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Still we hear it, kinda fallen into the background now but still there: “the Russia hoax” and the “victory” that represented for trump.
So. Your periodic wake-up call.
NOT A HOAX. AT ALL. Administration refusal to co-operate on all fronts, to comply with subpoenas and court orders and legal rulings remain in full stonewall mode. It was the first inescapable refusal to comply with his oath as president, and it continues today.
It’s not less of a problem because it’s unresolved, it’s MORE of a problem *because* it’s unresolved and the issues involved remain uninvestigated and unaddressed. That material should have been turned over to Congress within the week, and the crime is compounded by continuation of the complete refusal. Trump has *personally* tipped the balance in SCOTUS, has the Senate in his pocket, and thinks he can crush the House. McConnell’s refusal to act or speak in defense of Congress and their own authority IMO is scandalous and treasonous and worthy of ejection from office. No man has brought such disgrace on the Senate since John Calhoun as McConnell has these last dozen years at least.
The matter of Russian interference is not a hoax and is not dead and remains a ticking time bomb for #IMPOTUS
McGahn, Cohen, Manafort, Flynn and others all cooperated with Mueller according to published reports. So I call bullshit on your spin.
Russian interference supposedly amounted to a Russian troll farm with a $100k budget.
Department of Justice (DOJ) held a dramatic press conference announcing indictments of Russian companies for allegedly interfering in the American presidential election, one of those defendants, Concord, hired an attorney to fight back.....
...in open court, an attorney representing the Department of Justice has admitted that the Russian government had nothing to do with the internet troll farm case.
On July 1, 2019, Judge Dabney L. Friedrich issued an order (to which the government agreed) prohibiting further public statements by the government about the Concord and IRA case, particularly statements alleging that Concord and IRA worked on behalf of the Russian government.
Judge Freidrich wrote: “On May 29, 2019, following the Court’s hearing, the Special Counsel held a press conference…[in which he] carefully distinguished between the efforts by ‘Russian intelligence officers who were part of the Russian military’ and the efforts of” Concord. This, the Judge found, made the criminal contempt proceedings she contemplated against Mueller’s team “unnecessary and excessive under the circumstances.”
A narrow escape it was indeed. Freidrich found that both the release of the Mueller report and Barr’s statements boosting the report violated DC Rule 57.7 prohibiting lawyers from trying cases in the press. Judge Freidrich rejected the government’s argument that the Mueller report did not smear Concord with unproven links to the Russian government.