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are self-defeating if applying them means you never charge the criminal at all.
Spring 2016 Trump Campaign Manager Paul Manafort began sending the campaign's polling data to oligarch Konstantin Kilimnik, who was Manafort's conduit to Deripaska, the higher-pecking-order corrupt oligarch Manafort is millions in debt to. And whenever Deripaska has something useful to use against somebody, U.S. intelligence's conclusion is that Vlad Putin has it too.
August 2, 2016 Manafort -- still campaign manager -- met with Kilimnik in NYC. Mueller reports that they discussed the campaign's efforts at focusing on voters in midwestern states. You know, like Wisconsin and Michigan. How is that not tantamount to the Trump campaign telling the Russians, "If you want to help, this is where we most need it and think it could be most effective." ? (Almost like yelling out, "Hey Russia, find Hillary's personal emails for us!", isnt it?)
But Mueller "can't establish" that that was Trump Campaign - Russian govt coordination? Why, because Kilimnik SAYS he's not a Russian intell asset? What else is he gonna say? Why ELSE would he give a shit about the Trump campaign's work? A special counsel can't make a call like that for himself? WTF?
If quid pro quo is needed to tie a nice bow on such dealings, part of what Kilimnik delivered to Manafort at that same meeting was that Russians-in-Ukrainian-sheep's-clothing would be requesting prospective future President Trump to support Russia controlling eastern Ukraine. A "peace plan," they called it. One that sounds similar to one that Jared's Russian contacts later had him back-door to Sec of State Tillerson.
But this conspiring fails Mueller's strict -- read, unrealistic -- requirements because Kilimnik isn't directly on the Kremlin, FSB, GRU, IRA, etc, government payroll... or, they can't prove he is, at least. A requirement for prosecution that just flies in the face of the realities that exist in Russia. It's a kleptocracy, with the Kremlin in the center running the sprawling, finger-in-every-pie organized crime system that is the 21st century Russian business sector. Billionaire oligarchs have their industries and their wealth because Putin allows them to, in return for which they all cooperate with Putin, support him, kick-back to him (he may be the real wealthiest man in the world), and do his bidding. Else they get charged with corruption, lose their wealth to the Kremlin, and have to either flee the country or go to the ex-oligarch gulag.
Oligarchs like Kilimnik and Deripaska already ARE assets and agents of the Russian government in every way that matters, and incredibly well-compensated ones, too. They just lack Kremlin Employee ID cards in their wallets. But apparently that alone is enough for Mueller to be "unable to establish" campaign-&-Russian-govt conspiracy or coordination, and to thereby grant the malicious Putin stooge in the White House the bona fides he needs to stay out of jail and in office.
Putin has all kinds of leverage over Trump, and that hasn't magically just gone away. Examples:
-- The details of many years, decades, of laundering dirty Russian money through Trump real estate.
-- The details of Trump pursuing a Moscow development deal during the campaign.
-- The Russians trying to get Trump property to develop in, of all places, Crimea. (! What a coup for Putin that wouldve been.)
-- Proof of what was really said in all of the many Russia-Trump Campaign communications.
-- Revelation of the true and full extent of Russia's 2015-2016 pro-Trump interference in our election. Putin could publicly de-legitimatize the Nov 2016 outcome any time he chooses.
-- What this oft-pursued private meeting with Putin during the campaign was going to be about, the one so many people were always trying to set up. It didn't happen, but both Trump and Putin HAD to know the prospective agenda. What was that?
-- Even Trump himself believes Putin has sexual shenanigans kompromat on him.
That's a partial list, and a partial list of just what we know or have seen the indications of. The full range of exortion fodder the Kremlin is holding over Trump may include things nobody here even has a clue of yet.
And the Mueller Report officially informs us the FBI is gonna sit still for all this.
(Icing on the absurdity, idiots in the media instantly pronounced, "Our bad! We were wrong! Trump's campaign never colluded with Russia and Trump has never been beholden to Putin at all! Mueller proved it!" Mueller proved no such thing.)
Our federal government's ability to prosecute criminals like Trump and protect us from foreign malefactors like Putin has broken down. It's ineffective; from appearances, now next to impotent. This has been a staggeringly harmful outcome for our nation.
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