Over drinks, Australian diplomat Alexander Downer cleverly extracts from Trump campaign staffer George Papadopoulos Russia's plan to release Hillary Clinton's emails by airplane over Fort Knox:
Posted on 05/06/2019 12:10:15 PM PDT by Meet the New Boss
Chicanery was the force behind the formal opening of the FBI’s Trump-Russia investigation. There was a false premise, namely: The Trump campaign must have known that Russia possessed emails related to Hillary Clinton. From there, through either intentional deception or incompetence, the foreign ministries of Australia and the United States erected a fraudulent story tying the Trump campaign’s purported knowledge to the publication of hacked Democratic National Committee emails.
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We learn from the Mueller report (Volume I, p. 193) that Mifsud was interviewed by the FBI on February 10, 2017, a couple of weeks after the bureau started interviewing Papadopoulos. Mifsud denied that, when he met Papadopoulos in London on April 26, 2016, he either knew about or said anything about Russia’s possession of Clinton-related emails.
The Trump-Russia investigation continued for over two years after the FBI’s interview of Mifsud. Mueller took over the probe in May 2017. During his 22 months running the investigation, Mueller charged many people (including Papadopoulos) with lying to the FBI. But he never charged Mifsud. The government has never alleged that Mifsud’s denial was false.
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...Mueller carefully describes not what Papadopoulos said to Downer, but what Downer understood Papadopoulos had “suggested,” namely that:
"the Trump Campaign had received indications from the Russian government that it could assist the Campaign through the anonymous release of information that would be damaging to Hillary Clinton."
The “Trump Campaign” here is Papadopoulos; the “Russian government” is Mifsud. But Papadopoulos was as low-ranking as it got in the Trump campaign, and Mifsud — the source of the “indications” — was not part of the Russian government at all.
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there is no evidence that Mifsud ever told Papadopoulos that the Russian government was planning to assist the Trump campaign by anonymously releasing information damaging to Clinton.
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Over drinks, Australian diplomat Alexander Downer cleverly extracts from Trump campaign staffer George Papadopoulos Russia's plan to release Hillary Clinton's emails by airplane over Fort Knox:
“The FBI’s Trump-Russia Investigation Was Formally Opened on False Pretenses”
But we KNEW that!
Fruit of the Poisonous Tree
I like this part:
” to release Hillary Clinton’s emails by airplane over Fort Knox: “
LOL
Over drinks, Australian diplomat Alexander Downer cleverly extracts from Trump campaign staffer George Papadopoulos Russia's plan to release Hillary Clinton's emails by airplane over Fort Knox:And according to Papadopoulos they had a blonde (Pussy Galore) trying to seduce him (actually true).
Crossfire Hurricane = Hussein + Hillary
The Obama Administration thinks the Trump campaign is attempting to collude with Russia to win the 2016 election; however, not one single Russian asset was used to attempt an interaction or temp the Trump campaign to show their cards concerning collusion.
Doesn’t that seem ODD?!? I mean if you really thought they were trying to use Russians for some advantage, wouldn’t you want to see if they would solicit some data or money or SOMETHING from the Russians when given the chance?
It almost seems like they KNEW that the Trump team wasn’t actually colluding with Russia and therefore didn’t actually attempt to verify or remove that implied angle from the equation. That seems VERY ODD to me!
McCarthy calls Papadopoulos a liar.
What to worry, the Bitch going to win. Nobody was going to jail.
Yes, and I’m getting(more)confused. Either Popadop or Mifsud is lying. The question is which.
And did Downer just make it up about what Popadop said? Having a hard time connecting the dots here.
Chicanery was the force behind the entire Kenyanesian Usurpation.
Ask Nancy Pelosi why Hawaii got a different nomination form than 49 other states.
The Trump campaign was being survellled in 2015 long before the Steele dossier. Nellie Ohr went to work for Fusion GPS in December 2015. She initiated the contact with Simpson. According to her testimony, she was researching Trump and Flynn.
He calls him a convicted liar because that is what the FBI charged him with. He is not demeaning Pappadopolous.
Hillary was supposed to win.
Everyone said so.
None of this was meant to see the light of day and if she won that would be the case.
The real criminal behavior/intelligence gathering had been taking place for YEARS, at least since 2012 and 2013, monitoring the political enemies of Obongo via the NSA. The Admiral caught on to their antics and reported it to the FISA Court, shutting their games down at a most inopportune moment in April 2016.
They needed another means of intelligence gathering and the FISA Court warrant against Carter Page was a last minute, thrown together affair to get them back quasi-legitimately monitoring the Trump Campaign via the two step rule.
Brennan and Clapper were thick as thieves through the whole thing but it was a tangled bureaucratic patch job with the usual lies and distrust between the players and sources through FBI, CIA, DOJ, State WH and NSA. No one trusts the other parties in this criminal cabal and the disorganization shows.
When the dreaded even happened, Trump won, then they carried on with the monitoring via renewals and starting building the case to undo the election using whatever they had at hand.
Really? I don't know how else you can read this:
The one and only source for the email component of the story is George Papadopoulos. He, of course, is a convicted liar — convicted, in fact, of lying to the FBI during the very same interviews in which he related the detail about emails. Moreover, the Mueller report confirms that he is simply unreliable: To inflate his importance, he overhyped his credentials and repeatedly misled his Trump-campaign superiors regarding his discussions with people be believed had connections to the Russian regime — who they were and what they were in a position to promise.
Other than Papadopoulos’s own word, there is no evidence — none — that he was told about emails by Joseph Mifsud, a Maltese academic whom the FBI and the Mueller investigation deceptively portrayed as a Russian agent.
They were spying on Trump and other candidates much, much earlier than what keeps being talked about. This was a multi-fold operation. Take out Trump during the election via fake stories, use to up their spying effort with some air of legitimacy, and take down Trump if he won.
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