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2/16/19
8/13/18
USA-Russia Probe: Trump asks if firing means end to Russia probe -
President Donald Trump is questioning whether
special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into Russian election
interference and Trump’s presidential campaign will be dropped now that
the FBI has fired one of Mueller’s former investigators.
Former
agent Peter Strzok’s lawyer said Monday that he had been fired from the
agency over texts from that were critical of Trump. Mueller removed
Strzok from his team immediately last year once the texts were
discovered.
Trump has repeatedly been critical
of Mueller and Strzok on Twitter in attempts to discredit the
investigation. There is no indication that the probe will be dropped.
The president tweeted that “the list of bad players in the FBI & DOJ
gets longer & longer,” adding that the investigation is a “total
hoax.”
Read more: The Latest: Trump asks if firing means end to Russia probe - The Washington Post
7/13/18
USA: Russian Intel officers indicted for Clinton hack
Via euronews: US indicts Russian intel officers for Clinton hack
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7/12/18
USA: Trump Russia investigations: the key questioned answerd
Trump-Russia investigation: the key questions answered
6/18/18
USA: The Russia Probe: What Roger Stone’s Latest Lie Reveals About Russia Scandal - by Jonathan Chait
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The
first is that the story confirms Stone’s functionally active status as a
surrogate for the Trump campaign. Stone officially left his role in
August 2015. But he continued to speak regularly with Trump, while supporting him fervently. There is abundant evidence that Stone communicated privately with WikiLeaks during the campaign.
Stone
turned down the latest offer because, as he told fellow Trump adviser
Michael Caputo at the time, the self-styled Russian intermediary was
demanding too much money in return for goods that seemed to promise
little. He turned the deal down because it was a bad deal, and claims he
now believes the man was an FBI planting trying to entrap him, but
there is no dispute he was negotiating on Trump’s behalf.
This tells us
that any contacts Stone had with WikiLeaks were also done in his
unofficial capacity as Trump surrogate. Stone was colluding with the publicity arm of Russian intelligence as a functional member of the Trump campaign.
Second,
it matters that Stone and Caputo have been caught in another lie. Both
men told congressional investigators they had no contact with Russians
or people identifying themselves as Russian. “I’ve never been to Russia.
I didn’t talk to anybody who was identifiably Russian during the
two-year run-up to this campaign,” he explained to the Washington Post. “I very definitely can’t think of anybody who might have been a Russian without my knowledge.”
Stone now says he forgot all about this meeting. “I just didn’t remember, 2016 was a pretty busy year,” he tells ABC.
It would be fairly surprising for Stone to have forgotten all about an
approach from a Russian man offering dirt on Clinton given that Stone
says he had zero contacts with Russians. You never forget your first time, as they say. It would
be plausible that he forgot this contact with the Russians if he had a
lot of contacts with Russians. Even if Stone’s unsupported charge that
he was being set up is true, it would not explain why he failed to
disclose the meeting and lied about it. In either case, “I forgot” is
not usually a compelling defense against charges of perjury.
And the broader point is that Trump and his campaign keep lying, over and over,
about the extent of their contacts with Russia. It is conceivable that
one or two members of Trump’s campaign might forget an incidental
contact with a purported Russian agent, especially if that person had a
legitimate role as well. But the scores of lies tell us something
different. They are not coming clean in the belief they did nothing
wrong. They are denying everything, and when their lies are disproven,
they simply retreat to a new categorical defense, and keep doing it. At
every moment they insist that the only Russian contacts that occurred
are the ones publicly known, but the list just keeps growing. The
assumption that the list of known contacts is the entire list rests upon
an assumption of innocence that, at some point we long ago passed, is
forfeit.
4/3/18
The Netherlands: Dutch Lawyer linked to ex-Trump campaign chairman sentenced to 30 days in jail - by Sarah N. Lynch
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| Alex van der Zwaan (left) sentenced for lying to Special Counsel Mueller |
Alex van der Zwaan, a lawyer who once worked closely with Trump's former campaign chairman Paul Manafort, was also sentenced to two months of supervised release and said he was sorry for what he did.
He pleaded guilty on Feb. 20 as Mueller intensified his investigation into potential collusion between the president's campaign and Russia, and told prosecutors he lied to FBI agents about previous communications with Rick Gates, a Manafort protege who held a senior position in the Trump campaign.
"What I did was wrong. I apologize to this court, and I apologize to my wife," van der Zwaan said at the hearing.
Van der Zwaan, 33, previously worked for the law firm Skadden Arps, Slate, Meagher and Flom and is married to the daughter of prominent Russian billionaire German Khan, founder of the privately owned Alfa Bank.
The couple is expecting their first child later this year.
Read more: Lawyer linked to ex-Trump campaign chairman sentenced to 30 days in jail
11/3/17
USA - Russian Probe: Conservatives introduce measure demanding Mueller’s resignation - by K. Cheney
Three House Republicans on Friday moved to pressure special
counsel Robert Mueller to resign over what they contend are “obvious
conflicts of interest,” the latest instance of rising GOP resistance to
his Russia probe.
Reps. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.), Andy Biggs (R-Ariz.) and Louie Gohmert (R-Texas), introduced a measure that, while nonbinding, would put the House on record describing Mueller, a former FBI director, as unfit to lead the probe because of his relationship with James Comey, his successor at the bureau.
“[B]e it Resolved, That House of Representatives
expresses its sense that Robert Mueller is compromised and should resign
from his special counsel position immediately,” the resolution states.
Read more: Conservatives introduce measure demanding Mueller’s resignation - POLITICO
Reps. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.), Andy Biggs (R-Ariz.) and Louie Gohmert (R-Texas), introduced a measure that, while nonbinding, would put the House on record describing Mueller, a former FBI director, as unfit to lead the probe because of his relationship with James Comey, his successor at the bureau.
Read more: Conservatives introduce measure demanding Mueller’s resignation - POLITICO
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