Everything but a signed and notarized confession. https://t.co/lTu0X6mjRq— David Frum (@davidfrum) August 18, 2020
This is my takeaway too. Mueller could only use evidence that would be admissible in court to reach his conclusions. Even if he couldn't prove a crime (there was lots of obstruction) the GOP gave Trump a pass on soliciting, accepting & benefiting from Russian help to win. Fail. https://t.co/tJBF550a0M— Joyce Alene (@JoyceWhiteVance) August 18, 2020
NO COLLUSION*— Matthew Gertz (@MattGertz) August 18, 2020
*Just the campaign's chair working with a Russian who served as a backchannel for Russian intelligence services. pic.twitter.com/qVA4RrpBZg
There's all kinds of stuff here:
This is one thread:Some details about the day of the Access Hollywood tape/Podesta emails release: Trump campaign team heard about the tape an hour before its release. Stone told Corsi to get Assange to "drop the Podesta emails immediately." WikiLeaks did so 30 min after tape published. (249) pic.twitter.com/rKfDnJ511f— Natasha Bertrand (@NatashaBertrand) August 18, 2020
Per Senate Intellgence Committee, Konstantin KILIMNIK — who Manafort provided internal Trump campaign polling data to — is "a Russian intelligence officer." pic.twitter.com/NQGcaOZ5PE— Kyle Cheney (@kyledcheney) August 18, 2020
This is another:
A damning finding in the GOP-led Senate Intel Cmte report on 2016 election:— Jim Sciutto (@jimsciutto) August 18, 2020
“...Manafort's presence on the Campaign & proximity to Trump created opportunities for Russian intelligence services to exert influence over & acquire confidential information on the Trump Campaign”
And a third:
Two things are and can be true:— Bradley P. Moss (@BradMossEsq) August 18, 2020
The Trump campaign did not cross the criminal line to directly coordinate the hack of the DNC/Podesta, the dissemination of those hacked e-mails and the widespread disinformation campaign by Russian trolls.
At the same time, the IC had
And while this will probably be the reinforced sentiment:
The shift in the zeitgeist from "Mueller will save everyone!" to "Mueller is a failure" is very notable today— Quinta Jurecic (@qjurecic) August 18, 2020
It shouldn't be, for reasons mentioned above. If this is true:
Still reading, but early takeaway is the Committee goes further than Mueller did. https://t.co/HEvV7rN4bf— Joyce Alene (@JoyceWhiteVance) August 18, 2020
It's because Mueller was constrained, and noted multiple counts of obstruction of justice he could not overcome. Which is damning in itself, but seldom considered in the public discussions. Barr knew about it, though, which is why he redacted so much of the report, and reported so falsely on what Mueller said. Now we have this kind of information coming out:
NEW Trump’s 2016 campaign chair Paul Manafort was a ‘grave counterintelligence threat,’ had contact with Russian intelligence, Senate intelligence committee finds@karoun https://t.co/wMPnD9Deb5— Spencer Hsu (@hsu_spencer) August 18, 2020
So we can talk, again, about what actually happened, rather than the lies Trump insists are truth.
Our system only works when politicians on all sides have a sense of morality or, as a flimsy substitute, a sense of honor. Which means they have to care about what other people think of them as opposed to how God might. Doesn't work when one side is full to the tops of sociopaths, as the Republicans are. Our system coddles sociopaths, it has since the time slavery was given an advantage by it.
ReplyDeleteOur system has always coddled sociopaths. We think that makes us "independent" because we prize "outlaws." Where British politicians resign in disgrace for having a mistress (or used to), we re-elect convicted felons because "he's our guy!"
ReplyDeleteThe buck always stops with the sovereign; and that's us.