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

[Dennis Donovan]

...to charge it?

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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

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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.

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12:40 PM - Jul 26, 2019

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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

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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

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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 …

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12:46 PM - Jul 26, 2019

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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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