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THE RUSSIA CONNECTION
Robert Mueller’s Show of
Strength: A Quick and Dirty Analysis
The first big takeaway
from Monday morning’s flurry of charging and plea documents with
respect to Paul Manafort Jr., Richard Gates III and George
Papadopoulos is this: The president of the United States had as his
campaign chairman a man who had allegedly served for years as an
unregistered foreign agent for a puppet government of Vladimir Putin,
a man who was allegedly laundering remarkable sums of money even
while running the now-president’s campaign, a man who allegedly
lied about all of this to the FBI and the Justice Department.
The second big takeaway is
even starker: A member of President Trump’s campaign team admits
that he was working with people he knew to be tied to the Russian
government to “arrange a meeting between the Campaign and the
Russian government officials” and to obtain “dirt” on Hillary
Clinton in the form of thousands of hacked emails—and that he lied
about these activities to the FBI. He briefed President Trump on at
least some of them.
… The release of these
documents should, though it probably won’t, put to rest the
suggestion that there are no serious questions of collusion between
the Trump campaign and the Russian government in the latter’s
interference on the former’s behalf during the 2016 election. It
also raises a profound set of questions about the truthfulness of a
larger set of representations Trump campaign officials and operatives
have made both in public and, presumably, under oath and to
investigators.
And here’s the rub: This
is only Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s opening salvo.
As opening salvos go, it’s
a doozy.
… We offer no prediction
as to how this will play politically or whether such antics will
carry any water with Republicans who must be feeling a little uneasy
today.
We will say this:
Mueller’s opening bid is a remarkable show of strength. He has a
cooperating witness from inside the campaign’s interactions with
the Russians. And he is alleging not mere technical infractions of
law but astonishing criminality on the part of Trump’s campaign
manager, a man who also attended the Trump Tower meeting.
Any hope the White House
may have had that the Mueller investigation might be fading away
vanished Monday morning. Things are only going to get worse from
here.
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