It's Official, Russians Corrupted The Election

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I bet Whell is waiting for his marching orders from Limbaugh before he posts about this.

[Chicks]

George Papadopoulos pleads guilty to lying to FBI.

Yet another of Donny’s “good people”.

https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-...mueller-probe/

[Chicks]

Originally Posted by finnbow

I bet Whell is waiting for his marching orders from Limbaugh before he posts about this.

No doubt.

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Originally Posted by finnbow

I bet Whell is waiting for his marching orders from Limbaugh before he posts about this.

Sorry to disappoint, oh arrogant one.

Just a little dose of reality:

The charges do not cover any activities related to the campaign, though it's possible Mueller could add additional charges.

http://www.cnn.com/2017/10/30/politi...der/index.html

These charges go back to 2012, prior to Manafort's association with the Trump campaign. So, still looking for the "collusion".

Now, please return to your celebrations.

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Preet Bharara
@PreetBharara
Special Counsel Mueller appears to have a cooperating witness, George Papadopoulos. That is significant. Time will tell how significant.
7:37 AM · Oct 30, 2017


Direct relationship to the Trump campaign. Lied after the inauguration.

[barbara]

These charges go back to 2012, prior to Manafort's association with the Trump campaign. So, still looking for the "collusion".


That is exactly what Fox entertainment is peddling this morning.

[CarlV]

Originally Posted by Chicks

Preet Bharara
@PreetBharara
Special Counsel Mueller appears to have a cooperating witness, George Papadopoulos. That is significant. Time will tell how significant.
7:37 AM · Oct 30, 2017


Direct relationship to the Trump campaign. Lied after the inauguration.

One of President Trump's former campaign advisers has pleaded guilty to lying to FBI agents investigating allegations of collusion between the Trump presidential campaign and the Russian government, the Department of Justice (DOJ) said Monday .

George Papadopolous, the 30-year-old foreign policy adviser, pleaded guilty earlier this month, according to court filings unsealed on Monday. The DOJ unsealed the documents shortly after it announced charges against two other higher-ranking, Trump campaign officials — Paul Manafort and Rick Gates.

Prosecutors charged Papadopolous with lying to investigators about his conversations with a foreign professor who told him that Russians had thousands of emails containing "dirt" on Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton.

He also allegedly lied about his contact with a Russian woman who the Justice Department says he pressured "in an effort to arrange a meeting between the campaign and Russian government officials."

The Trump aide allegedly told the FBI that those conversations happened before he joined the campaign, statements rebutted by the Justice Department's timeline.

The revelation is the clearest yet tying the Trump campaign to Russia's effort to interfere in the 2016 election. The charges stemmed from Justice Department special counsel Robert Mueller.
http://thehill.com/homenews/administ...o-lying-to-fbi

Verrry interesting...

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Originally Posted by barbara

These charges go back to 2012, prior to Manafort's association with the Trump campaign. So, still looking for the "collusion".


That is exactly what Fox entertainment is peddling this morning.

From Jennifer Rubin's column.

President Trump and his surrogates — most especially the Fox News lineup (which includes a fleet of conservative pundits who disgrace themselves by facilitating a political distraction game for Trump), obsequious Republicans in Congress, old allies such as Roger Stone (who wound up getting banned by Twitter) and the talk radio crowd — have been frantically fanning Hillary Clinton non-scandals about Uranium One (it was baseless before and baseless now) and the dossier’s funder. (Fusion GPS initially was hired by the conservative Free Beacon, which at one time claimed not to know the identity of the Republican outfit that first hired Fusion.) The unhinged rants from Trump’s defenders demanding Clinton be locked up for one or both of these reveal how tightly Trump and the right-wing ecosystem that supports him rely on Clinton as an all-purpose distraction.

Upon a moment’s reflection, the non-scandals make no sense (Clinton was colluding with Russia to beat herself in the election?), have been debunked before and in no way affect the liability, if any, of current or ex-Trump administration figures. This is “whataboutism” run amok. It does expose the degree to which Fox News has given up the pretense of a real news organization, preferring the role of state propagandist. (And it’s not just the evening hosts; the non-scandals now monopolize the rest of the schedule.)

Sad, very sad, very very sad since they have nothing and trying to build a case with nothing leaves you with nothing.

Fake News Lives.

Trump’s meltdown in anticipation of indictments is telling

https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs...=.8fd2136cee87

[Chicks]

Fox “News” = Limbaugh = Whell. Fake, fake, fake.

Trump will go down, hopefully before the midterm elections, but certainly soon after, when the rats are thrown out.

[CarlV]

It was also revealed on Monday morning that George Papadopoulos, a former foreign policy adviser to Trump’s campaign, secretly pleaded guilty earlier this month to lying to the FBI about the campaign’s outreach to Russian officials.

While neither move directly implicates Trump, the actions show how Mueller is accelerating his sprawling probe into possible collusion between campaign aides and the Kremlin, which has been accused by intelligence officials of meddling in the 2016 election.

The 14-page document outlining Papadopoulos’s plea deal describes a series of contacts with Russians who he understood to have connections to the Kremlin about obtaining damaging information about Hillary Clinton.

Papadopoulos became a foreign policy adviser to Trump’s campaign in March 2016 and went on to cultivate relationships with two individuals apparently connected to Russia, labeled in the document only as “the Professor” and the “Female Russian National.” Papadopoulos kept campaign officials appraised of his contacts and efforts.

He was arrested in July.

The revelations in the plea deal appear to undercut Trump’s repeated claims that the sprawling probe is nothing more than a “witch hunt” and that his campaign had no contacts with Russian officials.
https://www.politico.com/story/2017/...orities-244305