Posted on 02/16/2018 12:30:15 PM PST by Kaslin
Special counsel Robert Mueller has charged 13 Russian nationals for conspiring against the U.S. They are accused of interfering with our elections.
BREAKING: A federal grand jury has indicted 13 Russian nationals “accused of violating US criminal laws in order to interfere with US elections and political processes.” Here it is: https://t.co/4T824L01yk pic.twitter.com/k9nyOicheb— Matt Viser (@mviser) February 16, 2018
"The nationals had a strategic goal to sow discord in the U.S. political system, including the 2016 U.S. presidential election," the 37-page document reads.
The nationals spent about $1.2 mil for its interference operation, the document continues, reportedly to "support" the Trump campaign and "disparage" the Hillary Clinton campaign.
Some of the defendants spoke with “unwitting” Trump campaign aides.
Despite President Trump dismissing talks of Russian collusion as a "hoax," CNN's chief national security correspondent Jim Sciutto said "there has to be read hard proof" in order to pursue indictments like these.
"Do you believe it now?" Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-CA) asked Trump following the news.
Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein officially announced the indictment from the DOJ headquarters Friday.
The 13 defendants, he explained, worked with false identification and posed as politically active Americans advocating for and against specific candidates. They purchased political advertisements on social media, staged political rallies, organized protests both for and against president-elect Donald Trump, and pretended to be grassroots activists, while recruiting Americans.
“These Americans did not know they were communicating with Russians,” Rosenstein said.
No allegation suggests that the nationals altered the outcome of the election.
"They want to undermine public confidence in democracy," Rosenstein explained. "We must not allow them to succeed."
Now you did it.
You are now Indictee #14.
lol
How about so-called news organizations working to influence the election in Hillary’s favor?
Or even more effective tactics. See MoveOn.org and related spin-offs.
And not to be repetitive about it, but what about foreign influence on Congress for policy-making purposes. Foreign interests have MASSIVE input to US policy making, to the detriment of US citizens. Howcome THAT is legal?
Did Mueller take over as Attorney General without us knowing it ?
Rosenestein, in an obvious effort to save himself, came out today and said there is NO evidence that any Americans were involved in corrupting the election.
Of course, that can also be interpreted that they won’t go after the Klintoon involvement either.
They might need “hard proof” in a real legal case, but Mueller has proven himself to be a corrupt, partisan bully who is willing to do anything to force people to tell him what he wants to hear, true or not.
I am not seeing what the actual crime was? People from another country spreading fake or exaggerated news stories?
What law was broken (serious question). I am pretty sure if I wanted to spread fake news about anything I could, and my first amendment allows me to, doesn’t it?
That’s only because they chose to ignore the Obama conspiracy to bug Trump and his people and deny them their civil liberties.
Yes, because they wanted Boinie, a fellow Communist.
According to the indictment, they also tried to discredit Cruz and Rubio.
They worked both sides, to strengthen their position with whoever won. It didn’t work.
Don't worry, the Dhimmicraps will ensure that they are from now on.
Interesting phrase he used there.
I see liberals using pretty much the same phrase at Yahoo.
Makes me wonder.....
Now let’s investigate Obama, Holder, Hillary and their co-conspirators for colluding with illegal immigrants/dreamers to influence our election.
Swallwell is a Democrat back bencher. he's an idiot, and one of Tucker's go-to guests when he wants a liberal Democrat to beat up.
Would you like some mirage fries with that nothing burger?
Especially since Comey testified UNDER OATH that the FBI had concluded that Flynn didn’t lie to them.
That means that either his indictment of Flynn is completely invalid, or he should indict his friend Comey.
Actually CNN there has to be “real hard proof” to bring the case before a petit jury and get a conviction. Not so much for a grand jury indictment.
And Kenya. Remember, they were trying to get his cousin Odinga elected.
What a monumental waste of 37 pieces of paper and grand jury time and investigative time and money.
LOL...Hadn't heard any of these...hope you don't mind if I add them to my vocabulary
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