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Hardly.

indicted...under the same DOJ policy

Remember when Scott Dworkin said he was "hearing" that Trump Jr. would be indicted last week?

Yet people keep posting Scott Dworkin's endless crap.

than it initially appeared to be. That was the guilty plea of Sam Patten. He's another sleazy lobbyist who pled to serving as an agent of Konstantin Kilimnik and Serhiy Lyovochkin without registering under FARA - but what's important is what he copped to in exchange for cooperating. That includes acting as a straw purchaser for Russians of $50K worth of tickets to the inauguration, which is also illegal. This is important because it's likely that the investigation will find more straw purchasers directing money to Trump and his campaign. In exchange for his cooperation Patten was also not charged for lying to the Senate Intelligence Committee - which he did. This tells us the investigators will use lying to Congress as leverage to get cooperation. Don Jr. lied to several committees. If he isn't worried yet, he should start worrying now.

upcoming direct link to 🇺🇦 trial, probably. Turning one caught rat so as to turn another screw into another potential rat.

Plea agreements revealed in full to the defence and filed in court before the trial is probably not uncommon, the actual deal having been made much earlier.

That's not news

13. "If the rule you followed brought you to this, of what use was the rule?" -- Anton Chigurh. That's the question we have to ask the establishment. The rules they followed brought us here, and now they want us to return to those rules.

This coming Friday, NOT last Friday.

But since Donald Trump ISN'T up for re-election, I'm not sure it should apply anyway.

If Mueller is planning to keep as quiet as possible for 60 days, though, I'd expect indictments between Tuesday and Friday.

about this week before a Friday...but the window is not closed after, for any reason.

Also Manafort trial 2 in 3 weeks is gonna be front burner stuff!

It may not have been what Todd had in mind. I think Chuck was just
making a generalization about the supposed due date of Labor Day.

Patten has been cooperating since May. He wouldn't have gotten such a good deal if he didn't have information to deliver.

He insists only upon loyalty to him. He encourages others to break the law ... it adds to the smokescreen.

of Mueller or Sessions or both on a weekly basis since early last year. Sometimes unreliable sources are quoted. Sometimes it's just a generic "It will happen in the Friday news dump" nonsense.

The constant predictions have long since become meaningless.

And nothing happened so that dt couldn't say 'no collusion' everyday of his life. Hire more people Mr Mueller and lets get it initiated. We can fill in the gaps later. The world is heating up. Our country is being poisoned and pillaged. If that's not cause for some urgency, i dunno.

Seth Abramson says it is key information that leads him to believe that Sessions has been cooperating with Mueller in an agreement.

The key has to do with the meeting of March 31 2016. Here are a few of Seth's tweets on the topic. And see below for more.


Seth Abramson
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19h19 hours ago

NOTE/ My own opinion? It's likely that no assurances have been made by Mueller to Sessions, but that based on Mueller's interview with Sessions it's clear to both men that Sessions has liability here for perjury and more—so Sessions stays on in order to maintain leverage to deal.
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19h19 hours ago

PS/ Yes, I realize the possibility Sessions is a cooperating witness would suggest a stunning answer to my question from last week ("Why doesn't Sessions just resign?&quot : because Mueller has told him *not* to.

A crazy thought—a cooperating witness protecting his prosecutor's job.
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19h19 hours ago

10/ The only question is why Papadopoulos persists in saying he told no campaign official of the hacked emails Mifsud alerted him to—but *did* tell the Greek Foreign Minister, who the campaign sent him to meet. Impossible. I suspect it's a fact it's been agreed he won't disclose.
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19h19 hours ago

9/ Major media reports that *three witnesses*—people who attended the March 31, 2016 meeting—concur with what Papadopoulos says, so calling it the "theory of the case" for Mueller and his team is no stretch (particularly given who says something else happened, and their motives).
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19h19 hours ago

4/ Papadopoulos positions Sessions in particular as one of two things: either a current cooperating witness in the Mueller probe *or* a target of that probe. And he positions Trump as the target of the collusion probe—not merely the coverup after the offense. I was right about...
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19h19 hours ago

3/ Simply put (and we need to be *clear*, as this is shattering information): Mueller believes Trump and Sessions approved a Russian backchannel in March 2016; he believes both of them have lied about their actions since then (Sessions under oath), and he has a case against both.
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19h19 hours ago

2/ If Trump, Sessions, Gordon, and two other members of the National Security Advisory Committee (the Trump-Russia scandal's CREEP-equivalent unit) were willing to lie about what happened at that meeting, it's to cover their involvement in things that came *after* that meeting


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Gets us at doorstep of Bannon, Cambridge Analytica and Trump inauguration committee. I believe it opens new doors. I think it has big implications. I said on day 1 if it gets to Mercer it is legitimate.