Buzzfeed: 2nd batch of memos from Mueller Report released

[CousinIT]

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/jasonleopold/mueller-report-secret-memos-2

BuzzFeed News sued the US government for the right to see all the work that Mueller’s team kept secret. We published the second installment of the FBI’s summaries of interviews with key witnesses.

Some takeaways from the newest documents:

Michael Cohen said Trump family lawyers kept him from telling the truth.

Michael Cohen, Trump’s former personal lawyer, told FBI agents about negotiations to build a gleaming Trump Tower in the heart of Moscow, about how much Trump, who was then in the midst of a presidential campaign, knew about the negotiations, and about the false statement that Cohen later made to the House and Senate Intelligence Committees about it all.

Cohen said that during the presidential campaign, he informed Trump that he had a discussion with a “woman from the Kremlin” about the plan to build the tower, according to a Nov. 20, 2018, summary of his interview with FBI agents and prosecutors from Mueller's team.

. . .

In February 2017, Trump wanted Comey to know “I really like him.” Comey was fired about three months later.

Former New Jersey Governor Chris Christie told investigators that Trump wanted him to talk to then-FBI Director James Comey in February 2017 and tell him "I really like him. Tell him he's part of the team. I really like him."

Comey, who was leading the FBI’s investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election, was fired in May 2017.

Christie didn't make the call, saying it was "nonsensical" and because it "would have been uncomfortable."

[dewsgirl]

1. Today is going to be🔥🔥🔥.

[CousinIT]

2. From last month's cache of documents...

"... in an April 2018 interview with the special counsel’s office, Gates told investigators that while Paul Manafort was running Trump’s campaign, he had pushed the unfounded theory that it was Ukraine, not Russia, that had hacked the Democratic National Committee’s servers. That theory has been thoroughly debunked by the US intelligence community, but Trump still cites it — most notably during the July 2019 call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, which is at the heart of the current impeachment investigation."

If I have to choose between believing the GOP (Greedy ol Pathocrats) aka Trump Cult -- or our own very skilled intel community here in the US + the Mueller report and notes, I'm going to choose to believe the latter rather than the former. Has something to do with propaganda vs the actual facts of the case.

[malaise]

3. Off to the greatest page

RFN!

[Zoonart]

4. YAY...

Ar we there yet?...Are we there yet?...Arew e there yet?...

[gibraltar72]

5. Sekulow.

[Botany]

6. Obstruction of Justice ... End of story

No wonder Barr and Trump have been trying to keep the Muller Report covered up.

"Michael Cohen said Trump family lawyers kept him from telling the truth (to the FBI)."

And Christie has know this dirt all along.

[True Blue American]

7. I want Barr

Disbarred.

Rise and fall of Barr.

https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/william-barr-decline-and-fall-by-kent-harrington-2019-11

https://prospect.org/politics/william-barr-corruption-of-the-justice-department/

[Botany]

8. These are just memos from the compiling of the Mueller Report and not the actual Mueller Report ...

.... itself. Barr was brought in to shut down the Mueller investigation and suppress the Mueller
Report itself. He is very dirty and enjoys being the black hand behind the scenes.

America needs to see the Mueller Report.

[triron]

9. Will we?

[CousinIT]

11. Very revealing memos, IMO. n/t

[Hermit-The-Prog]

13. it will still take years to unravel all the threads of criminal activity from just memos

[onethatcares]

14. and made to wear a yoke

for a walk down Pennsylvania Avenue. A heavy fucking yoke,

[H2O Man]

10. Recommended.

[UTUSN]

12. K&R