Robert Mueller just made it impossible for Trump to call the special counsel probe a 'total hoax'

CNN ^ | February 16, 2018 | Chris Cillizza, CNN Editor-at-large

[mdittmar]

(CNN)On Friday afternoon, the Justice Department announced that special counsel Robert Mueller had indicted 13 Russian nationals for their roles in attempted meddling in the 2016 election.

Most of these people do not live in the United States, and you can bet your bottom dollar that Russia won't be extraditing them any time soon. But that's not the point.

The point is this: The indictments of a baker's dozen of Russians gives us a very clear window into not only the depth and breadth of the Mueller investigation, but also makes crystal clear what the Russians wanted in the 2016 election and the elaborate measures they undertook to make it happen.

This paragraph stands out:

"Defendant ORGANIZATION had a strategic goal to sow discord in the U.S. political system, including the 2016 U.S. presidential election. Defendants posted derogatory information about a number of candidates, and by early to mid-2016, Defendants' operations included supporting the presidential campaign of then-candidate Donald J. Trump ("Trump Campaign") and disparaging Hillary Clinton. Defendants made various expenditures to carry out those activities, including buying political advertisements on social media in the names of U.S. persons and entities. Defendants also staged political rallies inside the United States, and while posing as U.S. grassroots entities and U.S. persons, and without revealing their Russian identities and ORGANIZATION affiliation, solicited and compensated real U.S. persons to promote or disparage candidates. Some Defendants, posing as U.S. persons and without revealing their Russian association, communicated with unwitting individuals associated with the Trump Campaign and with other political activists to seek to coordinate political activities."

[mdittmar]

cnn has Trump now;)

Here's an old song I like.

The Doors - Break On Through HQ (1967)

[lastchance]

Cuff him, Dano.

[Chode]

[mrsmith]

“There’s a pony in here... somewhere...”

[DouglasKC]

I love how they move the goalpost. NO collusion at all. A nonsense indictment about people on Facebook that won’t and can’t go anywhere else and CNN is going around crowing that somehow Trump is in trouble.

[tomkat]

cnn IS the enemy, quite literally.

[ClearCase_guy]

But the strawberries. That’s where I had them ...

[Skywise]

One just imagines the headlines if this had been Hillary.

HILLARY CLINTON VINDICATED!

Nope, CNN has to go with sour grapes.

[Wm F Buckley Republican]

I’m missiing something as I do not know what the Russians did that made a difference. What is the hysteria about?

[EdnaMode]

April fools.

[ReaganGeneration2]

THIS is the beginning of the end of Donald Trump. /s

[PetroniusMaximus]

Robert Mueller just made it impossible for Trump to call the special counsel probe a ‘total hoax’

I sense something mildly humorous.

[Sacajaweau]

How phony is this and they make a point of it....

It did not effect the election.

So what's the point of the indictment???

Meddling has the same definition as "IS".

[Vision]

That's right, the President will now accurately call the special counsel probe and CNN a ‘total hoax’.

[Mercat]

They mostly supported Trump. Ecause, like everyone else they assumed Hillary would win.

[deport]

Here’s the complete indictment if anyone cares to scan thru it.

IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA

https://www.justice.gov/file/1035477/download

[Meet the New Boss]

Why did we need to institute a special counsel to go after these 13 Russians for identity theft?

We didn’t. The local US Attorney’s office could have handled this perfectly well.

I noticed Andy McCarthy over the last week pushing the meme that Special Counsel Mueller’s job is to run counterintelligence on what Russia was doing during the election.

Wrong. Mueller’s remit was to prosecute crimes arising out of “collusion” or “links” between Trump and Russia.

But now the defenders of the swamp are trying to claim he was just looking into Russian activities.

But we didn’t need a special counsel for that. We already have a DOJ, FBI and CIA.

The misdirection by the swamp is hoping people won’t notice that the appointment of a special counsel to prosecute crimes of “links” or “collusion” between Trump and Russia was founded on phony campaign oppo research from Hillary’s crew and that we really do need a special counsel to investigate the DOJ and FBI and the abuse of FISA and how Mueller really came to be appointed.

[Gay State Conservative]

Oh,really? Flynn cops to a charge of lying to the FBI in order to avoid bankruptcy.But then it's learned that nobody but Muller thinks he lied.And the fact that a couple of FBI types specifically believe that he *didn't* lie wasn't revealed to Flynn's lawyer before he copped the plea.

Sounds like a total hoax to me!

[Pravious]

I’m missiing something as I do not know what the Russians did that made a difference. What is the hysteria about?

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Evidently some people on-line said people should vote for Trump and not vote for Hillary. These were not people whose opinions are pre-approved by our so-called “justice” system. Unfortunately, when they said that, millions of voters read their words and immediately changed their votes from Hillary to Trump (yes, I’m being sarcastic there).

The whole thing is silly beyond belief. If our government had any shame (which it clearly doesn’t), it would be ashamed of itself for wasting everyone’s time and our money like this.

[mdittmar]

Nobody will get that reference but you and me;)