Newly Unsealed Transcript Reveals Crux Of Mueller's Collusion Case

[Nevilledog]

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Internal Trump campaign polling data from the 2016 election was sent to a person close to Russia’s leader, according to recently unsealed statements by a prosecutor from Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s office.

At a sealed February 2019 hearing in D.C. federal court, prosecutor Andrew Weissmann said that data shared by former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort ended up in the hands of someone close to Vladimir Putin.

“And for us, the issue of internal campaign polling data being sent to REDACTED, who the defendant conceded is extremely close to the senior leader in Russia, is in the core of what it is that the special counsel is supposed to be investigating,” Weissmann told U.S. District Judge Amy Berman Jackson for the District of Columbia on February 4, 2019.

A transcript of the hearing was unsealed Thursday, but the identity of the person who received the data remains redacted.

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[empedocles]

1. 'The Process' keeps grinding away'

[NewHendoLib]

5. all that dry powder we have stored...

[mitch96]

2. We knew this already, right? Manafort to Kiliminck to Putin... nt

[PatSeg]

3. I wonder why it is still redacted

[Botany]

4. "the identity of the person who received the data remains redacted."

It was Konstantin Kilimnik

And it wasn't just polling data but data analytics (weaponized data that Russia could use to micro target
and rat fuck the elections) or what could be turned into data analytics.

Every time Trump said "fake news" as per any Trump Russia connections he was lying.

[Hugh_Lebowski]

6. There's a few problems though ...

1) Manafort was PERSONALLY already in deep debt to these people,
2) No proof Trump or his campaign apart from Manafort was involved in the transfer or the decision to do so,
3) It's not, strictly speaking, illegal to send polling data to Russians,
4) Manafort was fired after not long as Chair, and his connections to Russia were discovered by the campaign (or at least become publicly known).

The lack of actual codified laws against their collusion activities was what made a case of illegal conspiracy impossible to bring. That, and Mueller's lack of power to force people to turn over info and/or testify.

[maxsolomon]

7. Here's what's going to happen:

Nothing.

Manafort's pardoned, and Garland will not pursue charges that will "reopen old wounds".