If Mueller was referring to Manafort & Gates in the Stone indictment, and seemingly so, some observations:
1) If Manafort directed Gates to contact Stone about Wikileaks timing...
it's even more baffling that Mueller didn't charge them with felony campaign coordination...
1) If Manafort directed Gates to contact Stone about Wikileaks timing...
it's even more baffling that Mueller didn't charge them with felony campaign coordination...
2/ I explained first in the @nytimes soon after the Mueller report that Mueller found conspiracy but whiffed on campaign finance law of coordination:
"The Trump Campaign Conspired With the Russians. Mueller Proved It."
nytimes.com/2019/04/25/opi…
"The Trump Campaign Conspired With the Russians. Mueller Proved It."
nytimes.com/2019/04/25/opi…
@nytimes 3/ I explained in more detail here why the Mueller Report and other Mueller documents show felony campaign coordination.
If Manafort asked Gates to use Stone to coordinate timing w/ WikiLeaks/Russia, the criminal case was more solid than I had thought:
thedailybeast.com/robert-mueller…
If Manafort asked Gates to use Stone to coordinate timing w/ WikiLeaks/Russia, the criminal case was more solid than I had thought:
thedailybeast.com/robert-mueller…
