Third, the investigation established that several individuals affiliated with the
Trump Campaign lied to the Office, and to Congress, about their interactions
with Russian-affiliated individuals and related matters. Those lies materially
impaired the investigation of Russian election interference. The Office charged
some of those lies as violations of the federal false-statements statute. Former
National Security Advisor Michael Flynn pleaded guilty to lying about his
interactions with Russian Ambassador Kislyak during the transition period.
George Papadopoulos, a foreign policy advisor during the campaign period,
pleaded guilty to lying to investigators about, inter alia, the nature and timing of
his interactions with Joseph Mifsud, the professor who told Papadopoulos that
the Russians had dirt on candidate Clinton in the form of thousands of emails.
Former Trump Organization attorney Michael Cohen pleaded guilty to making
false statements to Congress about the Trump Moscow project.>
Ok, so you’re taking the fact that the entire
Mueller investigation could produce nothing showing meaningful Russian interference to be an issue as proof that there was meaningful Russian interference?
No… There is simply no doubt that there was Russian interference:
As set forth in detail in this report, the Special Counsel’s investigation
established that Russia interfered in the 2016 presidential election principally
through two operations. First, a Russian entity carried out a social media
campaign that favored presidential candidate Donald J. Trump and disparaged
presidential candidate Hillary Clinton. Second, a Russian intelligence service
conducted computer-intrusion operations against entities, employees, and
volunteers working on the Clinton Campaign and then released stolen
documents. The investigation also identified numerous links between the
Russian government and the Trump Campaign.
On February 16, 2018, a federal grand jury in the District of Columbia returned
an indictment charging 13 Russian nationals and three Russian entities—
including the Internet Research Agency (IRA) and Concord Management and
Consulting LLC (Concord)—with violating U.S. criminal laws in order to
interfere with U.S. elections and political processes.
The Mueller investigation couldn’t bring criminal charges of conspiracy against Manafort & co., but they obviously had contact and were found guilty lying about it.
But sure, giving these people the benefit of the doubt is completely normal behavior in 2026. You go on defending them as much as you want.
you don’t need conspiracy theories about Russia to hate Trump
It’s not a conspiracy theory
Did you actually read the report, ever?
There’s a reason nothing came from it.
Yeah, the reason being:
Ok, so you’re taking the fact that the entire Mueller investigation could produce nothing showing meaningful Russian interference to be an issue as proof that there was meaningful Russian interference?
The only charges that came out were perjury.
No… There is simply no doubt that there was Russian interference:
The Mueller investigation couldn’t bring criminal charges of conspiracy against Manafort & co., but they obviously had contact and were found guilty lying about it.
But sure, giving these people the benefit of the doubt is completely normal behavior in 2026. You go on defending them as much as you want.