Selective declassification has always been one of Trump and his accomplices' favorite tools. Now, they're using it to manufacture a scandal about Trump's political opponents while covering up the evidence of Trump's actual wrongdoing. Here's how:
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They released the scope memo for the Mueller investigation, which Trump's cronies have long claimed would show Trump was the victim of a witch hunt. Meanwhile, they got the Supreme Court to help them keep actual evidence from the investigation secret. washingtonpost.com/politics/court…
Acting DNI Richard Grenell gave out a list of officials who signed off on unmasking requests that revealed Flynn's name, claiming it showed they were targeting Flynn (even though that's not possible, given how unmasking actually works). cnn.com/2020/05/13/pol…
Meanwhile, the DOJ defied a court order to turn over transcripts of Flynn's calls with Kislyak, claiming it didn't use them to establish Flynn's guilt—even though Flynn's lies to investigators were specifically about the contents of those calls. washingtonpost.com/politics/justi…
(New reporting also says that Flynn's identity was never even "masked" in the transcripts to begin with, meaning that the only thing the "unmasking" conspiracy theory actually revealed was a bunch more shady Flynn calls during the transition.) washingtonpost.com/national-secur…
They released notes from, and an email Susan Rice sent herself about, the investigation into Flynn, claiming they show a conspiracy to illegally entrap him (even though they actually show the investigation was carefully conducted "by the book").
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Meanwhile, they covered up the notes from their investigation into the Flynn investigation that would have shown just how dishonest the pretext for dropping the Flynn case was. nytimes.com/2020/05/13/us/…
Barr keeps talking about the expected results of John Durham's (unfinished) investigation, which has no clear purpose other than to undermine the Mueller investigation and give Trump fodder to use against his political opponents. justsecurity.org/70041/barr-ign…
Meanwhile, a judge determined that Barr's handling of the Mueller report was so misleading, so clearly designed to cover for Trump, that Barr couldn't be trusted to oversee the un-redaction process for the report. nytimes.com/2020/03/05/us/…
The pattern goes on and on. Trump called for Obama to testify, but refused to testify to Mueller and blocked impeachment witnesses. He's pushing investigations of his opponents' families' business dealings while arguing Congress can't see his tax returns.
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There's a reason for this. The two documents they were forced to release against their will—the Mueller report and the partial transcript of Trump's call with Zelensky—were arguably the two most damning documents ever released about a sitting president. themoscowproject.org/dispatch/creat…
So they're trying to control what actually comes out, lying about what it shows, and hoping their "Obamagate" nonsense is loud enough to deflect from the overwhelming evidence that Trump is the most corrupt president in American history. themoscowproject.org/dispatch/creat…
