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https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2019/04/18/happy-hour-roundup/?utm_term=.9d4fa20652f2

 

Shane Harris examines one of the most shocking revelations in the Mueller report:

President Trump pushed for obtaining Democratic rival Hillary Clinton’s private emails, and his campaign was in touch with allies who were pursuing them, according to the redacted special counsel’s report released Thursday.

On July 27, 2016, Trump famously said at a campaign rally, “Russia, if you’re listening, I hope you’re able to find the 30,000 emails that are missing,” referring to emails that Clinton said she had deleted from her private server. She had used a private account during her tenure as secretary of state.

Trump also “made this request repeatedly” during the campaign, former national security adviser Michael Flynn told special counsel Robert S. Mueller III’s investigation. Flynn “contacted multiple people in an effort to obtain the emails,” including Peter Smith, a longtime Republican operative, and Barbara Ledeen, a Republican Senate staffer who herself had previously tried to find the emails. Ledeen, at the time, worked for Sen. Charles E. Grassley on the Senate Judiciary Committee.

Just to be clear, “obtaining” means “hacking.” Trump instructed his underlings to find a way to hack into Hillary Clinton’s emails, or find someone who would.

 

 

 

 

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https://twitter.com/zackbeauchamp/status/1118904995284439040

Pg. 70:

Third, the investigation established that several individuals affiliated with the Trump Campaign lied to the Office, and to Congress, about their interactions with Russian-affiliated individuals and related matters. Those lies materially impaired the investigation of Russian election interference. The Office charged some of those lies as violations of the federal falsestatements statute. Former National Security Advisor Michael Flynn pleaded guilty to lying about his interactions with Russian Ambassador Kislyak during the transition period. George Papadopoulos, a foreign policy advisor during the campaign period , pleaded guilty to lying to investigators about, inter alia, the nature and timing of his interactions with Joseph Mifsud, the professor who told Papadopoulos that the Russians had dirt on candidate Clinton .in the form of thousands of emails. Former Trump Organization attorney Michael Cohen leaded uilt to makin false statements to Con ress about the Trum Moscow ro · ect.

Different chapter on impeachment. Focus here on Mueller’s finding-obstruction and collusion.

 

 

 

As for impeachment:

Why would Hoyer say this without even reading teh report? Maybe it’s time to picket Hoyer and Friends?

On obstruction Mueller rejects the canards of Trump and his GOP co-conspirators

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/mueller-report-russia-investigation-findings/2019/04/18/b07f4310-56f9-11e9-814f-e2f46684196e_story.html?utm_term=.9a78243c3dc6#CLINTONEMAILS

I’m focusing on ‘collusion’ here not because obstruction in and of itself isn’t impeachable-the Nixon and Clinton precedents clearly show it is. Mueller for his part rejected Barr’s canard that no obstruction occurred if you can’t prove the underlying crime.

 

The (Redacted) Mueller Report: First Takes from the Experts

 

 

https://www.justice.gov/opa/speech/attorney-general-william-p-barr-delivers-remarks-release-report-investigation-russian

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

https://cdn.cnn.com/cnn/2019/images/04/18/mueller-report-searchable.pdf

 

A statement that the investigation did not establish particular facts does not mean there was no evidence of those facts.

Pg. 10

Don’t lose sight of this.

As set forth in detail in this report, the Special Counsel’s investigation established that Russia interfere~ in the 2016 presidential election principally through two operations. First, a Russian entity carried out a social media campaign that favored presidential candidate Donald J. Trump and disparaged presidential candidate Hillary Clinton. Second , a Russian intelligence service conducted computer-intrusion operations against entities, employees, and volunteers working on the Clinton Campaign and then released stolen documents.

The investigation also identified numerous links between the Russian government and the Trump Campaign. Although the investigation established that the Russian government perceived it would benefit from a Trump presidency and worked to secure that outcome, and that the Campaign expected it would benefit electorally from information stolen and released through Russian efforts, the investigation did not establish that members of the Trump Campaign conspired or coordinated with the Russian government in its election interference activities.

 

Mueller’s Language about “Collusion,” Coordination, and Conspiracy

 

https://www.justice.gov/storage/report.pdf

 

 

 

 

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