Posted on 02/16/2018 10:24:55 AM PST by RoosterRedux
A federal grand jury in the District of Columbia on Friday indicted 13 Russian nationals and three Russian entities accused of interfering in U.S. elections.
The announcement came from the office of Special Counsel Robert Mueller.
According to the special counsel, the indictment charges the defendants with conspiracy to defraud the United States, three defendants with conspiracy to commit wire fraud and bank fraud and five defendants with aggravated identity theft.
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Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein is scheduled to hold a press conference Friday afternoon.
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I saw tons of fake news postings on FB with no facts making wild claims against both Trump and Hillary during the campaign. Right before the election there was a flood of them posted. If they are saying the Russians posted those against Hillary- who posted those against Trump? I was very curious, it was obviously organized and the “articles” were very similar. To me it seemed like it was done by the same people...I thought it was so odd.
I did not see it as interfering in our election- didn’t change my vote, I paid no attention to them other than to delete and try to block pages they came from.
When are they going to gather up illegals that voted? They are citizens of other countries so isn’t that also foreign interference in our election?
Where are those Russians? Are they in the place from which they can be extradited?
How strong is case against them? How will the case against them develop?
Is there a lawyer or better yet a judge amongst us who can tell us?
Under Mueller's theory of how the law works, yes. They have not registered in the US under FARA, and its advocacy is therefore illegal interference in a US election.
Mueller is just doing this to give the media some legitimacy to use the words “Russian” and “election” in one convenient news story...
When are they going to indict George Soros and all his astroturf activist groups for promulgating lies and trying to interfere in American elections and the legislation process?
It's becoming clear what the patent absurdity of these charges are really about: a smokescreen behind which the Mueller investigation can announce that there was no Trump-Russia collusion without the left going into complete hysterics.
If that is how they are going to play this, they are going to be real busy gathering people up.
The FBI/DOJ sure can wow us all with such solid work.......Are we sure there is no evidence in some pond somewhere they can set up a million dollar team to pump out?
That is not the end game. The end game is restricting internet speech when it comes to political discussions.
What about Soros hiring so many to create chaos?????
Oh yes they have to after him now! He obviously tried to interfere in our election.
He said Russians promoted a Trump Rally in New York and on the same day Russians promoted an ANTI-Trump Rally in New York. So he is just saying the Russians were sowing seeds of discourse.
Ok time to wrap up this big nothing burger. There are lots of countries doing this and similar stuff every day. This is the big EXIT RAMP. Mission accomplished Russian interference that’s why Trump won, but no evidence of collusion.
What a joke.
While serving as Obama's secretary of state, Hillary Clinton oversaw a program meant to “reset” relations with Moscow and improve ties. The program centered around the Russian city of Skolkovo near Moscow with the stated aim of “identifying areas of cooperation and pursuing joint projects and actions that strengthen strategic stability, international security, economic well-being, and the development of ties between the American and Russian people.”
Obama had Hillary's State Dept program transform Skolkovo into a technology hub akin to a Silicon Valley. Sensitive American technology was transferred to the Russians, substantially enhancing their military and cyber capabilities.
Hillary said they wanted to "help" Russia.
The US Army and the FBI concluded that Russia had exploited the program for military applications. The FBI warned American technology companies doing business in Skolkovo that the Skolkovo project was a means by which the Russians would acquire dual use technologies and apply them for military ends.
According to investigative author Peter Schweizer, Russian and American companies and individuals involved in the Skolkovo fiasco “had major financial ties to the Clintons.”
Moreover, during the Russian reset period, those entities provided the Clintons with “tens of millions of dollars” in the form of “contributions to the Clinton Foundation, paid for speeches by Bill Clinton, or investments in small start-up companies with deep Clinton ties.”
Your guess as to Obama's "cut" is as good as mine.
I honestly thought it was about foreign office appointments such as diplomatic corps.
As James Comey would say, “That’s it?”
Rosenstein flew them on the first jet making smoke to quiet safety inside Russia. The deep state can keep this Russian conspiracy alive with three long years of daily updates on the extradition fight with Putin over handing them over. Keeps the Brennan staffed media full of easy disinformation.
Didn't you read Mueller's indictment? The idea that Democrats commit voter fraud is just something ginned up by Russian trolls. See paragraph 47 of the indictment.
The examples included in the indictment of Russian trolling activities are no doubt cherry-picked to support Democrat MSM talking points.
Sounds like the Russians wrote the plan for Charlottesville doesn’t it?
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