Wired.com: The Mueller Investigation Nears the Worst Case Scenario

[highplainsdem]

https://www.wired.com/story/manafort-cohen-sentencing-trump-mueller-investigation-worst-case-scenario/

We are deep into the worst case scenarios. But as new sentencing memos for Trump associates Paul Manafort and Michael Cohen make all too clear, the only remaining question is how bad does the actual worst case scenario get?

The potential innocent explanations for Donald Trump’s behavior over the last two years have been steadily stripped away, piece by piece. Special counsel Robert Mueller and investigative reporters have uncovered and assembled a picture of a presidential campaign and transition seemingly infected by unprecedented deceit and criminality, and in regular—almost obsequious—contact with America’s leading foreign adversary.

A year ago, Lawfare’s Benjamin Wittes and Quinta Jurecic outlined seven possible scenarios about Trump and Russia, arranged from most innocent to most guilty. Fifth on that list was “Russian Intelligence Actively Penetrated the Trump Campaign—And Trump Knew or Should Have Known,” escalating from there to #6 “Kompromat,” and topping out at the once unimaginable #7, “The President of the United States is a Russian Agent.”

After the latest disclosures, we’re steadily into Scenario #5, and can easily imagine #6.

-snip-

[mercuryblues]

1. If #6 is true

that makes #7 true

[highplainsdem]

2. Garrett Graff, who wrote this for Wired, is on CNN right now.

[triron]

3. Trump committed heinous crimes to get elected.eos.

[elmac]

4. and the repug party committed heinous crimes, election fraud

the whole criminal organization needs to be taken down.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

6. Agree..but was just wondering ...who was behind

This? We think dipshit is a dumbbell....who pulled this whole damn thing together?

[Volaris]

8. Putin. Trump did what he was told.

Manafort, Cohen, and Prebuis at the RNC handled the cash flow. WikiLeaks, Bannon, Cambridge Analytica, and the Russian troll-farms made sure to put the money to a use that was Just Good Enough to swing a few necessary districts to swing the EC.

Donald thought he was making a new friend, getting a really good real estate deal (albeit an illegal one), and in the process MAGA, AND it all had the added benefit of putting that Black Man back in his Place after the WHCD.

Seems Vlad knew his marks very well indeed.

Lock them all the fuck up.

[calimary]

5. Blows my freakin' mind!

Today looks like the beginning of the end.

2018 will be the year of TWO "Good Fridays" - the religious one commemorating the Crucifixion of Christ, and the other one at the end of the year, which heralds the fall of the Antichrist.


"...ashes, ashes, they all fall DOWN!"

[Laura PourMeADrink]

7. This whole thing is a mysterious cluster of epic

proportions. Wonder if we will ever know exactly how it all started, who, how, and why people were involved. When and how they all communicated. The process. It seems so amazingly complex right now. And does dingbat have it in him to run this scam?

[Volaris]

9. No, but Vlad did. And despite sanctions not getting lifted,

He cannot NOT be happy about the national chaos we now have to deal with (which is the kind of distraction he would take in a heartbeat as a consolation prize).

And don't kid yourself, if half of his mob-state oligharcs have to get jailed or dead for the sake of the process, it's not like he cares---theyre serfs no matter how much money he's allowed them to have, and therefore, easily replaceable as far as he's concerned.

[BannonsLiver]

10. Surely they mean BEST case scenario

[Grasswire2]

11. this is really good...

...I missed the initial article, and have gone back to copy it and the updates.

Very instructive.