Anonymous ID: 959fea April 18, 2019, 12:54 p.m. No.6228291   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>8495 >>4020

pages 300-310, DJT tries to shut down the SC while looking okay doing it

 

The word obstruction is oddly avoided here. What DJT did looks bad (messages sent outside official channels, asking Sessions to act after he had recused, which prevented action) but aside from bad optics, nothing to see.

 

Nexus question redaction because grand jury on pg 309. See Vol-II Sect II.G

 

POTUS looks rattled, as he gives instructions to McGahn to stop the SC via conflicts of interest Mueller/SC have. All pursuits seem to be about optics, making the general public see their president has having done nothing wrong.

McGahn quits, not wanting to be part of the way DJT handles these things.

DJT talks to friend / campaign mgr Lewandowski to tell Sessions to quit, except that message never gets there because Rick Dearborn was uncomfortable being the message-boy

Hope Hicks tries to get in the way of the NYT interview but DJT was having too much fun.

Priebus, McGahn barely manage to convince DJT not to fire Sessions, who would later "always carry" his resignation letter

 

evidence going into this are, 302's with Cory Lewandowski, McGahn, Pribus, Hope Hicks, Kelly, Rick Dearborn, and one from Hunt.

 

page 310 starts to talk about the meeting between Kushner, Manafort, DJT-jr, and "a Russian attorney" again, optics about how bad the emails look, and how to spin them when they leak.

 

I've got a longer review, posted to main-thread #7963, but … it's longer. Much longer.

Anonymous ID: 959fea April 25, 2019, 5:50 p.m. No.6315671   🗄️.is 🔗kun

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>>6273627

I got done early, I guess. Hopefully this is both short and meaningful.

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Let's start with HARM to Ongoing MATTER, three big paragraphs with an unredacted '95', '89', '98', & '899' 1st number in 1st para, nothing, then three numbers.

Then slightly more than a line each, HARM ONGOING redacted with 895, -6,7,8,9

Next page, 00, then a block containing 901, 02, both marked ongoing matter, 04 after the next block, 05, 06 & 907, ending with 08

Multilne redactions # 900, 901-908 for each line.

 

Analysis

in analyzing POTUS toward Flynn, Manafort [HmOngMtt], the following is relevant to the elemants of obstruction //emphasis by Anon

 

a. Ob.Act POTUS actions toward witnessses would qualify if they had the natural tendancy to prevent witnessing, delying, or preventing

 

WRT Flynn, POTUS sent publc & private messages of encouragement, to stay strong, POTUS still cares, before Flynn began cooperating w/.gov; Flynn's attorney pulled him from a joint def.agreemt (still potentially cooperating w/.gov), POTUS' attorneys said that "still remains" but eventually said Flynn not sharing under joint def.agreemt looked hostile toward POTUS. But because of client/lawyer privilege we can't tell if POTUS was trying to flip Flynn or even knew the specific messages given.

 

WRT Manafort, evidence that POTUS actions had potential to influence whether to cooperate w/.gov; repeated msgs suggesting a pardon, also repeating POTUS didn't want Manafort to "flip". At the 6/15/2018 court day about revoking bail, POTUS said he felt "a lot of it is unfair" but when asked about a pardon said "I do want to see people treated fairly" "That's what it's all about." Manafort didn't cooperate then eventually pled guilty pursuant to an agreement but was found to have violated it by lying to investigators.

 

POTUS talking during the trial had potential to influence the jury if jurors had read the news articles even though they'd been instructed not to.

 

Harm to ongoing matter, whole paragraph

 

b: Nexus to official proceeding: actions towards Flynn, Manafort, [HOM], appear connected to official proceedings for each individual.

c: intent: wrt to Flynn, inconclusive. Because of privilege issues, what the lawyers said in either direction is unclear.

POTUS sent many public messages of support, indicating encouragement Manafort not cooperate w/.gov even though he told aides POTUS didn't like Manafort. Asked about a pardon, POTUS responded with words of great respect for what M. has done, gone through. Maybe POTUS meant not so much to influence the jury, but public opinion. Or maybe he was holding out an offer of pardon.

 

HOM, whole big paragraph. Next comes Cohen, which "spans the full period of our investigation"

 

OVERVIEW

M. Cohen pursued the Trump Tower Moscow project on behalf of the Trump organization, briefed DJT numerous times, tried to schedule DJT on a trip to Moscow, and eventually lied to congress about the timeline of these discussions to minimize the appearence of dealings with Russia.

 

''Evidence''

Cohen talked to: POTUS' counsel (lawyers), Felix Sater, Dmitry Peskov (.RU deputy chief-of-staff), Elena Poliakova (Peskov's assistant), and discussed on numerous occassions with DJT-Jr, Ivanka. Also later a NYT reporter and of course DJT, about the TrTwr.RU project, a "potentially $1Bn deal"

 

FBI searched Cohen's home, office in 4/18, POTUS said C wouldn't flip, sent msgs privately to C of support. Cohen spoke with POTUS counsel, believed he'd be pardoned but in 7/18 he began cooperating w/.gov, & POTUS publically criticized him, suggested C's family members had committed crimes.

 

Summer '16 candidate DJT publically said he had nothing to do with the Moscow deal then asked Cohen privately about its status, which C found "interesting"

At some point in the Summer C said the .RU development .co had no land thus no project which DJT called "too bad" and never asked again.

 

2: Cohen adhere's to "party line": see Vol-II-Sect-II.A when questions, re possible .RU support for DJT-as-POTUS arose DJT denied having any connections to .RU, which Cohen took as the "party line"

Cohen did not tell POTUS-elect explicitly this line was untrue because he thought DJT already knew it was; Cohen thiought it important to limit the appearence of association with .RU to before DJT had become the party's presumptive nominee (952, a 302 from 9/12/18)

 

This section has many more details about the timing of calls, recollections of M.Cohen, but these seems to be the important parts.

 

302's from 9/12/18, one in 8/7/18, (915)letter of intent from DJT, Andrey Rozov of Trump Acq, and an email 12/19/15, Sater->Cohen

More 302's from 11/20/18, 9/12/18, and a mention of C's congressional testimony