‘WRONG ANSWER’: Lawyers for Alleged Russian Trolls Cite Tweety Bird in Blistering Attack on Mueller
To summarize:
WRONG ANSWER. Concord has consistently argued that the Indictment charges no crime at all (interference with an election), but to the extent it purports to charge a crime the essential element of willfulness is fatally absent. The Special Counsel’s retort has been that he was not required to charge willfulness because he did not charge violations of FECA or FARA. Now, in mind-bending, intergalactic, whiplash fashion, he says for the first time, I did, I did, I charged violations of FECA and FARA. Reminiscent of the old adage, “Give a man enough rope and he will hang himself,” the Special Counsel just did so.
The defense filing continues with another sarcastic rejoinder to Mueller’s latest supplemental brief:
The fact that the Court found it necessary, after hundreds of pages of briefing and extensive oral argument, to ask the Special Counsel what the Indictment actually charged, alone supports dismissal. The Special Counsel’s revisionist explanations of what he now says the Indictment provides cannot be considered by the Court to determine if the Indictment charges a crime.
The motion also rubbishes Mueller’s attempts as a “make-believe…conspiracy” and concludes:
[The indictment] must be dismissed because the grand jury was not properly instructed as to the essential element of intent and further because [it] does not actually charge the crime that the Special Counsel claims he indicted
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