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Jul 13, 2018 • 5 tweets • 3 min read • Read on X
A DC Grand Jury has indicted 12 Russian military officers for their role in hacking the DCCC, DNC, state election software & more.

The info obtained was released by Guccifer 2.0 & DCLeaks in order to influence the election.

Several Americans communicated w/them per Rosenstein.
The goal of the conspirators was to influence the 2016 election, per Rosenstein.

By indicting these operatives of the Russian government, the DOJ is backing up the Senate Intel report determining Russia attacked the U.S.

Trump meets w/Putin tomorrow.
thedailybeast.com/mueller-indict…
The question for Mueller now is whether Americans who communicated w/the Russian operatives were 'witting' or 'unwitting."

If Americans wittingly cooperated w/the Russian military to influence the U.S. election...that's colloquially called #Treason.
#Flashback 7/27/16: Trump Calls on Russia to Find Clinton’s Missing (stolen) Emails

In light of today's indictments, which make clear the Russian gov't attacked us, was this unfortunate & unwitting encouragement of an enemy attack, or was it treason? nytimes.com/2016/07/28/us/…
Note the date on the NYT article. Now compare it to today's indictment.

It's starting to look a lot like treason...

#TrumpRussiaConspiracy

H/t @normative

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The FBI may be finished with its probe of #Kavanaugh by MONDAY MORNING!!!

That's tomorrow.

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#ManafortTrial Day 9 (sorry for delay)

✅Prosecution filing asks Judge Ellis to correct improper statement.

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✅D.C. filing confirms Gates’ ongoing cooperation.

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Aug 9, 2018
#ManafortTrial Day 7:

Summary:

✅Gates testimony ends.

✅Testimony from FBI accountant -CPA & Certified Fraud Examiner M. Magionos

✅Testimony from IRS agent M. Welch (admitted as expert witness)

✅Judge Ellis: "Judges should be patient...I'm not.”

✅8 witnesses left.

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✅FARA filing inconsistent w/tax returns.

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#ManafortTrial Day 6:

Gates testimony:

✅Pro-Russian Party of Regions politicians (Kolesnikov & Lovochkin) paid Manafort millions via disguised Cypriot accounts.

✅Documentary evidence suggests Manafort controlled foreign accounts.

✅Repeatedly directed to defraud banks.

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