The use of "Russia" as a shorthand to heap scorn on Democrats is odd because... Russian intelligence officers really did hack and release emails to damage the 2016 Democratic candidate.
That is a real thing that happened despite being inconvenient for the narratives of some.
Are there people who have taken that and run with it way too far? Absolutely.
But the core of it was correct. There was a genuinely unusual intervention into the 2016 US election by the Russian government, centered around the stealing and leaking of emails.
Crowdstrike was correct and since their initial assessment based on limited info far more information has been released in Mueller's indictment of GRU officers and in the Mueller Report itself: techniques, methods, tons of communications.
Here are some of the relevant sections on the Mueller Report on how the hackings happened
Here are some relevant sections on the Mueller Report on how Russian intelligence officers set up the online personas of Guccifer 2.0 and DCLeaks to release some of the hacked material
Here are some relevant sections of the Mueller Report on how Russian intelligence officers contacted WikiLeaks through their online personas, and eventually got the hacked DNC and Podesta material to WikiLeaks.
Many people don't know this since it was initially redacted, but the Mueller Report also found that Roger Stone somehow got a two-months-in-advance heads up that John Podesta's emails would be released.
(It was not then publicly known that Podesta had been hacked.)
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Rudy will probably gain newfound appreciation for the argument that even in material that appears to be largely authentic, there can be misleading presentation or disinformation
For more than 3 years, prosecutors investigated Trump's late Oct 2016 "loan" of $10 million to his campaign. Intel suggested the money was tied to Egypt's government.
But in the end, nobody was willing to subpoena Trump's bank records to try & find out
Mueller had the investigation while he was special counsel. An Egyptian state-owned bank involved fought hard against a Mueller subpoena for records. This was the famed "mystery grand jury" fight went on for months
Investigation handed back to DC federal prosecutors after Mueller left. One US attorney wouldn't approve subpoena for Trump bank records. Another then closed case
Adam Fox (to be charged with conspiring to kidnap Gov. Gretchen Whitmer) posted a video this June complaining about COVID-19 restrictions on gyms in the state, feds say
Feds: Group met secretly in a basement, entrance was through a trap door covered by a rug. Phones had to be left upstairs. But one attendee wore a wire.
Firearms training, attempt to construct an IED, talk of shooting up Gov. Whitmer's vacation home
Ronna McDaniel seems to be the earliest case in this group we know about, right?
With Trump Friday 9/25 (day before ACB event).
Then went home to Michigan and stayed there starting 9/26, notably skipping the debate (where there was a seat reserved for her). Tested positive Wed
McDaniel is significant because the other known cases tied to Trump were with him during the ACB event or in the days after it. But her last contact with Trump was 9/25, before the ACB event.
(Also, skipping the debate Tuesday suggests she was aware she could be sick by then)
The Post now reports Ronna McDaniel called the White House Monday 9/28 (day before debate) to tell them she wasn't feeling well.
As @pbump pointed out, on the afternoon of 9/28 Trump unusually used a separate podium from other speakers at a WH event.
Judge Emmet Sullivan’s hearing about whether he should let DOJ dismiss the Flynn case is about to start. Expect some grilling.
The odd situation here is that both DOJ and Flynn’s lawyers want the case thrown out. But Judge Sullivan was suspicious of DOJ’s motives, and appointed John Gleeson, a retired judge, to argue against them.
Gleeson filed a scathing brief arguing that DOJ's reasons for seeking dismissal were "pretextual," "riddled with inexplicable and elementary errors of law and fact," and that "the government has engaged in highly irregular conduct to benefit a political ally of the President."
The gist of the incorrect date, @emptywheel argued, is that Flynn’s team used it to argue that it was *Biden’s idea* to investigate Flynn re: Logan Act.
But it wasn’t. The meeting w/Biden was on Jan 5. And the FBI was looking into the Logan Act on Jan 4.