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neohippie

(1,142 posts)
Tue Nov 27, 2018, 02:18 PM Nov 2018

ROBERT MUELLER'S ENDGAME MAY BE IN SIGHT

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Source: Wired Magazine

Manafort’s apparent dissembling has given Mueller’s team an excuse to publish everything they know about Manafort’s “crimes and lies,” whether they’ve been publicly discussed yet or not. That could potentially include new information about that mysterious 2016 Trump Tower meeting—prompted by a Russian offer to help the campaign—or details about the apparent Assange connection.

A Manafort sentencing submission, meanwhile, would sidestep the current awkward question of delivering a “Mueller Report” to the acting attorney general, Matt Whitaker, that could be suppressed politically or redacted before release.

Beyond the surprise twist in the Manafort case, a number of signs in recent weeks indicate that Mueller might be moving towards further indictments—and perhaps even some big ones, an end-of-year denouement.

Mueller’s team has reportedly been laser-focused since the spring on Trump aide Roger Stone, who has said for months that he expects to be indicted. Stone has long been suspected of contact with WikiLeaks, potentially relating to the hacked Podesta emails. Likewise, the screws have recently tightened on Stone ally and conspiracy theorist Jerome Corsi, whose plea deal with Mueller, The Atlantic reports, appears to have fallen through.

Read more: https://www.wired.com/story/manafort-mueller-russia-investigation-endgame/



I suspect that Mueller never needed Manafort's cooperation at all... and that he's just been waiting for his targets to coordinate their lies, so that he can further demonstrate that the original conspiracy he's investigating is still in play
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ROBERT MUELLER'S ENDGAME MAY BE IN SIGHT (Original Post) neohippie Nov 2018 OP
k&r 2naSalit Nov 2018 #1
But Corsi admitted in his book True Blue American Nov 2018 #2
Kicking this. MontanaMama Nov 2018 #3
Locking...analysis Omaha Steve Nov 2018 #4

2naSalit

(86,054 posts)
1. k&r
Tue Nov 27, 2018, 02:24 PM
Nov 2018

True Blue American

(17,972 posts)
2. But Corsi admitted in his book
Tue Nov 27, 2018, 02:32 PM
Nov 2018

That he helped Stone prepare a cover up story for meeting with Assange.

And Pence just had a discussion with the Equadirian Ambassador urged by top Democrats. Pence getting ready to take over?

MontanaMama

(23,238 posts)
3. Kicking this.
Tue Nov 27, 2018, 02:39 PM
Nov 2018

It is so hard not getting hopes up that this could be the beginning of the end of our national nightmare. There are miles to go to be sure.

Omaha Steve

(99,069 posts)
4. Locking...analysis
Tue Nov 27, 2018, 02:49 PM
Nov 2018

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