Crime Ferris Mueller's Election Off (Mueller thread v. 24)

[Limbo Pete]

It's going to be strange looking back on these events with hindsight.

Christ, it's strange enough right now in the moment

 

[FIMN]

Christ, it's strange enough right now in the moment

Yeah it's wild.

 

[andnowweknow]

But he's a lifelong republican

Fake news, Trump said him and his team were Democrats.

 

[Diamond Jim]

 

[PolishHeadlock]

 

[Diamond Jim]

Donald Trump’s former campaign manager Paul Manafort held secret talks with Julian Assangeinside the Ecuadorian embassy in London, and visited around the time he joined Trump’s campaign, the Guardian has been told.

Sources have said Manafort went to see Assange in 2013, 2015 and in spring 2016 – during the period when he was made a key figure in Trump’s push for the White House.

It is unclear why Manafort wanted to see Assange and what was discussed. But the last meeting is likely to come under scrutiny and could interest Robert Mueller, the special prosecutor who is investigating alleged collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia.

A well-placed source has told the Guardian that Manafort went to see Assange around March 2016. Months later WikiLeaks released a stash of Democratic emails stolen by Russian intelligence officers.

 

[bobgeese]

Unless Paul personally handed over the DNC hacked emails, there’s nothing illegal about meeting with Julian Assange.


Just ask Sean Hannity.









Lying about it tho...

 

[Rational Poster]

Julian Assange is a hero and who cares!?

 

[D3thr0n3d K1ng]

Looks like Trump thought he was slick using manafort as a counter mole to Mueller's investigation. Wonder if Mueller anticipated this and to what extent.

 

[Rational Poster]

Unless Paul personally handed over the DNC hacked emails, there’s nothing illegal about meeting with Julian Assange.


Just ask Sean Hannity.









Lying about it tho...

Good edit.

Lying about meeting Julian Assange to Federal authorities conducting an investigation into international actors meddling in our election is bad.

 

[andnowweknow]

Donald Trump’s former campaign manager Paul Manafort held secret talks with Julian Assangeinside the Ecuadorian embassy in London, and visited around the time he joined Trump’s campaign, the Guardian has been told.

Sources have said Manafort went to see Assange in 2013, 2015 and in spring 2016 – during the period when he was made a key figure in Trump’s push for the White House.

It is unclear why Manafort wanted to see Assange and what was discussed. But the last meeting is likely to come under scrutiny and could interest Robert Mueller, the special prosecutor who is investigating alleged collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia.

A well-placed source has told the Guardian that Manafort went to see Assange around March 2016. Months later WikiLeaks released a stash of Democratic emails stolen by Russian intelligence officers.

Probably just talking about sports. Nothingburger.

 

[Rational Poster]

Probably just talking about sports. Nothingburger.

It doesn't matter what they talked about if they've been lying about it for months.

 

[Bobby 3 Sticks]

Donald Trump’s former campaign manager Paul Manafort held secret talks with Julian Assangeinside the Ecuadorian embassy in London, and visited around the time he joined Trump’s campaign, the Guardian has been told.

Sources have said Manafort went to see Assange in 2013, 2015 and in spring 2016 – during the period when he was made a key figure in Trump’s push for the White House.

It is unclear why Manafort wanted to see Assange and what was discussed. But the last meeting is likely to come under scrutiny and could interest Robert Mueller, the special prosecutor who is investigating alleged collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia.

A well-placed source has told the Guardian that Manafort went to see Assange around March 2016. Months later WikiLeaks released a stash of Democratic emails stolen by Russian intelligence officers.

Anyone else thinking Corsi is the source?

 

[andnowweknow]

It doesn't matter what they talked about if they've been lying about it for months.

It actually does matter, a lot. Lying is one thing, conspiracy to defraud the USA is a completely different thing.

 

[MilesAbove]

2018 liberals can not mentally cope with reality.

You sound like every schizophrenic or acid-head I've ever met.

 

[foxnoob]

So we have a potus who's campaign manager facilitated the disbursement of hacked documents to Wikileaks from Russian intelligence for the purpose of helping his candidate.

This is a smorgasbord of high crimes. Pelosi may have no choice but to impeach after the report.

 

[Ophydian]

Unless Paul personally handed over the DNC hacked emails, there’s nothing illegal about meeting with Julian Assange.


Just ask Sean Hannity.









Lying about it tho...

Meeting Assange isn’t illegal but it’s another piece to the puzzle. The picture becomes more clear the more pieces that are added.

 

[Diamond Jim]

Justice is now un-American.

 

[Rational Poster]

It actually does matter, a lot. Lying is one thing, conspiracy to defraud the USA is a completely different thing.

One is a lot easier to prove than the other tho.

 

[Fawlty]

So we have a potus who's campaign manager facilitated the disbursement of hacked documents to Wikileaks from Russian intelligence for the purpose of helping his candidate.

This is a smorgasbord of high crimes. Pelosi may have no choice but to impeach after the report.

I think if that's the case, the argument will be that Trump didn't personally do anything illegal (which wouldn't be true - conspiracy is a thing), and that Manafort should be the fall guy. What would slam the door on any denial would be quid pro quo, which I suspect we have concerning the Magnitsky Act talks when his campaign was backdooring the State Department, perhaps treasonously. In either case I don't expect impeachment to work. Senate Republicans will dig in if it's only one high criminal conspiracy.