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An update on the Russian collusion thing.
Posted on: November 22, 2017 at 07:46:02 CT
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Oh, wait....there is no update. Because NOTHING HAPPENED YOU GODDAMED USELESS DUNG PILE LIBERALS. All you've done is waste more millions for nothing. God I despise you people.
Has Mueller Abandoned The Trump/Russia Collusion Investigation?
Just as the FBI and Justice Department is telling Congress that they haven't been able to verify anything of importance in the Trump/Russia collusion dossier, Special Counsel Robert Mueller has decided to cast a much wider net in his fishing expedition. Is this a coincidence? Or is it a sign that Mueller also realizes there's no there there?
Shortly after it came to light that the Clinton campaign and the DNC had secretly paid Fusion GPS to assemble the so-called Steele Dossier, which Fusion then tried to fob off on reporters before the election, the press dismissed this bombshell by saying that the source of its financing was irrelevant because much of the dossier "checks out" or has been "proven to be accurate."
But according to the Washington Examiner's Byron York, FBI and Justice officials recently told congressional investigators that after spending nearly a year and a half looking into it, "they have not been able to verify or corroborate the substantive allegations of collusion between Russia and the Trump campaign outlined in the Trump dossier."
In other words, they've failed to verify things like: the alleged meetings of Carter Page with the head of Russia's state-owned oil company and a top official in the Putin government; the alleged meeting between Michael Cohen and "Kremlin representatives"; or any of the other specific claims in the dossier that weren't already public knowledge when it was written.
Mueller's initial indictments suggested that he's had no better luck than the FBI.
The charges Mueller filed at the end of October against Trump's short-lived campaign manager, Paul Manafort, had nothing whatsoever to do with election meddling. And low-level campaign volunteer George Papadopoulos pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI not about whether he had contacts with people from Russia — which amounted to nothing — but about when those meetings occurred.
As we noted at the time: "This may be nothing more than a prosecutorial Hail Mary, thrown in desperation that something damning might be revealed."
Has Mueller Abandoned The Trump/Russia Collusion Investigation?
Just as the FBI and Justice Department is telling Congress that they haven't been able to verify anything of importance in the Trump/Russia collusion dossier, Special Counsel Robert Mueller has decided to cast a much wider net in his fishing expedition. Is this a coincidence? Or is it a sign that Mueller also realizes there's no there there?
Shortly after it came to light that the Clinton campaign and the DNC had secretly paid Fusion GPS to assemble the so-called Steele Dossier, which Fusion then tried to fob off on reporters before the election, the press dismissed this bombshell by saying that the source of its financing was irrelevant because much of the dossier "checks out" or has been "proven to be accurate."
But according to the Washington Examiner's Byron York, FBI and Justice officials recently told congressional investigators that after spending nearly a year and a half looking into it, "they have not been able to verify or corroborate the substantive allegations of collusion between Russia and the Trump campaign outlined in the Trump dossier."
In other words, they've failed to verify things like: the alleged meetings of Carter Page with the head of Russia's state-owned oil company and a top official in the Putin government; the alleged meeting between Michael Cohen and "Kremlin representatives"; or any of the other specific claims in the dossier that weren't already public knowledge when it was written.
Mueller's initial indictments suggested that he's had no better luck than the FBI.
The charges Mueller filed at the end of October against Trump's short-lived campaign manager, Paul Manafort, had nothing whatsoever to do with election meddling. And low-level campaign volunteer George Papadopoulos pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI not about whether he had contacts with people from Russia — which amounted to nothing — but about when those meetings occurred.
As we noted at the time: "This may be nothing more than a prosecutorial Hail Mary, thrown in desperation that something damning might be revealed."
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An update on the Russian collusion thing. - GA Tiger MU - 11/22 07:46:02
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