McRocket
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'The latest flood of legal news about President Trump's associates — the conviction of Paul Manafort and guilty plea by Michael Cohen — makes it easy to lose track of the broader storyline of Robert Mueller's Russia investigation. Here's a map to help you keep every move straight.
How it works: The map starts with the people who participated in key events and the ones who have been convicted, pleaded guilty or been charged. Expand this story and you'll see the rest. Note that Manafort's conviction and Cohen's guilty pleas were on charges unrelated to Russia — but they highlight Trump's broader legal jeopardy.
PLEASE FOLLOW LINK FOR SUMMATION IMAGE (that I cannot figure out how to post with this article).
Key events:
So...Trump's, former personal lawyer, his former campaign manager, his former national security adviser and a former campaign advisor have ALL been convicted/pled guilty of crimes within Trump's first 20 months in office.
And Trump/Trumpbots keep saying it's a 'witch hunt'?
Suuuuuuuuuure it is.
How it works: The map starts with the people who participated in key events and the ones who have been convicted, pleaded guilty or been charged. Expand this story and you'll see the rest. Note that Manafort's conviction and Cohen's guilty pleas were on charges unrelated to Russia — but they highlight Trump's broader legal jeopardy.
PLEASE FOLLOW LINK FOR SUMMATION IMAGE (that I cannot figure out how to post with this article).
Key events:
- Trump Tower meeting: The June 2016 meeting between Jared Kushner, Paul Manafort, Donald Trump Jr. and a Russian national in which they were expecting damaging information about Hillary Clinton, but didn't get it.
- Russian ambassador meeting: Kushner and Michael Flynn met with Russian ambassador Sergey Kislyak in December 2016. Flynn later asked Kislyak not to escalateRussia's response to new sanctions imposed in the last days of the Obama administration, and then lied to the FBI about it.
- Page meeting: Carter Page met in Moscow with Russia's deputy prime minister and a Russian oil official in June 2016.
- Papadopoulos meeting: George Papadopoulos met in London in March 2016 with a professor who later told him Russia had “dirt” on Hillary Clinton.
- 13 Russian nationals and three Russian entities were indicted on charges of violating criminal laws to interfere with the 2016 U.S. election.
- On the same day, Mueller struck a plea deal with California resident Richard Pinedowho was accused of knowingly making tens of thousands of dollars by transferring hundreds of bank account numbers that were ultimately used to commit wire fraud.
- 12 Russian military officers were indicted for hacking and releasing the emails of Democratic campaign organizations, including the Hillary Clinton campaign and the Democratic National Committee, in an effort to interfere with the 2016 presidential election.
- Manafort was found guilty on 8 criminal counts, including bank fraud, tax fraud and hiding a foreign bank account. The verdicts were focused on his activities as a lobbyist for Ukraine.
- He pleaded guilty to eight counts related to tax fraud, making false statements to a financial institution, excessive campaign contributions, and unlawful corporate contributions. He said he was directed to violate campaign law at the direction of an unnamed candidate.
- Donald Trump Jr. The bigger intrigue is about why there have been no reports that Mueller's team has questioned Trump Jr., given that he is a key player in one of the biggest events: the Trump Tower meeting with Manafort and Kushner. (He did testifybefore a Senate committee.)
- President Trump. And, of course, Mueller hasn't questioned the president — yet.'
So...Trump's, former personal lawyer, his former campaign manager, his former national security adviser and a former campaign advisor have ALL been convicted/pled guilty of crimes within Trump's first 20 months in office.
And Trump/Trumpbots keep saying it's a 'witch hunt'?
Suuuuuuuuuure it is.
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