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I laid-out 12 "known unknowns" in Bob Mueller's investigation now that Rick Gates has pleaded guilty. Here they are: wired.com/story/what-ric…
1. What can Paul Manafort offer Bob Mueller? wired.com/story/what-ric…
2. What did George Papadopoulos and Michael Flynn trade? wired.com/story/what-ric…
3. How did George Papadopoulos know in May 2016 that the Russians had dirt on Hillary Clinton? wired.com/story/what-ric…
4. What was in the Trump transition documents that so worried witnesses? wired.com/story/what-ric…
5. What happens to Tony Podesta and Vin Weber? (And now a bunch of European politicians too?) wired.com/story/what-ric…
6. Who is the third unnamed “traveler” in the last Friday's Mueller indictment? Mueller’s team surely knows the individual’s name—why didn’t they include it in the indictment and why wasn’t that person indicted at the same time? wired.com/story/what-ric…
7. Is it a coincidence that the Internet Research Agency organized a “Down with Hillary” rally in New York for the same day that Wikileaks dumped the DNC emails? wired.com/story/what-ric…
8. Which, if any, Americans cooperated with the Russian efforts? wired.com/story/what-ric…
9. What was the ongoing evidence of Carter Page’s cooperation with Russian agents? Who was Carter Page talking to well into 2017? wired.com/story/what-ric…
10. How big is “Project Lakhta”? Did it involve other “active measures," like perhaps some of the active cyber intrusions we saw conducted by the Russian government’s hacking teams known as Fancy Bear and Cozy Bear? wired.com/story/what-ric…
11. Who directed Michael Flynn’s conversations with Sergey Kislyak—and why did he lie about them? Why, if it was an appropriate, authorized conversation, did he choose to lie to the FBI about it? wired.com/story/what-ric…
12. Why did the Russian embassy need $150,000 in cash around the inauguration? And why did Sergey Kislyak get some "extra" pay right after the election? wired.com/story/what-ric…
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THREAD: I counted up over the weekend the various *distinct* investigations targeting Donald Trump right now. There are at least *17* of them. Here are my five top observations: ... wired.com/story/mueller-…
1) When you look at all of them together, we're probably thinking of this wrong—it's not a Russia probe, it's a financial investigation. Russia's only a part of it—and the full picture includes multiple countries trying to buy influence from Trump. ... wired.com/story/mueller-…
2) While Trump said he’d see investigations into his business dealings as crossing a “red line,” it appears that Trump himself obliterated that line, intermingling his business and campaign such that prosecutors can't untangle one without the other. ... wired.com/story/mueller-…
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THREAD: So CNN’s @JohnBerman said the other day the rapid pace of Mueller revelations makes it seem like we’re in the midst of the “12 days of Mueller.” I wondered if that was true, so I investigated. Here’s what I found: ....
On the first day of Mueller, the special counsel gave to us, one London lawyer guilty; ....
On the second day of Mueller, the special counsel gave to us, two crimes mentioning “Individual-1”; ....
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THREAD: Today is the 50th anniversary of the battle of Mutter's Ridge, where Marine 2nd Lt. Robert Mueller would receive the Bronze Star with Valor for his actions in combat. I told the story of Mueller's time at war earlier this year in WIRED: ... wired.com/story/robert-m…
1) It was less than a month into Mueller's tour in Vietnam, fighting with a maneuver battalion in Quang Tri Province along the DMZ, the home of some of the most intense combat the US would face in the entire Vietnam war.... wired.com/story/robert-m…
2) Mueller volunteered for the Marines after Princeton; at first medically unfit, he spent a year rehabbing injured knees before he entered OCS, then went onto Army Ranger School—a rare honor for a Marine—then Army Jump School .... wired.com/story/robert-m…
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Dennis Kucinich was on Fox News regularly supporting & spreading the nonsense about a "deep state" out to smear Trump & claimed the Russia investigation is a hoax.

Bernie's Our Revolution endorsed him to be Ohio's governor.

That's weird.

Fox News paid $170k a year to Kucinich to be a contributor. He spent his time spreading right wing nutbag conspiracies while Bernie Sanders' Our Revolution endorsed Kucinich for OH Governor.

Crazy talk about the deep state & Trump being smeared.

Weird

Bernie watched his most visible surrogates go to Jill Stein, even West - the man Bernie appointed to the Democratic Platform Committee!

Bernie said not a word even though he now admits he knew AT THE TIME that his campaign was being used by the Kremlin.
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THREAD: One year ago today, Trump-appointee Deputy A.G. Rod Rosenstein assigned lifelong Republican and decorated combat veteran Robert Mueller as special counsel to investigate the Russian attack on our democracy.

The progress the investigation has made proves it must continue.
In just one year, the investigation has moved faster and made more progress than similar past investigations. It is finding crimes. It is opening even more troubling questions than those we had when the investigation began. Nearly every day, new damning evidence is revealed.
Meanwhile, the White House continues to argue that the probe should end and Trump is screaming "WITCH HUNT" on Twitter. That's absurd.

Rather than cooperating with the investigation, Trump and his team are doubling down on a massive cover-up. That's not how innocent people act.
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Mega THREAD
For those that are new & want to make sense of what’s going on &/or
For Trump’s #MAGA base this thread is why the left is screaming Russia Russia Russia… 1/
'04 Manafort remade a pro-Putin thug politician image in Ukraine in2 someone electable using dirty tricks & mob $.
“I can tell you he’s a real specialist,” says Manafort’s friend Dmitry Firtash, the Ukrainian billionaire and former partner to the Kremlin” time.com/5003623/paul-m…
Manafort’s partners in Ukraine were Russian GRU agent Kilimnik, Kremlin tied Oligarch Deripaska, Firtash (known mob ties) & partner Gates. Manafort is now looking at 305 yrs of prison. Gates flipped.

Deripaska was previously biz partners with Ivanka & Jareds friend Abramovich
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(THREAD) If you or someone you know suffers from Trump-Russia exhaustion, please read and RT this. Trump's strategy is to get us to cease caring about his coordination with Russia because investigating it takes too long. A long thread may seem an unusual antidote, but try it out.
1/ The Trump-Russia probe is the largest federal criminal probe of the last half-century. POLITICO estimates it features 285 major players, but the number is likely well over 400—readers of this feed added 65 key names to the POLITICO list within five hours of it being published.
2/ The Trump-Russia probe involves witnesses, documents and events in North America, South America, Europe, the Middle East, Russia, and southeast Asia. Even with a team of 41 attorneys and investigators, we would expect Bob Mueller to need a decade to complete his investigation.
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(THREAD) New evidence suggests Rick Gates' plea has much more to do with Russia than we thought.

And that's because it may have more to do with Trump advisor Erik Prince and Trump fundraiser/RNC deputy finance chair Elliott Broidy than we thought.

Hope you'll read on and share.
1/ When Gates pleaded guilty, the White House insisted his crimes had nothing to do with Trump or Russia. But it's increasingly clear the reason Mueller offered Gates a plea deal did in fact have to do with Russia-related information Gates had about not just Manafort but others.
2/ First, understand how significant Gates was to Trump's campaign: he was its Deputy Campaign Manager; he ran its operations at the RNC, where Trump campaign aides made contact with Russian nationals and subsequently changed the RNC platform to benefit Putin and lied about it...
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Already indicted on multiple charges and facing the likelihood of superseding indictments, Rick Gates appears to be cooperating with special counsel Mueller in the #TrumpRussia investigation amp.cnn.com/cnn/2018/01/23…
Rick Gates worked for Tom Barrack, of the US-Russia nuclear scheme (upthread) literally until the day he was indicted
bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
1 year ago today, Mike Flynn met privately in his West Wing office with FBI investigators interested in his communications with Kislyak, without a lawyer or the knowledge of Trump or WH officials.

Trump did not learn about the interview until 2 days later
nbcnews.com/politics/donal…
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