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LEFT WING LOONS Title: Trump Is Right: Mueller’s Latest Indictment Suggests He’s Conducting A Witch Hunt Contrary to the mainstream medias narrative, Robert Muellers latest indictment does not implicate President Trump, but exonerate him. On Friday, Special Counsel Robert Mueller returned a multi-count indictment charging 13 Russians and three companies with crimes related to hacking into the Democratic National Committees computers and seeking to use the information to influence the 2016 U.S. presidential election. When the news broke, pundits quickly used Muellers latest charges to chastise Trump for claiming the special counsel investigation is a witch hunt. The New York Times claimed [t]he 37-page indictment handed up by a federal grand jury in Washington amounted to a detailed rebuttal of Mr. Trump, who has sowed doubts that Russia interfered in the election and dismissed questions about its meddling as fake news. CNNs Jake Tapper and Josh Campbell used the criminal indictment to counter Trumps witch hunt charge. Tapper tweeted: New Mueller indictments come just hours after POTUS called the Mueller probe, again, a witch hunt, while Campbell quipped, What do we call a Witch Hunt that actually leads us to witches? The Wall Street Journals Jason Zweig soon joined the clique, adding a dose of humor: Oh, *now* I understand. Its a -vich hunt! Zweigs tweet was amusing, but represents a media pile-on in feigning confusion over the witch hunt Trump complained about. The Federalists Mollie Hemingway pointed out their folly, replying: Well, in Salem Witch Hunt 200 people were accused, 20 were executed, 5 died in prison. As you well know, witch hunt refers not to finding bad Russians but to media/intel campaign of suggesting Trump is a Salem witch who treasonously colluded with Russians to steal election. Chuck Ross of the Daily Caller, concurred, noting Trump critics have done an excellent job of blurring the lines on this. Trump keeps reiterating this point, but to no avail. In February, he stressed, I never said Russia did not meddle in the election, rather, [t]he Russian hoax was that the trump campaign colluded with Russiait never did! The media responded, not by reporting that Trump has conceded that Russia interfered in the 2016 presidential election, but by fact checking the presidents claim that he never said Russia did not meddle. The New York Times catalogued Trumps comments dating back to June 2016. Of course, Trump shares some blame, given his 2016 comments and continued media-baiting with tweets he knows the press will misrepresent, such as his June 28 one: Russia continues to say they had nothing to do with Meddling in our Election! Where is the DNC Server, and why didnt Shady James Comey and the now disgraced FBI agents take and closely examine it? Why isnt Hillary/Russia being looked at? So many questions, so much corruption! Predictably, and without forethought, the press pounced, reporting that Trump sent out an early-morning tweet once more calling into question the conclusion of the US intelligence agencies that Russia was involved in the hacking of Democratic National Committee emails during the election. That narrative quickly germinated in the Twittersphere, but as I pointed out at the time, Trump DIDNT say Russia had nothing to do with meddling! He said RUSSIA says they didnt AND Trump points to evidence Obamas folks ignored that could PROVE Russia interference. Had the media paused even momentarily, they would have realized that the presidents reference to the DNC server refutes claims he was denying Russian interference in the election. But they didnt. So instead the press handed Trump another example of fake news. By intentionally treating Trumps denial of colluding with Russia as a repudiation of Russian interference in the 2016 election, the liberal media seeks to accomplish three goals, one silly and two significant. First, by painting the president as a Russian interference denier, the press attempts to make Trump look foolish, incompetent, or both. While this may be music to Manhattan, Main Street America has long ago tired of this tactic and writes it off as the fake news it is. Conflating allegations that Trump colluded with Russia with evidence that Russia interfered in the 2016 election also serves two more nefarious purposes: One, it allows the media to ignore Trumps true criticism of the special counsels investigation into his presidential campaign. Two, it allows the press to pretend evidence of Russian misconduct equates to proof that the Trump campaign was complicit in Russias interference in the election. For instance, in Fridays New York Times article on the indictment, after summarizing the special counsels charges, the newspaper of record pivoted to Trump: Mr. Mueller has gathered extensive evidence of contacts between Russia and the Trump campaign: Mr. Trumps eldest son met with a Russian lawyer in hopes of receiving political dirt on Mrs. Clinton; one adviser has admitted being tipped off in advance to Russian hacking of Democratic emails; another was in contact with a Twitter account used by Russian hackers; a federal judge found probable cause that a third adviser was an unlawful Russian agent. And the Trump campaign repeatedly and falsely denied any contacts with Russia. Whether any of that violated federal law is the weightiest question facing Mr. Mueller, and Fridays indictment did not answer it. This passage alone deserves four Pinocchios. The one adviser refers to George Papadopoulos, but contrary to the Times claim, Papadopoulos denied advance knowledge of the Russian hack of the DNC emails. The federal judge finding probable cause that a third adviser was an unlawful Russian agent? That would be a Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act judge, who issued a court order allowing the DOJ to conduct surveillance on Carter Page. However, Page has not been charged with a crime, and the probable cause finding relied heavily on the now-debunked Christopher Steele dossier. Further, DOJ Inspector General Michael Horowitz is investigating potential abuse of the FISA process, and evidence continues to mount that the Obama administration and career DOJ and FBI employees wrongly surveilled Page. Even ignoring these prevarications, the purpose of the article shines clear: to portray the recent indictment as evidence that Trump colluded with Russia. Yet, contrary to the mainstream medias narrative, Fridays indictment does not implicate Trump, but exonerate him. Specifically, the indictment alleged Russian intel began its efforts to hack the DNC in March 2016, which was before Super Tuesday II and the Florida/Ohio/Illinois primaries, and thus before Trump became the presumptive nominee. Additionally, the indictment did not include any allegations that Trump campaign members colluded with the Russians. Thus, while Mueller has brought more than 80 criminal charges against 20-plus people and three companies, as Andrew McCarthy quipped in response to the media misdirection: There are 144 million more people in Russia who will never see the inside of an American courtroom. If Mueller indicts all of them, his stats will be *really* impressive . . . and therell still be no Trump espionage conspiracy against the election. This all goes to prove what Trump has been saying all alongthat the special counsels investigation collusion between his campaign and Russia is a witch hunt. The media may believe it is hurting Trump by continuing the Russia collusion charade, but it is not. The Lefts trial by ordeal will not destroy Trump, but it may well hurt our country and achieve Russias goal of sowing discord. Fridays indictment of Russian nationals and Kremlin-linked companies should have united Americans in outrage over Russias attempts to influence our election, but instead a sideshow ensued, all to put Trump in his place. What the press doesn't realize, however, is that if it continues these efforts, Trumps place will be the White House for another term.
Poster Comment: What the press doesn't realize, however, is that if it continues these efforts, Trumps place will be the White House for another term. Trump will be re-elected regardless of anything the rancid press does. Mueller is just trying to provoke enough to hopefully, finally , get fired. This will become the next 'abuse of power' charge against our President. The dog does wag on so dreadfully slow. I knew Mueller's "investigation" was a sham from day one. All one had to do was take a look at the résumés of his staff, which was chock full of Hitlery donors and DNC agents like Andrew McCabe. Mueller's personal record is also not one of impartiality. There is no conclusion that can be reached by that body which is believable.
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#1. To: IbJensen (#0)
witchcraft is manipulation, what Mueller is doing is aptly named and he has proven himself to be a "witch"
This Federalist article dwells on the indictment of 16 Feb, not the new one on 13 July. https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/16/us/politics/russians-indicted-mueller-election-interference.html The quote is from a New York Times article of 16 February 2018. That describes the indictment from 16 February, not 13 July. It is significant as the inclusion of the corporations was a major screwup. A corporation may, and did, appear by their attorney and demand discovery and a speedy trial. The recent indictment contains no corporation, and it is a near certainty that no Russian national is going to come to the U.S. to appear in court. Indeed, it appears a near certainty that no Russian individual in Russia is going to be served with a summons to appear. In other words, the only court appearance planned is the publicity stunt of the prosecutor. That is what was planned for last time, but a corporate entity appeared by their attorney and totally screwed up the plan. It is also significant that the recent indictment includes the language "knowingly and intentionally," absent in the 16 February indictment, and absolutely requisite for the charges made, as pointed out by the attorneys for Concord Management and Consulting LLC in a defense motion of 14 May 2018. - - - - - - - - - - INDICTMENT OF 13 Russian individuals and 3 corporations (6 Feb 2018) - - - - - - - - - - INDICTMENT of 1w Russian individuals (13 Jul 2018) https://www.scribd.com/document/383991063/USA-v-Netyksho-DCDC-18-cr-215-Doc-1-13-Jul-2018-INDICTMENT - - - - - - - - - -
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