A COMPLETE GUIDE TO ALL 17 (KNOWN) TRUMP AND RUSSIA INVESTIGATIONS

After three weeks of back-to-back-to-back-to-back bombshells by federal prosecutors and special counsel Robert Mueller, it’s increasingly clear that as 2018 winds down, Donald Trump faces a legal assault unlike anything previously seen by any president—a total of at least 17 distinct court cases stemming from at least seven different sets of prosecutors and investigators. (That total does not count any congressional inquiries, nor does it include any other inquiries into other administration officials unrelated to Russia.)

1. The Russian Government’s Election Attack

2. WikiLeaks

3. Middle Eastern Influence

4. Paul Manafort’s Activity

5. The Trump Tower Moscow Project

6. Other Campaign and Transition Contacts with Russia

7. Obstruction of Justice

8. Campaign Conspiracy and the Trump Organization’s Finances

9. Inauguration Funding

10. Trump SuperPAC Funding

11. Foreign Lobbying

12. Maria Butina and the NRA

13. Elena Alekseevna Khusyaynova

14. Turkish Influence

15. Tax Case

16. The Trump Foundation

17. Emoluments Lawsuit

https://www.wired.com/story/mueller-investigation-trump-russia-complete-guide/

Kristol's Fall is Far From Over…and He Knows It, Too

The fall of The Weekly Standard, Bill Kristol's dull anti-Trump propaganda outlet, is more significant than many realize. As REX reminds us, Kristol used the outlet as a key tool to gin up the Obama/Clinton 'Trump-Russia' lie.

Quick question: what FakeNews outlet was among the first to whitewash disgraced ex-FBI agent Peter Strzok's criminality, after he was fired?

Answer: Bill Kristol's The Weekly Standard. On July 12 2018, they published a fawning piece titled 'Republicans Swing at Strzok and Miss', that Strzok later referenced, to raise money via his GoFundMe page.

Another question: what outlet ran an article on 24 July 2016 (just 6 days before the FBI started their crooked Trump-Russia counter intelligence investigation) titled 'Putin's Party', that seemed to be a cut and paste of the Steele Dossier?

Did you answer 'Bill Kristol's The Weekly Standard'? BINGO!

Oh, while I'm at it. During the GOP primary season, who was running The Free Beacon, the pro-Rubio "conservative" outlet that was the first to work with Fusion GPS, to try and dig dirt up on Trump?

Wow, just Matthew Continetti, Bill Kristol's son-in-law. Well, imagine that.

Kristol, Fusion GPS, Steele Dossier, Strzok, The Free Beacon. All connected.

"Nothing to see here."

Right?

https://quodverum.com/2018/12/351/kristol-s-fall-is-far-from-over-and-he-knows-it-too.html#

Michael Flynn’s Ordeal and Ours

I’ve been told, I believe reliably, that General Flynn had either ordered, or intended to order, a full accounting of decades of intelligence community malfeasance. This was likely to reveal vast sums of money that were never spent to carry out the missions for which they were appropriated. This would have intensified the IC’s desire to get rid of him.

https://pjmedia.com/michaelledeen/michael-flynns-ordeal-and-ours/

Michael Flynn’s business partner charged with illegally lobbying for Turkey

A business partner of Michael Flynn is being charged with acting as an agent of a foreign government and conspiracy for attempting to get Turkish cleric Fethullah Gulen extradited from the United States.

Bijan Kian made his first appearance in Alexandria federal court Monday morning.

Turkish businessman Ekim Alptekin who paid Kian and Flynn, is charged in the indictment, but remains abroad.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/legal-issues/michael-flynns-business-partner-charged-with-illegally-lobbying-for-turkey/2018/12/17/46fb3762-020a-11e9-9122-82e98f91ee6f_story.html?utm_term=.b7adf3aa1a2b&noredirect=on

Did Flynn Lie?

Flynn was charged in one count with four lies, all in late December 2016, when he was working on the Trump transition and was designated to be Trump’s national security advisor:

First, he denied requesting of Russian ambassador Sergey Kislyak that the Kremlin refrain from responding to the Obama administration’s imposition of sanctions by “escalating the situation” — i.e., by some retaliatory measure.

Second, he denied that Kislyak subsequently told him that Russia had chosen to moderate its response in deference to Flynn’s request.

Third, he denied asking Kislyak to delay or defeat a vote on a pending U.N. resolution condemning Israel.

Fourth, he denied that Kislyak had told him Russia was declining that request.

To hear Flynn apologists tell the story, Flynn spoke truthfully, Mueller decided to charge him with lying anyway, and Flynn pled guilty to something he didn’t do because the investigation was wrecking him financially and threatening to take his son down with him.

But that’s an oversimplification. There is no doubt that Flynn’s four denials were false. The FBI had recordings of Flynn’s communications with Kislyak. The things he denied were, in truth, said.

The question is whether Flynn intentionally provided false information, not whether he provided false information at all.

https://www.nationalreview.com/2018/12/michael-flynn-investigation/