Not today Sir, Probably not tomorrow.............................................. bayfront arena st. pete '94
you're finally here and I'm a mess................................................... nationwide arena columbus '10
memories like fingerprints are slowly raising.................................... first niagara center buffalo '13
another man ..... moved by sleight of hand...................................... joe louis arena detroit '14
Seeing how the House Judiciary Committee is set to lay out the "rules of the road" for the Team Trump Treason impeachment inquiry on Wednesday, I thought it would be useful to revisit the Team Mueller Report and post some of the findings as I read through it. But don't take my word for it, read it yourself. We'll see if it leads to an actual impeachment vote.
There are 9 total redactions in the 5 page Table of Contents of Volume 1, 7 for Harm to Ongoing Matter (HOM) and 2 for Personal Privacy (PP).
There are 231 total redactions in pages 1-45, inclusive of footnotes, with 1 page being fully redacted for HOM. 155 HOM, 31 PP redactions and 45 redactions for Investigative Technique (IT). That's approximately 5.13 redactions per page.
The members of the House and Senate Intelligence and Judiciary Committees know more than what has been publicly released, yes? Many of the HOM redactions either relate to the indicted Russian intelligence officers or Roger Dodger Stoned and Wikileaks, me thinks. If the former, its useless as they'll never see the inside of the courtroom. If its the latter, look for some November surprises when Roger Dodger Stoned's trial starts (I wonder how the home arrest and social media ban is treating him?). And to think CYA Barr surmised and fully exonerated Team Trump Treason in 4 pages ( a hundredth of the Team Mueller Report)?
"In late July 2016, soon after Wikileaks's first release of stolen documents, a foreign government contacted the FBI about a May 2016 encounter with Trump Campaign foreign policy advisor George Papadopoulos. Papadopoulos had suggested to a representative of that foreign government that the Trump Campaign had received indications from the Russian government that it could assist the Campaign through the anonymous release of information damaging to Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton."
"In late July 2016, soon after Wikileaks's first release of stolen documents, a foreign government contacted the FBI about a May 2016 encounter with Trump Campaign foreign policy advisor George Papadopoulos. Papadopoulos had suggested to a representative of that foreign government that the Trump Campaign had received indications from the Russian government that it could assist the Campaign through the anonymous release of information damaging to Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton."
"In late July 2016, soon after Wikileaks's first release of stolen documents, a foreign government contacted the FBI about a May 2016 encounter with Trump Campaign foreign policy advisor George Papadopoulos. Papadopoulos had suggested to a representative of that foreign government that the Trump Campaign had received indications from the Russian government that it could assist the Campaign through the anonymous release of information damaging to Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton."
Volume 1, Page 1, third paragraph
if that's not collusion I'm not sure what is.
which would only matter if collusion were illegal.
trump has been spoon feeding that word to everyone since this began.
Not today Sir, Probably not tomorrow.............................................. bayfront arena st. pete '94
you're finally here and I'm a mess................................................... nationwide arena columbus '10
memories like fingerprints are slowly raising.................................... first niagara center buffalo '13
another man ..... moved by sleight of hand...................................... joe louis arena detroit '14
"In late July 2016, soon after Wikileaks's first release of stolen documents, a foreign government contacted the FBI about a May 2016 encounter with Trump Campaign foreign policy advisor George Papadopoulos. Papadopoulos had suggested to a representative of that foreign government that the Trump Campaign had received indications from the Russian government that it could assist the Campaign through the anonymous release of information damaging to Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton."
Volume 1, Page 1, third paragraph
if that's not collusion I'm not sure what is.
which would only matter if collusion were illegal.
trump has been spoon feeding that word to everyone since this began.
Correct. He manipulated the media by saying it over and over.
"In late July 2016, soon after Wikileaks's first release of stolen documents, a foreign government contacted the FBI about a May 2016 encounter with Trump Campaign foreign policy advisor George Papadopoulos. Papadopoulos had suggested to a representative of that foreign government that the Trump Campaign had received indications from the Russian government that it could assist the Campaign through the anonymous release of information damaging to Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton."
Volume 1, Page 1, third paragraph
if that's not collusion I'm not sure what is.
which would only matter if collusion were illegal.
trump has been spoon feeding that word to everyone since this began.
Correct. He manipulated the media by saying it over and over.
"The report describes actions and events that the Special Counsel's Office found to be supported by the evidence collected in our investigation. In some instances,
the report points out the absence of evidence or conflicts in the evidence about a particular fact or event.
In other
instances, when substantial, credible evidence
enabled the Office to reach a conclusion with confidence,
the report states that the investigation established
that
certain actions or events occurred. A statement that the investigation did not establish particular facts does not mean there was no evidence of those facts."
And you've heard a lot about "collusion." And as you know, "collusion" is not a crime. Here's How Bobby Three Sticks explained it in Volume 1, Page Two, Third full paragraph:
"In evaluating whether evidence about collective action of multiple individuals constituted
a crime, we applied the framework of conspiracy law, not the concept of"collusion." In so doing, the Office recognized that the word "collud[e]" was used
in communications with
the Acting Attorney General confirming certain
aspects of the investigation's scope and that the term has
frequently
been invoked in public reporting about the investigation. But collusion is not a specific
offense or theory of liability found in the United States Code, nor is it a term of art in federal criminal law. For those reasons, the Office's
focus in analyzing questions of joint criminal liability
was on conspiracy as defined in federal law. In connection with that analysis, we addressed
the factual question whether members of the Trump Campaign
"coordinat[ed]"-a term that appears
in the appointment order-with
Russian election interference activities. Like collusion, "coordination"does not have
a settled definition in federal criminal law. Weunderstood coordination to require an agreement-tacit or express-between the Trump
Campaign and the Russian government on election
interference.That requires more than the
two parties
taking actions that were informed by or responsive to the other's actions or interests.We applied the term coordination in that sense when stating in the report that the investigation did not establish that the Trump Campaign
coordinated with the Russian
government in its election interference activities."
So, while technically not in violation of the law, did the Founding Father's think of "high crimes and misdemeanors" as working with a foreign adversary to undermine your political opponent in an election for the highest office in the land or would they have been okay with that? Imagine if Jefferson were found to have "colluded" with the Brits to throw the election? Think the Congress would have looked the other way?
^ the democrats would be better served by putting obstruction and collusion on the back burner because trump will chop that argument off on the campaign trail by calling it a witch hunt..
The point of politics the dems dont understand is it's like chess. Understand your opponents move before you make yours. If trumps counterattack is predictable, simple and effective find a different path.
IMO the dems are better served investigating the stormy daniels bribe because it's a legitimate example of election cheating and a man actually sits in jail for assisting with THAT crime.
The next step would be to investigate the emoluments misconduct and then link the 2 by portraying trump as a dirty wealthy man who bribed his way out of election misconduct and profits off of the taxpayer dime.
^ the democrats would be better served by putting obstruction and collusion on the back burner because trump will chop that argument off on the campaign trail by calling it a witch hunt..
The point of politics the dems dont understand is it's like chess. Understand your opponents move before you make yours. If trumps counterattack is predictable, simple and effective find a different path.
IMO the dems are better served investigating the stormy daniels bribe because it's a legitimate example of election cheating and a man actually sits in jail for assisting with THAT crime.
The next step would be to investigate the emoluments misconduct and then link the 2 by portraying trump as a dirty wealthy man who bribed his way out of election misconduct and profits off of the taxpayer dime.
Stormy Daniels is on the table as are Pence's and the air force crews' stays at his properties and the G7 summit proposal. Its a long, twardy list the dems are laundering. All in due time. Tomorrow we'll begin to see the impeachment path. And obstruction will be a part of it as well, partucularly after Team Mueller testified that they didn't look at his finances. And they're not playing chess, they're playing politics. Don't underestimate Nancy Pelosi.
In Nancy I trust. Im not sure about the candidates. Warren is more strategic than I expected, so lots of credit there. But strategic with policies too far left isn't great though.
The thing to keep in mind is that there is no “double jeopardy” consideration as it relates to impeachment. Team Trump Treason gets impeached, acquitted by the senate and may still face charges upon leaving office, tax evasion, money laundering, bank fraud, etc.
"The Special Counsel structured the investigation in view of his power
and authority "to
exercise all investigative and prosecutorial functions of any United States Attorney." 28 C.F.R § 600.6. Like a U.S. Attorney's Office, the Special Counsel's Office considered a range of classified
and unclassified information
available to the FBI in the course of the Office's
Russia
investigation,
and the Office structured that work around
evidence for possible use in prosecutions
of federal crimes (assuming that one or more crimes were identified that warranted prosecution).
There was substantial evidence immediately available
to the Special Counsel at the inception
of the investigation in May 2017 because the
FBI had, by that time,
already investigated Russian election interference for nearly 10 months. The Special Counsel's Office exercised its judgment regarding what to investigate and did not, for instance, investigate every public report of a contact
between the Trump Campaign and Russian-affiliated
individuals and entities."
Seems there might be a few stones left to turn?
Volume 1, Page 12, Third full paragraph:
"The Office has concluded its investigation into links and coordination between the Russian government and individuals associated with the Trump Campaign. Certain proceedings associated with the Office's work remain ongoing. After consultation with the Office of the Deputy Attorney General, the Office has transferred responsibility for those remaining issues to other components
of the Department of Justice
and FBI. Appendix D lists those transfers."
Because social media couldn't have possibly influenced the outcome of the election, particularly in three key states where the margin of victory/defeat was approximately 88,000 votes. Why else would Paulie Manaforte share polling data with his Russian handler?
From pages 14 and 15 of the Team Mueller Report, last full paragraph and sentences at bottom of page 14 and all of page 15, except footnotes 2 through 5 and 7 through 12 (notice how the redactions are HOM and the information contained in footnote 6; the big blank space is redacted information and is how it appears after posting):
IRA employees posted derogatory
information about a number of candidates in the 2016
U.S. presidential election.
By early to mid-2016, IRA operations included supporting the Trump Campaign and disparaging candidate Hillary Clinton. The IRA made various expenditures to carry out those activities, including buying political advertisements on social media in the names of U.S. persons and entities.
Some IRA employees, posing as U.S. persons and without revealing their
Russian association,communicated electronically with individuals associated with the Trump
Campaign and with other political activists to seek to coordinate political activities, including the staging of political rallies.5 The investigation did not identify evidence that any U.S. persons knowingly or intentionally coordinated
with the IRA's interference operation.
"By the end
of the 2016 U.S.
election, the IRA had
the ability to reach millions of U.S. persons through
their social media accounts. Multiple IRA-controlled Facebook groups and Instagram accounts had hundreds
of thousands of U.S.
participants. IRA-controlled Twitter
accounts separately had tens of thousands of followers, including multiple
U.S. political figures who retweeted
IRA-created content. In November 2017, a Facebook representative testified that Facebook had identified 470 IRA-controlled Facebook accounts that collectively made 80,000
posts between January
2015 and August 2017. Facebook estimated the IRA reached as many as
126 million
persons through its Facebook accounts.6 In January
2018, Twitter announced that it
had identified
3,814 IRA-controlled Twitter accounts and notified
approximately
1.4 million
people Twitter believed may have been in contact with an iRA-controlled account. 7
A. Structure of the Internet Research Agency
6 Social Media Influence in the 2016 US. Election, Hearing Before the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, 115th Cong. 13 (11/1/17) (testimony of Colin Stretch, General
Counsel of Facebook) ("We estimate that roughly 29 million people were served content in their News Feeds directly from the IRA 's 80,000 posts over the two years. Posts from these Pages were also shared, liked, and followed
by people on Facebook, and, as a result, three times more people may have been exposed to a story that originated from the Russian
operation. Our best estimate
is that approximately 126
million people may have been served content from a Page associated with the IRA at some point during the two-year period."). The Facebook
representative
also testified
that Facebook had identified 170 Instagram accounts that posted approximately 120,000 pieces of content during that time.
Facebook did not offer an estimate of the audience
reached via Instagram."
thats a question I have, can the polling data shared be cross referenced with those posts to determine definitively if any of those in the polling group were targeted.
I have no evidence but supposition but I would say its more than probable that that did in fact occur.
Not today Sir, Probably not tomorrow.............................................. bayfront arena st. pete '94
you're finally here and I'm a mess................................................... nationwide arena columbus '10
memories like fingerprints are slowly raising.................................... first niagara center buffalo '13
another man ..... moved by sleight of hand...................................... joe louis arena detroit '14
thats a question I have, can the polling data shared be cross referenced with those posts to determine definitively if any of those in the polling group were targeted.
I have no evidence but supposition but I would say its more than probable that that did in fact occur.
In light of Lewandowski's obstructionist testimony before the house Judiciary Committee yesterday, from the Team Mueller Report, Volume I, page 89:
e. Russia-Related
Communications With The Campaign
While he was discussing with his foreign
contacts a potential meeting of campaign officials with Russian government officials, Papadopoulos kept campaign officials apprised
of his efforts.
On April25, 2016, the day before Mifsud
told Papadopoulos about the emails, Papadopoulos wrote
to senior policy advisor
Stephen Miller that "[t]he Russian
government has an open invitation by Putin for Mr. Trump to meet him when he is ready,"
and that "[t]he advantage of being in London is that these governments tend to speak a bit more openly in 'neutral'
cities."466 On April 27, 2016, after his meeting with Mifsud, Papadopoulos wrote a second message to Miller stating that "some interesting messages [were] coming in from Moscow about a trip when the time is
right."467 The
same day, Papadopoulos sent a similar
email to campaign manager Corey Lewandowski, telling
Lewandowski that Papadopoulos had "been receiving a lot of calls over the last month about Putin wanting to host [Trump] and the team when the time is right."468
Papadopoulos's Russia-related communications with Campaign officials
continued throughout the spring and summer of 2016. On May 4, 2016, he forwarded to Lewandowski an email from
Timofeev
raising
the
possibility of a meeting in Moscow, asking Lewandowski whether that was "something we want to move forward with."469The next day, Papadopoulos forwarded
the same
Timofeev email to Sam Clovis, adding
to the top
of the email "Russia update."470He included the same email in a May 21, 2016 message to senior Campaign official
Paul Manafort, under the subject line "Request from Russia to meet Mr. Trump," stating that "Russia has been eager to meet Mr. Trump for quite sometime and have been reaching
out to me
463 Papadopoulos Statement of Offense14; 4/25/16 Text Messages, Mifsud & Papadopoulos.
464 Papadopoulos Statement of Offense14.
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foreign government conveyed this information to the U.S. government
on July 26,
2016, a few days after WikiLeaks's release of Clinton-related emails. The FBI opened its investigation of
potential coordination
between Russia and the Trump Campaign a few days later based on the information.
466 4/25/16 Email, Papadopoulos
to S. Miller (8:12:44 p.m.).
467 4/27/16 Email, Papadopoulos to S. Miller (6:55:58 p.m.).
468 4/27/16 Email, Papadopoulos to Lewandowski
(7:15:14 p.m.).
469 5/4/16 Email, Papadopoulos to Lewandowski
(8:14:49 a.m.).
470 5/5/16 Email, Papadopoulos to Clovis (7:15:21
p.m.).
And Team Trump Treason didn't know a thing and it never went anywhere. Interesting how the DNI's Acting Director is refusing to hand over whistle-blower information to the Congress from their IG, who ruled it has merit, in violation of the law. If Team Trump Treason, "didn't do anything wrong" as Lewandowski testified yesterday, why the obstructionist testimony but more importantly, why is the Acting Director of the DNI not handing over whistle-blower information? Sig-Int? Team Trump Treason recorded speaking to Kislyac? It really is amazing. Impeachment by a thousand drips. June is looking like a great month.
Oh, and the repubs spouted off about how the IG in the Comey investigation should be followed up on. Has Comey been indicted? Or did I hear he wouldn't be? Funny those repubs.
"In late July 2016, soon after Wikileaks's first release of stolen documents, a foreign government contacted the FBI about a May 2016 encounter with Trump Campaign foreign policy advisor George Papadopoulos. Papadopoulos had suggested to a representative of that foreign government that the Trump Campaign had received indications from the Russian government that it could assist the Campaign through the anonymous release of information damaging to Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton."
Volume 1, Page 1, third paragraph
if that's not collusion I'm not sure what is.
which would only matter if collusion were illegal.
trump has been spoon feeding that word to everyone since this began.
no, but I'm guessing a whole lotta swing votes wouldn't tolerate him getting help from Russia to get elected.
I found a copy of the Washington Post Mueller Report in book form today at a thrift store. I thought for interest's sake I might either read the whole report or count how many nap ends there are in a 10 by 10 foot piece of carpeting.
vs.
I'll get back to y'all when I'm done counting.
“The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man [or woman] who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.”
From Volume I, page 25 of the Team Mueller Report, first 4 full paragraphs (pages 16 through 24 are heavily redacted):
Throughout 2016, IRA accounts published
an increasing number of materials supporting
the Trump Campaign and opposing
the Clinton
Campaign. For example, on May 31, 2016, the operational account "Matt Skiber" began to privately message dozens of pro-Trump Facebook groups
asking them to help plan a "pro-Trump rally near Trump Tower."55
To reach larger U.S. audiences,
the IRA purchased advertisements from Facebook
that promoted the IRA groups on the newsfeeds of U.S. audience
members. According to Facebook, the IRA purchased over 3,500 advertisements, and the expenditures totaled approximately $100,000.56
During the U.S. presidential campaign, many IRA-purchased advertisements explicitly supported or opposed
a presidential candidate or promoted U.S. rallies organized by the IRA (discussed below).
As early
as March 2016,the IRA purchased advertisements that
overtly opposed the Clinton
Campaign. For example, on March 18, 2016, the IRA purchased an advertisement depicting candidate Clinton and a caption
that read in part, "If one day God letsthis liar enter the White House as a president -that day would be a real national tragedy."57
Similarly,
on April 6, 2016, the IRA purchased advertisements for its account "Black Matters" calling for a "flashmob" of U.S. persons to "take a photo
with #HillaryClintonForPrison2016 or #nohillary2016."58 IRA-purchased advertisements featuring Clinton were, with very few exceptions, negative.59
IRA-purchased
advertisements referencing candidate Trump
largely supported his campaign. The first
known IRA advertisement explicitly endorsing the Trump Campaign
was purchased on April 19, 2016. The IRA bought an advertisement for its Instagram account "Tea
Party News"
asking U.S. persons to help them "make a patriotic team of young Trump supporters"
by uploading photos with the hashtag "#KIDS4TRUMP."60In subsequent months, the IRA purchased dozens
of advertisements supporting the Trump Campaign,
predominantly through the Facebook groups "Being Patriotic,""Stop All Invaders," and "Secured Borders."
Yea, sure, there was no collusion. And about that black vote that didn't come out in as nearly the same numbers as when Obama ran (duh) in 2008 and 2012? Nah, social media played no roll in increasing turnout and/or suppressing turnout. All a myth, perpetrated by the Chinese, I suppose? See what 100 Gs and a PTape will get you?
From Volume I, Page 26 of the Team Mueller Report (only wholly non-redacted paragraph on the page):
"Collectively, the IRA's social
media
accounts reached
tens of millions
of U.S. persons.Individual IRA social media accounts attracted hundreds of thousandsof followers.
For example, at the time
they
were
deactivated by Facebook in mid-2017, the IRA's "United Muslims of America"
Facebook group had over 300,000 followers, the "Don't Shoot Us"
Facebook group had over
250,000followers, the "Being Patriotic" Facebook group had
over 200,000 followers, and the "Secured Borders" Facebook group had over 130,000 followers.61 According
to Facebook, in total the IRA-controlled accounts made over 80,000 posts before their deactivation in August 2017, and these posts reached at least 29 million U.S persons and "may
have reached an
estimated 126 million people."62"
Interestingly, 880,000 potential voters (of course we'll never know if every Faceturd group follower was of voting age, a registered voter and voted or not) of the Faceturd group followers mentioned above, divided into the number of votes that threw three key states, 88,000, is 10%. So all putin on the ritz needed was 10% of a small group of engaged citizenry to throw an election. Divide the larger numbers that are estimated to be reached and it becomes 3 1/1000ths and 6/10,000ths, respectively (if I did my math correctly, I was never good with math and may still not be). And golly gee willakers, all done without ANY collusion. 10 HOMs on the page, inclusive of footnotes.
From the Team Mueller Report, Volume II (the section that deals with obstruction of justice and contains the least number of redactions), Page 71, first full paragraph and part of the next:
In the morning
on May 10, 2017,
President Trump met with Russian Foreign Minister
Sergey Lavrov and Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak in the Oval Office.468 The media subsequently reported that
during the May
l 0 meeting the President
brought
up his decision
the prior
day to terminate Corney,
telling Lavrov and Kislyak: "T just fired
the head of the F.B.I. He was crazy, a real nut job. I faced great pressure because
of Russia. That's
taken off. . .. I'm not under
investigation.'>469The President never denied making
those statements,
and the White House did not
dispute the account, instead
issuing a statement that said: "By
grandstanding and politicizing the investigation
into Russia's actions, James Corney created unnecessary pressure on our ability
to engage and negotiate with Russia. The
investigation would have always
continued,
and obviously, the termination
of Corney would not have ended it. Once again,
the real story is
that our national security has been undermined by the leaking
of private and highly
classified
information."470 Hicks said that when she told the President
about the reports on his meeting
with Lavrov, he did not look concerned and said of Corney, "he is crazy."471 When McGahn asked
the President about his comments to Lavrov, the President
said
it was good
that
Corney
was fired because that took the pressure off by making it clear that he was not under investigation so he could get more work done.472
That same morning, on May I 0, 2017, the President called McCabe.473 According to a memorandum McCabe wrote
following the call, the President
asked McCabe to come over to the White House
to discuss whether the President should visit FBI headquarters and make a speech to
The question now becomes whether all transcripts, recordings, notes, etc. of these two crucial meetings and conversations were handed over to Team Mueller during the Team Mueller investigation or whether, like The Ukraine telephone call, were squirreled away on the password protected secret server. If so, another instance of obstruction of justice but more importantly, what was said, by whom and was there a quid pro quo like The Ukraine telephone call? Or were they "perfect phone calls" and if so, why commit an illegal act by "classifying" and hiding them?
Gee, faux news and the repub senate confirming what was obvious in the Team Mueller Report. But yo! You know social media has no effect on election outcomes.
From Volume I, Page 36 of the Team Mueller Report:
Ill. RUSSIAN HACKING AND DUMPING OPERATIONS
Beginning in March 2016, units of the Russian Federation's Main Intelligence Directorate of the General Staff (GRU) hacked the computers and email accounts of organizations, employees,
and volunteers supporting the Clinton Campaign,
including the email account of campaign chairman John Podesta. Starting in April 2016,
the GRU hacked into the computer networks of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC) and
the
Democratic National Committee (DNC). The GRU targeted hundreds of email accounts used by Clinton Campaign employees, advisors, and volunteers. In total, the GRU stole hundreds of thousands of documents from the compromised
email accounts
and networks.109 The GRU later released
stolen Clinton Campaign and DNC documents through online personas, "DCLeaks"
and "Guccifer 2.0," and later
through the organization WikiLeaks. The release of the documents was designed and timed to interfere with the 2016 U.S. presidential election
and undermine the Clinton Campaign.
The next paragraph is heavily redacted and because of formatting issues, won't display properly like it does in the Team Mueller Report. I've typed it verbatim, indicating the redactions and their reason below:
"The Trump Campaign showed interest in the WikiLeaks release and, in the summer and fall of 2016, (HOM). After (HOM) WikiLeaks's first Clinton-related release (HOM), the Trump Campaign stayed in contact (HOM) about WikiLeaks's activities. The investigation was unable to resolve (HOM) WikiLeaks's release of the stolen Podesta emails on October 7,2016, the same day a video from years earlier was published of Trump using graphic language about women." (bold is my own)
Team Mueller was "unable to resolve." What? 5 HOMs in one paragraph regarding a very key event in the whole impeachable offense. Further, Harm to Ongoing Matter may relate to Rodger Dodger Stoned and his upcoming trial or it may involve others, like Jared Dear Boy and Donny Jr. CYA Barr put the kabosh on Team Mueller and the dems in Congress need to follow up and inform the American people of what happened and who was involved. In light of "Russia if you're listening," what we now know of The Ukraine and the Whistleblower and the arrests of Ruddy Ghouliani's goons, who were funneling foreign campaign contributions in the lead up to the election. It would be irresponsible of both political parties not to do so. But you know, go RED team.
From Page 69 of the Team Mueller Report. Team Trump Treason announced his candidacy in June 2015. "I don't know any Russians."
b.Communications
with
LC.
Expert
Investment
Company
and Giorgi Rtskhiladze
(Summer and Fall 2015)
In the late summer of 2015,
the Trump Organization received a new inquiry about pursuing a Trump Tower project
in Moscow. In approximately September 2015, Felix Sater, a New York
based real estate
advisor, contacted Michael
Cohen, then-executive vice
president of the Trump Organization and special counsel
to Donald J. Trump.304 Sater had previously worked with the Trump Organization and advised it on a number of domestic and international projects. Sater had explored the possibility of a Trump Tower project in Moscow
while working with
the Trump Organization and therefore knew of the organization's general interest in completing a deal there.305 Sater had also served as an informal agent of the Trump Organization in Moscow previously
and had accompanied Ivanka Trump and Donald
Trump Jr. to Moscow in the mid-2000s.306
Sater contacted Cohen on behalf
of I.C. Expert Investment Company
(l.C.
Expert), a Russian real-estate development corporation controlled by Andrei Vladimirovich Rozov.307 Sater had known Rozov since approximately 2007 and, in 2014, had served as an agent on behalf of Rozov during
Rozov's purchase of a building in New York City.308 Sater later contacted Rozov and proposed that I.C. Expert pursue
a Trump Tower Moscow project
in which I.C. Expert would license the name and brand from the Trump Organization
but construct
the building on its own. Sater worked on the deal with Rozov and another employee of I.C. Expert.309
Cohen was the only Trump Organization representative to negotiate directly with I.C. Expert or its agents. In approximately September 2015,
Cohen obtained approval
to negotiate with I.C. Expert from candidate Trump, who was then president of the Trump Organization. Cohen provided updates directly to Trump about the project throughout 2015 and into 2016, assuring him the project was continuing.310 Cohen also discussed the Trump Moscow project with Ivanka Trump as to design
elements (such as possible architects to use for the project
31 1) and Donald J. Trump Jr.
(about his experience in Moscow and possible involvement in the project 31 2) during the fall of 2015. ·
Sater provided information to our Office
in two 2017 interviews conducted under a proffer agreement.
306 Sater9/19/17 302, at 1-2, 5.
307 Sater 9/19/17 302, at 3.
308 Rozov 1/25/18 302, at 1.
309 Rozov 1/25/18 302, at 1; see also 11/2/15 Email, Cohen to Rozov et al. (sending J
etter of intent).
31° Cohen 9/12/18 302, at 1-2,4-6.
311 Cohen 9/12/18 302, at 5.
3 12 Cohen 9/12/18 302, at4-5.
Sure, Team Trump Treason didn't know any of this was going on. Sure. There are two redactions for Grand Jury at the Sater proffer agreement citation.
In light of today's court ruling, and for those who may not have read the Team Mueller Report, and if I did my math correctly, there are 360 redactions, all but 11 in Volume I, in the Team Mueller Report, 63% of the total, for "Grand Jury" reasons. From page 13 of the Team Mueller Report, Volume II (Bold is my own and there's, surprise, a redaction between the words "interviewed" and "During" in the first paragraph to the second):
We also sought a voluntary interview with the President. After more than a year of discussions, the President
declined to be interviewed.
During the course of our discussions, the president did agree to answer our written
questions
on
certain Russia-related
topics, and he provided
us with answers. He did not similarly agree to provide
written answers to questions on obstruction topics
or questions on events during the transition. Ultimately, while we believed
that we had the authority
and legal justification to issue a grand jury subpoena to obtain the President's testimony,
we chose not to do so. We made that decision
in view of the substantial
delay that such
an investigative step would
likely produce at a late stage in our investigation.
We also assessed
that based on the significant body of evidence we had already obtained of the President 's actions and his public and private statements describing or explaining those actions, we had sufficient evidence to understand relevant events
and to m
ake certain assessments with
out the President's testimony. The Office's decision-making process on this issue is described in more detail in Append ix C, infra, in a note that precedes the President's written responses.
In assessing the evidence we obtained, we relied on common
principles that apply in any investigation.
The issue
of criminal intent is often inferred
from
circumstantial evidence. See,
e.g., United States v. Croteau,
819 F.3d 1293, 1
305 (IIth
Cir. 2016) ("[G]uilty knowledge can
rarely be established by direct evidence....
Therefore, mens rea elements such as knowledge or
intent may be proved by circumstantial evidence.") (internal quotation marks omitted); United States v. Robinson, 702 F.3d 22, 36 (2d Cir. 2012) ("The government's case rested on
circumstantial evidence, but the mens rea elements of knowledge and intent can often be proved
through circumstantial
evidence and the reasonable inferences drawn therefrom.")
(internal
quotation marks omitted). The
principle that
intent can be inferred from
circumstantial evidence is a necessity in criminal cases, given the right of a subject
to assert his privilege against compelled
self-incrimination under the Fifth Amendment
and therefore decline to testify.
Accordingly, determinations
on intent are frequently reached without the opportunity to interview an investigatory subject.
But yea, lets discuss fruit from the poisonous tree. Redactions, redactions, what's your factsion? See, boys and girls? Connecting dots is fun, fun, fun! Nancy likes connecting dots. Adam Shiff likes connecting dots? Devin Nunca? Not so much. NOTE: Edited to reflect the number of "Grand Jury" redactions, 360 out of a total of 569.
Somebody is not afraid to speak up and out. And take questions. I'm sure he's looking over his shoulder waiting for that indictment to drop. PTape details.
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There are 9 total redactions in the 5 page Table of Contents of Volume 1, 7 for Harm to Ongoing Matter (HOM) and 2 for Personal Privacy (PP).
There are 231 total redactions in pages 1-45, inclusive of footnotes, with 1 page being fully redacted for HOM. 155 HOM, 31 PP redactions and 45 redactions for Investigative Technique (IT). That's approximately 5.13 redactions per page.
The members of the House and Senate Intelligence and Judiciary Committees know more than what has been publicly released, yes? Many of the HOM redactions either relate to the indicted Russian intelligence officers or Roger Dodger Stoned and Wikileaks, me thinks. If the former, its useless as they'll never see the inside of the courtroom. If its the latter, look for some November surprises when Roger Dodger Stoned's trial starts (I wonder how the home arrest and social media ban is treating him?). And to think CYA Barr surmised and fully exonerated Team Trump Treason in 4 pages ( a hundredth of the Team Mueller Report)?
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https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-ukraine-2020-election-house-committee-impeachment-a9098126.html
Because Team Trump Treason is always doing the opposite of what he says, yo!
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"The report describes actions and events that the Special Counsel's Office found to be supported by the evidence collected in our investigation. In some instances, the report points out the absence of evidence or conflicts in the evidence about a particular fact or event. In other instances, when substantial, credible evidence enabled the Office to reach a conclusion with confidence, the report states that the investigation established that certain actions or events occurred. A statement that the investigation did not establish particular facts does not mean there was no evidence of those facts."
And you've heard a lot about "collusion." And as you know, "collusion" is not a crime. Here's How Bobby Three Sticks explained it in Volume 1, Page Two, Third full paragraph:
"In evaluating whether evidence about collective action of multiple individuals constituted a crime, we applied the framework of conspiracy law, not the concept of"collusion." In so doing, the Office recognized that the word "collud[e]" was used in communications with the Acting Attorney General confirming certain aspects of the investigation's scope and that the term has frequently been invoked in public reporting about the investigation. But collusion is not a specific offense or theory of liability found in the United States Code, nor is it a term of art in federal criminal law. For those reasons, the Office's focus in analyzing questions of joint criminal liability was on conspiracy as defined in federal law. In connection with that analysis, we addressed the factual question whether members of the Trump Campaign "coordinat[ed]"- a term that appears in the appointment order-with Russian election interference activities. Like collusion, "coordination" does not have a settled definition in federal criminal law. We understood coordination to require an agreement-tacit or express-between the Trump Campaign and the Russian government on election interference. That requires more than the two parties taking actions that were informed by or responsive to the other's actions or interests. We applied the term coordination in that sense when stating in the report that the investigation did not establish that the Trump Campaign coordinated with the Russian government in its election interference activities."
So, while technically not in violation of the law, did the Founding Father's think of "high crimes and misdemeanors" as working with a foreign adversary to undermine your political opponent in an election for the highest office in the land or would they have been okay with that? Imagine if Jefferson were found to have "colluded" with the Brits to throw the election? Think the Congress would have looked the other way?Libtardaplorable©. And proud of it.
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The point of politics the dems dont understand is it's like chess. Understand your opponents move before you make yours. If trumps counterattack is predictable, simple and effective find a different path.
IMO the dems are better served investigating the stormy daniels bribe because it's a legitimate example of election cheating and a man actually sits in jail for assisting with THAT crime.
The next step would be to investigate the emoluments misconduct and then link the 2 by portraying trump as a dirty wealthy man who bribed his way out of election misconduct and profits off of the taxpayer dime.
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Warren is more strategic than I expected, so lots of credit there. But strategic with policies too far left isn't great though.
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"The Special Counsel structured the investigation in view of his power and authority "to exercise all investigative and prosecutorial functions of any United States Attorney." 28 C.F.R § 600.6. Like a U.S. Attorney's Office, the Special Counsel's Office considered a range of classified and unclassified information available to the FBI in the course of the Office's Russia investigation, and the Office structured that work around evidence for possible use in prosecutions of federal crimes (assuming that one or more crimes were identified that warranted prosecution). There was substantial evidence immediately available to the Special Counsel at the inception of the investigation in May 2017 because the FBI had, by that time, already investigated Russian election interference for nearly 10 months. The Special Counsel's Office exercised its judgment regarding what to investigate and did not, for instance, investigate every public report of a contact between the Trump Campaign and Russian-affiliated individuals and entities."
Seems there might be a few stones left to turn?Volume 1, Page 12, Third full paragraph:
"The Office has concluded its investigation into links and coordination between the Russian government and individuals associated with the Trump Campaign. Certain proceedings associated with the Office's work remain ongoing. After consultation with the Office of the Deputy Attorney General, the Office has transferred responsibility for those remaining issues to other components of the Department of Justice and FBI. Appendix D lists those transfers."
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From pages 14 and 15 of the Team Mueller Report, last full paragraph and sentences at bottom of page 14 and all of page 15, except footnotes 2 through 5 and 7 through 12 (notice how the redactions are HOM and the information contained in footnote 6; the big blank space is redacted information and is how it appears after posting):
IRA employees posted derogatory information about a number of candidates in the 2016
U.S. presidential election. By early to mid-2016, IRA operations included supporting the Trump Campaign and disparaging candidate Hillary Clinton. The IRA made various expenditures to carry out those activities, including buying political advertisements on social media in the names of U.S. persons and entities. Some IRA employees, posing as U.S. persons and without revealing their Russian association, communicated electronically with individuals associated with the Trump Campaign and with other political activists to seek to coordinate political activities, including the staging of political rallies.5 The investigation did not identify evidence that any U.S. persons knowingly or intentionally coordinated with the IRA's interference operation.
"By the end of the 2016 U.S. election, the IRA had the ability to reach millions of U.S. persons through their social media accounts. Multiple IRA-controlled Facebook groups and Instagram accounts had hundreds of thousands of U.S. participants. IRA-controlled Twitter accounts separately had tens of thousands of followers, including multiple U.S. political figures who retweeted IRA-created content. In November 2017, a Facebook representative testified that Facebook had identified 470 IRA-controlled Facebook accounts that collectively made 80,000 posts between January 2015 and August 2017. Facebook estimated the IRA reached as many as
126 million persons through its Facebook accounts.6 In January 2018, Twitter announced that it
had identified 3,814 IRA-controlled Twitter accounts and notified approximately 1.4 million people Twitter believed may have been in contact with an iRA-controlled account. 7
A. Structure of the Internet Research Agency
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“There was no collusion.”
“I don’t know any Russians.”
“I have nothing to hide.”
“I’ll sit down and talk to anyone.”
“We do everything by the book.”
“Only the guilty plea the fifth.”
“Very legal, very cool.”
“Fully exonerated.”
“Essentially no obstruction.”
Follow the damn money, from Russia with love and a PTape, all the way to impeachment.
Can you say, "complicity?"
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e. Russia-Related Communications With The Campaign
While he was discussing with his foreign contacts a potential meeting of campaign officials with Russian government officials, Papadopoulos kept campaign officials apprised of his efforts. On April25, 2016, the day before Mifsud told Papadopoulos about the emails, Papadopoulos wrote to senior policy advisor Stephen Miller that "[t]he Russian government has an open invitation by Putin for Mr. Trump to meet him when he is ready," and that "[t]he advantage of being in London is that these governments tend to speak a bit more openly in 'neutral' cities."466 On April 27, 2016, after his meeting with Mifsud, Papadopoulos wrote a second message to Miller stating that "some interesting messages [were] coming in from Moscow about a trip when the time is right."467 The same day, Papadopoulos sent a similar email to campaign manager Corey Lewandowski, telling Lewandowski that Papadopoulos had "been receiving a lot of calls over the last month about Putin wanting to host [Trump] and the team when the time is right."468
Papadopoulos's Russia-related communications with Campaign officials continued throughout the spring and summer of 2016. On May 4, 2016, he forwarded to Lewandowski an email from Timofeev raising the possibility of a meeting in Moscow, asking Lewandowski whether that was "something we want to move forward with."469 The next day, Papadopoulos forwarded the same Timofeev email to Sam Clovis, adding to the top of the email "Russia update."470 He included the same email in a May 21, 2016 message to senior Campaign official Paul Manafort, under the subject line "Request from Russia to meet Mr. Trump," stating that "Russia has been eager to meet Mr. Trump for quite sometime and have been reaching out to me
463 Papadopoulos Statement of Offense14; 4/25/16 Text Messages, Mifsud & Papadopoulos.
464 Papadopoulos Statement of Offense14.
465 This information is contained in the FBI case-opening document and related materials. q:fte
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6issemittatiefl. The foreign government conveyed this information to the U.S. government on July 26,
2016, a few days after WikiLeaks's release of Clinton-related emails. The FBI opened its investigation of potential coordination between Russia and the Trump Campaign a few days later based on the information.
466 4/25/16 Email, Papadopoulos to S. Miller (8:12:44 p.m.).
467 4/27/16 Email, Papadopoulos to S. Miller (6:55:58 p.m.).
468 4/27/16 Email, Papadopoulos to Lewandowski (7:15:14 p.m.).
469 5/4/16 Email, Papadopoulos to Lewandowski (8:14:49 a.m.).
470 5/5/16 Email, Papadopoulos to Clovis (7:15:21 p.m.).
And Team Trump Treason didn't know a thing and it never went anywhere. Interesting how the DNI's Acting Director is refusing to hand over whistle-blower information to the Congress from their IG, who ruled it has merit, in violation of the law. If Team Trump Treason, "didn't do anything wrong" as Lewandowski testified yesterday, why the obstructionist testimony but more importantly, why is the Acting Director of the DNI not handing over whistle-blower information? Sig-Int? Team Trump Treason recorded speaking to Kislyac? It really is amazing. Impeachment by a thousand drips. June is looking like a great month.Oh, and the repubs spouted off about how the IG in the Comey investigation should be followed up on. Has Comey been indicted? Or did I hear he wouldn't be? Funny those repubs.
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Throughout 2016, IRA accounts published an increasing number of materials supporting the Trump Campaign and opposing the Clinton Campaign. For example, on May 31, 2016, the operational account "Matt Skiber" began to privately message dozens of pro-Trump Facebook groups asking them to help plan a "pro-Trump rally near Trump Tower."55
To reach larger U.S. audiences, the IRA purchased advertisements from Facebook that promoted the IRA groups on the newsfeeds of U.S. audience members. According to Facebook, the IRA purchased over 3,500 advertisements, and the expenditures totaled approximately $100,000.56
During the U.S. presidential campaign, many IRA-purchased advertisements explicitly supported or opposed a presidential candidate or promoted U.S. rallies organized by the IRA (discussed below). As early as March 2016, the IRA purchased advertisements that overtly opposed the Clinton Campaign. For example, on March 18, 2016, the IRA purchased an advertisement depicting candidate Clinton and a caption that read in part, "If one day God letsthis liar enter the White House as a president -that day would be a real national tragedy."57
Similarly, on April 6, 2016, the IRA purchased advertisements for its account "Black Matters" calling for a "flashmob" of U.S. persons to "take a photo with #HillaryClintonForPrison2016 or #nohillary2016."58 IRA-purchased advertisements featuring Clinton were, with very few exceptions, negative.59
IRA-purchased advertisements referencing candidate Trump largely supported his campaign. The first known IRA advertisement explicitly endorsing the Trump Campaign was purchased on April 19, 2016. The IRA bought an advertisement for its Instagram account "Tea Party News" asking U.S. persons to help them "make a patriotic team of young Trump supporters" by uploading photos with the hashtag "#KIDS4TRUMP."60 In subsequent months, the IRA purchased dozens of advertisements supporting the Trump Campaign, predominantly through the Facebook groups "Being Patriotic,""Stop All Invaders," and "Secured Borders."
Yea, sure, there was no collusion. And about that black vote that didn't come out in as nearly the same numbers as when Obama ran (duh) in 2008 and 2012? Nah, social media played no roll in increasing turnout and/or suppressing turnout. All a myth, perpetrated by the Chinese, I suppose? See what 100 Gs and a PTape will get you?Libtardaplorable©. And proud of it.
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"Collectively, the IRA's social media accounts reached tens of millions of U.S. persons. Individual IRA social media accounts attracted hundreds of thousands of followers. For example, at the time they were deactivated by Facebook in mid-2017, the IRA's "United Muslims of America" Facebook group had over 300,000 followers, the "Don't Shoot Us" Facebook group had over 250,000 followers, the "Being Patriotic" Facebook group had over 200,000 followers, and the "Secured Borders" Facebook group had over 130,000 followers.61 According to Facebook, in total the IRA-controlled accounts made over 80,000 posts before their deactivation in August 2017, and these posts reached at least 29 million U.S persons and "may have reached an estimated 126 million people."62"
Interestingly, 880,000 potential voters (of course we'll never know if every Faceturd group follower was of voting age, a registered voter and voted or not) of the Faceturd group followers mentioned above, divided into the number of votes that threw three key states, 88,000, is 10%. So all putin on the ritz needed was 10% of a small group of engaged citizenry to throw an election. Divide the larger numbers that are estimated to be reached and it becomes 3 1/1000ths and 6/10,000ths, respectively (if I did my math correctly, I was never good with math and may still not be). And golly gee willakers, all done without ANY collusion. 10 HOMs on the page, inclusive of footnotes.
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In the morning on May 10, 2017, President Trump met with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak in the Oval Office.468 The media subsequently reported that during the May l 0 meeting the President brought up his decision the prior day to terminate Corney, telling Lavrov and Kislyak: "T just fired the head of the F.B.I. He was crazy, a real nut job. I faced great pressure because of Russia. That's taken off. . .. I'm not under investigation.'>469 The President never denied making those statements, and the White House did not dispute the account, instead issuing a statement that said: "By grandstanding and politicizing the investigation into Russia's actions, James Corney created unnecessary pressure on our ability to engage and negotiate with Russia. The investigation would have always continued, and obviously, the termination of Corney would not have ended it. Once again, the real story is that our national security has been undermined by the leaking of private and highly classified information."470 Hicks said that when she told the President about the reports on his meeting with Lavrov, he did not look concerned and said of Corney, "he is crazy."471 When McGahn asked the President about his comments to Lavrov, the President said it was good that Corney was fired because that took the pressure off by making it clear that he was not under investigation so he could get more work done.472
That same morning, on May I 0, 2017, the President called McCabe.473 According to a memorandum McCabe wrote following the call, the President asked McCabe to come over to the White House to discuss whether the President should visit FBI headquarters and make a speech to
The question now becomes whether all transcripts, recordings, notes, etc. of these two crucial meetings and conversations were handed over to Team Mueller during the Team Mueller investigation or whether, like The Ukraine telephone call, were squirreled away on the password protected secret server. If so, another instance of obstruction of justice but more importantly, what was said, by whom and was there a quid pro quo like The Ukraine telephone call? Or were they "perfect phone calls" and if so, why commit an illegal act by "classifying" and hiding them?Libtardaplorable©. And proud of it.
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Ill. RUSSIAN HACKING AND DUMPING OPERATIONS
Beginning in March 2016, units of the Russian Federation's Main Intelligence Directorate of the General Staff (GRU) hacked the computers and email accounts of organizations, employees, and volunteers supporting the Clinton Campaign, including the email account of campaign chairman John Podesta. Starting in April 2016, the GRU hacked into the computer networks of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC) and the Democratic National Committee (DNC). The GRU targeted hundreds of email accounts used by Clinton Campaign employees, advisors, and volunteers. In total, the GRU stole hundreds of thousands of documents from the compromised email accounts and networks.109 The GRU later released stolen Clinton Campaign and DNC documents through online personas, "DCLeaks" and "Guccifer 2.0," and later through the organization WikiLeaks. The release of the documents was designed and timed to interfere with the 2016 U.S. presidential election and undermine the Clinton Campaign.
The next paragraph is heavily redacted and because of formatting issues, won't display properly like it does in the Team Mueller Report. I've typed it verbatim, indicating the redactions and their reason below:
"The Trump Campaign showed interest in the WikiLeaks release and, in the summer and fall of 2016, (HOM). After (HOM) WikiLeaks's first Clinton-related release (HOM), the Trump Campaign stayed in contact (HOM) about WikiLeaks's activities. The investigation was unable to resolve (HOM) WikiLeaks's release of the stolen Podesta emails on October 7,2016, the same day a video from years earlier was published of Trump using graphic language about women." (bold is my own)
Team Mueller was "unable to resolve." What? 5 HOMs in one paragraph regarding a very key event in the whole impeachable offense. Further, Harm to Ongoing Matter may relate to Rodger Dodger Stoned and his upcoming trial or it may involve others, like Jared Dear Boy and Donny Jr. CYA Barr put the kabosh on Team Mueller and the dems in Congress need to follow up and inform the American people of what happened and who was involved. In light of "Russia if you're listening," what we now know of The Ukraine and the Whistleblower and the arrests of Ruddy Ghouliani's goons, who were funneling foreign campaign contributions in the lead up to the election. It would be irresponsible of both political parties not to do so. But you know, go RED team.
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b. Communications with LC. Expert Investment Company and Giorgi Rtskhiladze (Summer and Fall 2015)
In the late summer of 2015, the Trump Organization received a new inquiry about pursuing a Trump Tower project in Moscow. In approximately September 2015, Felix Sater, a New York based real estate advisor, contacted Michael Cohen, then-executive vice president of the Trump Organization and special counsel to Donald J. Trump.304 Sater had previously worked with the Trump Organization and advised it on a number of domestic and international projects. Sater had explored the possibility of a Trump Tower project in Moscow while working with the Trump Organization and therefore knew of the organization's general interest in completing a deal there.305 Sater had also served as an informal agent of the Trump Organization in Moscow previously and had accompanied Ivanka Trump and Donald Trump Jr. to Moscow in the mid-2000s.306
Sater contacted Cohen on behalf of I.C. Expert Investment Company (l.C. Expert), a Russian real-estate development corporation controlled by Andrei Vladimirovich Rozov.307 Sater had known Rozov since approximately 2007 and, in 2014, had served as an agent on behalf of Rozov during Rozov's purchase of a building in New York City.308 Sater later contacted Rozov and proposed that I.C. Expert pursue a Trump Tower Moscow project in which I.C. Expert would license the name and brand from the Trump Organization but construct the building on its own. Sater worked on the deal with Rozov and another employee of I.C. Expert.309
Cohen was the only Trump Organization representative to negotiate directly with I.C. Expert or its agents. In approximately September 2015, Cohen obtained approval to negotiate with I.C. Expert from candidate Trump, who was then president of the Trump Organization. Cohen provided updates directly to Trump about the project throughout 2015 and into 2016, assuring him the project was continuing.310 Cohen also discussed the Trump Moscow project with Ivanka Trump as to design elements (such as possible architects to use for the project 31 1) and Donald J. Trump Jr. (about his experience in Moscow and possible involvement in the project 31 2) during the fall of 2015. ·
306 Sater9/19/17 302, at 1-2, 5.
307 Sater 9/19/17 302, at 3.
308 Rozov 1/25/18 302, at 1.
309 Rozov 1/25/18 302, at 1; see also 11/2/15 Email, Cohen to Rozov et al. (sending J etter of intent).
31° Cohen 9/12/18 302, at 1-2,4-6.
311 Cohen 9/12/18 302, at 5.
3 12 Cohen 9/12/18 302, at4-5.
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We also sought a voluntary interview with the President. After more than a year of discussions, the President declined to be interviewed.
During the course of our discussions, the president did agree to answer our written questions on certain Russia-related topics, and he provided us with answers. He did not similarly agree to provide written answers to questions on obstruction topics or questions on events during the transition. Ultimately, while we believed that we had the authority and legal justification to issue a grand jury subpoena to obtain the President's testimony, we chose not to do so. We made that decision in view of the substantial delay that such an investigative step would likely produce at a late stage in our investigation. We also assessed that based on the significant body of evidence we had already obtained of the President 's actions and his public and private statements describing or explaining those actions, we had sufficient evidence to understand relevant events and to m ake certain assessments with out the President's testimony. The Office's decision-making process on this issue is described in more detail in Append ix C, infra, in a note that precedes the President's written responses.
In assessing the evidence we obtained, we relied on common principles that apply in any investigation. The issue of criminal intent is often inferred from circumstantial evidence. See, e.g., United States v. Croteau, 819 F.3d 1293, 1 305 (IIth Cir. 2016) ("[G]uilty knowledge can rarely be established by direct evidence.... Therefore, mens rea elements such as knowledge or intent may be proved by circumstantial evidence.") (internal quotation marks omitted); United States v. Robinson, 702 F.3d 22, 36 (2d Cir. 2012) ("The government's case rested on circumstantial evidence, but the mens rea elements of knowledge and intent can often be proved through circumstantial evidence and the reasonable inferences drawn therefrom.") (internal quotation marks omitted). The principle that intent can be inferred from circumstantial evidence is a necessity in criminal cases, given the right of a subject to assert his privilege against compelled self-incrimination under the Fifth Amendment and therefore decline to testify. Accordingly, determinations on intent are frequently reached without the opportunity to interview an investigatory subject.
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