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Dennis Donovan

(18,770 posts)
Fri Jul 26, 2019, 12:42 PM Jul 2019

The Mueller Report FOUND a criminal conspiracy between Trump's campaign and the Kremlin but declined

...to charge it?



Seth Abramson ✔ @SethAbramson

(BREAKING NEWS THREAD) A historic legal analysis published by @Slate confirms what this feed asserts—the Mueller Report FOUND a criminal conspiracy between Trump's campaign and the Kremlin but declined to charge it. Please RETWEET this thread explaining this explosive revelation.

12:38 PM - Jul 26, 2019




On edit:


Seth Abramson ✔ @SethAbramson

1/ As law professor @jedshug explains on @Slate, federal law doesn't require an explicit agreement between parties for the criminal statute prohibiting coordination between campaigns and foreign nationals to be violated. Paul Manafort committed this crime.


Slate's Trumpcast @realTrumpcast
Reflecting on the inspirational @RepAdamSchiff and what Mueller is really saying in his volumes, @page88 and @jedshug do a testimony debrief. https://megaphone.link/SLT9531042070


12:40 PM - Jul 26, 2019


On edit:


Seth Abramson ✔ @SethAbramson

2/ The Mueller Report erroneously proceeded under an interpretation of federal law that no independent legal experts have agreed with: that a criminal conspiracy to violate election law requires an explicit agreement. But whether this "error" was indeed an *accident* is in doubt.

12:42 PM - Jul 26, 2019




Seth Abramson ✔ @SethAbramson

3/ The evidence of the Mueller Report, criminal investigative SOPs, and major-media reporting establishes that the original intent of the special counsel's office was to charge Paul Manafort with conspiracy with Russia—and that Trump knew this and sought to obstruct this finding.

12:44 PM - Jul 26, 2019




Seth Abramson ✔ @SethAbramson

4/ NBC News reported in January 2018 that Donald Trump privately believed Paul Manafort could incriminate him in a federal crime—but that by January 2018, information had reached him (privately) that had convinced him that Manafort would not in fact do so.
https://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/2018-state-of-the-union-address/state-donald-trump-he-thinks-it-couldn-t-be-better-n842501


Trump is convinced he'll beat Mueller, confidants say
Ahead of his first State of the Union address, Donald Trump is telling friends and aides that things are going great — for him.

12:46 PM - Jul 26, 2019




Seth Abramson ✔ @SethAbramson

5/ The Mueller Report clearly establishes that Trump received the private intelligence that Paul Manafort would not incriminate him in a conspiracy—by refusing to cooperate with federal law enforcement, *not* because Manafort *couldn't* incriminate him—from Manafort's legal team.

12:47 PM - Jul 26, 2019




Seth Abramson ✔ @SethAbramson

6/ Criminal investigative SOPs (standard operating procedures) establish why Trump believed federal law enforcement would seek to have Manafort incriminate him: because investigators do not cut deals with a national campaign manager *without* seeking to indict someone higher up.

12:50 PM - Jul 26, 2019




Seth Abramson ✔ @SethAbramson

7/ When the special counsel's office charged Manafort with offenses that could put him in federal prison for 20 years—and then entered into a cooperation deal with him—the only person above him in the campaign hierarchy for him to "flip" on was the presidential candidate himself.

12:51 PM - Jul 26, 2019




Seth Abramson ✔ @SethAbramson

8/ The legal analysis published digitally by @Slate confirms the uncharged offense on Manafort would have been a federal criminal—election—conspiracy with individuals he knew from his work on behalf of the Kremlin were Kremlin agents. This is the "flip" Trump was terrified about.

12:53 PM - Jul 26, 2019




Seth Abramson ✔ @SethAbramson

9/ The Mueller Report establishes that Manafort had been a paid Kremlin agent, via Oleg Deripaska—who says he "does not separate himself" or his interests from those of the Kremlin—since the year Manafort moved into Trump Tower (2006), and that he remained so during the campaign.

12:55 PM - Jul 26, 2019




Seth Abramson ✔ @SethAbramson

10/ Manafort's work for the Kremlin—once thought to have ended in the early 2010s—in fact continued in and past his work as Trump's campaign manager. Mueller's report and testimony establishes that Manafort anticipated both loan forgiveness and cash from the Kremlin for his work.

12:58 PM - Jul 26, 2019


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The Mueller Report FOUND a criminal conspiracy between Trump's campaign and the Kremlin but declined (Original Post) Dennis Donovan Jul 2019 OP
and the conspiracy continues into 2020 election AlexSFCA Jul 2019 #1
Yep. For sure. triron Jul 2019 #11
and he told us in the Oval Office that he would accept foreign help again. Grasswire2 Jul 2019 #2
Fantastic post. Sorry I missed it until you pointed it out to me. triron Jul 2019 #3
Seth later adds this: triron Jul 2019 #4
knr triron Jul 2019 #5
Kick and Rec with angelic music playing loudly. Kid Berwyn Jul 2019 #6
Mueller lays out tons of clear proof of conspiracy, then pretends it's not enough. lagomorph777 Jul 2019 #7
A two year buildup to another cold fart. miyazaki Jul 2019 #8
A mighty K&R BSdetect Jul 2019 #9
knr triron Jul 2019 #10
🚨OUTSTANDING!! Duppers Jul 2019 #12
These bombshells just keep on coming. It's totally insane this man is POTUS. triron Jul 2019 #13
K & R ... + 1,000,000 MFGsunny Jul 2019 #14
This post needs more exposure. triron Jul 2019 #15

lagomorph777

(30,613 posts)
7. Mueller lays out tons of clear proof of conspiracy, then pretends it's not enough.
Fri Jul 26, 2019, 03:15 PM
Jul 2019

The investigation was solid; the conclusions were not.

miyazaki

(2,255 posts)
8. A two year buildup to another cold fart.
Fri Jul 26, 2019, 03:25 PM
Jul 2019

Of course we know better. Along with the obstruction, the conspiracy was always in place.

Duppers

(28,130 posts)
12. 🚨OUTSTANDING!!
Mon Jul 29, 2019, 05:00 AM
Jul 2019

Thank you , Dennis.

Folks, please read and LISTEN to the tRumpcast above.

Every newspaper, every telecast should have covered this. Why aren't the Dems making more racket about this? Why doesn't this thread have a 100+ recommendations?



Sorry folks, but I just don't see justice being done.

MFGsunny

(2,356 posts)
14. K & R ... + 1,000,000
Mon Jul 29, 2019, 10:58 AM
Jul 2019

FBI Counterintelligence is on all of it, and ongoing.

Schiff et al in/of Intelligence Committee knows too, I bet!

Manafort and/or Gates can STILL finger Humpty Trumpty who may end up taking a great fall after all.

Fingers way crossed.
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