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Seth Abramson
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Given the news that the FBI was tapping Manafort *while* he was Trump's Campaign Manager, the odds Trump *wasn't* recorded have *plummeted*.
2/ NEW YORK MAGAZINE reported in August 2016 that Manafort remained an unofficial advisor to Trump after his firing. nymag.com/daily/intellig…
3/ So we should expect there to have been a number of Manafort-Trump phone calls (some possibly FBI-tapped) between August and Election Day.
4/ From March to August 2016, it was widely reported that Manafort and Trump spoke by phone several times a day. That frequency matters now.
5/ It's hard to believe the FBI dropped its tap the second Trump picked up a call, as they were indirectly investigating *Trump's campaign*.
6/ Imagine the harm done to the FBI's investigation of campaign-related Manafort-Russia ties if they couldn't hear ANY Manafort-Trump calls.
7/ So as a former criminal attorney and investigator it's *very* hard for me to imagine this sort of tap not picking up Trump several times.
8/ Even if those taps didn't capture Trump discussing Russia, they're a window into his private thoughts that's useful to FBI investigators.
9/ Never forget—Trump *hired* Manafort knowing his shady past involving Russia and Ukraine. It was news at the time: aim.org/aim-column/tru…
10/ Remember—Manafort told public lies on Russia during the RNC. The FBI may know if Trump aided/abetted those lies. theatlantic.com/politics/archi…
11/ If Manafort and Trump *ever* discussed Manafort being in contact with *any* Russians it proves Trump—see quote below—was covering it up:
12/ As you read that preceding (2/2017) quote, remember: Aras Agalarov's attorney says Trump and Aras spoke *many* times from 2013 to 2017.
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Seth Abramson
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Amazing that he couldn't even use proper grammar in answering the most important question of his life.

❎ "I never worked for Russia."
🆗️ "I've never worked for Russia."
2/ And his big denial doesn't even cover what he's *really* accused of—as what's at issue here is whether he's worked "with" Russia rather than "for" Russia. Not that anyone should believe him anyway, but this is what he should've said:

🆗️ "I've never coordinated with Russia."
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🆗️ "I've never coordinated with agents of Putin's Kremlin."
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Trump fired Comey. Trump's campaign NatSec chief, Sessions, fired McCabe. Baker and Page *chose* to leave the FBI. Strzok was fired *despite* recommendations he get a small suspension. *Any* media reference to how these folks left the FBI without these facts is pro-Trump disinfo.
2/ I've said before and will say again that FBI employees whose errors at the FBI were a) minor, and b) not malicious got fired by Trump or his people *precisely* so that Trump could use this information down the line to smear lifelong public servants. Media is letting him do it.
3/ Donald Trump *orchestrated* the firing and libel of lifelong public servants as part of a campaign of criminal obstruction of justice, and now he is *crowing* about what he did on Twitter daily with media simply putting his tweets up on the screen without comment. It's insane.
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Jesus washingtonpost.com/world/national…
2/ Not even spies do this—this is dumb, evil collusion.

"Trump has gone to extraordinary lengths to conceal details of his conversations with Putin, including taking his interpreter's notes and instructing a linguist not to discuss what transpired with administration officials."
3/ Trump met privately with Putin and Tillerson in Hamburg in July '17. Then the press started prying into what was said. Then Trump's Middle Eastern allies began using proxies—e.g. Broidy—to get Trump to fire Tillerson. Did they decide Tillerson wasn't loyal enough post-Hamburg?
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