[fredy]

The "fake investigation" just arrested Trumps boy who ran his campaign. Let's see where all the "real patriots" are at.

The FBI special counsel's spokesman has just given us this statement:

"Paul J. Manafort, Jr., 68, of Alexandria, Va., and Richard W. Gates III, 45, of Richmond, Va., have been indicted by a federal grand jury on Oct. 27, 2017, in the District of Columbia.

The indictment contains 12 counts:

Conspiracy against the United States,
Conspiracy to launder money,
Unregistered agent of a foreign principal,
False and misleading FARA statements,
False statements,
Seven counts of failure to file reports of foreign bank and financial accounts."

From in or about in between 2006 and 2017, both dates being aproximate and inclusive, in the district of Columbia and elsewhere, the defendants Paul J Manafort and Richard gates, together with others, knowingly and intentionally conspired to defraud the United States by impeding, impairing, obstructing, and defeating the lawful government functions of a government agency, namely department of justice in the department of treasury, and to commit offenses against the United States.

Full indictment here,

https://www.justice.gov/file/1007271/download

George Papadopoulos: Former foreign policy adviser to the Trump campaign just pleaded guilty on Oct. 5 for making false statements to FBI agents about the timing and detail of his attempts to line up meetings between Russian government officials and the Trump campaign. Was arrested as he exited an airport in July, following his arrest, defendant PAPADOPOULOS met with the Government on numerous occasions to provide information and answer questions

From the indictment.

-Trump campaign official suggested "low level" staff should go to Russia "so as not to send any signals".

-In the statement submitted as part of the George Papadopoulos case, the FBI describes an email between Trump campaign officials suggesting they were considering acting on Russian invitations to go to Russia.

-George Papadopoulos in May sent an email to a "high-ranking Campaign official" with subject line "Request from Russia to meet Mr. Trump." The email said Russia was eager to meet with the candidate and had been reaching out.

-In a footnote, the FBI statement notes that the email was forwarded between campaign officials and who wrote they should discuss: “We need someone to communicate that DT is not doing these trips. It should be someone low level in the campaign so as not to send any signal.”

-The FBI statement does not explain who the campaign officials were concerned about sending signals to.

Oh, Papadopolous flipping is huge. In DoJ's summary statement of the confession he straightup admits to constant communication with a Russian National who identified herself as Putin's niece and was trying to get HRC's stolen emails from her:

II. Timeline of Selected Events

PAPADOPOULOS's Role on the Campaign

4. In early March 2016, defendant PAPADOPOULOS learned he would be a foreign policy advisor for the Campaign. Defendant PAPADOPOULOS was living in London, England, at the time. Based on a conversation that took place on or about March 6, 2016, with a supervisory campaign official (the "Campaign Supervisor"), defendant PAPADOPOULOS understood that a principal foreign policy focus of the Campaign was an improved U.S. relationship with Russia.

PAPADOPOULOS 's Introduction to the Professor and the Female Russian National

5. On or about March 14, 2016, while traveling in Italy, defendant PAPADOPOULOS met an individual who was a professor based in London (the "Professor"). Initially, the Professor seemed uninterested in defendant PAPADOPOULOS. However, after defendant PAPADOPOULOS infonned the Professor about his joining the Campaign, the Professor appeared to take great interest in defendant PAPADOPOULOS. Defendant PAPADOPOULOS was interested in the Professor because, among other reasons, the Professor claimed to have substantial connections with Russian government officials, which defendant PAPADOPOULOS thought could increase his importance as a policy advisor to the Campaign.

6. On or about March 21, 2016, the Campaign told The Washington Post that defendant PAPADOPOULOS was one of five named foreign policy advisors for the Campaign.

7. On or about March 24, 2016, defendant PAPADOPOULOS met with the Professor in London. The Professor brought with him a female Russian national (the "Female Russian National"), introduced to defendant PAPADOPOULOS as a relative of Russian President Vladimir Putin with connections to senior Russian government officials.

10. After his trip to Washington, D.C., defendant PAPADOPOULOS worked with the Professor and the Female Russian National to arrange a meeting between the Campaign and the Russian government, and took steps to advise the Campaign of his progress.

Here's the statement that was unsealed today

https://assets.documentcloud.org/doc...nt-Offense.pdf

His plea deal

https://www.justice.gov/file/1007341/download

[lando76]

Manafort dealings were way prior to Trump campaign. If Trump was any way shape or form involved the media and elites would have had his ass right along with him. It doesn't look good by any means and judging by what Hillarys camp was caught financing recently there is bound to be more heads rolling. Tip of the iceberg. Can't wait.

[fredy]

Are you talking about the same Russian dossier that the GOP initially started looking into, funded, and discovered how far back Trumps finances has been involved with Russians?

If people are outraged over that, I'm sure you're also outraged at the GOP officials who started it all, right?

Besides Fox News desperately trying to deflect with all these fake news trumpsters eagerly eat up, everything points at republicans in the trump camp. The indictments made that clear.

So I can't wait either

[niknik]

Originally Posted by lando76 ↗

Manafort dealings were way prior to Trump campaign. If Trump was any way shape or form involved the media and elites would have had his ass right along with him. It doesn't look good by any means and judging by what Hillarys camp was caught financing recently there is bound to be more heads rolling. Tip of the iceberg. Can't wait.

What was Hillary caught financing?

I find it weird when it comes to Trump, "oh he didn't have anything to do with people working for him". But Hillary personally signed the check.

That's a double standard. I think Hillary should be investigated, to make sure shhe didn't collude. But I feel that's a waste of time, after all, it was rather obvious Russia was attempting to help Trump. And make Clinton lose.

[fredy]

Look more heads are rolling because Hillary

Trump officials tried to swap access to Trump for favors from Russia at least 3 times

[1]

The Russian lawyer who met with President Donald Trump's son, son-in-law, and former campaign chairman at Trump Tower last June says Trump Jr. offered to review US sanctions on Russia if his father were elected president in exchange for dirt on his opponent, Hillary Clinton.

"Looking ahead, if we come to power, we can return to this issue and think what to do about it," Trump Jr. said, according to the lawyer Natalia Veselnitsksya.

Trump Jr. was referring to the Magnitsky Act sanctions levied by the US in 2012, which Veselnitskaya has been lobbying against along with the Russian-American political operative Rinat Akhmetshin since at least last year.

....

[2]

That meeting was not the first time someone on the Trump campaign had expressed interest in exchanging access to the president for a favor from Russia.

Court documents filed by Mueller's office and unsealed last week revealed that early Trump campaign adviser George Papadopoulos was told that Moscow had dirt on Clinton, the former Democratic nominee for president, in late April 2016 — six weeks before the Trump Tower meeting.

According to the special counsel's office, Papadopoulos kept trying to organize a meeting between the campaign and Russian government officials even after learning that Russia was trying to compromise Clinton.

...

[3]

[O]n July 7, about one month after the Trump Tower meeting, Manafort offered to accommodate a Russian oligarch's request for private briefings on the campaign. Manafort's representative has said he was trying to leverage his high-level role on the campaign to collect past debts.

“If he needs private briefings we can accommodate,” Manafort wrote, referring to the Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska.

Manafort had been a top adviser to Ukraine's pro-Russia Party of Regions from 2004 to 2014 and was in debt to pro-Russian interests by as much as $17 million by the time he joined the Trump campaign, according to The New York Times. He and Gates were indicted last week by Mueller's office.

Russian sources cited in a dossier compiled by former British spy Christopher Steele say that by late July 2016, there was "a well-developed conspiracy of co-operation between [the campaign] and the Russian leadership," both of which had an interest in defeating Clinton.

The Steele dossier also said that the campaign agreed to sideline the issue of Russia's invasion of Crimea and interference in eastern Ukraine in exchange for WikiLeaks releasing the stolen Democratic National Committee emails.

The Trump campaign's national-security policy representative for the Republican National Convention acknowledged in an interview with Business Insider in September that he had given his campaign colleagues the opportunity to "intervene" when an amendment to the GOP's draft policy on Ukraine was introduced in Cleveland last July.

The original amendment, which proposed that the GOP commit to sending "lethal weapons" to the Ukrainian army to fend off Russian aggression, was ultimately altered to say "provide appropriate assistance" before it was included in the party's official platform.

Papadopoulos was still pursuing a Trump campaign-Russia meeting as late as August 15, 2016, when a campaign supervisor told him that he would "encourage" him and another foreign policy adviser "to make the trip" to Moscow "if feasible."