Mueller Indictment Of Russian Hackers Puts Trump ‘Fake News’ Claims To Rest
Don’t count on it.
Trump will never concede that any of this happened.
It will get more interesting, of course, when Mueller starts zeroing in on the domestic enablers and cooperators. Establishing that the election interference took place is just step one. Next comes the effort to identify the co-conspirators.
Now Trump will jump from the “Political witch hunt, it never happened, Putin told me so!” approach to the “Oh look, it happened, but I’m innocent!” approach.
Which is EXACTLY what Mueller wants.
Identify the existence of the crime. Then identify the lies about the existence of the crime. Then identify the obstruction into the investigation of the crime.
THEN identify the conspiracy to partake in the crime.
Trump was wrong, according to U.S. prosecutors …
… and eleventy billion others.
The 37-page document is backed up with dates, names, bank account numbers, and the text of specific ads that the Russians paid to promote.
There is also a one-page “graphic novel” version that has been sent to the White House for … um … declassification, yes, that’s it, for declassification.
An old, mad, blind, despised and dying king:
Princes, the dregs of their dull race, who flow
Through public scorn, - mud from a muddy spring:
Rulers who neither see nor feel nor know,
But leechlike, to their fainting country cling…
Now it will be “Fake Russians”.
As both documents make clear, Russia’s intention was both to undermine trust in the U.S. political system and, at least from mid 2016 on, to get Trump into the Oval Office. The indictment also says Russia sought to help Trump in the Republican primary.
Trump was suspicious of this notion from the get-go.
Actually, we don’t know that.
We do know that he dismissed it.
Good article, Ms. Kirkland. Thank you.
I hope you had fun re-visiting some of Trump’s smash hits of yesteryear.
Yes, you are so correct. Indeed: the noose grows ever tighter around Our Dear Leader’s neck.
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Trump continued to press for a closer relationship with Russia, even tweeting in July 2017 that he had spoken to Putin at the G20 Summit about “forming an impenetrable Cyber Security unit so that election hacking, [and] many other negative things, will be guarded and safe.”
Putin must have been laughing his ass off as he nodded solemnly to Trumps fawning.
Mueller is playing rope-a-dope. He has a good dope to play with, too.
This is world class trolling by Mueller. There is nothing trump hates worse than being revealed as the classless moron that he is. Nothing.
Compare this to Vox’s take that “The new Russia indictments are actually pretty good for Trump.”
Vox is pretty clearly out to lunch here.
It’s also important to note that Mueller has now ensured that he can’t be fired without Cockholster burning down the house — his house.
Jennifer Williams seems not to know who’s who in Putin’s Russia.
She also seems unaware that not saying something doesn’t render it false or make it go away.
I want to see Trump destroyed by this. Completely, totally destroyed so that his name is as storied and infamous as Benedict Arnold’s.
A timely message.
To: Cadet Bone Spurs
From: Robert Mueller, with love
Sent via David Bryne