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The only answer is collusion, and Mueller knows Manafort was the linchpin.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/powerpost/paloma/daily-202/2019/01/09/daily-202-the-new-russia-revelations-are-more-consequential-than-trump-s-newsless-immigration-speech/5c3577121b326b66fc5a1beb/?utm_term=.5eed7df577ab
" Manafort, who knows Deripaska very well and isn't a total idiot, thought internal campaign data was worth real money to the oligarch (i.e., to count against Manafort's debt). That only makes sense if Deripaska was passing on to others -- and that Manafort KNEW he was, said David Burbach, who teaches national security and international relations at the Naval War College. Deripaska himself would have more use for Arby's BBQ sauce recipe.
Also on cnn:
https://www-m.cnn.com/2019/01/08/politics/unredacted-manafort-filing-analysis/index.html?r=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.cnn.com%2F
Big story. New info, said former Nixon White House counsel John Dean, a central figure in the Watergate scandal. Its called COLLUSION!
If proven, then call it by whatever c word that you want -- collusion, cooperation, conspiracy -- but this is serious, said former U.S. ambassador to Russia Mike McFaul, a
Bleacher Creature
(11,254 posts)C_U_L8R
(44,992 posts)Its weaponized targeting data.
Botany
(70,448 posts)Russia was into Wisconsin @ the county level.
https://www.greenbaypressgazette.com/story/news/2017/01/23/russians-suspected-hacking-local-dems/96965824/
Polling data, voter d-bases, and no doubt attacks on the machines and central tabulators*. Vlad wasn't doing
all that work to just look around.
* https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-06-13/russian-breach-of-39-states-threatens-future-u-s-elections
dalton99a
(81,406 posts)DemocratSinceBirth
(99,708 posts)Response to lindysalsagal (Original post)
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sagesnow
(2,824 posts)Putin's operatives democrat's email addresses and voting records? What does this mean?
YessirAtsaFact
(2,064 posts)They already had that from hacking the DNC. They had the whole picture
onecaliberal
(32,784 posts)Gothmog
(144,939 posts)Dave in VA
(2,035 posts)that the congressional leaders were briefed on and did nothing to warn the citizens of the United States what was happening?
lindysalsagal
(20,592 posts)Aaaaannnd that's why they don't fight trump. They're complicit.
maxsolomon
(33,252 posts)"I didn't know Manafort was colluding with Rusher, and when I found out I fired him. Regardless, I am not responsible."
Plausibly denied!