There’s no allegation that any American was knowingly involved in the conspiracy. – Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein
Nor was there an allegation that the efforts of the defendants affected the outcome of the election. – Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein
It looks like Special Counsel Mueller just exonerated President Trump.
You can find the full Mueller Indictment here.
But this tweet pretty much sums things up:
1 year ✅
DOJ team of investigators ✅
Mountains of media coverage ✅
Panicking in the streets ✅
Budgets of millions ✅Conclusion: There’s trolls on the Internet
PRICELESS!
13 Russian
— FluffyDogAttack ?? (@FluffyDogAttack) February 16, 2018
There’s trolls on the internet.
Who knew.
?BREAKING?
DOJ also confirms there is no Nigerian vault of money as claimed in that email you received in 2008.
13 Russian
— FluffyDogAttack ?? (@FluffyDogAttack) February 16, 2018
For those of us keeping score, this is what really happened:
All the while we provide excellent cover for Horowitz who conducted a complete investigation of the FBI & DOJ with no media scrutiny. Best bait and switch in political history.
— Kelly (@Torian_Girl) February 16, 2018
Inspector General Horowitz – with 500 employees and a $100 million budget. 1.2 million documents – and counting.
For more on Inspector General Michael Horowitz and his year-long Investigation see:
The Inspector General’s Quiet Investigation
An Introduction to Inspector General Michael Horowitz
Additional Inspector General reference information here, here, here and here.
Back to the Mueller Indictment.
The intent behind the activities was “to sow discord in the U.S. political system”:
But it’s this last part of the same paragraph that’s important:
“unwitting individuals”
There’s no collusion if members of the Trump Campaign didn’t know they communicated with Russian sources.
This paragraph from page 23 pretty much sums up activities contained in the indictment:
The Russians played both sides.
“Used false U.S. personas to organize and coordinate political rallies in support of then president-elect Trump, while simultaneously using other false U.S. personas to organize and coordinate U.S. political rallies protesting the results of the 2016 U.S. presidential election.”
There was also this intriguing tidbit on page 14:
At the end of the day this is what actually transpired:
Russia started their anti-US campaign in 2014, long before I announced that I would run for President. The results of the election were not impacted. The Trump campaign did nothing wrong – no collusion!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) February 16, 2018
By rights the Mueller Investigation should be finished.
It’s time to focus on the real investigation.
Inspector General Horowitz’s Investigation.
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