Russia Investigation Heating Up

[Androidpk]

Washington (CNN) Former Trump campaign adviser Rick Gates is finalizing a plea deal with special counsel Robert Mueller's office, indicating he's poised to cooperate in the investigation, according to sources familiar with the case.

Gates has already spoken to Mueller's team about his case and has been in plea negotiations for about a month. He's had what criminal lawyers call a "Queen for a Day" interview, in which a defendant answers any questions from the prosecutors' team, including about his own case and other potential criminal activity he witnessed.
Gates' cooperation could be another building block for Mueller in a possible case against President Donald Trump or key members of his team.

Once a plea deal is in place, Gates would become the third known cooperator in Mueller's sprawling probe into Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election. It would also increase the pressure to cooperate on Gates' co-defendant Paul Manafort, Trump's former campaign chairman, who has pleaded not guilty to Mueller's indictment and is preparing for a trial on alleged financial crimes unrelated to the campaign. Gates pleaded not guilty on October 30 alongside Manafort.

[cwolff]

Trump fucks up everything he touches. Now our IC is going to have to make some serious changes to keep their work from getting punted about like a political football, just because Nunes and trump wanted to spin some B.S. memo on Fox.

Mehta said the government would normally be entitled to deference in asserting the need to keep its investigative work under wraps, but perhaps no longer with respect to the dossier.
“This isn’t the ordinary case,” Mehta told a Justice Department lawyer, Anjali Motgi. “I don’t know of any time the president has declassified the fact of a counterintelligence investigation. That’s going to be a hard sell given what the president has done. … This is a new frontier and it has an impact.”

https://www.politico.com/story/2018/...losures-415596

[Neveragain]

I have some advice for Trump on the Mueller investigation. The main thing you should do is stop acting guilty. Just be President and stop obsessing over the investigation.

It appears that Trump will not follow that advice. All signs point to a coming storm.

• The spokesperson for Trump's legal team abruptly resigned yesterday.
  
  
  
  
  
• Trump Jr. and Manafort are scheduled to testify publicly before a Senate investigative committee next week. Senator Grassley is concerned that they may not show up. If they're smart, they won't show up. Testifying would be Crazy with a capital C.
  
  
  
  
  
• Trump's team is preparing to discredit Mueller. Trump cannot fire Mueller directly. He would have to fire Sessions and get Sessions' successor to remove Mueller. As we all know from the NYT interview, Trump has laid the groundwork for removing Sessions.
  

~ 07-21-2017



Any bets that Starman will reach Mars before or if there is an impeachment?

[cwolff]

I believe he's going to miss Mars by many miles and fly off into a horrific disintegration without making that orbit. But who knows; maybe he'll show up in the last scene of some future Planet of the Apes remake.

"The Humanity! You did it, you really did it! You trashed this find automobile!!!"

[Neveragain]

Either way it will be really cool to check in on the feed over the coming months, watching Mars come into view as it gets closer and closer should prove to be pretty spectacular. I think the car idea was yuge and will gain spacex shit tons of investments.

[Back]

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry...b05c2bcaca8989

13 Russian Nationals Indicted For Interfering With U.S. Elections

The special counsel also indicted three Russian entities on Friday.

Thirteen Russian nationals and three Russian entities were indicted on Friday, “accused of violating U.S. criminal laws in order to interfere with U.S. elections and political processes,” according to the special counsel’s office.

Actual indictment here.

[ClydeR]

Mueller just indicted a bunch of people whose names are unpronounceable.

Special Counsel Robert Mueller's office said Friday that a grand jury indicted 13 Russian nationals and three Russian entities for alleged interference in the 2016 presidential elections, during which they boosted the candidacy of Donald Trump.

The indictment says that the defendants by early to mid-2016 were "supporting the presidential campaign of then-candidate Donald J. Trump ... and disparaging Hillary Clinton."

More...

[Parkbandit]

So... STILL no collusion....

Shocked I am.

Utterly SHOCKED!

[Methais]

Mueller just indicted a bunch of people whose names are unpronounceable.

Know what name is easy to pronounce though?

[Androidpk]

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry...b05c2bcaca8989

13 Russian Nationals Indicted For Interfering With U.S. Elections

The special counsel also indicted three Russian entities on Friday.




Actual indictment here.

Total nothingburger