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Want to talk emails? How about all the ones between Trump associates and Russian oligarchs in the middle of the campaign? Emails showing that Sater, who once was a “senior adviser” to Trump, and Cohen, Trump’s personal lawyer, worked in 2015 and early 2016 to complete an agreement for a Trump Tower in Moscow, efforts contradicting the president’s many claims that he has “nothing to do with Russia.” As Trump praised Russian President Vladimir Putin on the campaign trail in early 2016, Cohen emailed Putin’s spokesman to ask for Putin’s help reviving discussions with Russian partners on the project. Sater’s emails boasted that the deal would help Trump get elected. Cohen and Sater’s emails were among a large trove of documents the Trump Organization turned over to congressional investigators this week. As we learn more about Trump’s Russian dealings, his actions in trying to shut down the investigation become more understandable.

Hi Mell in Central Florida - Do you have any first hand knowledge or evidence of Trump violating the law??

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This circular thinking ,complaining, and accusing about Trump is a sign of pure laziness, an obvious deflection because the person lacks understanding concerning national issues and quite frankly annoying.

Personal Best Regards:

Felix Sater has been described as the Forrest Gump of this investigation. In almost every key meeting, email or phone call his name comes up all the time. Mueller has so many cards in his deck now. Even the IRS has joined in.

Says the scumbag who constantly plagiarizes...other people's thoughts & writings. :1rotfl: :1rotfl:



Deepest Sincere Wishes: :wave:

How about you (unt, you got any first hand knowledge or evidence of Trump violating the law?

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I realize it is hard to see that someone you believed in seems, at least, so far to be a disappointment.

But in point of fact yes President Trump has NOT divested his interests nor put them into a blind trust which is a requirement aka the Emoluments Clause. The Trump sons were supposed to able separate, for example, the foreign guests, at the hotel in Washington. Which by the way he, by law, isn't even allowed to own as President.

COPUFF.....

You're being way too kind.

Chump has been more like an...unmitigated disaster for our country. :oops:

The screws are tightening. Getting the NYS Attorney General involved is crucial, because now they can pursue criminal indictments against Manafort and Trump won't be able to pardon him because he doesn't have jurisdiction over state crimes. This will give them leverage to roll Manafort to save himself, which seems pretty likely, and the chips will fall as they may. There is so much material for criminal wrongdoing - crimes directly related to the election — if the Trump team engaged in a criminal conspiracy to help hack Hillary Clinton’s email (stealing documents is illegal) or violated campaign finance laws by soliciting help from a foreign source, for example. The second kind is crimes committed during the investigation itself: witness intimidation, perjury, obstruction of justice, and the like. So far, many of the emails seem damming, especially those of Trump Jr. And the FBI raiding Manafort's home in the early morning hours, is a true sign that Trump's cohort is in deep trouble. Adding in the Comey firing, Flynn's ties to Russia, Kushner's Russia ties, Trump's own business dealings with Russia, there is a clear possibility that the investigation will ultimately end Trump's presidency.

And you can't wait.

Liberals...never take no for an answer...ALWAYS have to have it their way. When they lose they have tantrums like children and scream and yell until the adults relent and give them their way.

Is this really your reply to a very serious situation in which the President of the United States stands accused of corruption and collusion with a foreign power? Your corrupt President has been laundering Russian mob money for years, that's why he won't release his finances and why he is so scared of the press. Donald Trump’s deep connections to dirty Russian money: The trail leads back more than 30 years - Salon.com

Key word = accused...no proof.

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Wrong again. ;)



The "key" word is....YET! :D




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Keep hoping stupid (unt!

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Justice

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Only a matter of time for Trump. Those who say where is the evidence, are only kidding themselves. Just check out the time lines and you can see how the dots connect. Mueller is following the money. Trump constantly acts like he is hiding something. Felix Sater and Bayrock will be his downfall. Nobody is going to jail for Trump. Because they know he wouldn't do it for them.

The investigation must be getting close to Hillary. Why else would she be asking her lawyer about a plea bargain option? Funny how Comey was drafting a letter exonerating Hillary before the investigation was even over. Nope, no corruption in D.C. Nothing to see here, folks. Nope.

It's ALL lies and corruption...that is why they must ALL go. The D and R parties AND everyone in them.

Why are people still calling Hillary “corrupt” when it is obvious that it was all Russian propaganda? If any of that were really true, Republicans, who now control the entire government, would be doing something. It is Trump who was asking about plea bargains and pardons. It’s not Hillary the Republicans are investigating, it is Trump. Ever notice that?
Fear, Panic, and Talk of Pardons as Trump Weighs Total War on Mueller | Vanity Fair

People are desperately trying to trash Comey because, if Trump fired Comey to impede an investigation that might implicate his own campaign or administration, that is obstruction of justice, a federal crime. Trump admitted on air to NBC News' Lester Holt that he had fired Comey because of "this Russia thing." Trump was warned by the White House counsel, McGahn, that this was a problematic step and decided to do it anyway. It's possible the public will eventually hear what McGahn told the president. If he said anything along the lines of, 'There's potential criminal liability if you shut down this investigation,' that would be extraordinarily powerful evidence against Trump. Miller and anyone else involved in Comey's firing — or drafting the letter — may be accessories or co-conspirators to that crime as well.

Democratic Senator Coons wrote a memo:"Below is a statute to keep in mind in regards to Donald Trump Jr.'s testimony today," then he simply laid out the legal statute for lying to Congress.

Chump Sr. must be apoplectic about how dumb his boy is...and the hole he's digging for himself and 'daddy.' :D

Special Counsel Robert Mueller's team has approached the White House about interviewing staffers who were aboard Air Force One when the initial misleading statement about Donald Trump Jr.'s meeting with a Russian lawyer at Trump Tower was crafted, three sources familiar with the conversations said.

The special counsel's discussions with the White House are the latest indication that Mueller's investigators are interested in the response to the Trump Tower meeting. Mueller wants to know how the statement aboard Air Force One was put together, whether information was intentionally left out and who was involved, two of the sources said. Mueller's questions could go to the issue of intent and possible efforts to conceal information during an obstruction of justice investigation. The answers to Mueller's questions also could illuminate the level of anxiety surrounding the meeting and the decision-making that followed. If Donald Trump knowingly crafted a statement about the meeting with the Russians that he knew to be false, that would certainly appear to be evidence he was trying to obstruct justice and the Mueller investigation.

Hope Hicks—the longtime Trump aide who is currently interim White House communications director—likely has information that will interest Mueller regarding Donald Trump Jr.’s initial claim that his meeting with the Kremlin-linked lawyer Natalia Veselnitskaya was just about adoption. Hick’s potential targeting by Mueller also underscores the aggressive direction his probe is increasingly taking. Outside of direct family members, she is, perhaps, closest to Trump. Hicks was on the Air Force One flight back to the United States after the G-20 summit and played a role in drafting the statement on Trump Jr.’s June 2016 meeting between Veselnitskaya and Jared Kushner, Paul Manafort, and Trump Jr.
That statement, which was put together by senior White House officials—including the president himself—turned out to be wildly misleading. Hicks reportedly encouraged a more transparent initial approach in describing the facts of the Trump Tower meeting. But she was ultimately overruled. When The New York Times first reported the existence of the meeting, a statement in Trump Jr.’s name downplayed its significance.

Now that Facebook is no longer denying it, everybody involved, except the Trump campaign, admits to exactly what Russia did here. Can we now look at what they did to see if they had help? If the Republican-led congressional investigations aren't looking into that now, they should have to explain why they're not. Because now there's really no more disagreement about what happened here. The only question is whether there were American confederates involved, and that's a very investigatable thing. The law says you can't spend foreign money to influence U.S. Elections. Even on Facebook ads. This is direct evidence—confirmed by Facebook—of a discreet, clear crime committed in the course of the Russian attack on our election. But it's a crime. Clearly. And if any American knew that crime was happening, if any American was part of the effort to make that happen, that American could absolutely be criminally charged on that matter.

President Trump's former chief of staff Reince Priebus and White House counsel Don McGahn have reportedly both hired a lawyer amid the investigation into Russian election meddling. The news comes after a recent report that special counsel Robert Mueller told the White House his team will seek to interview six senior and former aides to Trump as part of the federal investigation into the Russian election meddling and possible Trump campaign involvement.

Wow Mell, thanks for the update on people hiring attorneys for legal inquiries! I am surprised they just don't convict someone if they hire an attorney?? It would be less taxing on the ecology, all those lights and air conditioning wasted on people that claim they did nothing wrong, but yet hire an attorney!!

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Members of President Donald Trump’s legal team wanted Trump’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner, out of his White House adviser role in June, over concerns about Kushner’s dealings with Russian officials, The Wall Street Journal reports. Those lawyers were reportedly concerned that Kushner would be a liability in special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into the Trump administration’s alleged ties to Russia, specifically after it was revealed that Kushner failed to mention four meetings with Russian officials on his security-clearance forms.

RT, the Kremlin-backed TV network formerly known as Russia Today, has revealed that one of its American affiliates has been ordered by the US government to register as a “foreign agent” under anti-propaganda laws. RT and Sputnik are both operated by companies funded by the Russian government and both were named in the US intelligence report that in January accused Vladimir Putin of ordering a campaign to influence the US Presidential election. State-owned Russian media made increasingly favourable comments about Trump while consistently offering negative coverage of Clinton.

In an angry online story condemning the move, RT said the US Justice Department had sent a letter ordering the company that supplies all services for the RT America channel to register under the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA). Russia Today affiliate ordered by US government to register as 'foreign agent' under anti-propaganda laws | The Independent

Apparently under the misapprehension that Trump is free to do his bidding, Russian President Vladimir Putin proposed a reset of relations between the United States and Russia across all major branches of government. According to documents detailing the proposal, a Russian diplomat asked the U.S. State Department for an immediate restoration of the diplomatic, military, and intelligence channels that had been severed after Russia intervened in Ukraine and Syria. The documents reportedly show a proposal for several meetings between the two countries to discuss areas of mutual interest. “It just ignores everything that caused the relationship to deteriorate and pretends that the election interference and the Ukraine crisis never happened,” said Angela Stent, a former national intelligence officer on Russia during the George W. Bush administration. “When the Russians submitted this proposal, they were under the impression that Trump would do what he said he would do: Make a deal with Putin and normalize relations.” Reuters reported earlier this year that the FBI is examining whether Gorkov suggested to Kushner that Russian banks could finance Trump associates' business ventures if US sanctions were lifted or relaxed.

Mell is like the wackadoodle, happy to talk to themselves...

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Actually I am using this as an online diary. The timeline will be interesting, whatever the outcome. That's what happens when one is an historian. And maybe I'll be able, someday, to write a book. If this turns out as I think it will, it certainly would be the scandal of the century. Nine months, nine prominent Russians dead - CNN

I see the investigation as a way too prove trumps criminal activity. Lock him up!

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Republicans with close links to the White House increasingly believe that special counsel Robert Mueller is “going for the kill” in his investigation into links between President Donald Trump and Russia, according to a report from Axios Tuesday. Members of the GOP are said to have come to that stark conclusion based on Mueller’s hiring of lawyers experienced in dealing with money laundering crimes and the Mafia, as well as the intensity of his pursuit of both witnesses and evidence. Trump has previously warned that investigation of his financial dealings is a red line that Mueller should not cross. But that is thought to be exactly what Mueller is doing, including looking into a proposal made during the 2016 campaign to build a Trump Tower in Moscow. Trump was lying when he tweeted, shortly before his inauguration, that “I HAVE NOTHING TO DO WITH RUSSIA — NO DEALS, NO LOANS, NO NOTHING!” The truth is on the same day he participated in a GOP candidates’ debate, he signed a letter of intent for the Moscow Trump Tower project.

Despite Trump’s repeated insistence that he has been told he is not personally under investigation, the president is possibly facing very real personal consequences. Based on conversations with White House aides, Axios says that Mueller is narrowing in on a possible charge of obstruction of justice against the president. At the moment, speculation is swirling about the original draft letter Trump wrote regarding his reasons for firing Director Comey. The "angry, meandering" draft White House justification for firing Comey — which was never released, but obtained by Mueller — could be used as evidence of Trump's unvarnished thinking when venting to staff. It is no secret that Trump wanted Comey to drop all investigations into any evidence of Russia's interference in the election. Firing Comey to stop such an investigation is prima facie evidence of obstruction of justice.

Regardless of the obstruction of justice investigation, I believe the real story is in the finances. Trump is known not to "sweat the details" and is uninterested in reading the fine print. The funding of his many properties is tangled and difficult to follow, but Mueller has hired experts in fraud, foreign bribery, and organized crime. The New Yorker Magazine has done an excellent job of untangling a few of Trump's questionable deals. Trump’s Business of Corruption | The New Yorker

Donald Trump’s Worst Deal | The New Yorker

As investigators try to figure out how Russia carried out its election interference, they’re asking how they happened to identify the right voters to bombard with the right messages, and how they got access to that kind of information. Using email, Facebook and Twitter, political advertising can be tailored very precisely: individual messaging for individual voters. Russian bots were targeting Clinton voters at the precinct level to suppress their vote with fake news. The Congressional committee is interested in determining how the Russians knew which voters to target with their disinformation campaign. Investigations are probing not just Russia’s role but whether Moscow had help from the Trump campaign. Sources familiar with the investigations say they are probing two Trump-linked organizations: Cambridge Analytica, and Breitbart News. It’s worth remembering that when Comey testified before Congress on March 20, he did not use the word “COLLUSION” to describe what he was investigating. Instead he said the FBI is investigating “whether there was any COORDINATION between the campaign and Russia’s efforts.” The letter appointing Robert Mueller as special counsel uses the same language. Cambridge Analytica worked on campaigns in several key states for a Republican political action committee. Its key objective, according to a memo the Guardian Observer has seen, was “voter disengagement” and “to persuade Democrat voters to stay at home”: a profoundly disquieting tactic. It has previously been claimed that suppression tactics were used in the campaign, but this document provides the first actual evidence.

9/17/17 The Republican-led Senate judiciary committee now plans to take the first steps on legislation that would make it harder for President Donald Trump to fire Special Counsel Robert Mueller, the latest sign that Trump could face a backlash from Capitol Hill if he sought to dismiss the special counsel.

Want to make a bet that Hillary is indicted before Trump?