Robert Muellers Show of Strength: A Quick and Dirty Analysis
Robert Muellers Show of Strength: A Quick and Dirty Analysis
Source:
Lawfare
The first big takeaway from this mornings flurry of charging and plea documents with respect to Paul Manafort Jr., Richard Gates III, and George Papadopoulos is this: The President of the United States had as his campaign chairman a man who had allegedly served for years as an unregistered foreign agent for a puppet government of Vladimir Putin, a man who was allegedly laundering remarkable sums of money even while running the now-presidents campaign, a man who allegedly lied about all of this to the FBI and the Justice Department.
The second big takeaway is even starker: A member of President Trumps campaign team now admits that he was working with people he knew to be tied to the Russian government to arrange a meeting between the Campaign and the Russian government officials and to obtain dirt on Hillary Clinton in the form of thousands of hacked emailsand that he lied about these activities to the FBI. He briefed President Trump on at least some them.
...And heres the rub: This is only Special Counsel Robert Muellers opening salvo.
As opening salvos go, its a doozy.
Good analysis from the legal standpoint.
This is going places.
anticipatorially,
Bright