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[Tyler23]

@DoubleDuce

Not a representative of a foreign nation.

Goldstone made it very clear the Russian government was behind this. This was the email Don Jr received; he agreed to the meeting based on this.

Receiving a “thing of value” from a foreign national is a violation of campaign finance law. “Dirt” on Clinton has value. It’s not clear yet that they directly provided that to the Trump team, but Jr sure indicated that they were wide open to receiving it. That’s part of what Mueller is looking into. Anyone who waves this away as a “nothingburger” is not being honest about this (at all).

@DoubleDuce

Are you aware that Clinton actually hired (that is paid money to) intelligence operative for foreign nations to have them dig up dirt on Trump?

Fusion GPS was originally hired by republicans; HRC took it over after Trump won the primary. Fusion GPS is a US company. They contracted Steele, a former intelligence officer for MI-6, now a private citizen.

@DoubleDuce

A president elect who’d won the election asked one of his staff to start conversations with the Russians. Election collusion isn’t even possible, it was post election. And even if you don’t like it, he was president elect.

Wrong again. The purpose of these meetings was to discuss the removal US sanctions. That’s what team Trump was negotiating and exactly what Flynn lied to the FBI about. This is a violation of the Logan Act.

Your retort to this will likely be that nobody has ever been convicted of a Logan Act violation and that it’s an outdated law. It is a felony and was last amended in 1994. It applies to very few situations, but this is absolutely one where it does. It “criminalizes negotiation by unauthorized persons with foreign governments having a dispute with the United States.” Just having contacts with foreign governments is not a crime; actively trying to alter US policy is.

The US issued new sanctions against Russia on December 29 for interfering with our election. Flynn met with Kislyak and discussed those sanctions that same day and told him to “refrain from escalating the situation in response to sanctions”. They were signaling Trump would get rid of them.

The next day, Putin says he will not retaliate (just because he’s such a reasonable guy) and Trump sends this tweet:

Donald J. Trump

@DoubleDuce

However at least one of the texts seems to indicate that the investigation was started as “insurance” in case Trump won the election:

I posted this yesterday in the Russian thread:

Russia Won't Go Away

But the president’s defenders are off base when they try read conspiracy into Peter Strzok’s “insurance policy” message. Talking about Trump’s chances in August 2016, here’s what Strzok wrote: I want to believe the path you threw out for consideration in Andy’s office [Andrew McCabe is the FBI deputy director and married to a Democratic Virginia State Senate candidate] for that there’s no way he gets elected—but I’m afraid we can’t take that risk. It’s like an insurance policy in the unlike…

@DoubleDuce

This is not just unprofessional childish bias, that’s treasonous.

Funny how you consider an FBI agent voicing his personal views in private (stupidly on a government device) treason yet you brush away this entire investigation as a political hit job. Many people have been convicted on much less circumstantial evidence than what we’re looking at here.