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@realDonaldTrump @guypbenson @FoxNews By February 2016, internal IRA documents referred to support for the Trump campaign and opposition to candidate Clinton. (..) Main idea: Use any opportunity to criticize Clinton and the rest (except Sanders and Trump - we support them). – Mueller report, vol I, page 23.
@realDonaldTrump @guypbenson @FoxNews From June 2016 until the end of the presidential campaign, almost all of the U.S. rallies organized by the IRA focused on the U.S. election, often promoting the Trump Campaign and opposing the Clinton Campaign. – Mueller report, vol I, page 31.
@realDonaldTrump @guypbenson @FoxNews (..) members and surrogates of the Trump Campaign promoted - typically by linking, retweeting, or similar methods of reposting pro-Trump or anti-Clinton content published by the IRA through IRA-controlled social media accounts. – Mueller report, vol I, page 33.
@realDonaldTrump @guypbenson @FoxNews Beginning in March 2016, units of the Russian Federation' s Main Intelligence Directorate of the General Staff (GRU) hacked the computers and email accounts of organizations, employees, and volunteers supporting the Clinton Campaign (..) – Mueller report, vol I, page 36.
@realDonaldTrump @guypbenson @FoxNews The GRU later released stolen Clinton Campaign and DNC documents through online personas, "DCLeaks" and "Guccifer 2.0," and later through the organization WikiLeaks. – Mueller report, vol I, page 36.
@realDonaldTrump @guypbenson @FoxNews The release of the documents was designed and timed to interfere with the 2016 U.S. presidential election and undermine the Clinton Campaign. – Mueller report, vol I, page 36.
@realDonaldTrump @guypbenson @FoxNews As reports attributing the DNC and DCCC hacks to the Russian government emerged, WikiLeaks and Assange made several public statements apparently designed to obscure the source of the materials that WikiLeaks was releasing. – Mueller report, vol I, page 48.
@realDonaldTrump @guypbenson @FoxNews Beginning in the summer of 2016, Assange and WikiLeaks made a number of statements about Seth Rich, a former DNC staff member who was killed in July 2016. (..) The statements implied falsely that he had been the source of the stolen DNC emails. – Mueller report, vol I, page 48.
@realDonaldTrump @guypbenson @FoxNews 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 @guypbenson @FoxNews 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 @guypbenson @FoxNews 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 @guypbenson @FoxNews 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 @guypbenson @FoxNews 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 @guypbenson @FoxNews 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 @guypbenson @FoxNews 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 @guypbenson @FoxNews (..) while the OLC opinion concludes that a sitting President may not be prosecuted, it recognizes that a criminal investigation during the President’s term is permissible. – Mueller report, vol II, page 2.
@realDonaldTrump @guypbenson @FoxNews The OLC opinion also recognizes that a President does not have immunity after he leaves office. – Mueller report, vol II, page 2.
@realDonaldTrump @guypbenson @FoxNews (..) if we had confidence after a thorough investigation of the facts that the President clearly did not commit obstruction of justice, we would so state. – Mueller report, vol II, page 2.
@realDonaldTrump @guypbenson @FoxNews Based on the facts and the applicable legal standards, however, we are unable to reach that judgment. – Mueller report, vol II, page 2.
@realDonaldTrump @guypbenson @FoxNews Accordingly, while this report does not conclude that the President committed a crime, it also does not exonerate him. – Mueller report, vol II, page 2.
@realDonaldTrump @guypbenson @FoxNews The conclusion that Congress may apply the obstruction laws to the President’s corrupt exercise of the powers of office accords with our constitutional system of checks and balances and the principle that no person is above the law. – Mueller report, vol II, page 8.
@realDonaldTrump @guypbenson @FoxNews 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 @guypbenson @FoxNews 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 @guypbenson @FoxNews 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 @guypbenson @FoxNews After Rod Rosenstein resisted attributing the firing to his recommendation, the President acknowledged that he intended to fire Comey regardless of the DOJ recommendation and was thinking of the Russia investigation when he made the decision. – Mueller report, vol II, page 62.
@realDonaldTrump @guypbenson @FoxNews (..) 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 @guypbenson @FoxNews 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 @guypbenson @FoxNews Substantial evidence indicates that the President’s attempts to remove the Special Counsel were linked to the Special Counsel’s oversight of investigations that involved the President’s conduct (..) – Mueller report, vol II, page 89.
@realDonaldTrump @guypbenson @FoxNews (..) 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 @guypbenson @FoxNews 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 @guypbenson @FoxNews After the story broke, the President, through his personal counsel and two aides, sought to have McGahn deny that he had been directed to remove the Special Counsel. – Mueller report, vol II, page 113.
@realDonaldTrump @guypbenson @FoxNews 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 @guypbenson @FoxNews 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 @guypbenson @FoxNews 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 @guypbenson @FoxNews In our view, the application of the obstruction statutes would not impermissibly burden the President’s performance of his Article II function to supervise prosecutorial conduct or to remove inferior law-enforcement officers. – Mueller report, vol II, page 180.
@realDonaldTrump @guypbenson @FoxNews 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.
