By Steven Jonas
Trump has been in trouble ever since the FBI began looking into possible ties between his campaign and Russian interests in the summer of 2016. We all know the gathering storm of evidence of cooperation or attempted cooperation between the Campaign and Russian interests. (Other crimes, like money-laundering and obstruction of justice could be on his legal agenda as well.) That evidence was first revealed to the FBI by George Papadouplos. Of course, Carter Page, the sometime Trump campaign staffer, had been under FBI surveillance off and on since 2013 because of suspicion that the Russians were trying, off and on, the recruit him as some kind of asset.
Then there is the variety of indictments/guilty
pleas, with the constant references in the media to the "cooperation" being
offered by those who plead guilty, to the Mueller investigation. The one big fish who has been indicted but has
not pled guilty as yet is of course Paul Manafort. However, recently, in an action that has not
gained too much media attention, a former Manafort son-in-law who was active
with him when he was helping to promote Russian interests in Ukraine before the
"Nuland Coup," has pled guilty and is "cooperating." (Let's just hope that there were no children
of that former union. This would be very
tough for them: Dad vs. Grandpa and [presumably] Mom.) So, there's an increasing amount of "legal
stuff" going on.
Then there's the increasing number of revelations
on various meetings that various Turmpites held with representatives of various
foreign nations. Certainly, if anything
of political value for the Trump Campaign was gained from these meetings,
either financial or substantive, that would be illegal. But even if nothing substantive came of the
various meetings, and Trump Jr. tells us over-and-over again that nothing did,
just meeting to inquire about possible benefits may be illegal. Of course, one cannot count on Trump Jr. as a reliable recollector of what actually happened at any of them. At one Senate Intelligence Committee meeting he
was reported to have said "I can't remember" 116 times. (And he's a good businessman?)
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Source: OpEdNews.com
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