triggering another Saturday Night Massacre. – Mueller report, vol II, page 78.

@realDonaldTrump According to notes written by Hunt, when Sessions told the President that a Special Counsel had been appointed, the President slumped back in his chair and said, “Oh my God. This is terrible. This is the end of my Presidency. I’m fucked .” – Mueller report, vol II, page 78.

@realDonaldTrump (..) President met one-on-one with Corey Lewandowski in the Oval Office and dictated a message to be delivered to Attorney General Sessions that would have had the effect of limiting the Russia investigation to future election interference only. – Mueller report, vol II, page 90.

@realDonaldTrump (..) the President directed aides not to publicly disclose the emails, and he then dictated a statement about the meeting to be issued by Donald Trump Jr. describing the meeting as about adoption. – Mueller report, vol II, page 98.

@realDonaldTrump From summer 2017 through 2018, the President attempted to have Attorney General Sessions reverse his recusal, take control of the Special Counsel’s investigation, and order an investigation of Hillary Clinton. – Mueller report, vol II, page 107.

@realDonaldTrump Each time he was approached, McGahn responded that he would not refute the press accounts because they were accurate in reporting on the President’s effort to have the Special Counsel removed. – Mueller report, vol II, page 113.

@realDonaldTrump During Manafort ‘s prosecution and while the jury was deliberating, the President repeatedly stated that Manafort was being treated “unfairly” and made it known that Manafort could receive a pardon. – Mueller report, vol II, page 120.

@realDonaldTrump But after Cohen began cooperating with the government in July 2018, the President publicly criticized him, called him a “rat,” and suggested his family members had committed crimes. – Mueller report, vol II, page 134.

@realDonaldTrump The President ‘s efforts to influence the investigation were mostly unsuccessful, but that is largely because the persons who surrounded the President declined to carry out orders or accede to his requests. – Mueller report, vol II, page 158.

@realDonaldTrump And the protection of the criminal justice system from corrupt acts by any person-including the President-accords with the fundamental principle of our government that “[n]o [person] in this country is so high that he is above the law. – Mueller report, vol II, page 180.

@realDonaldTrump Nadler: «Did you actually totally exonerate the president?»

Mueller: «No.»

@realDonaldTrump Schiff: «I gather you believe knowingly accepting foreign assistance during a presidential campaign is an unethical thing to do.»

Mueller: «And a crime in given circumstances.»

Schiff: «Also unpatriotic.»

Mueller: «True.»