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Botany's JournalMueller Has Enough Evidence to Bring Charges in Flynn Investigation
Source: NBC
Mueller Has Enough Evidence to Bring Charges in Flynn Investigation
by JULIA AINSLEY, CAROL E. LEE and KEN DILANIAN
WASHINGTON Federal investigators have gathered enough evidence to bring charges in their investigation of President Donald Trump's former national security adviser and his son as part of the probe into Russia's intervention in the 2016 election, according to multiple sources familiar with the investigation.
Michael T. Flynn, who was fired after just 24 days on the job, was one of the first Trump associates to come under scrutiny in the federal probe now led by Special Counsel Robert Mueller into possible collusion between Moscow and the Trump campaign.
Mueller is applying renewed pressure on Flynn following his indictment of Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort, three sources familiar with the investigation told NBC News.
Read more: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/mueller-has-enough-evidence-bring-charges-flynn-investigation-n817666
MSNBC has it on now .... "Reporter: This has to do with collusion w/Russia and
Flynn's dealings with Turkey." Rough quote
https://twitter.com/mflynnjr/status/793890635254263808
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/16/us/politics/james-comey-trump-flynn-russia-investigation.html
May 16 2017
WASHINGTON President Trump asked the F.B.I. director, James B. Comey, to shut down the federal investigation into Mr. Trumps former national security adviser, Michael T. Flynn, in an Oval Office meeting in February, according to a memo Mr. Comey wrote shortly after the meeting.
I hope you can let this go, the president told Mr. Comey, according to the memo.
The documentation of Mr. Trumps request is the clearest evidence that the president has tried to directly influence the Justice Department and F.B.I. investigation into links between Mr. Trumps associates and Russia. Late Tuesday, Representative Jason Chaffetz, the Republican chairman of the House Oversight Committee, demanded that the F.B.I. turn over all memoranda, notes, summaries and recordings of discussions between Mr. Trump and Mr. Comey.
When and if did Donna Brazile stop taking Russian money for her work to help cause problems?
Just asking the question.
BTW after Ohio 2004 election Brazile was on record that nothing really happened and
for someone who was in the belly of the beast in Ohio in 2004 her words still piss me
off.
Rachel Tonight: Bowe Bergdahl got no prison time in part because of Trump
The judge in the case warned Trump not to talk about the case
but Trump went ahead and talked about the case and in giving the
sentence the judge wrote and or spoke about Trump's comments
about the case as a reason that Bergdahl got no prison time.
BTW typing from memory so I hope I got this right.
Washington Post Trump: I dont remember meeting at center of Russia probe
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-i-dont-remember-meeting-at-center-of-russia-probe/2017/11/03/c806b8e0-c09d-11e7-9294-705f80164f6e_story.html?utm_term=.df0c2e5a8aecBy Associated Press November 3 at 9:49 AM
WASHINGTON President Donald Trump says he doesnt remember much about a March 2016 meeting with his campaign foreign policy adviser that is now front-and-center in special counsel Robert Muellers Russia probe.
Speaking to reporters outside the White House, Trump says: It was a very unimportant meeting. It took place a long time ago. I dont remember much about it.
Trumps former campaign adviser, George Papadopoulos, has pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI about his contacts with Russian officials. Papadopoulos later told agents he used that gathering to offer to arrange a meeting between Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin.
The White House argues Papadopoulos was merely a campaign volunteer whose claims shouldnt be taken seriously.
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For just being a "coffee boy" Papadopoulos really gets around. Meetings with Trump, Sessions, Carter Page,
the President of Greece, the President of Cyprus, and sitting @ a panel with GOP Senators & Congresspersons.
Could Wilbur Ross Be The Next Trump Official Targeted In The Mueller Probe?
Source: The National Memo
Special counsel Robert Muellers indictment against international lobbyist and Trump campaign chief Paul Manafort, and pleading by Trump campaign foreign policy aide George Papadopoulos, cast long shadows over other top Trump administration officials, starting with Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross, whose previous financial deals involved the European money-laundering hub of Cyprus.
The banking sector of that small island nation in the Mediterranean appears to be a crossroads where top Trump campaign associates, such as Manafort and Papadopoulos, and senior administration officials like Commerce Secretary Ross, crossed paths and had layered financial and political dealings with Kremlin-tied Russian oligarchs.
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Trumps Commerce Secretary, Wilbur Ross, was vice-chair and leading investor in the Bank of Cyprus, the islands largest bank, which was one of the key offshore havens for illicit Russian finance, according to an extensive investigative report by financial journalist James Henry of DCReport.org. Ross has been Vice Chairman of this bank and a major investor in it since 2014. His fellow bank co-chair evidently was appointed by none other than Vladimir Putin.
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Ross involvement in the Bank of Cyprus raises many questions about his judgment, but also about the Trump Administrations seemingly endless direct and indirect connections with friends and associates of Vladimir Putin, who all 17 U.S. intelligence agencies say conspired to interfere in the November 2016 U.S. election on behalf of Donald Trump, Henry continued. Whether or not these connections involve any criminality, these are the kind of relationships that most American business people would not tolerate for 30 seconds.
Read more: http://www.nationalmemo.com/wilbur-ross-next-trump-official-targeted-mueller-probe/
ATTN Mods I know this older then 12 hours but could you please leave it up.
PBS tonight Frontline ..... Putin's attack on our elections
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/CNN Who is George Papadopoulos? or What a low level coffee boy did in 2016
http://www.cnn.com/2017/10/30/politics/who-is-george-papadopoulos/index.htmlThe statement from Mueller says that Papadopoulos falsely claimed he met with an overseas professor before joining the Trump campaign in March 2016 about "the Russians possessing "dirt" on Hillary Clinton in the form of "thousands of emails."
At that point, however, he was already working for the Trump campaign -- the professor only took interest in Papadopoulos because of his status on the campaign, according to the statement. The professor told Papadopoulos about the Russians possessing dirt on Clinton in late April, and the statement says that "he repeatedly sought to use the professor's Russian connections to arrange a meeting between the campaign and Russian government officials."
Papadopoulos also met with a Russian woman in March 2016 along with the professor, according to the statement, and he relayed that information to the campaign.
During a March 31, 2016, foreign policy meeting with Trump and other campaign foreign policy advisers, Papadopoulos introduced himself to the group and stated "he had connections that could help arrange a meeting between then-candidate Trump and President Putin," according a factual statement signed by Papadopoulos in connection with his guilty plea.
This just hit me when I was at the gym tonight
Team Trump: See these indictments prove that the Trump campaign had no
connections with Russia.
Me: (Thought Bubble) of the three people I heard about today ... 2 of which were
indicted and the 3rd who has pled guilty all three worked for the Trump campaign
and all three were connected to Russia and or part of the Ukraine that supported
Putin.
I think the pressure is getting to him
Just on MSNBC @ 12:00 .... Trump golfing and he missed a short putt then he slammed his putter
to the ground. I don't know if it is a current video but I think the pressure is getting to him.
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